What I did for beer today

[eanmcnulty]

Today, I went to Solemn Oath Brewery in Naperville, IL. It's small, but they are brewing some tasty brew. Right before we were about to leave they tapped a keg of Kidnapped By Vikings IPA brewed with fennel, angel root, and apricot. It smelled like food! Wow, really good.

 

[sweetcell]

made a starter for this saturday's tripel with my smuggled 3787.

I don't want to know where on your person you "hid" it.

ha! hid it in my luggage, not on my person. the airport i fly out of has those millimeter wave scanners ("full body scanners"), so there is no way that i could have gotten away with having it on my person. luckily an un-expanded smack pack is quite thin, i had it edge-wise so it probably looked like something narrow, thin and dense to the scanner operator.

anyone know if x-rays are harmful to yeast?

Right before we were about to leave they tapped a keg of Kidnapped By Vikings IPA brewed with fennel, angel root, and apricot. It smelled like food! Wow, really good.

beer is food - it's liquid bread.

 

[cdeme123]

Got my water report from Ward Labs! Now I can make proper water adjustments.

 

[SoxFan33]

I just finished up making my immersion chiller! Also I bought little bits/pieces for my all grain set up.

 

[wormraper]

In the middle of brewing a Belgian Saison right now

 

[duckredbeard]

Made more than I drank today! Trying to stay ahead of myself.

 

[Piratwolf]

2 small batches (3 & 4gal) in six hours Rogue Somer Honey Ale clone & re-brew of my Welcome Black IPA

 

[user 103238]

Brewed a 5 gallon BIAB batch of West Coast Blaster. Added .5 Centennial for FWH, and accidentally added an extra ounce of Cascade for bittering. Loved using my new Bobby M refractometer to watch the progress.

 

[Channel66]

Got my sister and her husband over today, built a big ol bon fire, have 2 10 gal batches boiling right now, mine a tripel thats gonna get a healthy dose of funk from some brett lambicus, his a brown, receiving the same yeasty beasties.

 

[Arbor413]

Just finished bottling a Blackberry Wit.

 

[Stauffbier]

Making empties! That's about it!

 

[seedubxj]

Made my first starter!

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Just brewed up a Belgian Blonde. Had a few mishaps, but OG sample tasted good and everything is cleaned up now. A bad day brewing is still better than a good day at work.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Took gravity readings from two fermentors (both with 5 gallons of BM's Centennial Blonde, one with Nottingham and the other with washed WLP001) and kegged one.

 

[Beerfarts79]

Made my first starter!

Me too!...and had a sip off my Imperial Black IPA a day early

 

[jtkratzer]

Served two kegs of Centennial Blonde at the after party to my sister's wedding reception.

And started the 4 week lagering of my altbier.

 

[chuckstout]

Served 30 strangers!

 

[SeanMcClellan]

Bottled my own recipe of an Octoberfest style ale. Sample was delicious. Can't wait for this to carb up and mature for the fall!

 

[grumpywolf]

Filled 5 kegs from my two big fermenters in preperation of moving to BIAB brewing (the two fermenters had a 4 kits in them, the last time I'll be doing my brews that way).

 

[jtkratzer]

Served 30 strangers!

Me? No there were one or two, but I knew almost everyone there. Got rave reviews. They're people I've known for years. We had a blast. And I didn't pay for the beer.

 

[chuckstout]

Me? No there were one or two, but I knew almost everyone there. Got rave reviews. They're people I've known for years. We had a blast. And I didn't pay for the beer.

Oh sorry didnt read your post, mine was for a wedding also, went great though

 

[sweed]

Drank too much last night. Racked RIS to 2ndary, 11%+, soaking with some oak, vanilla, und bourbon. Tastes mighty strong! Hefe will be brewed on the 4th.

 

[ArcticBear]

Drank it

 

[Toy4Rick]

Took Second Place with my Hef in the German Wheat/Rye category at the San Diego County Fair Home Brew Competition

Toy4Rick

 

[davekippen]

Racked a blonde off the strawberries today. Whipped up a gelatin mixture for the first time and dumped it in. Will also cold crash for the first time now that I have an extra fridge :rockin:

 

[msa8967]

On one of the hottest days of the summer I clean, remoced the labels and sanitized 20 cases of bottles. Using my son's plastic pool made it much easier. Now all I have to do is decide what to fill these with.

 

[BrotherGrim]

Brewed an ale that pretty much wont fit any style. Too dark for an IPA, too hoppy for a Porter, too low ABV for a heavy, but just right for me. An old recipe revived from my early years.

 

[sweetcell]

Took Second Place with my Hef in the German Wheat/Rye category at the San Diego County Fair Home Brew Competition

Toy4Rick

woohoo - congrats!

 

[Aschecte]

I had a ton of fun today. I haven't been brewing or for that matter drinking over the last few months due to severve pain from a car accident I was in ( I was rear ended by a concrete truck ). Well today was the first brew day in 3 months. My asst. brewer John came over and we put together a DIPA recipe that came out great. We hit all of our numbers on the dot and I'm still hitting in the mid 80's for my mash eff. Check this recipe out tell me what you think.

enamel stripper DIPA
Imperial IPA
Type: All Grain Date: 6/26/2012
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal Brewer: Aaron Schecter
Boil Size: 8.70 gal Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 75 min Equipment: Aaron's mlt
End of Boil Volume 7.02 gal Brewhouse Efficiency: 69.26 %
Final Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal Est Mash Efficiency 86.6 %
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0
Taste Notes:
Ingredients


Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
12 lbs Brewers Malt 2-Row (Briess) (1.8 SRM) Grain 1 87.3 %
8.0 oz Caramel Malt - 40L (Briess) (40.0 SRM) Grain 2 3.6 %
8.0 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 3 3.6 %
1.00 oz Warrior [16.70 %] - First Wort 75.0 min Hop 4 53.1 IBUs
12.0 oz Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 5 5.5 %
1.00 oz Warrior [16.70 %] - Boil 37.0 min Hop 6 39.2 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 22.0 min Hop 7 23.1 IBUs
1.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Aroma Steep 2.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Aroma Steep 2.0 min Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Aroma Steep 2.0 min Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 13 0.0 IBUs

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.066 SG Measured Original Gravity: 1.070 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 7.0 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 7.7 %
Bitterness: 115.5 IBUs Calories: 236.0 kcal/12oz
Est Color: 5.3 SRM
Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Medium Body, No Mash Out Total Grain Weight: 13 lbs 12.0 oz
Sparge Water: 6.19 gal Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F Tun Temperature: 72.0 F
Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE Mash PH: 5.20

Mash Steps
Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 17.25 qt of water at 163.0 F 152.0 F 60 min

Sparge Step: Fly sparge with 6.19 gal water at 168.0 F
Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time).
Carbonation and Storage

Carbonation Type: Bottle Volumes of CO2: 2.3
Pressure/Weight: 3.93 oz Carbonation Used: Bottle with 3.93 oz Corn Sugar
Keg/Bottling Temperature: 70.0 F Age for: 30.00 days
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Storage Temperature: 65.0 F
Notes


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We also said screw it while we're at it we bottled 5 gallons of my first mead which I have been babying for the last year, let me tell you what 6 months ago tasted like rocket fuel turned into a phenomonal mead. What a great day I love brewing and today confirmed it.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Made five gallons of Edwort's Apfelwein, finished cleaning the fermentor from the batch of blonde ale I kegged yesterday, and began cleaning a 25-30 gallon stainless steel tank I was given that I hope to convert into a fermentor.