What I did for beer today

[punkrockdave]

I first came home and cleaned these

Then dry hopped my Punk IPA clone





After that cleaned this

last night I brewed this,

a Hop Rod Rye clone and tomorrow bottling these 2,

The one on the left is a Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza clone and on the right is a blue berry sour. Been a busy 48 hours to say the least.

 

[jerryteague]

Getting stuff ready to brew a cascade pale ale while everyone else sleeps. Then, off to bed for me, so I can go to work tomorrow evening.

 

[wSelwyn]

Just finnished making two starters for tomorrow's brew day. A bit last minute, so I borrowed my buddy's stir plate so I could bump the count to two. I'll be brewing 10 gal of Sweet Stout: 5gal w/ Brittish Yeast and 5gal w/ Dry English Ale yeast. Huzzah!

 

[crosschk]

Ordered a bottling/beer wand and another kit

 

[wSelwyn]

Brewed my 10gal batch of sweet stout. Had a couple mishaps, including one of my 2 yeast starters shaking off the stir plate and spilling WLP005 on the floor... This is why I have emergency dry yeast packets. Thank goodness I wasn't brewing with some sort of specialty yeast...

 

[crosschk]

Used a hydrometer for the first time. Tasted the beer. Cleaned out some bottles

 

[dualcells]

Does running two batches of grain through the mill yesterday count?

If not, I brewed a Red Cream Ale and an American Pale Ale today. Then drank more of the apricot ale I have stored.

 

[govner1]

Moved my ESB to secondary and my Saison to a keg for cold crashing.

 

[thisoneguy]

Added some gelatin to the keg of amber ale in my keezer.

 

[sirmichael]

Got my STC1000 and wired up my chest freezer.

 

[BrotherGrim]

Drinking my IPA and worrying about when that keg will kick. I got one more ready to go, but I really don't want to see this one drop out.

 

[gimmejava]

Just finished cooking up some Belgian candy for a Belgian Strong recipe I plan on brewing this weekend.

 

[Hulud]

Ordered 2 more perlicks and hoses to make my keezer a 4 tap

 

[Whattawort]

Ordered a new regulator, new o-rings, a few new disconnects for the kegs.

 

[wSelwyn]

A co-worker brought in an ounce of partially dried Cascade hop cones from his garden. Totally going to use them for my next brew (probably a MO/Cascade SMaSH, since I already have a pound of Cascade pellets)

 

[duckredbeard]

Cleaned a growler to be filled for a co-worker. He's a recently relocated home brewer who hasn't yet been able to brew since the move. Gonna share my 75 IBU SMaSH (Maris Otter and Columbus).

 

[Aschecte]

Dreamt of beers to come ( I know kinda lame )

 

[user 103238]

Dreamt of beers to come ( I know kinda lame )

No it's not. You're not alone. My wife was just telling one of my best friends how excited I start to get as brew day approaches.

 

[duckredbeard]

This is kinda corny, but I believe it is good to do. I struck up a conversation with the cashier at Home Depot about what I intended to do with the buckets, spray bottles and brushes I was buying (brewery cleaning). She was thrilled, as her husband is also a homebrewer. She went on and on about his (brewing) equipment. Sounded like good stuff. I simply thanked her for being patient with him and his time consuming hobby. Hope she encourages him to brew this weekend. I did my part.

 

[crosschk]

I plan to go home and scrub clean one of those very large, I think they call em swamp coolers, that has gotten crud all over it in the hopes I can use it for a temp contol enviroment for my mrbeer kegs.

Bleach and hazmat suit will be standing by

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Just ordered up 3lbs of hops from yakimavalleyhops.com. Will be ordering more as soon as the new crop is ready later this month

 

[MisterTipsy]

Bought some fancy fruit for a saison.

 

[HellInABucket]

Took a gravity reading from my Janet's Brown. Excited to see it has made it down to 1.019 and tasting great 5 days after pitching and going through an Explosive Fermentation Event. Hoping the gravity comes down a few more points.

Pitched the starter on Saturday morning before leaving leaving town for two days. Came home to a fermentation fridge crime scene. Had a 1/2 blow off hose over the orange cap, but the cap clogged, blew its top and left it uncapped for an unknown amount of time.

Some lessons learned, some lessons confirmed...

 

[Vinnyb722]

Looked at freezers. Bought a Perlick faucet. Going to build a keezer. Ohhhh! I am excited.

 

[odinsgift]

Hand picked half of a large rubbermaid tote of Cascade with my daughter.



They are very very dry, and were almost impossible to pick, but I knew I missed my window with this plant. For not being taken care of, I almost think this stuff is better than my "taken care of" cascade.

 

[zacster]

I have a glass of my Saison in front of me. It still needs some time on the gas to be properly carbonated, but it is definitely developing.

Time to swap out the ice bottles to keep it cold.

 

[asidrane]

I bottled my 8% Belgian Blonde Ale.

 

[nukebrewer]

Took a gravity reading on my banana split stout. It's probably finished by now at 1.022 but it'll be sitting on the cake for at least another two weeks anyway, so if it's not finished it will be. The hydro sample tastes pretty good, but the flavors still need quite a bit of smoothing out and it's very green. The real star, though, was the aroma. Massive banana with a little chocolate. I've been soaking a couple Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans in vodka for the past week, so that solution and 4 oz of cacao nibs are going in on Saturday.

 

[worksnorth]

Learned that you can put to may cloves in your barley wine!!!

 

[sirmichael]

Took gravity readings on my wheat and my cherry pomegranate cider.