What I did for beer today

[user 103238]

A friend is coming over for dinner (chicken and dumplings with homebrew). We will be bottling and kegging the AG Caribou Slobber from my Caribrewsary, as well as sampling both it and my Arctic Brown ale that's in primary. Confirmed my 2.75 gallon batch of Black Coffee RyePA is fermenting with the recycled 05. And was disappointed to find out that the Intermediate brewing class I signed up for his semester has been canceled. Guess I will have to brew even more beer to make up for it.

 

[Leadpencil]

Poured my first pint of coffee Porter. Tried to upload a photo but the app keeps crashing.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Brewed a porter.

 

[LTownLiquorPig]

Bought Iodophor, a bottling wand and emptied some bottles.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Organized the adult beverage fridge (mango wine in the corona bottles). I need another fridge!

 

[signpost]

Peeled labels and scrubbed bottles to prep for bottling my MOxSimcoe SMaSH next week.

Bought a CO2 tank and kegged a batch for the first time.

 

[unionrdr]

Cleanin up/rinsing drying buckets,fermenters,& other odds-n-ends for when I order my brew ingrdients next Friday for two batches.

 

[thisoneguy]

1.Kegged a batch of Janet's Brown Ale.
2.Racked Surly Furious clone onto dry hops.
3. Harvested 3 jars of WLP007 from the primary of the Furious.
4. Miscellaneous cleaning.

 

[Leadpencil]

Where did you find the recipe for the Surly clone?

 

[seedubxj]

Got my camlocks/silicone tubing hooked up. Pump arrives Tuesday. Maiden brew on the new single tier this weekend.

 

[twalte]

Spent 10 freaking hours assembling an 8x8 shed...I will finally have room in the garage to set up my brewing station permanently. I really envy you folks with basements.

Brewery should be back up and running this week First up, Yooper's Stone Ruination Clone.

 

[stikks]

Today I bottled 2+ cases of my Vanilla Chocolate porter.First batch
bottled this year - now the wait-

Cheers

 

[signpost]

Gravity reading and dry-hopping on my Maris Otter x Simcoe SMaSH.

FG 1.010

2.2 oz. Simcoe - dry-hop

Yeah, it was 2 packages that were supposed to be 1 oz. each. One of them was right on, and the other had an extra 0.2 oz. in it. This almost makes up for how short the packages I used during the boil were (total of 0.5 oz. short on what was supposed to be 3 oz.) The LHBS needs to measure their hops better.

Oh yeah, I tasted the gravity sample and it was DELICIOUS!!! Can't wait to find out what it is like after the dry-hopping and bottling.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Dropped $475 on new equipment. Bigger and better kettle, hardware for a MLT build, stir plate and stir bar. No more BIAB, and no more constantly shaking my starters.

 

[LoloMT7]

Dropped $475 on new equipment. Bigger and better kettle, hardware for a MLT build, stir plate and stir bar. No more BIAB, and no more constantly shaking my starters.

money well spent

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Where did you find the recipe for the Surly clone?

There is a clone recipe on Northern Brewers website.

 

[brewbobaggins]

Brewed up a Double IPA. Woot.

 

[pellis007]

This weekend I went up to my buddy's house in the Pocono's and helped him break in his new brew rig. It was his first all grain batch and his first batch of any kind in about 3 years. Everything went great from start to finish and his new DIY rig performed perfectly. We made a 5 gallon batch of Chocolate Milk Stout. Of course I loaded up my cooler with my own homebrew which we happily consumed throughout the brew day. When we were all done I got online and ordered my own grain mill, after I saw how nicely his worked. Here is his new rig in action:

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Just split open two vanilla beans, put them in an old White Labs vial and topped with vodka. Planning ahead for my vanilla pumpkin porter brew in March.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bought some wire shelving and organized all my brew gear vertically. Should make SWMBO happy that it's not taking up an entire corner any more.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Oh, and gonna get my Chinook/Vienna SMaSH in bottles here in a couple hours.

 

[TNGabe]

Moved these down to the cellar.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Moved these down to the cellar.

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D@mn! That is a pipeline! :rockin:

 

[brewfish]

 

[TNGabe]

D@mn! That is a pipeline! :rockin:

That's my sour pipeline - I've got a sorachi wheat aging on rhubarb with cantillion brett, blackberry brett brux 'belgian' stout, blackberry biere de garde with brett clauss, american sour brown ale, 'flanders' red, and ecy bug county lambic. The odd man out is 'belgian' stout that i had a brain fart and pitched weihenstaphaner i had going for a roggenbier - it's awful. Just waiting til I need to carboy to dump it I guess.

I've got a hard time not drinking way too much since I started brewing saisons, I'm going to be a mess for a while when these start maturing. What you can't see are the dozen plus cases I've got bottled, plus my commercial brews. Sometimes I just hang out down there.

 

[ShepFL]

Drank 5 LHMS clones while brewing Ragin' Irish Red for March Spring Fling. Homebrews were tasty and buzzy !!
Broke my dam hydrometer so guess'a matin' now for OG.
Also cleaned my unused gear and drew up plans for my outdoor kitchen on the deck - cooking and brewing!!

 

[Haputanlas]

That's my sour pipeline - I've got a sorachi wheat aging on rhubarb with cantillion brett, blackberry brett brux 'belgian' stout, blackberry biere de garde with brett clauss, american sour brown ale, 'flanders' red, and ecy bug county lambic. The odd man out is 'belgian' stout that i had a brain fart and pitched weihenstaphaner i had going for a roggenbier - it's awful. Just waiting til I need to carboy to dump it I guess.

I've got a hard time not drinking way too much since I started brewing saisons, I'm going to be a mess for a while when these start maturing. What you can't see are the dozen plus cases I've got bottled, plus my commercial brews. Sometimes I just hang out down there.

Wow, I'd love to have a pipeline like that. Going for at least 4 beers on tap at all times while at least having 3 fermenting (All 10+ gallon batches). I drink way too much :rockin:

 

[drives_a_bike]

Bottled my red ale, and made a massive yeast starter for my soon to be brewed imperial stout!

 

[BarefootFriar]

I'm sitting here, listening to my fermenter bucket burp (blowoff tube installed) and planning my next brew. I'm thinking about jumping right on in to AG.

 

[JonM]

Stepped up the starter of my bottle harvested Bells Winter White so I can eventually make the famous SWMBO Slayer or some similar wheat beer with it. Then I moved my Kolsch to a lagering vessel, hit it with gelatin, and put it in the cold beer cave for lagering.