What I did for beer today

[Hoochin'Fool]

Bottled my Cascade/Citra IPA (tasted great!), and used it's yeast cake for this morning's brew, 3 gallons of Imperial Stout, this time I added some pale chocolate and chocolate rye to the mix, to really add some chocolatey oomph. I think it'll be great, based on tasting the wort before the hops went in.


edit: after the hops boiled for an hour, the wort tasted like "well, this is gonna take 9 months before it's drinkable"

 

[ClaudiusB]

I didn't do much for beer today. I made food my yeast.

 

[Brewsmith]

Continuing the kegerator rebuild.

Today was the CO2 manifold. The last time it was fully apart was when I built it in 2006. I took it apart the other day with the rest of the draft equipment, but this needed more attention. Inside it was a little gross, and some of the brass needed more work than just the regular cleaner. The brass parts got a bath in vinegar for a couple minutes and the green corrosion was gone. A little bit of teflon tape and it’s back together and ready to go through the wall of the fridge.

 

[day_trippr]

Took another gravity check of my "Cold IPA" effort and it looks like it avoided going "brut" on me
So, with the two days of flatline, I'm going to move along and set up for a two day soft crash prior to dry hopping...

Cheers!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Took another gravity check of my "Cold IPA" effort and it looks like it avoided going "brut" on me
So, with the two days of flatline, I'm going to move along and set up for a two day soft crash prior to dry hopping...

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Cheers!

Gee, I can't top a fancy graph.

I cleaned my brew kettle and mashtun after yesterday's brew.

 

[Willy]

Kicked my own butt today - wanted some power to the beer shed so I could just mill out there. And add a light. And now my better half wants an outdoor motion sensor light.

So dug about 50' of a 24" deep trench, dug by hand. Fashion the proper 45° and 90° bends with 3/4 Cantex pipe. Fish a 12/2 wire thru (direct burial approved) the Cantex, cement all connections, ... Runs from the shed to the junction box on the house. All buried and mulched. Looks great. Invisible.

Exhausted. My trench digging days are behind me. Tomorrow? Uh oh.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Kicked my own butt today - wanted some power to the beer shed so I could just mill out there. And add a light. And now my better half wants an outdoor motion sensor light.

So dug about 50' of a 24" deep trench, dug by hand. Fashion the proper 45° and 90° bends with 3/4 Cantex pipe. Fish a 12/2 wire thru (direct burial approved) the Cantex, cement all connections, ... Runs from the shed to the junction box on the house. All buried and mulched. Looks great. Invisible.

Exhausted. My trench digging days are behind me. Tomorrow? Uh oh.

Nothing like a good days work! Ya got my respect, a fifty foot trench by hand. I'm pooped just thinking of it!

 

[mac_1103]

dug about 50' of a 24" deep trench, dug by hand

You can't rent a ditch witch in Charlotte?

 

[Willy]

You can't rent a ditch witch in Charlotte?

I wanted to try out the Trench Mench.

 

[MaxStout]

I feel your pain. Several years ago I built a 10 x 20 shed for a woodshop. Hand trenched a run of 3 conductor 1/0 aluminum through pvc to feed a subpanel in the shed. Went 24" down for 40 feet. Just used a square spade. Elec inspector chuckled and said "you like to do things the hard way." Don't care, he signed off on it.

 

[Willy]

Nothing like a good days work! Ya got my respect, a fifty foot trench by hand. I'm pooped just thinking of it!

Thought I was gonna die myself

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Thought I was gonna die myself

Half way through I would be laying in the trench.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Keep digging them trenches for when Putin invades the USA.

 

[ClaudiusB]

Keep digging them trenches for when Putin invades the USA.

Remember our IPAs and Stouts suck he is coming for yours.

 

[Skeeter686]

Elec inspector chuckled and said "you like to do things the hard way." Don't care, he signed off on it.

I suppose you are actually supposed to get those things permitted and inspected. It's easier if you don't.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I brewed 15 litres of Sierra Nevada Pale on my Burco boiler and grain basket.
3000g Maris Otter
150g Medium Crystal
Cascade hops
30g 45m
30g 15m
40g to follow as a Dry Hop
US05 yeast
OG 1052 BHE 79%.
I never get a BHE much over 75% on my All in One.
Expecting ABV of 5.6%

 

[BrewZer]

Popped test bottle #2 into the 'fridge for another taste comparison later this afternoon. Hoping the additional week and being cold will improve the comparison to the actual Piraat.

 

[Willy]

Got a ton of assorted Cantex and EMT conduit to finish running the electrical line along the deck to put in a few GFIC outlets for smoking meat and/or running a pump, pressure washer etc. Nothing too complicated and it's a gorgeous day.

On Tuesday the electrician arrives to hook up a 20 amp circuit from the breaker box to the junction box. Juice!

 

[HM-2]

Sanitised my new keg ready for my single hop DDH Nectaron hazy.

Cut my new 3/16 beer lines to lengthy in preparation to re-line my kegerator at the weekend.

Did the second set hop on my IPA via hop bong.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Rough chopped 10 ounces of espresso beans, drained the yeast cake and trub and added the beans to my coffee porter, then set the temp to 40, drained the trub and yeast cake on my black IPA and added 2 ounces of citra hops, washed and sanitized 50 bottles, then bottled an Irish Red..

 

[Skeeter686]

Rough chopped 10 ounces of espresso beans, drained the yeast cake and trub and added the beans to my coffee porter, then set the temp to 40, drained the trub and yeast cake on my black IPA and added 2 ounces of citra hops, washed and sanitized 50 bottles, then bottled an Irish Red..

Is that an inline filter that you're using? Does that work well? Does it get clogged or impede the transfer?

 

[Bramling Cross]

I'm working up a new recipe today. I've never been a big fan of amber/biscuit/victory, so I've decided that brown malt isn't just for porters. It's 5% Crisp brown malt, 2.5% Simpsons light C-malt, and the rest is Otter. It's a bit darker than I was expecting. Here's the wort being pumped into the kettle from my absurdly large grant.

And here’s how it turned out. It’s pretty big for me at a colossal 1.045. Ringwood should do good things with this wort.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Is that an inline filter that you're using? Does that work well? Does it get clogged or impede the transfer?

Yes, it works well for keeping fine sediment out of my bottles..I've never had it clog to the point it was a problem, if I was using a siphon, I suspect it would be more problematic.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Purchased yesterday, and should start creating recipes very soon.

 

[BrewZer]

Finally got around to the comparison between Piraat and the Clone...

Still not happy with the carb level or the head retention, but the flavor is 95% similar -- the clone is just a bit hoppier in the finish, something I expect will moderate over time.

I'm also hoping I didn't under-prime the 12 oz bottles. I used one carb tab per bottle.

Irregardless, the flavor is definitely close, and the tiny tongue bubbles persist to the end of the glass. I'm just not getting any head

retention.

 

[Brewsmith]

Today I continued the kegerator rebuild. I put the last coat of paint on the fridge and then reassembled it. I had problems in the past with mildew on the outside of the door around the faucets from the lack of insulation inside. Today I started the remedy. I cut a scrap of wood to go against the inside of the fridge door with holes for the shanks. Some liquid nails and tightening the nuts made that secure. Then I put the CO2 manifold back inside and installed the faucets and homemade tap handles. Maple, Mahogany, Walnut, and (I think) Bubinga. I plugged the fridge in and set a couple kegs in to get cold. Tomorrow I finish the insulation in the door with some spray foam, and install new beer line. By the end of Sunday I might have a functioning kegerator again! Then the task of refilling it…

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I dry hopped my Sierra Nevada Pale with 40g of Cascade.

 

[firerat]

Transferred kveik ipa to serving keg with dry hops
Cleaned out fermenting keg
Designing a tap label

 

[Brewsmith]

My kegerator is finally functional. I got new beer line and connected everything together, ran some beer line cleaner through everything and checked for leaks. I’ve got two beers in there now, a two year old imperial stout and a Belgian dubbel from several years ago. Now the task of brewing regularly to keep this thing full.

 

[Willy]

Busy day at the brew house today. Watched the opening day ballgame in Tokyo with a beer and a hot dog at 6:14 am to prepare. Go beer! Happy to see either the Cubs or The Dodgers lose.

Cleaned (PBW, rinse, starsan) 2 spent kegs and packaged up six gallons of English brown ale in a torpedo keg. Carbing now. Ready soon enough.

Still have to clean out the cononical fermenter this afternoon, but first... An ice cold pilsner with lots of bubble. Ahhhh. Back to work soon.