What I did for beer today

[BeerBrent]

gathered ingredients for my next 3 brews by buying bulk (well, actually my pregnant wife picked up the ingredients #kickass). force carbed my black ipa. oh, and dipped my balls into my 6 month old sour ale that is chilling under the house.

 

[Tombraider2]

That -Bottled a batch of apple pie ale- sound interesting. Have a recipe ?

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Picked up two pounds of Centennial hops.

 

[EnjoyGoodBeer]

Bottled my IPA, brewed a batch of holiday ale, and had my first own receipe- hoppy wheat beer. Boy I love beer

 

[OCBrewin]

Kegged my third batch of Cream of Three Crops and washed the WLP080 to end up with 4 mason jars for future batches. Also, made a starter for the Sacc (1007) pitch of a Berliner Weisse that was inoculated with lacto yesterday. Gonna pitch the 1007 tomorrow

 

[ShepFL]

Polished off last of 5 gal batch of Upstate Mike's Apple Pie Cider. Immediately started another batch tonight on recovered yeast from WPGA.
Racked to 2ndary 3 gal batch of Huckleberry Wine - forgot to drain the mess from bottom of fermenter - just dumped it. Hope this does not become to thin.
Racked to 2ndary 5 gal batch of WPGA and cold crashing - very nice flavor and smell. Notty yeast used.
Cleaned and santized fermenters and brew pot. Hope to brew modified LH Milk Stout clone tomorrow; time permitting an Kolch ale.
Hoping to have all this kegged and aging to be ready for my 50th birthday in Jan. 2013
Sipping some Jim Beam Devil's Cut mixed with apple juice now watching Freddy Kruger.

 

[ShepFL]

Kegged gingersnap brown and brewing mint chocolate stout

Will be watching for updates.

 

[user 103238]

Absolutely - I've been intentionally avoiding my laptop the last couple of days. I'll PM it to you tonight.

That -Bottled a batch of apple pie ale- sound interesting. Have a recipe ?

 

[ArcticBear]

Bought a bowie bottler, bought an awesome flying dog tap handle on ebay, and brewed a punkin ale clone...low on volume, high on OG..but its going to be awesome anyways

 

[JScott02]

Finished off another bottle of wine to add to my collection of empties. Getting ready to start a batch of mead and need lots of empty wine bottles.

Got everything together to brew my Kolsh ale tomorrow.

 

[Bisco_Ben]

Today was fun. I started off by brewing up a Smoked Rye IPA recipe that I put together the other day which is dedicated to my cat (Rickey's Rye IPA). I ran 3 miles while my mash was resting and came back to vorlauf and get my boil going. Then I kegged my Imperial Red recipe while the boil was going. After completing my Smoked Rye IPA, I took gravity readings from my pumpkin ale, belgian golden strong and dudes Lake Walk pale ale clone (and then dry-hopped the Lake Walk). I am now drinking some firestone union jack while waiting for my chest freezer to crash my carboy of rye ipa down to 60 degrees for some yeast pitchin'. :rockin::fro:

 

[ArcticBear]

kegged my redhook esb clone(ish) that i made during hurricane sandy. Rightfully named my "SandyHook ESB - Extra Stormy Bitter"

problem with my autosiphon because the tubing i had apparently has a larger ID than the previous stuff i was using (most recent tubing was purchased from midwest supplies) and it wasn't creating any suction at first and when i added a hose clamp all it was doing was aerating the wort. so i went old fashion and used a long section of hose to just create my siphon.. was a pain in the ass holding the hose the whole time but it got it into the keg without aerating everything.


force carbed the keg and through it on my kegerator, looking forward to trying it in a couple days

 

[user 103238]

Took a hydro sample of my 2.5 gallon batch of galaxy pale ale - attenuated from 1.055 to 1.012 in less than 3 days, and tasted amazing! Am definitely looking forward to the final product.

The saison isn't moving nearly as fast, but is slowly but surely making progress.

 

[yn381sb]

Tidied up the man cave for bottling day, kicked out a possum who had taken up residence, and created a few empty bottles.

 

[Soup4you2]

Bottled an Evil twin IPA, going to bottle the other 5 gallons tonight. spare fridge can only handle 1 carboy at a time to cold crash

I should also be going home to find a nice package with Summit, Northern Brewer, Chinook, and Cluster hops.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Broke up a pound of Centennial hops into ounces and vacuum sealed them for freezing. One more pound to go.

 

[sonofgrok]

I drank some...

I do that for beer pretty much every day though.

 

[thisoneguy]

Kicked a keg of (delicious!) home brewed IPA while I contemplate the design for my new brew stand build that is still a few months out. Now the only homebrew I have left is an Amber that is going to kick soon. Looks like I'm about to be planning a brew day for this weekend, too!

 

[Tombraider2]

Ran bottles through dish washer yesterday, bottle up day. :rockin:

 

[sweed]

Well, Last night I bought some der vodkski, vodka, and mixed it with some bakers chocolate for my chocolate stout that will go into the 2ndary maybe tonight, or tomorrow... or Friday, or some other time in the near (hopefully) future.

 

[RagingBull]

Checked the temps on my Winter Dark Ale which is happily fermenting for a week now and checked on my Oktoberfest which as been in the fermenter for three weeks and will be bottled Saturday Afternoon.

 

[LoloMT7]

Bought the grains and hops at my LHBS for an Amber brew this weekend. They were all out of the Wyeast 1318 that I wanted though but said it will be in tomorrow. So I'll be going back now.

 

[pellis007]

Checked SG of my Irish Red Ale which has been in primary 14 days. Down to 1.014. I'll check it again in a couple days.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Went to Stienbarts, milled my grain, bought some hops, LDME and hop bags...need to find Pacman elsewhere I guess.

 

[Soup4you2]

Racked 5 gallons of another Evil twin IPA batch, along with 5 gallons of a Dead Ringer IPA.

The color on the Dead Ringer was beautiful, slight hint of red to it.

 

[user 103238]

Watched several reruns of Brewing TV while on the treadmill, and am currently sampling a saison from the new brewery in time. Also had to sneak another sample of the galaxy pale ale (I even took another hydrometer reading to try to convince myself it was necessary).

 

[unionrdr]

I broke with tradition & had a beer to take my pill this morning. Fllowed that with some chicken ramen. Still got some cleaning & sanitizing to get done. Too bad business got in the way of the money for a Christmas brew.

 

[jerrodm]

OK meant to post this on Saturday but I was too busy:

Completed my entire brew cycle in one day--

- Went to the LHBS and bought ingredients for my spiced Christmas Ale
- Brewed my Christmas ale
- Transferred my Doppelweizenbock to secondary--it tasted delicious.
- Washed and sanitized three cases of bottles
- Racked my foreign extra dry stout from the secondary and bottled--it also tasted delicious

This is what happens when you leave home for three weeks on a business trip and have two brews going while you're gone!

Already trying to figure out what I should brew next...

 

[daddyo1109]

Been a while since I posted anything, but here goes: Brewed and Bottled a Chocolate Stout named Chocolate Santa in bottles a week now, probably won't try even one until Christmas. Also brewed and Bottled a Maple Porter with a recipe from another beer site, that just bottle on Monday. Brewing my first Clone Beer, a Red Hook ESB but didn't have enough Tettnanger for Bittering so used some Willamette that I had on hand, also first time using tap water filtered with a PUR filter for the Brew. Hope this works out. Wish me Luck.

 

[Nightshade]

Checked gravity on a Spice Ale and an Imperial IPA
Cleaned a dozen kegs (1/2bbl size)
Updated inventory
Created a hop degredation chart
Ordered grain
Ordered hops