What I did for beer today

[sonofgrok]

Just brewed a hefewiezen. Probably my last beer brew for a while.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Went to Zwanze day. bottling my robust porter this evening

 

[jperry]

Cut the door panel, off of a mini-fridge door, so I could stuff a 6.5g carboy in there. I used a box cutter, and the fridge almost cut me good. thats what I get for not measuring the carboy first, and attempting a quick fix...

 

[user 103238]

Put together a recipe for my -30 amber ale using some miscellaneous ingredients I had floating around then brewed it. I'm curious to see how the Danstar BRY-97 is going to turn out.

 

[andvari7]

Today? Tasting my Christmas beer, which was bottled twelve days ago. The fridge sample (the end of the bottling; a half-filled Kronenbourg 1664 bottle) is flat, but still nice and flavorful. I can definitely taste the spices.

Wednesday: I bought a pound each of four separate malts, three different hops, and American Ale II Wyeast.
Friday: Corn mill, which I can use for larger grains (rice does not work), three more pounds of malt, and Chinook hops.

Armed with everything I need for my first original-recipe, all-grain, five-gallon, and any other relevant-hyphenated-description batch, I will submit my recipe to the forum, if it's any good. If it is undrinkable, then I'll let you know. But, since that isn't going to be for another three months, I'll leave you all in suspense. That is, unless you ask for an ingredients list. Then, I'll open up.

 

[mgortel]

Cleaned bottles in preparation for bottling next week....will of course have to sanitize right before bottling.

Also bought a propane heater for garage....for winter brewing!

Ordered ingredients for next weeks brew session....for a Nut Brown.

 

[LoloMT7]

Just scored 9 6-oz tasting glasses from goodwill for 30 cents each

 

[pellis007]

Sampled a bottle of my first 5 gal batch of Caribou Slobber! 2 weeks bottle conditioned...good, but needs another week. Also built my mash/lauter tun today in anticipation of going all grain for my next batch.

 

[Bulls Beers]

Did my first double decoction. It only took 7 1/2 hours and was all F'd up, but It's probably gonna be the best beer I've ever made...Temps were all wrong, but I hit my OG almost dead on..Go figure.

 

[user 103238]

Cashed in a coupon for a growler and your choice of beverage to fill it with for only $.99. And I'm now sipping some of those contents. Less than a quarter a pint is hard to beat!

 

[Toadsticker]

Ordered kits for my next two batches + caps.

 

[Haputanlas]

Threw in dry hops for my two IPAs

 

[sonofgrok]

Cleaned up a huge blow off from yesterdays brew. Thank goodness for blow off tubes.

 

[mgortel]

Building a 1/2" diamter pvC header for rinsing 16 bottles at a time after I clean them with Oxyclean and brush.....I can just hook up the hose and let it run as long as i want and they will rinse....as opposed to filling each bottle individually then dumping.....3 times like I usually do.

Reminder to self.........buy kegs and start kegging.....

 

[BrewmeisterSmith]

I brewed 10 gallons of Jami's Blonde Ale recipe from Brewing Classic Styles. This increases my pipeline to 40 gallons. One more brew session to get to my goal of 50 gallons on stand by. Then I just have to maintain it.

 

[okcnyyfan]

Brewed Brewer's Best Holiday Ale. I nailed the SG at 1.070. I felt pretty good since it was only my second batch working with grains. Before that was pre hopped extract kits.

 

[ArcticBear]

Brewed a 3 gallon batch of Sierra Nevada Celebration... it was supposed to be a 5 gallon batch but i severely underestimated my volumes when using my new kettle... my sight glass lied to me

 

[Spicemon1972]

Transferred my 411 Ale to secondary and took a gravity reading (read that taste test) and found everything going well on the second batch of this very popular homebrew. Happy, happy, happy.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Took a gravity sample of my IIPA and am pleased I got down to 1.014 from 1.074. Drank the sample then added close to 4ozs dry-hop. At 8%, it's damn smooth, even with 117 heavenly ibu. Can't wait till it's done cause I want more!

 

[boxofjibboo]

Took a gravity sample of my Jubelale. Really noticed the difference in fg when mashing at higher temps. This one mashed at 158F and dropped to 1.02 from 1.064
Normally I mash 154F and can get my fg down to 1.012
Science!!

 

[pellis007]

Ordered my first ever all grain kit. A nice oatmeal stout.

 

[ArcticBear]

where do i begin?

-kegged my elderberry wheat (also added a hop bag full of 2oz of vodka-soaked elderberries to dry hop in the keg)
-washed my fermenting buckets
-removed labels, cleaned and sanitized a case of bombers
-bottled off the remaining of my:
----Gulden Draak Clone
----Unearthly Clone
----Nut Brown

-Put my corny of Chocolate Cherry Porter on (Using 3# of Cherry Puree) the kegerator
-Put my corny of my Punkin Ale clone on the kegerator
-Cleaned my leftover kegs
- And discovered i'm running low on my IPA and ESB kegs, my hefe is about to kick and my apfelwein is also just about out... i feel like i have a bunch in the pipeline but i guess its time to brew more..

if i had any more energy i would be checking the calibration of the sight glass on my kettle, but i think i'm being coerced into decorating the christmas tree tonight

 

[Piratwolf]

Hydrometer readings on 3 beers: Old Ale down 1.107> 1.041, Patersbier stalled around 1.030, SNCA clone at 1.008. Gotten several stalled beers lately--hence the oxygenation kit inbound from Williams Brewing

 

[step]

My work issued a challenge... there are several of us that brew and we thought it would fun to have a little competition. So, the organizer came up with a grain, a set amount amount of certain hops, and a set yeast strain and amount and it is up to us to utilize these things and brew the best beer.

"What I did for beer today" was build my recipe, I guess my protocol would be more accurate since the "recipe" was pre-determined. It was a challenge to figure when to use the hops and think about water chemistry and mash schedule. I am very excited to see how this goes.

 

[Haputanlas]

Dreamed about my next brews

 

[jperry]

bottled my first 5 gallon batch... getting a pipeline going. Also, checked my swamp cooler to regulate temps on the other batch.

 

[pellis007]

Opened my first bottle of my 2nd ever 5 gal batch for a tasting. This was and Irish Red Ale. Yummy!

 

[KarstMonkey]

Pulled a beer at ten am to "check the carbonation." very close, but another sample might cross the line this early in the morning... Hmmm. Slurp. Now I just have to figure out how to make it last. Probably not by drinking yet another sample. Slurp

 

[mgortel]

Surfed the Home Brew forum all morning while at work......

Keep checking the UPS site on my Norhern Brewer Order delivery status......

 

[mgortel]

Opened my first bottle of my 2nd ever 5 gal batch for a tasting. This was and Irish Red Ale. Yummy!

Very nice looking beer....nice head.....