What I did for beer today

[andvari7]

Picked up two of Briess rye, one more Maris Otter, two of Amarillo hops, one of some New Zealand hop, and Irish Ale Wyeast. I'm going to use it for my one-gallon, all-grain, all-original ale. And, when I say 'all-original,' I mean that I'm going to make a rye ale with black pepper. It will probably be awful.

 

[odinsgift]

Bottled my Thor-Bock batch 3, and my Carlsberg Elephant clone, at 11.2%, and 9.1% samples got me pretty well. Ordered a new stir plate. Fed my wild norsk yeast, and my wyeast hellerbock yeast. Also kept a promise to my wife, and didn't go to a tasting of the Stone Vertical Epic series.

 

[step]

Dry hopped my pale for our work competition

 

[okcnyyfan]

Check the SG on the batch in the primary. Sitting at 1.020. It's almost done. Definitely still going though. I could see the bubbles when I opened the bucket. Shooting for 1.015-1.018.

 

[Haputanlas]

Picked up a 55 lb bag of Maris Otter

 

[user 103238]

Kicked the kegs of galaxy pale ale and Irish red ale. Swapped them out with a California common and a chocolate coffee oatmeal stout. Just in time, I needed an empty keg to put my amber ale tomorrow, before putting another batch of galaxy pale ale on the BRY-97 yeast cake tomorrow.

 

[thisoneguy]

This morning I took my starter for tomorrow's brew off of the stir plate and threw it in the fridge. Earlier tonight I weighed out my hops and the salts for the water adjustments.

 

[JohanMk1]

Bottled 6 gallons of dry stout, yummy!

Started making cases for bottle storage too.

 

[unionrdr]

Cleaned up about a case of emptied hb bottles. A lot of scrubbing.

 

[jtkratzer]

Rebuilding my DIY stir plate to handle the bigger stir bar for the 5L flask. Also started wiring my 750W electric fan heater into the fermentation chamber to heat the fridge side allowing me to do ales in the fridge and lagers or storage on the freezer side.

By the way, 5L Erlenmeyer flasks are stupid big, like cartoonish big.

 

[user 103238]

Cleaned a couple of kegs, kegged my 30 Below Amber Ale, brewed v2.0 of my Galaxy Pale Ale, pitched it onto half of the BRY-97 yeast cake from the amber.

 

[thisoneguy]

Made a double IPA and tasted my robust porter.

 

[TBaGZ]

Bottled a brown ale and washed the yeast.... Drank a few tall boy PBR.

 

[Channel66]

Transferred swmbos sauvignon blanc over to secondary freeing up a 6.5 for something much more important. Took a 12 month sample of a sour saison that has been begging me to bottle it. (Going to give it a few more months.) Cleaned out the wine trub, sanitized, mashing an Irish stout right now. Sipping at the sample, thinking about warmer outdoor brew days.

 

[rejart]

Currently heating sparge water for an imperial Belgian IPA. Hit my mash temp which makes me happy. The new thermapen is awesome. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

 

[Guden]

About to dryhop my IPA with cascade and opal.

 

[sonofgrok]

Bottled a 1 gallon blueberry cider, a 6 gallon hefe, and brewed up a 6 gallon cider.

 

[mgortel]

Bottling my 5 gallon batch of Sweet Stout.

 

[unionrdr]

Got some hop & grain sacks into some PBW solution after boiling them. Gotta bunch of cleaned bottles dry to put back in boxes.

 

[Frogmanx82]

Bottled my Frog Porter. It's just a wee bit hoppy.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Between today and yesterday, picked up a stange glass, picked up a handful of commercial beers (The Bruery Rueuze, Firestone Walker 16th Anniversary (I got really lucky with that one), Dupont Foret, Williamsburg Aleworks Caledonia, Weihenstephaner Vitus), and will be bottling the Robust Porter tonight I meant to bottle 2 weeks ago. Will be bottling my Black IPA and Cal Common some time between tonight and Monday.

 

[Dave37]

I love this thread on the weekends. Always so much more activity!

Pretty productive day. But unfortunately no brewing done. Bottled my "not so San Diego" IPA, de labeled and cleaned a bunch of newly procured 22oz bombers and am now in the middle of overhauling and organizing my brew cave (small corner of my basement)

Cheers

 

[jsv1204]

Renewed my BYO subscription.

 

[LoloMT7]

About to hear the results of my first homebrew comp... come on belgian tripel please win the specialty category

 

[zeg]

Wow, what a day.

Started by bottling a PM Revvy's Vienna Stout. Tasting good, though it has some bitterness and perhaps diacetyl issues. Hopefully they'll age out in the bottles.

That freed up a better bottle, so I washed and sanitized it and racked my dry mead over. Gravity is around 0.996, and it tastes great, even judging by a lees-laden sample from the dregs.

That freed up a better bottle, so I washed and sanitized it and racked my Bock over. Gravity is 1.016, a bit below the expected 1.017 FG, and it tastes fantastic. If I didn't know it was going to get better when I lager it, I'd bottle it right now.

Busy day, and now nothing to do until January when it's time to brew a Maibock. Didn't even have to open a beer this evening, I had plenty of samples to drink. The great thing about rich, malty beers is that they barely suffer from not being carbonated. I'd drink that Bock all night long even as it is!

 

[Dave37]

About to hear the results of my first homebrew comp... come on belgian tripel please win the specialty category

Good luck! And if you don't win that competition you can always mail me a bottle and I'll mail you back a 1st place ribbon in whatever category you want.

 

[davekippen]

Tasted a Porter that I brewed a while ago. Tasted like crap. Needs lots more time.
Hung a new 48" florescent light in the brew cave
Bottled a Belgian Triple

 

[Bulls Beers]

I pitched a nice big yeast starter for a helles lager I did yesterday....

 

[user 103238]

Dried and ground some spent grain from yesterday's brew day and made a loaf of bread and two pizzas with said spent grain. I'm now enjoying a couple glasses of my recently kegged California common. It's going along quite nicely with dinner. And doubling as dessert.

 

[jtkratzer]

Dried and ground some spent grain from yesterday's brew day and made a loaf of bread and two pizzas with said spent grain. I'm now enjoying a couple glasses of my recently kegged California common. It's going along quite nicely with dinner. And doubling as dessert.

I'd like to hear more about the grain and recipe.