What I did for beer today

[stikks]

Washed 100 bottles to be filled tomorrow.

Cheers

 

[unionrdr]

Fired up ustream for the big giveaway!

 

[Nightshade]

Yesterday I brewed a SMaSH

Today is cleaning day

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Failed to win any prizes on the Giveaway; kegged/bottled 6 gallons of Common Room ESB; thinking about bottling or kegging a porter that has been in primary for 6 weeks. It's great having enough of a pipeline that I do not have to rush to bottle or keg.

 

[SPR-GRN]

Set up a time tonight to have my brother-in-law over to bottle his second brew; I taught him how to brew and have been splitting batches with him when the urge takes him, it seems to be about the time he runs out of homebrew.

 

[citingzero]

Washed some more bottles... Brew day on Friday... Bottling on Saturday = busy weekend :cheers:

 

[jerryteague]

Kegged 5 gallons of milk stout, and cleaned an a$$ load of equipment for a double brew day on Saturday (blonde ale, and honey brown ale, both AG). Also did some shopping around for a grain mill (still undecided), and a new 60qt brew pot. I'll probably pull the trigger on those Friday, if I can decide on what I want.

 

[Mexicanconnection2002]

Started cold crashing my Kolsch. Made a starter for my IPA to be pitched tomorrow morning. Brewed my IPA w/ Magnum for bittering and Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy for flavor/aroma.

 

[flushdrew42]

bought a barley crusher.

am presently driving myself nuts at work while i know my shipment of grains is waiting for me at my house... (just came in from grain2glass)

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Planned my next brew (a red IPA) and fiddled with the recipe a little. Slowly but surely going to plow through my hop supply this year. Now time to research some Belgian Tripple recipes as it turns out the wife likes them.

 

[user 103238]

Last night I sampled a variety of beers at a local brewery and pizza joint with some friends. Afterward I decided to check the HBT Giveaway, and discovered that my name was drawn for the love2brew.com hops prize - woo hoo!! Looks like I need to start working on some IPA recipes!

 

[bighorn_brew]

Fed ten starters,

 

[BeerMikeW]

I ordered a pound of Simcoe and a pound of Amarillo. I thought about cleaning 2 corny kegs. I poured a pint of 2HA clone instead of cleaning the kegs. I then poured another pint.

 

[BGBC]

Took a hydro sample of my SMaSH beer. It's been 2.5 weeks in primary, but the reading still seems a little high, so I'm going to give it another couple days just in case.

 

[Inkleg]

Helped out as a beer steward for a local competition.
One beer judged, a IIPA aged on Spanish Cedar was so good the judge made a note on the score sheet asking if the brewer would share the recipe.
Yeah, it was that good.

 

[stikks]

bottled 5 gal of Hefe.

Cheers

 

[Bulls Beers]

Kegged a lager...

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Could not sleep so got up at 2:20 am and cleaned some bottles so I had enough to bottle my Black Butte clone that had been in primary for more than 6 weeks. Bottled the batch and cleaned up. Spent time trying to track down a three way CO2 distributor I ordered at the end of last month. It was apparently shipped from California via USPS, arrived in Portland where instead of delivering to me it was immediately shipped back to California and "delivered" to the original seller. Decided to brew a 10 gallon batch of my own back-to-basics Cascade IPA this week instead of a planned Ruination clone. I need to pick up another sack of 2-row before I can do both recipes.

 

[NunoAraujo]

Went with 30 uni colleagues (I'm finishing my degree on biological engineering) on a tour in one of the two main portuguese macro breweries. Eventually I told the tour guide I was a recent homebrewer (pretty uncommon thing around here) and she called the brewmaster and had me explaining everyone the mashing process and fermentation, and the role of every ingredient in beer (and thanks to this forum I was up to the task ). Later some guys from the group told me they wanted to start homebrewing and asking what equipment is needed, where's the LHBS etc, so I guess I may have started something

 

[jperry]

I too got a friend, hooked on home brewing, and drinking craft beer. Today, I made a Starter, and had to buy and use fermcap-s for the first time ever. Planning my next brew, a "Wookey Jack" Clone, and transferring a IPA out of primary now, to make room. I also got my propane refilled today, instead of being exchanged. and last but not least Boiled some canning jars for yeast washing.

 

[Pilgarlic]

Just racked a 1.050 American Amber onto 4.5 pounds of Brazilian Pepper fruits. Brazilian Pepper is an exotic invasive that grows along ditches all over coastal Central and South Florida. I've never heard of anyone using the fruit in a beer, though the seed is often used. The seed is sold as "pink peppercorns". The fruit is much different in character. About 2 - 2.5 millimeters in diameter in massive clusters, and sweet, tart and very slightly piquant. We'll see how this one goes.

 

[Curtis2010]

Just racked a 1.050 American Amber onto 4.5 pounds of Brazilian Pepper fruits. Brazilian Pepper is an exotic invasive that grows along ditches all over coastal Central and South Florida. I've never heard of anyone using the fruit in a beer, though the seed is often used. The seed is sold as "pink peppercorns". The fruit is much different in character. About 2 - 2.5 millimeters in diameter in massive clusters, and sweet, tart and very slightly piquant. We'll see how this one goes.

Wow, when I lived in FL we used to pay people to rip these trees out...never thought of brewing w them.

 

[Pilgarlic]

Wow, when I lived in FL we used to pay people to rip these trees out...never thought of brewing w them.

To my knowledge, nobody else has. I'm very eager to see how it comes out.

 

[Tupperwolf]

Brewed an all grain wheat beer and drank my first bottle of my first batch of homebrew!

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I let my beer age one more day. Must...resist...temptation...grrrr...

 

[drives_a_bike]

My last order showed up at my house and my wife called to tell me that a bag of dme exploded all over everything! Bummer...

BUT, the fine young men and women at Midwest Supplies came through again...replaced at no charge to me! They are a hell of a staff

 

[Spicemon1972]

I built a 10 Gallon mash tun yesterday and today decided that my next and likely all future brews will be all grain efforts.

 

[TNGabe]

Brewed an all grain wheat beer and drank my first bottle of my first batch of homebrew!

Very nice! I was getting ready to tell you how much nicer your rig is than mine, but then I saw the vise grips!

 

[jerryteague]

Ordered ingredients for Biermunchers Cream of Three Crops Cream ale and an oatmeal stout kit. Also picked up some campden tablets, whirfloc, and some more pint glasses. Also sampled my English Bitter that was bottled 3 weeks ago (it's pretty good, but needs another week before its ready).
Edit: also ordered 5 lb of rice hulls. Headed to the bottle shop in a little while to pick up some Left Hand Nitro, and some more Boddingtons on nitro.

 

[andvari7]

I picked up some oak chips, a clip for my auto-siphon, hop bags and a book. I racked to secondary yesterday. It will probably be my last time doing so, until I start making lagers and Belgians.