What I did for beer today

[Gixxer]

Boiled some DME for the second step of a starter. Yeast are healthy, got krausen in the pitcher in an hour...

 

[sethlovex]

Ground some MO and toasted some oats for a 3 gallon BIAB in the blizzard tomorrow

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Bought my first kegging system and kegged my Irish Red

 

[Qhrumphf]

Picked up some more Teflon tape so I could put ball valves on my new kettle and cooler MLT. Leak tested both. Marked my mash paddle with volumes up to 7 gallons for my new kettle. Then tried putting my new kettle over two burners on my crappy electric stove to see how much I could boil. While doing that, calibrated my thermometers. Then got unbelievably irate when my kettle not only couldn't boil enough for a full boil, it couldn't get as strong of a boil at under 5 gallons as I could with one burner and my old kettle. So my new kettle won't be getting any use for a long time unless I either break fire code and violate my lease (risking fines and/or eviction) and use propane on my balcony, or deal with hauling 5+ gallons of near boiling wort up 14 floors, and (again in violation of lease/fire code) store propane inside my apartment. So looks like I'm still stuck doing small boils in my old 5 gallon kettle. Gah. I was in a great mood until my electric stove proved just how worthless it is.

 

[leftcontact]

Cleaned out an old keg I got from a buddy, checked sales, tried to clean root beer residue out of the cobra tap that was inside. May just pitch the line and get a new one.

 

[davekippen]

Dry hopped a Pale with Galaxy and Citra this morning. Also put my first keg in the fridge! So excited to have my first homebrewed draft :rockin:

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Picked up a second keg after just getting my first one yesterday. Now I need to brew something soon so I can fill it. In the meantime I will be polishing off the bottles I have to make room for keg 2 in the beer fridge.

 

[unionrdr]

Used the wrong bag of DME to make a starter yesterday. Had to go get some more plain light DME today. They got the wrong kind shipped to them. Had to settle for amber. Now I gotta mixe amber & extra light with the .5lb of plain light I have left for tomorrow's brew.
And on top of that,the battery in my car went south in the lhbs's parking lot. The owner was good enough to give me a jump when he had time. Thinkin of giving him a couple of my beers next week in graditude.

 

[Swarley88]

Bottled my brown ale, and bought a growler of Flat Earth's Great Design Smore's Porter. And drank some good brew too!

 

[Gixxer]

Did surgery to my turkey fryer so it safely (I hope) holds a keggle. Blichmann burner on the wish list lol... Also finished cleaning up the keggle for bare minimum use tomorrow. Need to make gallon markers and boil water for an hour to get a boil rate.

 

[BorealBrewer]

Roast some barley for making some home-grown stouts, Irish reds, and Scottish ales.

My house smells like toast!

 

[1fast636]

bottled my second batch of Mr.beer it smelled just like the first batch but oh well the wife see's now that this turned into way more then just an interest so 5 gal. batches here i come. lol

 

[Komocabo]

Just kegged and Altbier and about to get ready for a late night brew session (IPA) after me and the misses put the kids to bed!

 

[LoresonDE]

Brewed a Porter yesterday (2nd batch ever). Bubbling away today, had to remove the airlock and replace with a tube put in some water.

 

[Komocabo]

Well, kids stayed up past 9 so I am going to brew this morning and study for my Accounting midterm that I have to take tonight... brewdying? I think I just wordsmithed! Hooray for multitasking.

 

[jerryteague]

Racked my Apfelwein to secondary so I can use it tonight for a batch of AG cream stout I'm gonna do. I'll probably try to dough in sometime around 8:00 tonight. Also shopped for a couple of AG kits I haven't tried yet. Maybe next month I can buy a grain mill and a 50 pound bag of 2-row.

 

[agreenmartian]

I ordered parts for a cooler MLT last night, and will be picking up a 10 gallon rubbermaid from home depot today. I'm already regretting not ordering two bulkheads and valves to make a HLT too.

 

[pellis007]

Bottled up my Caribou Slobber all grain batch. Put 1/2 case of my ESB in the fridge for 3 week tasting on Thursday.

 

[histo320]

Yesterday:

I brewed my first true AG recipe which was a Citra IPA. Conditioned my grain which worked out great. Went with FWH but ran into a problem when beginning my boil, there was a bunch of husks in the kettle so I decided to strain the wort before be ginning the boil. I assumed I lost some hops in the process. Other than that a great brew day. My efficiency was 72.5%, I was .006 points short on my gravity which I was very happy with.

Today:
Bottled 48 bottles of my Redlight Ale which is a knockoff of Highland Brewing Gaelic Ale. The sample tasted great, a great balance. Then I proceeded to delabel about another 48 bottles which brings my total bottle count up to 226, my goal 240, so I can have 5 full batches bottled.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Weighed out hops and grains for my first batch of Common Room ESB I am brewing tomorrow or Tuesday. Still need to calibrate my new dial thermometer. I made a 12" thermowell out of 1/4" copper tube and drilled a hole in my cooler MT so I can monitor mash temps without opening the lid. By mounting it in the lid I don't have to worry about leaks and it is out of the way when I stir the mash. I also bottled a half-rack of kegged Blonde Ale using Biermuncher's stopper and racking cane method. Now I have to drop them off at the in-laws - the things we do to keep the wife's family happy!

 

[andvari7]

I purchased another 1g carboy, a stopper for said carboy, some Australian Galaxy, 2 ell-bees of Maris Otter, and a pack of Safale 04. After the plastic-y taste in my last batch, my 1 gallons will be glass-only, no exceptions.

 

[jerryteague]

Just finished brewing a Cream Stout. I also got a surprise when I checked the SG, it was 10 points higher than what the recipe said it would be! My SG was 1.058, and it should finish somewhere around 1.014. I'm just about to pitch the yeast and take my butt to bed, long day ahead.

 

[Leadpencil]

Ordered supplies for a blood orange wheat and a double ipa

 

[rarse35]

Brewed a beautifully smelling double IPA with Simcoe, Amarillo, Columbus and Citra. 1.062 OG - US-01 doing its job tonight. Wish I could fast forward 5 weeks and taste it.

 

[michael_mus]

Well, it wasn't today but this weekend I...

- cut a piece out of my old Mr. Beer and sent it to my new friends at Brewdemon.com
- built myself a 10 gallon rubbermaid mash tun
- brewed up a 5 gallon batch of hard cider (my first time using liquid yeast!)
- picked up some wyeast yeast supplements and irish moss for my next brew
- ordered three bottle drying racks from thefastrack.ca


Not a bad haul for a random weekend in February.

 

[Swarley88]

Well, it wasn't today but this weekend I...

- cut a piece out of my old Mr. Beer and sent it to my new friends at Demonbrew.com
- built myself a 10 gallon rubbermaid mash tun
- brewed up a 5 gallon batch of hard cider (my first time using liquid yeast!)
- picked up some wyeast yeast supplements and irish moss for my next brew
- ordered three bottle drying racks from thefastrack.ca

Not a bad haul for a random weekend in February.

I am interested in building my own rubbermaid mash tun as well... Can you pm me with some tips and materials you used?

 

[LoloMT7]

Swarley88 check out this post https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-10-gallon-rubbermaid-mlt-conversion-23008/

Mine works awesome and has never leaked a single drop.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Brewed 6 gallons of Common Room ESB. This is my first time brewing this recipe and I am looking forward to seeing how it comes out.

 

[Swarley88]

Swarley88 check out this post https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-10-gallon-rubbermaid-mlt-conversion-23008/

Mine works awesome and has never leaked a single drop.

Thanks, this will be a great help on assembly day. Michael_mus also gave me a run down of the process, that and a pic by pic walkthrough should lead me down the right path! :rockin:

 

[sethlovex]

Bottled my MO IPA into 22's and grolshs bottles. Empty carboy redy for witbier or milk stout. Decisions decisions!