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I drank a bunch of it today. Getting ready to make a starter for a Hefeweizen I'm going to brew tomorrow night.
 
I paired it with two dishes it shouldn't have been paired with: Linguini in a cream sauce and then with strawberry shortcake! (Homemade Irish Stout) :mug:
 
Made a 2L starter for a Hefeweizen that I have planned for the next couple of days. I may do another IPA too.
 
took a gravity reading for my belgian table beer
wondered why it's been at 1.014 for a week and didn't get down to the estimated 1.010
recalibrated my refractomer (off by about 0.5 brix)
beer's down to 1.009 and i'm not so mad anymore
 
Transferred a black IPA over and added dry hops (love the smell of ahtanum in the evening) bottled some saison. The girls had fun marking the caps... guess saison= doodles on the caps (usually try to keep it a little more standardized, but these are getting labels anyhow and it kept them busy for awhile)

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took a gravity reading for my belgian table beer
wondered why it's been at 1.014 for a week and didn't get down to the estimated 1.010
recalibrated my refractomer (off by about 0.5 brix)
beer's down to 1.009 and i'm not so mad anymore

You will ALWAYS get an inaccurate reading from a refractometer with alcohol present in the mixture.
 
Just finished a batch of Hefeweizen. Now I REALLY want an immersion chiller. It took forever to chill the wort in an ice bath.
 
Where to begin....... Bottled my ginger beer, washed said yeast from batch. Weighed grains for a Racer 5 IPA that I will make tomorrow. Made a starter yeast batch for said beer. Added a sliding rail system for my corona mill out of a full extension guide from the Home Depot. And to top it off a custom handle for the tap I made out of old growth mahogany.

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Cleaned bottles for 3 batches of beer im going to bottle on saturday and also prepared a yeast starter for this weekend.
 
Well not today, but last night...volunteered for a BA event on Capitol Hill, met and poured beers for Charlie Papazian and Sam Calagione along with the heads of many other craft breweries.
 
dcHokie said:
Well not today, but last night...volunteered for a BA event on Capitol Hill, met and poured beers for Charlie Papazian and Sam Calagione along with the heads of many other craft breweries.

Savor Week rules, doesn't it?
 
Kicked a keg of American wheat, cleaned one set of lines and faucet and put a Jamil's Evil Twin clone on the spare tap.

Ordered ingredients for three more beer brews and two cider batches. These should be a split between late summer and early autumn drinking.
 
HUGE brew day! Bottled 3.5 gallons of IPA, bottled 1 gallon of Hard Chai Tea, Brewed 4 gallons of pale ale and pitched on half cake from IPA, prepped for tomorrow's 9 gallon Saison!
 
Just moved a fridge into the garage to use for fermenting. Probably can only get one bucket in there at a time, but rarely have more than 2 buckets in active fermentation anyway. This should really help my beers!!!!
 
Set up the supplies and ingredients to work on our first beer after it cools off when the sun goes down - we're going to do a basic brown ale.
 
Fed the hop garden with some 'mater food

Transferred a choco-stout and a belgian blonde to secondaries and started washing the yeast.

Drank a homebrewed porter
 
Put my Citra IPA into a corny for dry hopping. I bottled my Wit, which I may have used too much lemon and orange peel in as its very citrusy. I cleaned two cases of bottles and received a 2.5 lbs. co2 tank in the mail that I got for 15 bucks!
 

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