What I did for beer today

[kman6234]

Fixed a keg that wouldn't hold pressure.

 

[punkrockdave]

Just went and purchased my keg and CO2 canister for my new keg fridge.

 

[Ingvaroo]

I used starsan for the first time to sanitize my bottles and bottling bucket, and put my BetterBrew Northern Brown Ale (LME, No sugar) on bottles, my last KIT beer!

Then i took a sample of my first AG wheat beer, it reached 1.010 after only 2 days fermenting, but it has been sitting now for a week, i would bottle but i need bottles!

I wanted to get a pipeline going, but now it has come down to me not having bottles to use xD Wich is good ofcourse, i have 6 cases (24x500ml in each case) + 3x2L bottles of beer sitting around now conditioning and carbonating

 

[Rabid_Wombat]

I brewed my Cascade Pale Ale mini mash kit.

This isn't my first mini-mash kit, but I didn't hit my numbers right on because I'm pretty sure I didn't sparge correctly. My strainer was a bit small for the 4 lbs of grain. I should have let the bag just sit in the sparge water once I figured that out, but I was in a bit of a hurry. Also, a small spill of the wort wasn't the greatest thing either, but I didn't lose that much.

All I have to do is pray I didn't infect my batch when I stirred in my top off water with an unsanitized spoon. I rinsed the spoon and wiped it off with a dishrag. I was giving the wort a good stir in the ice bath when I realized I forgot to hit it with the Star San. Then I realized my error, and I was already at 80 degrees. Oops.

It'll be beer. How good of a beer is unknown.

 

[chuckholding]

Racking to secondary and dry hopping a white ipa

 

[blkandrust]

Made a starter using wyeast 1214 for my Belgian in the morning. Third time using my stir plate. Love that thing!

 

[NineMilBill]

Backsweetened my Skeeter Pee and racked a Cranberry Wine to secondary. Also busted my head on the corner of my cabinet.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Built my collar for the keezer. Used 2x8 for the collar, with 1/2" x 10" red oak as a face for the collar. Stained with some nice dark stain.

 

[downtown3641]

Built my collar for the keezer. Used 2x8 for the collar, with 1/2" x 10" red oak as a face for the collar. Stained with some nice dark stain.

Ha. I just saw this tweet while browsing the homebrew hashtag. Looks good.

 

[ArtimusBeerimus]

Spent some time running some new twine between the cables on my hops trellis as the growth this year has been outstanding and a few of my nines were doubling up on themselves. Looking for a great harvest... #crossingfingers

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled up my saison.

 

[Bubba]

Changed out the ice bottles in my swamp cooler.

 

[g2rnewton]

Started morning off with early brew session. A German Hefeweizen wheat beer. Targeted for labor day class reunion...

 

[Piratwolf]

Today: kegging 5gal mild, brewing 5gal 90min IPA clone, making starter and grinding grains for Saison d'Ete, taking hydro samples of Robust Porter, American Kolsch, and American Blonde, washing wlp002 cake.

 

[zacster]

Started brewing at 6:20am, made an Amber Ale batch, all grain, BIAB. Hit my efficiency, but the OG seems a little low as I may have needed to boil a little longer. It'll be fine in any case.

 

[MacGruber]

Kegged my raspberry wheat

 

[eanmcnulty]

I replaced the braid-filter in my mlt. The first one lasted over 60 batches! It was finally crushed too much from stirring the mash.

 

[thetragichero]

checked the gravity of my english barleywine that's been in primary since april 29th
1.019, down from 1.117 (1728 chugged all the way down to 13.1% abv )
guess i need to get the 3g carboy so i can start my 3 month secondary

taste sample was DELICIOUS, even before i eventually dry hop it

 

[frankieboy007]

Bottling a batch of Maibock today, and brewed an American Brown Ale yesterday...And as far as that goes, all of my days off were spent working on my HERMS unit, so I did something for beer EVERY day this week, lol!!

 

[Kate00]

Dry hopped my ipa. Started looking at commercial property to see how feasible going commercial is.

 

[davekippen]

Poured the first bottle of my first IPA. Holy S**t. Smells sooo good. Floral, piney, sweet caramels. Still a little under carbed (only 6 days in the bottle) but has nice sticky lace. Taste is bitter and soapy, with some citrus too which is not noticeable in the nose. I cant believe I just brewed this. So good.

 

[kpr121]

Poured the first bottle of my first IPA. Holy S**t. Smells sooo good. Floral, piney, sweet caramels. Still a little under carbed (only 6 days in the bottle) but has nice sticky lace. Taste is bitter and soapy, with some citrus too which is not noticeable in the nose. I cant believe I just brewed this. So good.

Recipe? Looks/sounds good!

 

[davekippen]

Recipe? Looks/sounds good!

First Try IPA (Extract plus grains)

8 oz German munich,
8 oz American 60 actual
8 oz German cara-munich
3# Extra light dme
5# Light lme
6 oz Malto dextrine
2 oz Centennial
1 oz East Kent Goldings
2 oz cascade

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Steep grains, 150 degrees for 30 minutes

60 minute boil

@ boil add:
3# DME
1 oz centennial @9.5%

@ 30 minutes add:
1/2 ounce east kent goldings
1/2 oz centennial

@ 12 minutes add:
Malto Dextrine
5# LME
1/2 ounce east kent goldings
1/2 oz centennial

@ Flame out add:
1 oz cascade

ferment Nottingham Ale Yeast. 2 packets, rehydrated

dry hop with 1 ounce of cascade

 

[Homercidal]

Plan tonight is to bottle up the Light Wheat beer I made but don't care for and give them to a friend. Then replace that keg with a keg of IPA!

Oh, and drink 2 beers. I forgot to drink one last night...

 

[downtown3641]

I just ordered everything I need to add a second keg to my fridge. It should all be here in time to keg the IPA I brewed this weekend. Though, I suspect my keg of wheat/rye ale is going to kick before the IPA is ready.

 

[tennesseean_87]

It's Philly Beer Week! I plan to do something with my beer every day this week. Yesterday: finished up a stir plate build, made a yeast started for a BDSA that I'll brew later this week, bottled some beer, and harvested the yeast for said starter.
Today: finished a mash paddle for the big brew coming up later this week.

The pipeline is a bit dry on the drinking end, but I'm making up for it. There are two batches in fermenters that I'll bottle in the coming weeks. The Pils' spot will be taken by the BDSA on Thursday or Friday. After the Arrogant Bastard clone is done, I'll probably move on to Yooper's DFH 60. Then I'll have beer again!

 

[cyclogenesis]

Last night: Raked my heffe (yes I know, no real need to rack, but there is a massive cake there I want to wash and use this weekend).. Trained some bines..

Tonight will be getting a starter going for the dunkelwiezen..

 

[step]

Last night I bottled 3 gals of barley wine and 5 gal of a club brew (kolsch base recipe) that I hit with 3522 and some brett.. a la Orval.

Today I am brewing a cascade heavy pale

 

[Xpertskir]

I stayed up until 1am finishing my first batch, a full boil extract ipa. I brewed outside in my 40qt pot and my girlfriend who was supposed to find something big enough to use for an ice bath went to bed. I'm embarassed to even say some of the noobish, inefficent, macgyver, microbe exposing methods I took, but it was after midnight and I had an early rise. Somehow I got it cooled, hit my gravity dead on, and pitched the yeast(likely at too high a temp) which was bubbling away this morning in my fermentation chamber.

Today, I ordered a wort chiller. I'm naming the aforementioned beer "Wort Chiller IPA".

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Kegged a four week-old robust porter (a sort of Black Butte Porter clone I am referring to as "Black Puke Porter" for the voluminous amount of blow off it produced while fermenting); bottled the last half gallon or so of the porter; purchased grains for a 10 gallon batch of BM's Centennial Blonde; and currently washing the yeast from the porter to save for future use while soaking the fermenting bucket in oxy.