What I did for beer today

[TimpanogosSlim]

Unwrapped $14 2L bomex erlenmeyer from amazon, filled it with water, dropped in a 1.25" stir bar with a couple o-rings on it, put it on the DIY stir plate.

Full vortex. Even cavitates and gurgles at full speed. :rockin:

 

[duckredbeard]

Cut 2 more holes in my keg fridge door for more shanks. I will have to get a wider drip tray if I keep this up. Four on faucets and the super secret stash in the back on the cobra.

 

[Ctforte]

On my way home from work to keg up my watermelon wheat. Can't wait to see how it turnd out!!

 

[AJBrew710]

Opened up an anniversary present from my wife containing all sorts of homebrewing awesomeness.

 

[nukebrewer]

Brewed it! Or rather, brewing it.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Bottled 5 gallon's of Edwort's Apfelwein (okay, technically not beer, but I will be kegging my IPA in a day or so).

 

[iambeer]

I dumped a gallon glass bottle of 5 day old diluted star san which had serious bacteria growing in it. I drank awesome beer and loved it. I shook out SN wheat beer dregs into old wort to see what will happen.

 

[BrotherGrim]

Cleaned up some bottles, split the starter I crashed this morning, re-pitched the starter for tomorrow's brew. Drank a few War Dog Ales. Good beer, I just wish I had gotten the priming sugar right and gotten the proper carbonation. It is carbed, just too lightly for the strength of the beer.

 

[kstrud1]

Bottled an Imperial nut brown that finished @ 7.75 ABV........bought 15 lbs of wildflower honey from my local beekeper and stopped by my local homebrewer to pick up the ends for my annual mead......and gathered some goodies dor an oktoberfest!!!!!! I love my hobby!

 

[davekippen]

Washed and delabeled more bottles... dreamed about buying kegs at the LHBS while buying ingredients for tomorrows first AG BIAB session.

 

[MisterTipsy]

bought a pound of date sugar, two 3.5gal buckets and some french saison yeast.

 

[TimpanogosSlim]

got a 3942 starter spinning, cleaned and sanitized and rebuilt and resanitized another soda keg.

 

[duckredbeard]

Finished refurbishing a Firestone keg, hoping to put it in use tomorrow.

 

[zacster]

I took yet another reading on my Saison. It was at 1.012 after 2 weeks. Maybe I'll transfer it to the secondary with my hops tomw.

 

[nukebrewer]

Brewed a batch of oatmeal stout.

 

[TimpanogosSlim]

And then i rebuilt another keg and filled it with star-san.

And installed a 1/2" ball valve from bargainfittings on my HLT, and then drilled about a half inch hole in my boil kettle. Damn cordless drill batteries are 10 years old. will finish tomorrow.

Noted that i forgot to properly clean my MLT cooler last brew day, stank of lacto, filled with hot water and PBW.

 

[g2rnewton]

Very productive day. Transferred a bitter to secondary. Cleaned bottles and conical. Drank a 2009 octoberfest homebrew that was in deep storage, was excellent.

Finished the day by brewing up an amber for fall golf trip between rain storms...

 

[JohanMk1]

Drank far too much of it.

Right now I am beyond happy and I've just poured another glass of homebrew AND managed to keep the yeast cake in the bottle intact

 

[crushingblackdoom]

Informed SWMBO that brewing yeast cannot possibly cause v@ginal yeast infections. This is fact. And she looks at me like I'm an idiot. It's like comparing house cats to tigers. We do what we can, I guess :/

 

[cdeme123]

I was finally able to get my 4 x 8 sheet of rigid foam to the house for my chiller. I have my cut list, saw, straight edge, tape measure, saw horses and motivation. The next step, acquire about 1-2 hours of time to make the cuts without help from my 3 year old assistant. Then assembly.

Meanwhile, listened to a couple brewing network archived podcasts. Good stuff.

Later today, have some friends coming over to help me consume some of this homebrew I have been stockpiling. Soon, I will need to make more.

 

[airdog_47]

This actually took place yesterday but entered beer into local county fair homemade beverage judging contest. I had two beers take 3rd place and one beer took Best in Show. I was pretty proud since this was my first competition I have ever entered by beer into... I won a new turkey fryer and kettle for Best in Show provide by LHBS.. More equipment!!! Currently, debating on giving it to up and coming brewers that need to break off into the all grain reign.

 

[a6ladd]

I'm brewing my first 10 gallon batch on my 'awesome' three tier setup (watch out blichmann). My buddies are all still in bed and I'm about to start the boil. Early bird gets the worm!

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Kegged 5 gallons of 2 Bad Dogs Double (almost) IPA. Next up is another 10 gallon batch of BM's Centennial Blonde - what a great summer beer!

 

[DrawTap88]

Worked at the homebrew shop. Since our mill is motorized, I crushed about 100lbs worth of grain.

 

[nukebrewer]

Promoted home brew by bringing some hefe and brown to my MIL.

 

[punkrockdave]

I worked on the brew shed

 

[TimpanogosSlim]

Finished installing a weldless spigot on my boil kettle and brewed a Celis White clone - my first pourless brew day. Got to use my diy o2 diffuser wand, too.

Kegged my pumpkin spice porter.

 

[grathan]

Got one more stainless 1/2" valve, this one will go on the march pump to help gate the flow. Gonna make a Herms outta my mash cooler, keggle, and wort chiller.

Ordered stuff to make a heat stick.

Read some articles on calibrating equipment for my Beersmith trial software. They seem to make this more mysterious than it needs to be.. Went through and added all my old hops and grains to inventory. Added a couple recipes. Not sure I like the direction of holding my recipes hostage in the cloud for a monthly fee. Seems like he is copying Beer Tools in a few ways. I always end up trialing both these softwares at the same time and end up buying neither.

Made a mental note to create liquid volume measurements for tun and keggle.

Found a recipe for a Sierra Nevada clone, noted I have all ingredients already on hand and plan to make this next after I read about yeast washing.

Checked hops plant for the first time in a week. First year for homegrown hops for me and cones just starting appearing a week ago, now they are getting massive. Probably be able to use them this year.

Studied some articles on March pumps and learned some stuff about cavitation, proper priming technique, after marker pump heads and their customer support as well as March people are active on this forum.

Debated buying a yeast stirrer. While my homemade one works, it's kinda cobbled together with hot glue and the magnets seem to come off occasionally. Like to just have a reliable one in case I get into making lagers.

 

[tnvol]

I didn't do anything today, but last night I drank a whole bunch of them. They did more for me than I did for them..

 

[dpatrickv]

Bottled my Midnight in Belgium and brewed another batch of my saison last night.