What I did for beer today

[SavoryChef]

Bottled 18 bottles for a homebrew competition. Judging is next week.

 

[Beerfarts79]

I had a hard plastic/ rubber coated miller lite keg a buddy gave me a month or so ago. With an oscillating saw and a half hour of determination I got the cover off to find that it is basically a base-less, handle-less ALUMINUM keg with a rounded top and bottom. With some "aftermarket" handles and a crudely fashioned base I now have a new HLT.

 

[Dawnhulio]

Peeled the labels off of and washed a bunch of beer bottles. Agitated 42 bottled Belgian Ales to rouse the yeast and (hopefully) get some more carbonation in them.

Drank a couple of Red Hook IPA's after a long motorcycle ride near beautiful Sandy, Oregon.

 

[wSelwyn]

Cleaned bottles. Currently sanitizing in the dishwasher. Soon I'll be bottling my IPA: my first all-grain batch! Can't wait for this, as well as the other two still in carboys, to be ready!

 

[user 51917]

I checked the fast ferment test sample for my German Pils came in at 1.007 a point low but I will take it
Now off to check SG of the batch at 8 days fermenting

 

[taddal]

washed and sanitized bottles and bottling equipment after 10pm at night because that's the only time I can get to myself for beer making on weekdays.

Bottling after work today. Bavarian Hefe. First since 2004.


Well worth the effort


Prost!

T

 

[Bamsdealer]

Woke up at 6AM, turned the shower on hot, staggered to my 62 degree spare room and stared at my fermenting brews in the nude. When the cold got to me, I jumped in the hot shower.

It was a good day.

 

[davekippen]

I ignored the Belgian Strong that has been in the secondary for about a month while I washed and de-labeled some bottles. I have to act as if I despise it or else I will be tempted to "take a reading" just so I can taste some. I want it, I want it bad, but I have to pretend it is a diseased hooker just to stay away.

 

[MisterPhoton]

I just bottled five gallons of Irish red ale (1.047 SG, 1.010 FG, 27 IBUs, 17.5 SRM) and five gallons of Scottish Heavy 70/- ale (1.037 OG, 1.009 FG, 15 IBUs, 13.7 SRM).


God I wish I had a kegerator :\

 

[Dawnhulio]

I ignored the Belgian Strong that has been in the secondary for about a month while I washed and de-labeled some bottles. I have to act as if I despise it or else I will be tempted to "take a reading" just so I can taste some. I want it, I want it bad, but I have to pretend it is a diseased hooker just to stay away.

Totally just snorted Jack and 7 from my nasal passages. Thanks for the laugh... and just...say...no...to Belgians until they're ready, which could be a while...

 

[Homercidal]

Sadly, yesterday all I did was drink beer. (I mean, I did other things too, but that's the only beer related thing I did...)

But the afternoon before that I kegged a light wheat beer. It's going to need a lot of carb to be any good.

No plans tonight. Probably just drink more beer.

 

[downtown3641]

I ordered ingredients for my Citra/MO pale ale that will be brewed on Sunday.

 

[urbanmyth]

In the past week I have transferred my Flander's Red to secondary and pitched the bugs, harvested the dregs from a bottle of Orval, and did the same from a Rogue Chocolate Stout. All that and I bought the grain and yeast for a batch each of ordinary bitter, mild, ESB and KaiserAlt.

 

[barneygumble]

Yesterday I racked two beers into secondary and made two 1L starters.

Today I am brewing! Up at 5, first batch, an AG nut brown is chillin as we speak. Was a little rusty with the process. But its all good.

Next batch is going to be an extract, full boil, since I have the set up out anyway. NB breakwater pale ale.

 

[Skagdog]

Racked my IPA to secondary on top of 1 oz of Palisades. Brought home a 12 pack of Shock-Top Raspberry wheat to get some more bottles, opened the case, they're twisties...oh well...I'm now "researching" this beer as my beautiful bride thoroughly enjoys it.....

And by researching I mean drinking...

 

[Krazykripple]

I ordered a new fermenter and the ingredients for a little critters pale ale clone

 

[Bamsdealer]

I bottled my hoppy red ale at 2am

 

[Frankiesurf]

I am sending three HBT members some free hops root cuttings.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

I was supposed to make yeast starters last nite for a brew comming up on Tues. I had a few pints with a friend and forgot. I woke up early this morning, skipped breakfast and pulled some jars of yeast from the freezer. Got three starters spinning now.

 

[phenry]

Bottled a Grisette and American Brown this morning, washed the 3522 from the Grisette. Just picked up some 3711, about to make a starter with that, 3522, and 3944 for a Saison I'm brewing tomorrow.

 

[Frankiesurf]

Just finished setting up my hop garden.

 

[downtown3641]

Kegged the wheat/rye ale, finally. Going to pick up a fridge from a friend tomorrow so I can actually have a way to chill the beer. I also plan on brewing a Citra pale ale tomorrow.

 

[ScoRas]

I smacked a pack for an overnight for my Belgian wit AG tomorrow, brewing a partial mash RyePA tonight.

 

[shoreman]

Bottled French Saison, kegged IPA

 

[stbnj]

Pull a hydro sample from my Wildflower Wheat, wow does this taste like honey! Its only been 3 days but fermentation took off with in 4 hours. I used wlp005 with a 2 liter starter and a bunch of o2. I am thinking wlp005 may be my new house yeast, seems to be a nice middle ground between wlp002 and wlp007.

 

[duboman]

Picked up ingredients for 3 recipes and some gear and went to a LHBS and brewed some beer with a group of some great people

 

[Xtant]

Added cacao nibs to my two batches of chocolate milk stout that are in secondary.

 

[thetragichero]

stepped up to 10g mash tun. got the washer and orings i forgot for my kettle thermometer. picked up two english pint glasses (pint glasses that hold more than a 12oz bottle of beer?! i'm in love!)

 

[Dawnhulio]

Visited my LHBS. Planted Cascade and Golding rhizomes.

 

[thetragichero]

forgot to mention i bought applewood chips to smoke some two row for the breakfast stout i plan to make at some point (figure i'll get some bacon flavour in there, but nowhere near as strong as rauchbeer)