What I did for beer today

[Brewsmith]

I got everything cleaned and am brewing for the first time since I moved in back at the end of January. Got the old school gravity system back in order.

 

[Wigglebutts Brewery]

busy weekend @ Wigglebutts Brewery

Saturday we mashed up 4 gal of starter wort @ 1.060 and ran 24 - 24oz jars through the pressure canner. There were 4 jars that didn’t seal cleanly so they got done again on Sunday. Should be good for awhile with our frozen yeast process.

Sunday we brewed 5 gal of Flamingo Pale Ale with 8oz of mosaic hops. The West Coast yeast was started on the stir plate Thursday. The fermentation was vigorous on Monday AM.

Finally on Monday we knocked out a batch of Wigglebutts biscuits from spent grains for the brewing team. Head brewer Tinker is monitoring the mash temperature in this picture…

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Yesterday I brewed a Timothy Taylor Landlord clone
3300g Maris otter
100g Torrefied wheat
40g Roast Barley
30g EKG at 60m
26g Fuggles at 15m
20g Styrian Golding at 0m
Nottingham style yeast

 

[Willy]

Very casual beer day but got 'er done.

1) ET's Red Bicycle, 5 g batch, an Irish Red that finished day 5 of the cold crash, was taken out of the inkbird freezer and moved to the "on deck circle" inside the keezer and beginning to carb. Probably go into service in a week when tap 5 kicks (Amber Ale)
2) took a gravity reading for the weekend batch of young stout. Mostly finished, about 98% of the way to reaching expected ABV after 3 days. (US-05)
3) cleaned a few glasses with the new foam brush that makes my glasses sparkle with cleaniness.
4) put a self closing spring onto the Nukatap faucet. Works great. Easy.

No plans for brewing this weekend... Since I already have about a lot of suds in the pipeline.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Low key day for beer, had a few things planned, got out of work and lost all ambition, had dinner and decided to take a peek at my latest brew,, my original fermenter is see through, plastic, I dont use it alot, but I've got 3 brews going, trying to stock up before fishing season..
Nice being able to look in on the magic, then put the wrap back on to insulate and protect from light

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Bottled 2.7 gallons of Yooper's Oatmeal Stout (tastes delicious already), gonna dump a 1.095 beer on top of the yeast cake, soon as I get it boiled and cooled.

 

[Willy]

Well, I am going to package up Louie The Lip Lager tomorrow, day 14. So... Being lazy and doing nothing for beer today except focus on samples and taste profiles for future recipes. Tough job, but somebody has to do it.

 

[OddNotion]

Bought grains and yeast for my next 2 batches.

Citra/Apollo NEIPA
Split batch of Saison and Pale Sour using some ECY 08 and ECY 20 I picked up back in Feb

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Whole day committed to beer-
Took a trip to the local home brew store , picked up the needed malts,yeast and hops for tomorrow's Oatmeal stout brew, some how I came home with those ingredients and a 55lb. Sack of Maris Otter malt..
once home did a few little projects I've been.putting off, like installing a float and pump in a designated RODI storage tank, rearranging my brew cart to accommodate said tank, I installed an I bolt in the ceiling by my botteling station so i can use my ratcheting pulley system to lift my botteling bucket onto my botteling stand...Ithen sanitized 52 bottles and bottled an American IPA.,..then washed and sanitized( I left the starzan in the fermenter) the fermenter I took the IPA out of... i then set my water profile and crushed my grains for tomorrow's brew day..I took a shower and took my wife to dinner at the local Chinese restaurant, where we ran into our next door neighbors, (3 families) from both sides of the street, which lead to an invite to their house for a night cap, I brought an assortment of Irish red, Black Ipa and coffee porter. , I came home with 12 empty bottles-I guess they liked it- time to hit the rack for tomorrow's brew.

 

[leedspointbrew]

Processed grain for today's BPA. Cleaned, cleaned, cleaned.

 

[Willy]

Packaged up 2 corny kegs of Louie The Lip Lager, currently doing a CIP with PBW on the Spike CF-10. The beer looked fabulous, clear and clean and FG came in exactly where it was supposed to at 1.010 - yeah!

Corny kegs now go to the cold crash mode, day one set to 55°F . Can't wait to pour some, about 2-4 weeks minimum of lagering, 6 weeks for the 2nd corny keg.

Time to starsan the fermenter.

 

[Wigglebutts Brewery]

Swung by Dry Dock for a couple pints. Which got me in LHBS Brew Hut. Got favorable feed back on non alcoholic pale ale and used up a credit for a #55 bag of 2 row pale malt. Perfect errand!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Went to my LHBS 45 minute drive each way, picked up some new tall necks for entries and some honey, biscuit and crystal malts and a couple odds and ends. Checked on the cider and lager, too. Sometime this weekend I need to rack a mead and make a cinnamon stick tincture, for said mead.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Added my burbon, oak cube tincture to my wood aged ale this morning, and put it in the secondary( I know you guys hate carboys, sometimes it's the best option)
I have insulating cubes made for these occasions so i dont tie up my larger freezer, or a fermenter, I use the cool stix and a heating pad to provide heating or cooling as desired, ink bird controllers turn on the cooling or heat. I filled the air lock with vodka, I'll keep an eye on it for the next month while it ages.

 

[Brewsmith]

I was planning on brewing today, but the previous beer still needs another day or so, so I bought the ingredients for the next two beers. I was out of town for a few days and came back to a yeast clogged airlock. No explosions or splatter, but a big ballooned, pressurized system. I suspect the beer is done and it’s just off gassing, but I’ll give it a day before I keg and harvest the yeast for the next beers.

 

[leedspointbrew]

Dry hopped the Titanic BPA with .75 oz First Gold.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I brewed 15 litres of New Zealand Pale Ale
3000g Irish Pale Malt
200g Wheat malt
200g Dextrin Malt
100g Medium crystal malt
18g Southern Cross at 45m
12g Nelson Sauvin at 15m
15g Nelson Sauvin at turn off
Crossmyloof Pia yeast

 

[jcav]

Actually yesterday I kegged my Vienna Mosaic Pale Ale & my wife and I kegged her cider.

John

 

[day_trippr]

Kicked two kegs in the last two evenings, today I swapped out and cleaned the kicks and swapped in freshies. No big whoop...

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

Was going to cook up this 1318 starter tomorrow but just decided to get it done tonight...

Cheers!

 

[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!