What I did for beer today

[Hulud]

Took some Mother Road Twin Arrows over to the people who were moving in next door...

Where do you live? I'm buying a house by July so free beer? I'm sold lol

 

[overdbus]

i picked up grain today for tomorrows brew day and extra hops - oh my

 

[wSelwyn]

This day has been dedicated to tomorrow:
Visited my LHBS for last minute supplies.
Bought an oven probe thermometer.
Cleaned , gathered and transported my equipment to my buddy's place.
Assembled, cleaned and measured volume levels for my new keggle.
Made a hefe yeast starter.
Filled my 20# and 40# propane tanks.
Measured deadspace in my mash tun.
Drank a good few homebrews.
And more.

Can't wait for tomorrow

 

[Xtant]

I finally sat keezer 2.0 on my old dolly. It kinda worked out. This freezer is smaller than my last. I needed to move the tank out of the keezer so I could fit all eight kegs. The dolly was large enough to slap some scrap MDF on for a CO2 tank stand..

 

[Darkness]

Stoped taking pain pils after having teeth extracted on fri so I could have a Hop Slap my HopSlam take. That 5 of 5 in blind tasteing said they would rather drink mine. Very good to here. If not in to much pain have a wheat beer grain bill to make tomorrow.

 

[Mexicanconnection2002]

After 2 days @ Disney World with wifes family...I drank homebrew today.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

Racked 5 out 6 gal of my Red White and Blue IPA onto 3# blueberry/3#raspberry puree mixed and bottled the other gal. Now im waiting for my Coffee Brown Ale to come to a boil.

 

[davekippen]

Brewed my first IPA today.

 

[gimmejava]

Had my son and a friend over and brewed up an Arrogant Bastard clone. Added a pound of honey at flameout to spice things up a bit. It was my first AG brew with my new 3 tier setup. I moved from BIAB to this and what a blast it was. Had a great time and enjoyed a few brews too. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

Had my son and a friend over and brewed up an Arrogant Bastard clone. Added a pound of honey at flameout to spice things up a bit. It was my first AG brew with my new 3 tier setup. I moved from BIAB to this and what a blast it was. Had a great time and enjoyed a few brews too. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Thats gotta be awesome!!!! Im looking forward to teaching my daughter how to brew when she gets older... its more my kind of an arts and crafts project

 

[wSelwyn]

Finished cleaning the aftermath from yesterday. I usually give my equipment a good clean right after brewing, but I was kinda in a rush last night, and had to take everything home.

 

[barneygumble]

Transferred two batches to secondary. Pipeline is full, so I gutta git drinkin!! so I can keg these two. Took 4 1/2 hours to rack two 5 gallon batches over. Its not the racking, its the prep and cleanup. I am very thorough and it takes forever. But I brew around 100 gallons a year (since I learned my lesson wayyy back in the late 80s early 90s when I got into this hobby) and I never get infections. Not one in a decade.

 

[barneygumble]

Can you imagine a brewer's service like the old diaper services where you put all your dirty equipment in a metal canister and it comes back all autoclaved and sealed, ready for use? I would have been done in 20 mins today.

 

[davidr2340]

Cleaned one of my beer lines, then kegged my Maris Otter / CTZ SMaSH.

 

[bumstigedy]

Just made a 2.5 gallon starter.

 

[barneygumble]

Just made a 2.5 gallon starter.

So how big is the beer? How big is the batch? That sounds like a 1.090 ten gallon batch. Imperial Stout?

 

[Mexicanconnection2002]

Dropped 8oz of dryhops into 5 gallon batch of iipa. Supposed to be similar to avery majahara. Kegged my amber ale also.

 

[Dan]

I didn't do this for beer today but two days ago, Saturday. I racked BierMuncher's Centennial Blonde to a keg. Put it in the kegerator and noticed my 5lb bottle was kaput! Went to the local O2 place to refill the bottle and they were of course closed and won't open back up until Monday.

That's what I did.. pretty trivial. Here's what my buddy did. I called him up explained the situation and he volunteered his 20lb tank to allow me to bleed off the O2 until I could get my tank refilled. He had to remove kegs from his kegerator and disconnect the tank. I returned it shortly after I used it. If you ask me that's pretty dam nice of him. So this post is about what sncoulter did for beer, not really me.

Thanks Steve!!

 

[bob1852]

Made a cherry melomel since today is the actual National Homebrewers Day.

 

[Logger1]

Shook the crap out of my starter everytime I walked by it.......i need a stirplate

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

The last couple of days have been pretty good "beer days" for me. Yesterday I kegged an Imperial IPA (my first original recipe and first keg), purchased grains and hops for my next brew - a robust porter - and started a yeast starter on my homemade stir plate. Today I fertilized my hop plants, racked a two week old blond (my first AG and BIAB) to a secondary to free up my primary for the porter (need more ale pails), and installed a ball valve on an old cooler I am converting to a mash tun. I also bought the parts to make a CPVC manifold. I really liked doing the BIAB but my brew kettle is a converted Golden Gate keg and the opening is only about 10" - kind of tough getting a bunch of hot, wet grain in a voile bag out of the kettle after the mash. The next couple of days look to be pretty good "beer days" as well - build the manifold, brew a porter, and purchase another corney keg.

 

[Dan]

Busy days for you! Congrats on all the accomplishments!

 

[unionrdr]

Well,being on a diet to try & relieve some bad joint pain,I cut way back on my beer consumption. Even cut out the vodka/whiskey/bourbon. Started getting my busted behind into cleaning remaining bottles,putting some brewing stuff away that was cleaned. Gotta do the final scrub on our BB ale pale in a bit to get that cleaned & dried.
I just made up my mind this morning to brew up that tropiwiesse (pronounced tropivIsa) recipe I came up with last year. Gotta brew something...

 

[bniesen]

Took some gravity readings last night, going to try and bottle before this weekend.

 

[tknice]

I'm following the fermentation of the barleywine I brewed on Sunday VERY closely. At 12%, it's much higher than anything else I have ever brewed and I'm standing by with a pound of corn sugar for each carboy if it stalls. Should be taking a reading tonight to see where I am.

Wish me luck... I'm skeered!!

 

[Homercidal]

Brought a box of beer to work to ship to a stinking Predators fan. At least I have the satisfaction of knowing the preds only made it to the second round...

Tonight I attend a pre-opening tasting event put on by Crankers Brewery in Big Rapids. Mug Club members Only, so suck it you guys!

Working out when I can start hanging string for my hops plants who are starting to look pretty desperate for it!

 

[Slowfro]

Last night I cleaned up the rest of my mess from Saturday's brew day. I also transferred a Wheat IPA to secondary to dry hop. With that I harvested 3 pints of 1056 from primary.

Then I drank a homebrew.

 

[jotakah]

Moving to Oregon. Brewed my final batch in Idaho over the weekend (on Saturday), and moved all my "front end" (mash tun, kettle, wort chiller) equipment to a family member's garage on Sunday.

Once my Bitch Creek clone and my Honey Bee Summer Ale are keggable, they too will be brought to the "west side". Hopefully I can nail down a place to live asap so I can keep the pipeline flowing with a fresh brew in a new living space

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Stared at my hops, swore they grew a little bit while I watched

Transferred Southeast Asian Wit to keg.

Will probably end up bottling the rest of my Sahti from the keg to make room in the keezer.

 

[stbnj]

Visited a homebrew store I had ordered from online but never been to and picked up a bunch of specialty grains and some yeast. I also ordered the disconnects I needed and the stainless hose barbs I need since they didn't have either in store. I also cleaned up one of my ale pails since I only have one better bottle and one carboy and I need three batches to get done this weekend.