What I did for beer today

[ButcherBoy]

Picked up 6 used ball lock kegs! Can't wait to get them cleaned and filled, hopefully the new mill will be in next week so I can start some serious brewing to get them filled.

 

[Nightshade]

Kegged up another keg of the vanilla coffee stout for tap
Designed a SMaSH recipe for brewing next week
Placed order for grain
Placed hop order
Discussed plans for a session beer series for the summer months
Began designing for session series
Cleaned kegs
Cleaned boil kettle, HLT and one of the fermentors
Drank a pint of coffee vanilla stout and headed home from work now.

 

[user 103238]

Bottling up the Rye Whiskey Porter in 10 -750ml bottles that will be caged and corked, the remaining portion will be bottled in 12 oz bottles.

 

[user 103238]

Well, since my corker was not compatible with my corks, I bottled 9-22oz bottles and 24-12oz bottles. It won't have the bling factor I was looking for, but it still ought to taste pretty damn amazing.

Bottling up the Rye Whiskey Porter in 10 -750ml bottles that will be caged and corked, the remaining portion will be bottled in 12 oz bottles.

 

[histo320]

Did my first Dry Hop today with 2oz of Citra in my all Citra Ipa which ended up being a border line IIPA due to alcohol content.

I can't wait to bottle it next week and brew tomorrow.

 

[Oldskooler]

I'm working on emptying my kegs one glass at a time

 

[histo320]

Brewing an IPA with my leftover hops. So far so good. First runnings were 1.080, 1st sparge went great, waiting for the second.

 

[Inkleg]

A friend who silk screens made these for me today. The one on heavy poster board on the left is hanging in the front window of the house. The one on the tile is going in the brew/sunroom.

 

[Tupperwolf]

Bottled my first batch of home-brew. Hydrometer sample tastes OK - not mindblowing but it's beer! We'll see what a few weeks in the bottles does. Can't wait to get another batch going.

 

[Cider123]

Brewed a 5 gallon batch of BM's Centennial Blonde. Hit the OG right on. Got lucky because during the mash, the cheapo POS digital thermometer I have went from reading 150F to 123F just because it felt like it.

Took 6+ hours from start to finish. I have to streamline this a bit. Drank some Belgian Wit along the way.

 

[Jbird]

Brewed a 5 gallon batch of BM's Centennial Blonde. Hit the OG right on. Got lucky because during the mash, the cheapo POS digital thermometer I have went from reading 150F to 123F just because it felt like it.

Took 6+ hours from start to finish. I have to streamline this a bit. Drank some Belgian Wit along the way.

Well I would like to say that you have plenty of experience and the right tools. But if not do you have a wort chiller? That can really knock some time off. Also of you have a pretty strong burner you can boil really fast.
Good luck.

 

[kpr121]

Brewed 25 gallons... whew that was a bit of a rough brew day, most ever in one day for me. Also kegged 2 batches to make some room for said brew. And also cleaned around 2 cases of bottles.

 

[zacster]

Took my reading on my Ruination Clone, and it was at 1.018, with OG at 1.080. That sounds pretty good. Even better though is that even without the dry hops this thing tastes awesome.

 

[Cider123]

Well I would like to say that you have plenty of experience and the right tools. But if not do you have a wort chiller? That can really knock some time off. Also of you have a pretty strong burner you can boil really fast.
Good luck.

Yep, got a chiller, that does help a lot. I use one of those square shaped Bayou Classic burners. I does pretty well for everything I use it for.

I think a lot of time is wasted in forgeting this little thing and that. Up and down the damn basement stairs a million times and all the cleaning. Doing a full BIAB mash helps when you don't have to sparge then clean the sparge material.

 

[pellis007]

More like what I did for beer this weekend. Went up to my buddy's house and we brewed up our own recipe of what can best be described as an American Pale Ale on steroids. OG ended up at 1.080 and estimated ABV is just shy of 8%. Then today helped him bottle up his Chocolate Milk Stout we brewed up 4 weeks ago. Now that I'm home, I'll be bottling up my Honey Cream Ale later tonight.

 

[jperry]

hooked up my keg dispensing line, and mounted a perlick faucet, to my fridge door.

 

[OhCrap]

Brought my new fermenter and mill for a test drive, brewed my dark lager "Devils Sidekick" and its now put away in the chamber, waiting for the magic to happen

 

[weirdboy]

This weekend I brewed a Dry Stout, moved a couple of lagers into the kegerator for lagering, and judged a beer competition.

 

[user 103238]

Heating the strike water and preparing the grain bill for my Galaxy Pale Ale V3.0. I will be testing out my new 62-quart brew kettle, although it is going to be a 5-gallon batch. If V3.0 comes out as expected, I will soon be making 10-gallon batches of it.

 

[user 103238]

I'm almost finished drying out some of the grain from the earlier brew session for some spent grain goodies. The speed bake button is helping to speed the process up for sure! There's a distinct Galaxy aroma coming from the oven, since I used .5 ounce for FWH. It will be interesting to see how the aroma impacts the breads and such.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Bottled the RIS I brewed back on 10-28 of last year (the day Sandy came ashore) and it ended up with a final gravity of 1.015 and an ABV of 11.15%! :rockin:

Also added an ounce of UK Kent Goldings to my English IPA for a week of dry hopping.

 

[Gixxer]

Did some research and legwork for insulating a sanke mash tun conversion. I gotta weld a patch over the bullet hole in the bottom first!!! The things rednecks do at a kegger in the sticks, sheesh!!

 

[Dirtybiz]

Made a starter for my Saison

 

[TNGabe]

Applied for my dream job.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I secured my very first kegs. I like to bottle, but I'm proud to be a 'big boy' now

 

[LoloMT7]

Applied for my dream job.

Switch is?

 

[TNGabe]

Switch is?

Making bigger batches of my beers.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Finally got around to bottling my sorta Jubelale clone I brewed on 1/22 (so much more work than kegging); ordered a 3-way CO2 distributor; finished moving all (except keggle and burner) my brewing gear into the room recently vacated by my youngest son. I put up a large shelving unit and organized all of my gear, plus have space for kegs, bottled beer, fermentors, swamp coolers, etc. I am giddy like a school girl.

 

[andvari7]

I picked up a properly-sized funnel, a pound of chocolate, and another Rogue Morimoto kit. My first five-gallon kit, I felt that this was my first real failure, after the success of my IPA.

I am about to get some dinner, but then I will spray a carboy to keep out the light.

 

[Enf0rc3r]

I received my corona grain mill, finished my mash tun, and bought all the goodies for my first all grain brew. Airborneguy's sunshower apple wheat!