What I did for beer today

[catdaddy66]

I bottled my red ale after 3 weeks in the primary. Then I washed the yeast in the bottom of the bucket. I now have 5 jars of S-04 to use later! My pipeline now has 5 cases of three beers.

 

[mattd2]

Yesterday finished off my brewstand. This weekend I will be brewing Orfy's Hobgoblin II with my FIL (his second brew)! Should be good as SWMBO has even said maybe we should start earlier than last time so we are not finishing up at 1am!

 

[bleme]

Brewed a 10 gallon batch of Caramel Amber Ale to split with a friend and finished off his keg of BM Centennial Blonde so now he has room for it!

 

[Jbird]

Made a hop spider

What's a hop spider used for?

 

[VicariousCynic]

Holds a mesh bag for hops over the kettle. Keeps the open clear so no burning your fingers for hop additions.

http://byo.com/stories/projects-and-equipment/item/2427-build-a-hop-spider-projects

 

[balrog429]

Usually lurk here because it has taken a long time for me to get my equipment for all grain together. My wife was really excited that I spent a lot of cash on fittings from barginfittings.com and austin homebrew. So today I spent money to finish my all grain set up. Two keggels with thermometers, sight glasses, pickup tubes and ball valves with quick connects. Rubbermaid cooler with SS false bottom. Also my first ingredients from the LHBS I didn't know was there till yesterday. Gonna run it on Thursday!!

 

[geoffm33]

What's a hop spider used for?

Holds a mesh bag for hops over the kettle. Keeps the open clear so no burning your fingers for hop additions.

http://byo.com/stories/projects-and-equipment/item/2427-build-a-hop-spider-projects

Exactly. And that's the instruction set I used as well. Can't wait to use it this weekend.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I bottled a gallon of irish red I was dumb enough to leave in the fermenter for over a month. Sigh.

 

[catdaddy66]

I bottled a gallon of irish red I was dumb enough to leave in the fermenter for over a month. Sigh.

No worries, mate! Several months would be safe, and many members leave a beer in primary 6-8 weeks intentially.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

Bottled 2 cases of Honey Pear Cider to bring up to the Wanee Music Festival put on by the Allman Brothers. Four days of awesome music and camping, 2 cases of cider, a keg of my IPA, and a bunch of great cigars.... It's gonna be great!!!!

 

[unionrdr]

Went & got spring water for my next brew,& one block from home the exhaust broke. I'm broke,gotta wait for tax money to fix it.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Went & got spring water for my next brew,& one block from home the exhaust broke. I'm broke,gotta wait for tax money to fix it.

I feel ya bro.

 

[stikks]

Racked 6 gal of Honey Wheat Ale to the secondary,need the better bottle for
tomorrow.Washed the 2565 and got 3 half pints.

Cheers

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Made a starter of Denny's Favorite 50 for a batch of Denny's Wry Smile Rye IPA and weighed out the grains and hops for the batch. Was planning on brewing it tomorrow, but I'm going to need to step up the starter so I will probably wait until Wednesday to brew. I also changed out the small blow off tube for a full 1" tube on a batch of Yooper's house Pale Ale. It's been in the fermentor for 8 days in a swamp cooler at 61F steadily fermenting, so yesterday I raised the temp a degree or so in preparation for removing it from the swamp cooler and today it was pushing krausen into the small tube attached to a three-piece airlock. I checked and the wort was only 63F but going to town. Glad I hadn't already switched from the small blow-off tube to an airlock.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

stripped the paint off my new rims toolbox.

 

[unionrdr]

Finished cleaning the brewery/man cave. gotta clean some bottles for bottling & my collection. Gunna use some quart size zip lock freezer bags to freeze water in for the wort chill on brewday. Hopefully tomorrow. A PM NZ IPA with marris otter,crisp pale malt,crystal 40L,etc. And 4 kinds of NZ hops to use'em up. Gotta start on IPA's,wheat ales,etc for summer.

 

[Hulud]

Soaking some bottles, moved most my brown to keg, the rest is racked on coffee, brewed a pale ale

 

[free2scour]

Added dissolved gelatin solution to my newly-kegged/chilled batch of Centennial Blonde Ale. First time I'm trying this method in hopes of clarifying. Fingers crossed, heheheh......

 

[SteveHeff]

I drank a few. That is all.

 

[Pogopunx82]

A broken Stella Artois engraved glass. Oh I thought this was the mail thread.

Opps.

 

[catdaddy66]

Opened my delivery from Morebeer! AG, here I come!!

 

[Vinnyb722]

Racked my lager into a secondary, never did act like it was fermenting, but when I opened the bucket there was a large head of karusen (sp) so I hope it did something. Secondary in a glass carboy at about 45 degrees for ?? weeks. Tasted good. I guess that's what counts.

 

[stikks]

Unfortunately not much today.I had to work.But when I got home,
I had 1 each of my Heffs,Kolsch ,Blue Moon clone and a Chocolate
Vanilla Porter. Goin` to Brew-N-Grow tomorrow for supplies for thursdays
brew day.

Cheers

 

[geoffm33]

Made a dipstick. Inverted variety (measures from top of water to top of kettle).

 

[Nightshade]

Cleaned boil kettle, mash tun and heat exchange.
Cleaned kegs
Setup an appointment to have a new co2 regulator block priced out
Discussed expansion of brewroom plans
Pitched blackberries into the blackberry wheat

 

[Qhrumphf]

Dropped on 4 batches worth of ingredients and some small equipment bits at the LHBS. Was surprised at how low the total was. But still finally decided it's time to start buying ingredients in bulk. 55lb sacks of Pils, MO, and 2 row, and 1lb bags of EKG, Fuggles, Tettenang, Hallertau, Cascade, and Centennial and I've got core ingredients covered for most everything. And I'll start coordinating what I brew when to make re-pitching more practical.

 

[Channel66]

Moved about half of my yeast to my new place.

Poor things had a long drive.

 

[xtian116]

Checked on some yeast I forgot about in the back of my fermenting closet.





I think it was a success. It's from a bottle of Hanger 24 Orange Wheat.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled my extract APA. About to get starters going for this weekend's Cream Ale and Northern English Brown. Then I'll get my ESB and Oatmeal Stout up on the counter to settle out overnight for bottling tomorrow night.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I went to work so's I can pay for my next Saison. although I have everything I need....