What I did for beer today

[Willy]

Holy Moly - I am without an English Brown Ale. Must be rectified asap. Put together a recipe not much different than my "go to" recipes, with a little more roasted malt taking the SRM from 16 to 18. I like the maltiness aromas and flavors. Will mill the grains tomorrow for a Wednesday brew.

Put some finings in the HB Louis the Lip Lager which does need 4 weeks of lagering but I ran out of another keg so it moved up the queue. The other 5 gal is getting properly conditioned.

Note to self. Never be without an English Brown ever again. Ugh.

 

[MaxStout]

Bottled 5.2 gallons of APA.

 

[Rish]

Started a batch of extract grape beer in my new-to-me FastFerment (thanks @Snuffy !) yesterday.
Today, listening to the bloops.

 

[seatazzz]

Scrounged bottles to have enough for upcoming competition that is due on Friday; bit irritated because out of a 150 entry limit as of today there are only 29, with the deadline this Friday. Hopefully everyone is just waiting until the deadline (same as bottle delivery) to get theirs in. Said bottles are now soaking in hot water to delabel. Bought a 12 of Sierra Nevada Torpedo specifically for the bottles, forgot how much I like that one, tongue-numbingly hoppy. Also the labels pretty much fall off if you look at them funny. Right now sipping on the latest iteration of the House NEIPA which turned out pretty darned good.

 

[jcav]

Today I made a yeast starter for a Kolsch I am brewing next.

John

 

[ba-brewer]

Reslanting some yeast, WLP009 Australian Ale and WLP059 Melbourne Ale. Got 10mL starters working for both which I will make fresh slants with when they are done.

 

[Snuffy]

Started a batch of extract grape beer in my new-to-me FastFerment (thanks @Snuffy !) yesterday.
Today, listening to the bloops.
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Awesome! I like your drip defense setup. I love me some bloops!

 

[Bramling Cross]

Well, I had another surprise day off. Rather than worry about it, I made some beer. With my sack of Barke Pils down to a mere 8lbs and another sack inbound, I decided to throw the remaining 8lbs at a batch of Panther Piss and create a strong version that I shall call Panther Piss Bum Strength. It came in at 1.057 which isn't much by bum beer standards, but it's pretty big for by my standards. It'll be a fun spring.

Here it is running off into my ridiculously large grant.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Bottled 5.2 gallons of APA.

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That is a no baloney bench capper! Much nicer than my old capper.

 

[MaxStout]

That is a no baloney bench capper! Much nicer than my old capper.

It's the Colt capper. Got it from Morebeer. I like it, very robust. I think I paid around $60.

 

[Willy]

Early bird catches the wort.... Almost done with a 75 min step mash for an English Brown. About 10 minutes away from sparging and bringing it to a boil. Go Beer!

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Early bird catches the wort.... Almost done with a 75 min step mash for an English Brown. About 10 minutes away from sparging and bringing it to a boil. Go Beer!

I'm jealous-:working on an install of a flat etcher- I'd rather be brewing- get 'er done!

 

[JohnDBrewer]

Busy week. Pulled 4 kegs for a local festival last Saturday, so had to first sanitize 4 kegs to transfer the beer so it would stay clear while transporting. While all the kegs were drained, I removed the remaining three kegs and scrubbed the inside and floor of keezer. Ran beer line cleaner through all tap. After the festival, I cleaned 8 kegs and sanitized 4, which I used to transfer 4 fermenters full into the clean kegs and restocked the keezer. Still need to clean the fermenters and add some gelatin. Also need to clean the fermentation chambers (upright freezers), they're look kind of nasty. Need to make a run to the Airgas store, swap a 5 lbs tank.

 

[ba-brewer]

I combined my two 10mL yeast starters(wlp009, wlp059) and built that up enough to brew a 2gal batch of bitter that got crashed last night.

Today brewed the bitter and pitched the yeast. Slants filled in nicely so moved them to the fridge.

 

[leedspointbrew]

Took FG reading. Nottingham did the job : 1.004 two days in a row. Looks like 5.3%, right on point for a BPA. And from the taste of the gravity samples, dry hopping really does make a difference.

 

[ClaudiusB]

I needed a different display for the grain processing system, which required making the cutout larger, installing new wiring, and programming changes. Mother Nature had a different idea yesterday and decided we needed a bit more sand.
This morning I started early to get the job done.
A few boring pics to some.

 

[leedspointbrew]

Took a gravity reading, confirmed I could bottle instead of leaving the beer sitting on the dry hop charge, bottled, cleaned. Then my neighbor helped me notch a brew kettle lid with his saw - helps to have a marble blade handy. Then drank a fair amount of homebrew. Atypically, pretty much the whole day was devoted to beer.

 

[seatazzz]

Not today or yesterday, but Friday got the entries turned in for Pacific Women's Brewer's Cup. The prizes are pro-am brew sessions, dunno if that's why the entry cap wasn't reached, but with three entries in a 30-entry field I might have a chance at least for a silver or bronze. Best porter I've brewed in years went in, as well as a kolsch and an IPA. LHBS proprietor was tickled that I used his porter recipe (slightly tweaked for my system), said it feels like he has his own entry in. Judging is this weekend, now begins the week of what ifs and if onlys.

 

[firerat]

I cleaned a kicked keg while getting my patio cleaned up for our Easter party

 

[Skeeter686]

Yesterday, we bottled the dregs from a few kegs in order to make space in the keezer, and then cleaned 8 kegs. Looking forward to more brewing!

 

[Willy]

Packaged a 10 g batch of Mocha Irish Stout in 2 corny kegs (ready for pouring in late May or June), cleaned the 2 SS Brewbuckets, and also cleaned 3 corny kegs that kicked in the last week. Now enjoying a Czech pilsner with a BLT. Ahhhh yes.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

No brewing this weekend, this morning, I emptied the trub
from my session IPA and added the dry hops.. took ingredience inventory and
I chilled a "few" home brews ( coffee porter, dry stout, Irish red , black Ipa and citra/ mosaic Ipa) in anticipation of my grandsons and son inlaw coming for Easter dinner, the good news, the hard liquor didnt get touched, the better news is I'm going to have brew next weekend- i dont know what until I inventory my losses!

 

[WouldBeBrewmaster]

I finally had a utility sink installed in my basement brewery. Bonus points that the basin is large enough for my Mark II Keg and Carboy washer.

 

[day_trippr]

Brewing a 5% ABV version of my 8.5% all-Citra hazy today. Mash volume is so small I had to add an extra 2 quarts of strike liquor to reach the MLTs Brewmometer...

Onwards!

[edit] Pushed the recirculating mash duration until it wasn't gaining gravity points, now doing a quart per minute fly sparge.

[edit2] Runout went really well, end of runnings gravity was just 7 points (pH held below 5.4 to the end). Pre-boil at 40 points vs predicted 37.

HLT and MLT cleaned and buffed, on to the boil!

[edit3] Whirlpooling hops @170°F, all is still going good!

Should be home free!

[wrap up]

My Hop Stopper V2 earned its keep today, kept the hops out of the carboys without causing issues of its own.

Carried the bonus points all the way to the carboys, the forecast 47 point OG ended up at an even 50, for a theoretical 5.4% brew - if the FG hits the predicted 1.009.

Pitched, ionic-zinc'd, gassed up with O2, and stuffed in chamber 1 and ready to rock!

Cheers!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I brewed 15 litres of Niagara Wheat Beer.
Following that I bottled my New Zealand Pale Ale.

 

[ClaudiusB]

I am transfering the Maibock.

 

[Bramling Cross]

I started the crash on Panther Piss Bum Strength.

 

[Willy]

Got some faucet covers for the summer to keep the fruit flies at bay (along with a few cool traps, apple cider vinegar, some chopped fruit, and a few drops of dish soap in a ramekin or small cup with Saran wrap, punched with holes).

Put together a six gallon Czech Premium Lager recipe and weighing grains... (Milled. READY! ).

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Getting ready to bottle tomorrow night, washed a bucket full of bottles and sanitized 56 of them with Idofor, prepped the botteling station, just need to sanatize my botteling bucket, caps and related gear tomorrow night..
Bottles are washed with PBW on the outside and scrubbed with a brush internally and placed in a rack in a slop sink, then rinsed with a low pressure hot water wash inside and out.after their rinse, They are then dried externally with a dish towel and placed on the bottle rack where a pump sprays a warm mixture of idafor for 3 or 4 minutes in them 8 at a time,once done, they are moved to the botteling staging area to dry internally and be filled..as equiped, botteling is a pretty straight forward and painless process.

 

[ClaudiusB]

Got some faucet covers for the summer to keep the fruit flies at bay (along with a few cool traps, apple cider vinegar, some chopped fruit, and a few drops of dish soap in a ramekin or small cup with Saran wrap, punched with holes).

Put together a six gallon Czech Premium Lager recipe and weighing grains... (Milled. READY! ).

"Put together a six gallon Czech Premium Lager recipe." What is the difference between a non-premium and your premium?