What I did for beer today

[Frige]

Yesterday I delabeled and sanitized bottles, then bottled my fat tire clone. Today I am going to bottle my blonde bombshell and transfer the pumpkin ale to a secondary. Work, work, work.

 

[leftcontact]

Picked up a corny keg, 2 regulators, a couple CO2 bottles, and some lines from a coworker who was cleaning out his basement. Now I gotta come up with a good DFH 120 clone. Such a task... I Anticipate much experimentation and trial and error to come. :grin:

 

[andvari7]

It's going to sound childish and stupid, but I purchased some Rogue Morimoto Imperial Pilsner, just for the flip-top bottle. I'm about to start my fifth brew, and my third five-gallon, on Friday.

I should grab a few more bottles this afternoon.

 

[thisbeluke]

Today I pre-boiled my Alu pots and made a rather nifty ribcage IC next weekends the first all grain.

 

[sweed]

Dry hopping my IIPA. Came out at 1.013, lower than expected. So its around a 8% beer. The sample came out good, can't wait to taste after the dry hopping.

 

[unionrdr]

Today I pre-boiled my Alu pots and made a rather nifty ribcage IC next weekends the first all grain.

I remember watching imolatius on youtube makin one of those ribcage chillers. I think it's a good idea. How well is it working out for you?
I gotta wait for the missus to get done in the kitchen. I gotta rinse & ring out my now clean hop sacks/grain bag. Then heat some nice steamy water to cook out some dirty bottles I never got to. Rinse,scrub,hot soak,scrub & rinse again. That outta teach me not to be lazy...

 

[ThatGeekGuy]

Going to clean my pin lock keg and finally get my Oktoberfest style ale out of the primary after five weeks.

 

[jtkratzer]

Filled three kegs and 18 12oz bottles that didn't fit in the kegs. Still have another keg to fill but no gas line to hook it up to.

 

[unionrdr]

Finally finished cleaning some dirty bottles. Rinsed,squeezed out & hung up my hop & grain sacks to dry.Looks like my PM cascade pale is finishing up as well.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Cleaned a bunch of bottles, then went to our homebrew club's attempt at a "how to homebrew" class at the local World of Beer, which was of course overshadowed by the Redskins game on and ended up not happening due to a lack of interest. Drank a few beers. Came home. About to clean more bottles. Then bottle my Imperial Red. Then clean more bottles

I have too many bottles to clean. Hah.

 

[rtb178]

Stirred up what I take to be a stuck fermentation of my West Coast IPA. Studied up on Belgian Pale and Belgian IPA recipes. Plotted the dry hop for next week.

 

[Dave37]

Cleaned a bunch of bottles, then went to our homebrew club's attempt at a "how to homebrew" class at the local World of Beer, which was of course overshadowed by the Redskins game on and ended up not happening due to a lack of interest. Drank a few beers. Came home. About to clean more bottles. Then bottle my Imperial Red. Then clean more bottles

I have too many bottles to clean. Hah.

Srry about the redskins (go gmen) but i wish i had your problem about having too many bottles to clean. I dont have enough. Trying to get a hold of 60 22oz bottles for 2 different 5gallon batches i have going right now. And i think its about time and pay the ridiculous overcharge of what the stores charge for bottles since i cant get enough recycled ones. If anyone knows of a good spot to order 22's online id appreciate it.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Srry about the redskins (go gmen) but i wish i had your problem about having too many bottles to clean. I dont have enough. Trying to get a hold of 60 22oz bottles for 2 different 5gallon batches i have going right now. And i think its about time and pay the ridiculous overcharge of what the stores charge for bottles since i cant get enough recycled ones. If anyone knows of a good spot to order 22's online id appreciate it.

That's not the football (or in reality, hand-egg) I care about. DC United clinched a playoff spot, so that's good enough for me

 

[ElyIrishBrew]

Srry about the redskins (go gmen) but i wish i had your problem about having too many bottles to clean. I dont have enough. Trying to get a hold of 60 22oz bottles for 2 different 5gallon batches i have going right now. And i think its about time and pay the ridiculous overcharge of what the stores charge for bottles since i cant get enough recycled ones. If anyone knows of a good spot to order 22's online id appreciate it.

Is there a Queens Freecycle e-mail net? I live in a small town, and even we have one. Just Google it and see. City as big as Queens, it's likely to have thousands of members. People offer stuff up for free, and people ask for stuff for free.

That's how I just got 55 Grolsch pint bottles and about 30 larger Fischer bottles (like Grolsch but larger, maybe 22-24 oz).

 

[andvari7]

I just purchased a 2L, flip-top bottle, and I have to empty it. It will be a very interesting week, and because I bought the beer during the fourth quarter of the Packers/Rams game (which, I'm pleased to note, ended in victory for the Pack), I can't use the old Wisconsin excuse of "Drinking during a Packers game" to break into it.

I'm about to hit the NordicTrack, and then draw off a pint.

 

[ElyIrishBrew]

It will be a very interesting week, and because I bought the beer during the fourth quarter of the Packers/Rams game (which, I'm pleased to note, ended in victory for the Pack), I can't use the old Wisconsin excuse of "Drinking during a Packers game" to break into it.

Yeah baby! I was born in LaCrosse during the Lombardi era. Go Pack!!!!

 

[Snicks]

-Dry hopped my first IIPA attempt,
-Disassembled and refurbished/cleaned 3 old kegs that I bought from our local soda supplier
-Re-calibrated the sight-tube on my 60L pot and newest 6gal better bottle with a gram scale... its' been a long day.

 

[biggrizzly]

First time responding to this thread... Today I bought a keggle for the first time. I'm psyched to do ten gal. batches.

Yesterday did my first dry hops on an American Amber Ale that is in the keg. I bagged 1oz of Citra and dumped it into the keg.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Had a busy weekend - cleaned 100 bottles, my new BIAB bag and new hop strainer. Then I bottled my nut brown ale and apple Brown Betty ale (I also started on labels for those two beers.). Made an unexpected stop at the LHBS today and got my grain bill, hops and yeast for my batch of RIS I'll be brewing this week along with a Tuscan Merlot kit which I mixed and hooked up to a blow-off tube. After cleaning up from all that I racked open a Oak Jacked Imperial Pumpkin Ale that was a nice end to the evening!

 

[DoctorMemory]

Bought the ingredients for my first recipe I came up with myself (a California Common). Was going to brew it today, but my assistant brewmaster was under the weather, so we'll wait until next weekend.

Made a label for my just-bottled batch, have to work on getting the registration right so they print correctly on the label stock I have.

 

[lumpher]

hooked up a new manifold for the kegerator (finally got rid of the tees after several years), ran new co2 lines, and cleaned my kegs

 

[zacster]

Brewed an American Amber Ale. I didn't hit the gravity of 1.060 that was expected and I think that is above what i can get with my BIAB method with my equipment. There just isn't enough space for the extra grain and it basically gets wasted.

 

[grahamtwatson]

Brewed up five gallons of Milk Stout and five gallons of Red using the turkey fryer I got from Home Depot a month ago. It's nice to be able to do full boils rather than 2.5 gallons.

 

[unionrdr]

Put away the nice clean bottles I slaved over yesterday to get clean & onto the bottle tree. Th hop & grain sacks I'd been soaking in PBW for a week got rinsed,wrung out & hung to dry. Now I gotta go through a mountain of craft beer 12 pack boxes I don't need to clear out the ol' man cave some more. Got some with clean bottles still with labels if somebody wants to come get'em. Was gunaa flatten out the boxes to recycle that I don't need for smoker wood,car chemicals,etc. Gotta steam clean a chair I have in here that'll go in the living room. I want 1 or 2 sets of those keg chairs & tables to put in here with french doors & a HD monitor on the wall. Thought to connect it to the computer for movies & youtrub videos while we drink beers from the fridge I want in here. Not to mention a cabinet for my glasses.
It's gunna happen one job at a time...

 

[LoloMT7]

Racked my barleywine to secondary the fg finished lower than i expected at 1.014.. 12% yummie

 

[pellis007]

I labeled my first ever home brew and ordered more brewing equipment from Northern.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,it's the 2 week mark today for my 1st pm pale ale & I'll take a hydrometer sample. Gotta have a lil taste as well...

 

[jerryteague]

Did some shopping on my LHBS' website for a PM brown ale, and maybe the ingredients for a PM Bitburger clone. I also stared at my empty fermenters, wishing I had something in them.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Dry hopped an IPA and inventoried and weighed out ingredients for a robust porter I am going to brew in a day or so.

 

[user 103238]

Got home later than I wanted, but I'm now finally working on the starter for the saison I'm brewing on Friday.