What I did for beer today

[Cacaman]

Day 7 of my Blue Moon Clone fermentation. Still bubbling along nicely, SG of 1.037 from a OG of 1.063. Still a ways to go. Nice Krausen head:

What are you doing removing the lid so early in fermentation ?? Patience my friend!

Anyways, today i bottled Ed's Robust Porter with 2 vanilla beans, boy was that un-carbonated beer good! Cant wait!

 

[user 103238]

Picked up two 3-gallon plastic carboys to split my porter into a vanilla porter and a bourbon vanilla porter.

 

[crosschk]

Joined homebrew talk.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Joined homebrew talk.

Welcome!

 

[g2rnewton]

I cleaned up from my first ever beer grenade. Had a 22 oz bomber (no pun) explode in my closet, that doubles as my homebrew storage room.

The engineer in me, tried to analyze the debris field for a pattern to reconstruct the tragedy, but no luck. I found splash spots in places that were unimaginable.

Hope this doesn't happen with any of the other ones.

 

[Bradzukie]

Took the wife to the airport....... undisturbed brewing, drinking, and relaxation for a week!

 

[Subsailor]

Joined homebrew talk.

Welcome and now I have done my thing for beer today!

 

[MisterTipsy]

I looked at my airlock and wondered just how long 3711 will make bubbles. It's been a week and it's still bubbling four times a minute.

 

[nukebrewer]

Bottled a Belgian-style Pale Ale and am currently brewing my Banaynay Split Imperial Stout. Efficiency was a little off, still trying to dial in the crush on my new mill, but it will still be good. On a good note, though, I got my mash to stop sticking by shortening the dip tube from my false bottom by about 1/8". Now it flows like a dream.

 

[TOWEYWACKER]

Set up all my gear in the garage, bought all my ingredients, and prepared to teach several people how to homebrew tomorrow. Lets spread the science!!

 

[beers_R_us]

I checked shipment tracking and anticipated tomorrows big delivery. Plumbing and screen for the keggle I made this week and ingredients for my next 4 brews

 

[punkrockdave]

Brewed Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza clone also a Punk IPA clone and bought all this today. I



I skipped on the March pump though, to many scoots.

 

[Pilgarlic]

Brewed a kolsch and I'm waiting for my hefe starter wort to cool.

 

[cdeme123]

I got my son of fermentation chiller almost completely assembled. Just have a few more things, some dowl rods, the thermal probe and testing.

 

[EnjoyGoodBeer]

Took the wife to the airport....... undisturbed brewing, drinking, and relaxation for a week!

Congats sir! Cheers!

 

[duckredbeard]

Did a complete cleaning on my brewhouse. Got all my camlocks put on. Found one to be super difficult to operate. Haven't screwed up too bad with SWMBO yet today, prepping for a 10 gallon brew next week.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Brewing a California Common at the moment. First time doing a FWH and eager for this one to be done so I can taste how it impacts the taste.

 

[Bradzukie]

Ordered a Blichman burner yesterday, checked on my 2 batches fermenting away in the fermentation chamber. Then I got the ingredients gathered for my blonde ill be brewing tomorrow. Also tweaked the blondes recipe a little.

 

[bobeer]

Delabled and cleaned bottles to bottle my next batch in.

 

[ASassyBeerChick83]

We bottled the Belgian Triple!!

Gonna wait a couple of weeks - until my Birthday - Oct. to test them out!!

 

[Guden]

Bought a hydrometer.
Brewed a sour brown.
Broke the hydrometer.

 

[Pilgarlic]

Bought a hydrometer.
Brewed a sour brown.
Broke the hydrometer.

Missed opportunity: Haiku.

 

[duckredbeard]

Today I bought the second half of my 10 gallon batch. It will be my first 10 gallon batch.

 

[beers_R_us]

What I did yesterday: My brewing buddy and I each made 5.5 gallon Oktoberfest in a sort of competition brew. We drank home brew plus some dogfish head 60 min (yum).

What I did for beer today: I tolerated a headache for first couple hours

 

[tchamber]

Bought a bottle tree on the weekend.

Racked the Blu Moon to secondary this morning. It looks and tastes amazing.....

 

[punkrockdave]

Blew my back out yesterday during a brew session.

 

[Skagdog]

Racked my black lager (Midnight Sun Lager) to secondary. It was boiling under the midnight sun on the summer solstice and I plan on bottling mid-november for consumption under the noon-day moon on the winter solstice.

It's not as black as I wanted it, despite using 8 oz chocolate malt.. Beersmith gave me 30.7 SRM but I think I'm closer to 20ish...

Oh well, maybe next year.

 

[cdeme123]

Finally built my "Son of Fermentation Chiller." I used plans I found at http://home.roadrunner.com/~brewbeer/chiller/chiller.PDF. I didn't use the thermostat and power supply they recommend. I already had a wired Ranco dual stage temp controller and a converted bench power supply (5vdc and 12vdc). The chamber and cut list came from the pdf.

Been testing it for the past couple of days and it works great for lager fermentation (48 degrees and up).

Studying up on laggering beer. I'm very impressed with the article I found on HBT.



Started planning my pumpkin ale recipe. Last year's didn't go well.

 

[Bradzukie]

Brewed a blonde as a start of a blueberry blonde today. Went really well. I can't wait for my new burner to get here. I ordered the blichman burner from rebel brewer. I also built a tier system for when I get said burner. I put a piece of metal on the top level cause I hear the new burner can scorch wood beneath it. Now I need to research casters for it.

 

[wSelwyn]

Started a new brew journal, as the old one was too small for AG batches. Sure, I use Beer Smith on my netbook, but it's nice to have a personal, printed backup.

I also ordered a refractometer off Amazon for crazy cheap (thanks Homebrew Finds).