What I did for beer today

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Transferred my porter to secondary for dry-hopping with an ounce of Kent Goldings.

Washed the 1388 West Yorkshire Ale yeast.

Woot!

 

[Nightshade]

Transferred 6 kegs of beer
Clean fermenting vessel

 

[allenH]

Added gelatin and cranked the temp down on a Two Hearted clone. My first time dry-hopping with whole cone hops (still waiting on my 2012 pellets to come in).

 

[Soup4you2]

Cold crashed the Hop Head double IPA
dry hoped a Big Chief IPA
made a yeast starter and milled some grains for tomorrows session

now to move the MT/HLT upstairs so everything is set for the morning..

 

[Tombraider2]

Got some pizza and had a buddy over and popped a few tops off the IPA's made on 911. :rockin:

 

[cheesehed007]

Had to get out of work early (not a bad thing) and take my wife to he dentist, she's in major pain with a root canal gone bad. So I'm being nurse Ratchet... I'm 2 beers in.. Cheers!! Oh and I just bottled my first brew.

 

[user 83772]

Made my third trip in as many days to the LHBS to pick up yet another bit of gear that I forgot to pick up when I went shopping for my first AG setup the other day. I'm pretty sure the staff think I'm king of the short-bus at this point.

I also just finished weighing out the grain for my first two attempts at homebrewing. I see a gallon each of mint chocolate stout & amber ale in my near future!

 

[pellis007]

Took 2nd SG reading for my Irish Red this morning. It was unchanged from 3 days agoat 1.014. Another week in the primary and I'll bottle. Took 1st SG reading on my Cream Ale. OG was 1.044, SG today was 1.012. Better attenuation than what the yeast specs called for. I'll take another reading in a couple days and will probably bottle a week after that. Bottling my Caribou Slobber Thanksgiving day while watching football and pounding some pints. Can't wait!

 

[midwestbiker]

Kegged for the first time. Kegged my WhiteHouse Honey Porter. will be ready for Thanksgiving

 

[allenH]

Kegged my Two Hearted clone, wish I could have crashed a couple of more days but my last keg blew lastnight. Cleaned the blown keg this morning also.

 

[sweed]

Racked my chocolate stout to the bottling bucket, I will bottle later tonight. I want to wait a bit to let everything settle to the bottom so I don't get any/much sediment from the cocoa powder in the bottles, and whatever else may find it's way in. Looks and smells amazing.

 

[sweed]

Just bottled my small batch. 10 bombers. First go will be at Thanksgiving, hopeful they will last until Christmas, but I doubt it.
I got a nice tall sample

 

[daddyo1109]

ESB clone really trying my patience. Pitched with Muntons Gold yeast on Thurs eve it's Sunday morning and just now seeing a little action. Muntons says you can just pitch the Gold yeast dry. Anyone else had issues? Last time I used it, it flocculated like crazy within about 10 hours. I will never pitch dry again!! "Everything comes if a man will only wait." Benjamin DisRaeli

 

[user 103238]

From yesterday afternoon - completed my mini keg cooler, then took it on its maiden voyage for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner last night. It successfully dispensed 3 gallons of holiday spiced cranberry ale.

 

[RagingBull]

Yesterday I bottled my Oktoberfest and this morning started a new batch. I thought everything went way too smooth this morning. Once I got everything together and checked my OG which was lower than I expected. Couldn't figure out what the problem but figured there wasn't much I could do but make beer out of what I got! That's when I discovered I'd left out the additional LME!

 

[Gixxer]

Bottled my pumpkin ale. Fun times, went fairly smooth. Took a crap ton of pics to use for powerpoint slides in my speech class. Gonna teach the class how to make beer!

 

[Euripidez]

Racked my pale ale into secondary and moved it and my fermenting IPA into the same closet at a lower temp.

Thus, the "hop closet" series of ales is born. Every time I open the closet, it explodes with hop aroma. So, Hop Closet Pale Ale and Hop Closet Belgian IPA

 

[yummybeer]

What did I do for beer today? I'm currently drinking it so that the workers at the brewery have a job and make more for us to drink while we're waiting for our next batch of homebrew to be ready to drink.

 

[unionrdr]

Yeppers,YB! absoburpinlutely! Havin a Thirsty Dog Cerberus belgian trippel in my new pint glass from them after some fall cleanin in the man cave going into the dining room. Gotta get it ready for Thanksgiving festivities. Got my pm cascade pale in the fridge yesterday. Gotta fininsh re-arranging dining area & man cave brewery clean up.
Gotta do something with all these dried new mexico chiles too. Now if I just had a cig...

 

[duboman]

Bottled up my Hippie Holiday ale and sampled a Gonzales IPA which tasted awesome!

 

[jerryteague]

Looked at recipes for a couple if clones I'm gonna do very soon. First is an India Black Ale, and next is a Surley Furious clone. I'm gonna order the ingredients next pay day.

 

[pellis007]

Ended up bottling my Caribou Slobber. Decided to give it an extra week bottle conditioning rather than staying in secondary for an extra week. Fermentation was done anyway.

 

[crosschk]

Bottled my 7th batch of beer..brewed 2 more batches....

 

[whitebirdfeathers]

Today I brewed an batch black IPA. This is the first batch of beer i have brewed in years. I got sucked back into this hobby by a group of particularly unscrupulous members of a local home brew club I met at beer festival. These dastardly folks had absolutely zero sympathy for my brewing addiction and plied me with tales of the great beer they brewed last whenever. In the end I rooted around in storage and found the few pieces of brewing gear that I hadn't gotten rid of.( grain mill, 3 carboys, and a wort chiller) Stopped by the local homebrew supply store and grabbed a few little things like a hydrometer,airlocks,carboy brush, a bottling bucket and of course the ingredients for a black IPA. The owner was quite happy to see me. Once more into the breech dear friends........

I wish I could click Like more than once for this post. Welcome back my friend!

 

[midwestbiker]

Tried my first kegged beer - the Whitehouse Honey Porter.
Needs a little more carbonation but tastes GREAT

Was freaked out because I had read the posts about contamination and infections last night....

Dave

 

[BlindFaith]

Put two bottles of my first batch in the fridge after 10 days of conditioning. Gonna try one tomorrow as I brew my 3rd batch, an ESB.

 

[Herky21]

I ordered - Yeast: The Practical Guide to Fermentation and 2 Fermometer strips.

I also am trying to come up with a Strong Belgian Xmas Ale and have been working on the recipe today. I would like to see a clone recipe for Delirium Noel... if anyone has one please PM me or post here.

 

[Autry_Akins]

Today I stared at my twenty-something bottles of Honey Ale and cursed it for taking too long to condition. Upon my last inspection it was very flat, even after 17 days, maybe because my house runs a little cold?? Also checked my order status for supplies at Midwest for my second ever brew, a Belgian Wheat. And just cracked an Old Rasputin. Hell of a day.

 

[45_70sharps]

Went into town and got grain for two more batches of beer, bottle caps and misc. other supplies.
I may be brewing two batches over thanksgiving week!

 

[conneryis007]

Brewed a 10 gallon all grain batch of my California style pale ale. I'm doing a series of beers all using only one hop strain, this one was cascade!