What I did for beer today

[Gixxer]

Measured grain for wee heavy this weekend.

 

[user 103238]

Bottled a nut brown and brewed a 10-gallon batch of Centennial Blonde using a 5-gallon Rubbermaid cooler. That was an ungodly amount of batch sparging. I will definitely be taking my buddy up on his offer for a keg to convert to a mash tun. 5-gallons are being fermented with Nottingham, 5-gallons are being fermented with S05.

 

[TNGabe]

Bottled a nut brown and brewed a 10-gallon batch of Centennial Blonde using a 5-gallon Rubbermaid cooler. That was an ungodly amount of batch sparging. I will definitely be taking my buddy up on his offer for a keg to convert to a mash tun. 5-gallons are being fermented with Nottingham, 5-gallons are being fermented with S05.

That sounds like fun.:cross:

Brewed a big sour black ale, transferred a brown sour to secondary where it will be for the next year at least, transferred porter-ish to bottling bucket where it's going to hang out until tomorrow. Cleaned a lot.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled my ESB and my Oatmeal Stout, and routinely shook the starter for the weekend's Brown Ale since the starter for the Cream Ale is hogging the stir plate.

 

[xtian116]

Roasted some two row for this weekend's brew.

 

[unionrdr]

Got my grains outta the fridge & hops outta the freezer for my PM NZ IPA today. Rainin so brewing instead of workin on the car.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Im bottling either tonight or tomorrow. Gonna be a long day, I got a smoked wheat kit and a 3 galloner of apfelwein .

Hey dr, remember that improvised bottling bucket I told you about?

 

[BGBC]

Took a gravity reading and dry hopped my session IPA. First time dry hopping, smells delicious already, should only get better!

 

[unionrdr]

Did you mean me,CG? I was trying to remember. I'm in the middle of letting the mini food processor cool down a bit to finish crushing my grains. Gunna get a real crusher when fed return comes in.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Yes sir I did. I have a gallon and a half PET beverage holder with a little spout (usually people use it for iced tea etc.)

If I were to "keg" my apfelwein with priming sugar in there and let it condition for a while... could I conceivably have a gallon and a half of fizzy apfelwein "on tap"?

Am I seeing too rosy a picture?

 

[jperry]

Oh man, I had a hell of an experience, trying out my first all grain (biab) batch. Countless things went wrong... the worst being my wort chiller hose melting slightly. the one that feeds cold water in. Eventually the pressure burst a pin hole, causing hose water to spray my almost chilled wort. I had to yank the chiller out of the pot and cover the wort. What a day.

 

[stikks]

Busy day today,Made a a starter with 2565 for tomorrows Spotted Cow clone.
Then I head out to Brew-n-Grow for ingredients for the cow.Filled 54 bottles
with Honey Wheat ale from 3 weeks ago and finally checked gravity from last
weeks Cream of 3 Crops.Now I`m crusin` HBT and drinking one of my Kolsch
I made in Feb. -whew- Mash water fires up at 8 am tomorrow.

Cheers

 

[user 103238]

I am patiently drinking my 22 oz bottle of Caribou Slobber, trying not to think about the fact that I have not yet seen visible signs of fermentation on my 10-gallons of blonde ale in the past 24 hours. I know, I know.........

 

[AndrewD]

I brewed an american wheat the other day, my first batch in months. I've brewed this recipe 3 times before and always came pretty close on gravity. I was completely caught off guard when I was 8 points under. So today I racked it onto 5 pounds of concord grapes that have been vac-sealed in my freezer for the last 6 months. Hopefully it will boost the gravity a bit, and I've been meaning to try the concords in a beer for a while since I still have 8 five-pound bags in the freezer.

 

[lionnusmb]

Drank beer and scraped the labels off of bottles. This will be my first batch of homebrew that I will be bottling tomorrow. Will be using 2-12's of anchor bottles, 2-12's of Sierra Nevada bottles, and 1 case of boulevard bottles (man, I love that 80 acre). Any extra will be out of green flash bottles. This will be made from the brewers bet imperial pale ale kit. Excited!!!

 

[Channel66]

Yes sir I did. I have a gallon and a half PET beverage holder with a little spout (usually people use it for iced tea etc.)

If I were to "keg" my apfelwein with priming sugar in there and let it condition for a while... could I conceivably have a gallon and a half of fizzy apfelwein "on tap"?

Am I seeing too rosy a picture?

The PET should hold the pressure but I'm not sure the lid will. The lids on those are usually pretty crappy and have a pop up vent usually no?

 

[geoffm33]

Cleaned some bottles and put a few beers on the fridge. Excited to try them tonight.

 

[free2scour]

Crushed my grain for tomorrow's Cream of 3 Crops brewing session...

 

[unionrdr]

Crushed over 5lbs of grains yesterday in a mini food processor for tomorrows NZ IPA brew. Been wanting to try something like that Kiwi IPa I heard of,& have a ton of NZ hops to use up,&...well...neccesity being the mother of invention...

 

[Jbird]

Replied to a post on Facebook about getting free beer bottles. Yes free! All different sizes and shapes can't wait.

 

[Channel66]

Reserved some centennial hop rhizomes

 

[Piratwolf]

Cleaned 3 kegs & my brew pot since I'm not brewing this weekend.

Now, i gotta bottle off the rest of my CAP, drink the last of my IPA and "scotty" of Porter, rotate in my APA, keg and put on gas my Belgian IPA, keg the other 5gal of my saison & Black IPA, clean & sanitize the empty kegs mentioned above, clean out my big mash tun for a buddy to use on Monday, and drill out a hole for the ball valve on my new HLT.

 

[stikks]

Just finished up brewing 6 gal of Spotted Cow clone.

Cheers

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Brewed 6gals of Centennial Blonde. The wort tastes and smells so good!

 

[bleme]

Put a test bottle of Phat Tyre in the freezer to chill but accidentally froze it solid.

 

[Aschecte]

Supported a new local micro brewery Rushing Duck brewing co. Picked up three growlers of a saison, rye red ale, and a amazing pale ale.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Drinking a beer I've never had before (Uerige Dusseldorf Alt), brewed a Cream Ale, and wrapping up the mash on a Northern English Brown.

 

[cheesehed007]

Bottled up a Cream Ale that my son helped out on... Best bottling day yet!





Yes, that's him on the label.

 

[Tupperwolf]

Moved 5 gallons from 62* to 72* for yeast cleanup and then moved a different 5 gallons from 72* to 35* for cold crashing.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Weighed out grains and hops for an Irish Red I am going to brew tomorrow or Monday.