What I did for beer today

[Leadgolem]

Sniffed my airlocks and drank some grapefruit wine...

 

[LTownLiquorPig]

Yea I hear you on that.

That's how I convinced her to let me buy a burner and an extra propane tank lol

She was still chewing about the smell last night, Dude help her....

Bottled my Cooper's Pilsner, which I decided to treat as a pale ale. Fermented at 58-60. Tasted great when I bottled it, should be a nice light beer.

Bottling was an issue though, the nipple thing on the bottling wand wouldn't seal, so there was a constant slow stream of beer escaping. Probably lost two pints to it, but they mostly went in my belly while I worked.

 

[pellis007]

Last night received my package of goodies from Northern Brewer, courtesy of my SWMBO Christmas gift card. Today, I'm making a starter, and refilling my propane tank for tomorrow's brewday. Also, cold crashing my ESB today and sampling my first bottle of my Vanilla Oatmeal Stout. It's only been 2 weeks bottle conditioning but I always taste a sample at 2 weeks.

Edit: Just sampled my Vanilla Oatmeal Stout....damn...this is going to be an excellent beer!

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Busy day today - finished working on my IIPA recipe; went to the LHBS to get the grains, yeast and another fermenting bucket so I can make the IIPA this weekend. Then came home and finished putting my Igloo cooler mash tun together (waiting to see what the heat loss is over 75 minutes right now.) It dribbles a very little bit, but I'm happy with it overall. Then on Monday I'll brew this sucker up!

 

[thisoneguy]

Dry hopped my batch of Janet's Brown.

 

[Hulud]

Made a mash paddle out of some spare cherry wood.

Then traded with my neighbor a couple home brews for a Lagunitas Sucks and a Duck Rabbit Baltic Porter

 

[stikks]

Brewed 6 gallons Of Blue Moon clone,just pitched the yeast.

Cheers

 

[Komocabo]

Just finished cleaning and drilling holes in my HLT. About to get the grinder out and finish the project... I've had all the fittings since Christmas so I've been waiting to wrap this sucher up. Going to brew a düsseldorfer altbier tomorrow.

 

[twalte]

Finished the build and putty on my keezer collar. My primer was ruined (can was older than I thought), but hope to have it primed and sanded tomorrow.

 

[patthebrewer]

cleared out my 2012 leftover hops with an "everthing but the kitchen sink APA"

 

[Aschecte]

Brewed 5.5 gallons of a Irish red and cleaned bottles.

 

[Komocabo]

Finished my HLT keggle build!!

 

[Leadgolem]

Made money to brew with. Worked my 5th 9.5 hour day this week.

 

[thaworm69]

Made money to brew with. Worked my 5th 9.5 hour day this week.

Thankfully someone else works the extra hours to get supplies! Every extra hour is always "penny's in the bucket" if you will! Fermentation bucket!

 

[drives_a_bike]

Over the last week we moved into our new house, which was pretty easy considering it's across the street. The best part is that I now have a Cellaring area and a huge shop on the back of the garage for all my brewing gear...I think it's about time I upgrade to AG!! The shop is insulated, plumbed, and heated! I have all the stuff for my first batch in the new house, a Russian Imperial Stout.

Just have to finish unpacking and whatnot, so I can get a beast of a starter going.

 

[Kebmo]

Made Candi Sugar for my dubbel.

 

[Toadsticker]

Ordered a immersion chiller, 5L flask, and bottle caps.

 

[histo320]

Bottled my Pineapple Ale (48) bottles. It was my first bottling day in 3 years and it didn't go all that well.

Created two new recipes to brew in the next month.

 

[biohaz7331]

I filtered my Cream ale and kegged it. I also ordered a stir plate, 2000 ML starter, lager kit, and various other odds and ends.

 

[pellis007]

Brewed up 5 gallons of Caribou Slobber all grain today. Just can't keep this stuff in stock!

 

[techprof]

Brewed 5g batch AG Wee Heavy style ale with traditional kettle caramelized wort for friend's birthday in April.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled my Hefe and racked my Kolsch to secondary for "lagering".

 

[lumpher]

kegged an american brown and a fizzy yellow beer, and racked an ipa into my bourbon barrel

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

I have been busy and posting in this thread a lot the last couple of weeks. Last night I made a yeast starter after running to the closest LHBS for dme (and picked up some corn sugar for another batch of Edwort's Apfelwein while I was there). Today I picked up two more ball lock corny kegs with gasket replacement sets (thanks Tom), weighed and milled grains, and weighed out hops so I can brew tomorrow. And, probably most importantly, remembered to empty the water out of the hose so it is not frozen in the morning!

 

[Leadgolem]

Took a gravity reading of the gingerale/cider I put together a couple of weeks ago. My heavy hand when I mixed it up made this a 10.1% brew, when it was supposed to be sessionable.

I will be diluting with more boiled ginger root water, apple cider, and water. That way I can get it down to a more reasonable 5.05%. I had planned to move it to the bottling bucket and just dispense from there, but my bottling bucket is 6.5 gallons and after dilution I'll have 8 gallons of this stuff.

 

[Gixxer]

I smelled the airlock on my sour cranberry ale (smelled great btw...) and did a scheduled sampling of a pumpkin ale I have bottle conditioning. So what if my sampling size is a bomber?

 

[Haputanlas]

Pre-measured 15 gallons of my water from a carbon filter and added Campden tablets for the brew tomorrow.
Crushed my grains for the brew tomorrow.

 

[remandsager]

Brewed my version of SN's Ruthless Rye... American IPA all grain. Hoping for the best - really enjoy SN's brew...

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Brewed 5 gallons of IIPA!

 

[scottconnor]

Bottled the rest of my Winter Warmer and cleaned out that keg, cleaned 2 carboys and bottled 18 bottles of my Chocolate Espresso Stout to give away / age before moving that on tap. Pliny clone from MoreBeer isn't ready for secondary yet, temperature fluctuations have slowed down the primary. Hopefully ready to move in a few more days.