What I did for beer today

[Tupperwolf]

Sat with the lid of my chest freezer fermentation open for a little while and watched the wheat beer blowoff tube bubble away So soothing!

 

[phineascoates]

It is a different beer recipe for me, I have something question out in my mind as of now, did I ruin my beer? I used several sources as part of my dealing with fermentation and we have basically they same problem. One thing I notice I missed dropped something into wort while it was fermenting. However, does it smell like a dead hooker in a trunk of a car left in the summer heat?

 

[Swarley88]

It is a different beer recipe for me, I have something question out in my mind as of now, did I ruin my beer? I used several sources as part of my dealing with fermentation and we have basically they same problem. One thing I notice I missed dropped something into wort while it was fermenting. However, does it smell like a dead hooker in a trunk of a car left in the summer heat?

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[LoloMT7]

With floaties yummy floaties!!

 

[oujens]

Made the first beer ever with my own tap water. A centennial and chinook pale ale. Everything worked well....except that I am still relying on my own water calculations while I dial in my beer smith calcs. My calculations worked before, but I used the wrong grain absorption factor and came up .5 gallons short. Wound up with an OG of 1.062 instead of 1.054. Wish I had extra water on hand, but figured it would be too much of a pain and I haven't brewed a pale ale on the sweeter side so thought it might be interesting. I'm more concerned about the how the tap water works in my beeer. The sample tasted good....pretty sweet, but I'll be interested to see what its like after fermentation. Will dry hop with centennial and a little chinook as well. Already back to the drawing board for the next batch. I'm trying to let the water issue go, but every 5 minutes I'm shaking my fists at the beer gods. Hopefully they made me mess up on purpose!

 

[lumpher]

opened the lid of my ferm chamber and my eyes watered at the co2 coming out. have a 5g and a 6.5 g fermenter of cream of 3 crops in there

 

[user 103238]

Enjoyed a homebrewed saison with some homemade chili. Said my condolences as I kicked my keg of Galaxy Pale Ale V2. Convenient timing, as GPA V3 is ready to replace it!

 

[stikks]

Bottled 6 gal of Kolsch and racked 5 gal of Spotted Cow clone
to secondary.I also cut scraped and soaked the vanilla beans
in rum for my Chocolate porter to be racked in a few days.

Cheers

 

[Channel66]

Bottled a batch of phattyre clone with my dad it's his first brew, he was almost giddy with excitement. Brewing a batch of citra pale ale with him later today before I head home.

 

[BGBC]

Brewed 2.5 gal of AG Graf, mainly to get the 2-1 gal carboys the AJ came in.

Planning to bulk age some future batches in those.

 

[unionrdr]

I came up with a formula to convert the old color code EBC to the new SRM. The only formula available,even on beersmith's site was for converting SRM to EBC. I wondered WTF?,since Cooper's still lists color as EBC. So the formula I gave on beersmiths site is EBC/1.97=SRM. The formula (EBC/1.97) x 1.97 proves that the answer in the first formula is accurate,since it converts SRM back to EBC actual number.
At least I could then input the right SRM into beersmith for the "add grain" function to list the Cooper's Heritage Lager can to the list as an extract. BS2 lists grains,wet or dry extracts,sugars,& all fermentables under the grains heading.
It proved positive when I changed the listing,as well as in the recipe using it when the pic of the beer's color in the glass changed too. It very accurately depicts the color of the current brew using those ingredients. Even though I raised a couple of them just a bit. At least it's more accurate now.

 

[Channel66]

Just flamed out and finished the hop burst on the citra pale ale with my pops. Smells wonderful.

 

[max384]

Just finished doing a 10 gallon batch of cider.

 

[clingy]

Brewed "Little Harold" hefeweizen and put it in the fermenter. See https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/little-harold-all-grain-german-hefeweizen-small-batch-272061/

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Hooked up my new CO2 manifold/distributor so I now have 2 kegs stashed in the extra fridge.

 

[pellis007]

I had my first sample of my Honey Cream Ale which has been 2 weeks in the bottle. I always sample one at 2 weeks and as usual, it needs another week. I was surprised how nice and carbed it was, but the flavors need to mature a bit. It's gonna be good and SWMBO already loves it. Always a good thing.

 

[duboman]

Sampled the dry hop on my Steam, another day or two, crash and bottle!

 

[zacster]

I emptied my keg of the last of my winter lager into a glass, and consumed. This frees up my keg for the Ruination IPA clone in my carboy, dry hopped now for 10 days. This weekend it goes in.

 

[catdaddy66]

Made a wish list on Morebeer.com for some various supplies and ingredients for my wife to order for my birthday...

 

[atgilbertson]

Picked up a few things at NB. Came home, bottled some MW Liberty Cream Ale and brewed NB Speckled Heifer while drinking MW Hop Scare and Irish Red.

 

[Darkness]

Had three brew buds over made 20gal of home brew AG. And 14gal of lemonade mead. In 4 hours now just drinking from the celler stach.

 

[max384]

Bottled a 5 gal Kolsch and I'm just starting the boil on an apple ale.

 

[user 103238]

Kegged my Galaxy Pale Ale V3.0. Delicious.

 

[signpost]

I've got a starter boiling right now. Getting some washed Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast going for my 2nd batch of Kolsch for this spring. Planning to brew on Saturday.

 

[andvari7]

I haven't done anything today, nor do I expect to do, but I bottled last night. Both batches - a 5g Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale, and a 1g original recipe - smelled right, so in fourteen days, I'll taste. I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

[Felixio]

Last night I boild jars for yeast washing.

Tonight I bottle the last of my ciders. (For now.) And rack my honey wheat and my APA for a nice dry hop.

 

[AUEnder]

This guy risked his job for the cause.

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/mobile_county_prosecutor_disci.html

 

[user 103238]

Intentionally kicked the last 2 pints of my amber ale to make room in the kegerator for a Going Away IPA. Harvested the yeast from my galaxy pale ale and IPA batches for future use.

 

[TNGabe]

Brewed a double batch of Berliner Weisse that needs to be in the bottles and shipped to nationals in 9 days, if I wait until last day to ship. Split the batch between 05 and several brett strains. I pitched two packs about 6 hrs ago and the 05 is starting to hint at fermentation already, even with a ph around 3.3. I'm hoping the brett batch finishes quickly too and gives me some fruitier beer to blend into the 05. Supposed to do some on fruit, but I might be short on time for that. Not sure about the brett, but the 05 batch should ferment out in less than 48 hrs and then straight into bottles. Wort smelled like bread and lemons.

Intentionally kicked the last 2 pints of my amber ale to make room in the kegerator for a Going Away IPA. Harvested the yeast from my galaxy pale ale and IPA batches for future use.

Have you had the chance to try Galaxy White IPA from Anchorage? It's brett finished, so that might not be your thing, but it's crazy good and made in Alaska.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Giving a first taste of my kolsch - not bad but needs to sit a bit longer.



About to bottle my MO/Citra SMaSH and it smells freaking awesome!