What I did for beer today

[Aschecte]

Inserted some swizzle sticks into my kegs. Foam problem cured!

Side note, McMaster charged $16 shipping for 12 (about $12) to Hawaii. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr......

stupid question what is a swizzle stick ?

 

[Nightshade]

Harvest 6 liters of yeast from the CDA
Check gravity on the Hefe
Check levels on Pumpkin Ale
Put together a new Stout recipe
Take grain and beer inventory

 

[Aschecte]

started a wild yeast collection from my back yard.

 

[Seedly]

Overloaded the FedEx tracking service servers by clicking refresh every few seconds. FedEx said the next scheduled update is 10/4/12 on my MoreBeer shipment. Well...its 10/4! Wheres my brew-stuff?

 

[ohai]

stupid question what is a swizzle stick ?

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/cure-your-short-hose-troubles-100151/ A long ass thread but worth the read.


http://www.mcmaster.com/#catalog/118/3430/=jkshd1 and the actual part itself.

 

[markm2151]

Brewed 500 gallons of pumpkin ale for my local brew pub.

 

[leftcontact]

Brewed 500 gallons of pumpkin ale for my local brew pub.

Every so often I wish HBT had a like or +1 button. This is one of those times.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

Every so often I wish HBT had a like or +1 button. This is one of those times.

There is a like button. Just not on the iPhone app, you have to be on your comp. Though there is no +1 button.... Then again, +1 is only two buttons so it ain't much a deal.

 

[duckredbeard]

Stopped by a local stainless fabrication shop and dropped off my hop spider parts for welding. Watch the DIY for that. Welding shop owner is a wine maker, so I see a deal working!

 

[Pratzie]

bottled two batches of Caramel Apple Cider. tastes like applesauce. awesome stuff.

 

[jerrodm]

Bottled my nut-brown ale, which already tastes delicious. I'm bummed about waiting the requisite priming time, particularly with all this great fall weather. Now, what to put in the carboy next?

Also, sent out inquiry emails to several area orchards about apple variety availability and price, and lined up a cider press for rental. Yay for autumn!

 

[Aschecte]

today has been a bussssyyy day... first I siged up two new mebers here on HBT from my homebrew club. Next I started conditioning oak cubes for a sour I'm doing tommorow so, I'm trying to rush ot along by boiling them like 5 times and soaking them in my saison. Next I weighed out and crushed a 20lb grain bill for my weekend marathon brew days starting 7 am tommorow and going until Sunday afternoon !!!!! 4 guys and brew as much as we can and sleep in between batches and take turns making sure we don;t burn my house down.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Emailed a local brewery to see if the recipe I have come up with based on the ingredients they list on their website for one of their seasonal brews (a pineapple heffe) will get me close to what they produce so I can finally make something wifey likes. Hoping they respond, but I will enjoy my creation regardless.

 

[Gixxer]

My loving wife went to the brew store for me while I was at work. Tonight got a starter going with some washed US05 for a brew this weekend, and got some oak ships soaking in scotch for a barleywine.

 

[wSelwyn]

Slept in, sat around the house, drank beer, and read brewing books allll day. It'll be a long while until I get another lazy day like this again...

 

[allenH]

Bought the grains for the next batch, BCB Haus Pale. Going to use it as a base to use up some of my last years hops. Also went to the machine and bought 15 gallons of RO, Florida tap water tastes just like it is from the pool.

 

[Aschecte]

I did my first turbid mash and holy shart that was a process 4 hour mash , also I did a partyglye from all the runnings I had left over.

 

[nukebrewer]

Bottled my blonde for the wedding later in the month and my vanilla pumpkin lager. Also put in the dry hops for KeyWestBrewing's Badfish IIPA. For waking up sick as a dog this morning I'd say that's a pretty productive day.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Did my first all grain brew (BIAB) - but brown ale. I got horrible conversion so I boiled off a lot of the water to get my gravity close to target.

 

[cbros]

Bottled a hoppy wheat that used fresh whole cone cascade hops.

 

[duckredbeard]

Made some, but not enough. First 10 gallon batch and my boil was too vigorous. Ended up with about 9 gallons.

 

[ohai]

Picked up supplies for a Bitter American clone that I'll be brewing tomorrow. Can't get 21st Amendment out here so I gots to do what I gots to do.

 

[sweed]

Picked up ingredients for my brew day today... But ended up back home picking up stuff for my new place and got out of dinner with my mom late. Too late to brew,.so I'll do it after the pats game tomorrow.

 

[trivial]

Reviewed the Kalamazoo IPA by Austin Homebrew Supply

 

[LoloMT7]

Dumped out infected smash & bottled yoopers oatmeal stout. Drank a homebrew hard cider

 

[weirdboy]

Wow I'll bet yooper appreciates you bottling her stout for her.


I only brewed a batch of IPA.

 

[LoloMT7]

Yooper's recipe that is ... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/yoopers-oatmeal-stout-210376/

 

[jerryteague]

I'm copying recipes, so I can order ingredients for 2 more batches when I get home (Bitburger Pils, and Murphy's Irish Stout). These are also my first 2 all grain brews (BIAB, 5 gallon), so I'm excited about it.

 

[nukebrewer]

Judged in Southern New England Regional Homebrew Competition (first time judging). My entries didn't take home any awards, but I had a lot of fun judging and learning how to judge. I was very surprised at how close the scores I gave came to my BJCP certified partner's. More often than not our scores came within a few points of each other without any adjustments. I figured I'd be way over scoring entries because I really haven't had much experience with even the more common off flavors. If you had entries in that competition and got crappy scores for categories 9 or 10, you can blame me.

 

[divrguy]

I'm just trying to make sure I have Simcoe, Amarillo, Centennial, and Citra for my IPAs and IIPAs in 2013... I wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on them before they sold out, so I ordered a bunch.

Where did you find Citra? I thought it was about gone everywhere.