What I did for beer today

[zacster]

In the middle of brewing my Ruination IPA clone. 15 pounds of grain, using my new WilserBrewer grain bag for a BIAB batch. I'm bringing the wort up to a boil right now. My pre-boil gravity is 1.066, slightly lower than the 1.074 Beersmith calculates. This I think is due to the size of the grain load, and the fact that I have no second pot that it would fit in after I pulled it out of my 10 gallon pot. I struggled to squeeze it, and I got a lot of it, but obviously not all of the sugars.

Next time I'm going to try doing a sparge step by keeping a gallon or so of water out of the mash, and using it to sparge the bag once I pull it. I'll need another big pot, although not as big as my 10g, and maybe a false bottom. Of course, once I go this route I should just consider more traditional mash methods.

 

[Dmlsys23]

Bought 5 lbs of corn sugar
Bought PBW
Bought 5 hop bags
Soaked 9 bottles in Starsan for label removal
Bought 2nd primary fermenter

 

[Jbird]

Bought 5 lbs of corn sugar
Bought PBW
Bought 5 hop bags
Soaked 9 bottles in Starsan for label removal
Bought 2nd primary fermenter

That's a good day.

 

[BGBC]

Brewed my first SMaSH beer.

 

[unionrdr]

I got both fermenters full with 2 brew days last week. Hopped & Confusedv2 & a black lager I named Pork Soda since it had some rauchmalt in the mash.
Cleaned a case of bottles today,reused & newly emptied as well. Got my kettle,strainer bag,thermometer,hydrometer,etc all cleaned & stored.
I have to say,this WL029 German yeast is the steadiest fermenter I've used yet. Once it starts,it chuggs along very steadilly till initial fermentation is done. Def one trooper of a yeast.

 

[Jbird]

I got a new 4 shelve chrome rack for all my brew stuff. It's about 6ft tall and can hold 350lbs per shelve. . It's amazing!

 

[TheCrackpot]

Boiled up and added the 12 oz of table sugar that I forgot to add to the Head Hunter clone I brewed yesterday.

 

[Dirtybiz]

Transferred my second version of a Saison I'm working on to the secondary

 

[Piratwolf]

Bottled 10 750ml bottles of my Brett BGS & primed with Orange Blossom honey.
Brewed the wort for a 100% Brett APA.
Replaced the drain braid in my small mashtun; will have to do same for the big boy soon.
Made a starter for my Pacman yeast slurry, to be used in 10gal of Centennial Blond

 

[KaSaBiS]

Put my first two lagers in competion sat. Earned 2nd and 3rd place for my Dort export and my Munich Dunkel. and got into cincy beerfest fo FREE. (and drank the jolly pumpkin kegs dry!)

Also judged for the first time (other styles than what I entered of course). That is some exhausing work right there! 5 barleywines before 10am!

 

[sethlovex]

Put my first two lagers in competion sat. Earned 2nd and 3rd place for my Dort export and my Munich Dunkel. and got into cincy beerfest fo FREE. (and drank the jolly pumpkin kegs dry!)

Also judged for the first time (other styles than what I entered of course). That is some exhausing work right there! 5 barleywines before 10am!

Sounds awesome. I ordered gas/liquid disconnects and hose and a manifold from keg connection and picked up two used corny kegs off Craigslist. First foray into kegging here wish me luck

 

[user 103238]

Added the bulkhead, valve, dip tube, and camlock fittings for my 62 quart brew kettle.

 

[Evonnida]

Brewed two today... A wheat ale and a light ale, similar to a lager. Also tasted and took a gravity reading on my amber ale which has been sitting for a week. It was interesting tasting, that's for sure.

 

[Gixxer]

Finally made a real bottling bucket( I had the spigot just too lazy to drill a hole) now that I made a batch bigger than 2.5gl. Then bottled a batch of blue moon clone. Was going to brew a batch of graff, but I was short on two row for the malt portion.

 

[Haputanlas]

Racked and sampled my 80-acre hoppy wheat clone (Used carbonator cap). Turned out awesome!

 

[LoloMT7]

Installed new taps in my new to me but used upright fridge/kegerator.

 

[Howiedw]

Brewed 2 today(Kind of) brewed a hopped version of pedrohearts beer time capsule and another batch of Drunken Emu for the SWMBO and friends. Earlier in the week I got 2 tap handles for my future kegarator. All in all, a good week for beer in the PNW.

Edit: Correct spelling.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Swapped out ice bottles in the swamp cooler for my rye ipa to keep the temps at 64f. Then sat and sniffed the airlock for a bit cause it smells so damn good

 

[Dave37]

Spent $70 to take a 10 minute quiz online. Hope it helps me get a beer job!

That sucks that whatever company it is you applied for feels the need to take $70 bucks from its applicants. Good luck though and hopefully in the near future you'll make that$70 back and then some.

 

[Frige]

Tried to empty a keg of red. How much could possibly be in there... burp

 

[latium]

Today I diagnosed and fixed the problem I ran into yesterday when I tried to tap a keg of Black Pearl Porter. (Thanks again, BierMuncher!) The beer started coming out from underneath the ball lock QD as soon as there was pressure in the keg. It was the second time using the QD, but the first time using this particular keg. After a little Googling revealed that the problem was most likely an O-ring, further inspection of the O-ring on the post revealed that it was both brittle and gummy, so I replaced it, and hey presto! It worked great.

This was after tapping a pale ale clone yesterday (heh, I wonder if it's a Freudian slip that I started typing "yeasterday" at first), and kegging a couple brews on Saturday (a Stone Vertical Epic 02.02.02 clone and Jamil's Black Forest Stout from Brewing Classic Styles that I decided to skip the cherries on and just go with it as chocolate stout instead) that had been sitting in the primary for approximately forever. (This was due to equipment problems and general motivation issues, not specifically beer-related, that I'd been dealing with.)

I'm glad I could work the Saturday stuff into this post, as I didn't have time to post it then!

 

[BarefootFriar]

I got a 5-gallon stainless steel stockpot as a wedding gift! Woo-hoo! Unfortunately, it's not large enough to use as a boil kettle for anything larger than 3-gallon batches. But I can definitely use it to heat sparge water and other things. Plus I'll use it to make soup, boil shrimp, and other good stuff.

 

[urbanmyth]

I refilled airlocks.

 

[Leadpencil]

Racked my IPA to the secondary and dry hopped. Washed yeast and bottled some Porter to deliver tomorrow, and bought two more kegs.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Bottled my kolsch...

 

[Dirtybiz]

Brewed an All Grain Rye IPA and Heff. Was a good day!!

 

[Leadgolem]

Cleaned and delabeled some bottles.

 

[feinbera]

Racked my IPA over to secondary.

De-labelled three six-packs of bottles with those obnoxious plastic labels. About a quarter of a bottle of Barkeeper's Friend, and an equal volume of elbow grease, later, and it's just like I'd sat on my butt while the oxy-clean did all the work on paper labels! Gotta have something to put that IPA into once it'd done dry-hopping, though...

 

[Gixxer]

Making a batch of graff, moving buckets to my closet (gotta make room, guests this weekend),

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

A small, but important, victory today. On 2/17 I managed to kill both a keg and a CO2 tank. No big deal, more kegs ready to go, just need to fill the CO2. Except I got very sick (totally unrelated to beer) and have had a few days of hell. Finally today, my lovely wife and Number 1 son got the CO2 filled for me. What did I do for beer today? Hooked it up to the keg, of course. Hopefully, I will feel well enough to drink some of it this weekend.