What I did for beer today

[Aschecte]

Well it's still early only 9 am here in NYC but, I have ordered 6 new tap handles for my keezer...... I have never used these but hear good things and they are cheap as hell so I picked up 48 beer saver caps..... I don't know why as I keg but, what the heck for $1.41 per 6 so for like $11.50 the recommended use for homebrewers is to use these in between cleaning and storage to bottling to keep stuff out of the bottles. They are also supposed to prevent oxidation in beer that has already been opened but you can't finish the beer ( yeah right ). I guess I'll try them out. I also and this was the highlight of my morning ordered my March 809HS-PL pump and Auber instruments syl4342 and SSR and heat sink / indicator lights and heater elements from Auber industries to build my RIMS system. I'm on my way.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Making starters for the weekends Tripel and Saison.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Brewed 5.5 gallons of Yooper's Ruination clone and did lots of cleaning. This is my second batch of this beer - the first went pretty fast. Might need to start doing 10 gallons of this at a time.

 

[jperry]

Oh man, just trying to get this accuflex bev-seal ultra 3/16", over my 1/4" fittings... Holy cow. This a PITA.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Oh man, just trying to get this accuflex bev-seal ultra 3/16", over my 1/4" fittings... Holy cow. This a PITA.

Hot water is your friend. Just hold the end of the tubing in hot water for five or ten seconds and you should be good to go.

 

[Nightshade]

Cleaned the mash tun and boil kettle
Scrubbed brewroom floor
Designed a new layout for the CO2 system and priced out parts
Put together a hop order and sent it
Put together a grain order sending tomorrow

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I have achieved...my pipeline!

It's filled with easy cider and Centennial Blonde, but it is all good, carbed, and ready! Brewing another batch of Centennial Blonde now and looking ahead to strange new recipes in the future.

 

[Shred]

Cleaned more damn bottles... I thought I was done with this, then I started my pipeline. 6 5-gallon batches aging kills the stockpile of bottles. Sadly, I still have 2 batches to bottle in the next week. Can't wait for auto-pilot!

 

[Frige]

Dumped the last gal of my irish red. It never did clear out well, tasted funny, and had to beat people to drink it. So much for wpl004.
Cleaned the keg and filled with yoopers fizzy yellow beer. Taste pretty good as it was going in.

 

[Pkrd]

I picked up 50 330ml bottles and delabelled and washed them. Tomorrow they get stouted.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Not today, but last night I kegged up a heffeweizen on top of 2 quarts of pineapple juice. Going to let it sit at room temp for a day or two for the yeast to ferment some of the sugars, then cool and force-carb to enjoy this weekend!

 

[Aschecte]

Helped a fellow brew friend work on his herms control build.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Aschecte did I already tell you I was born in Warwick and grew up in Wallkill?

 

[Aschecte]

Aschecte did I already tell you I was born in Warwick and grew up in Wallkill?

No you did not but small world !!! I grew up in pine bush ( right outside of wallkill ) and moved in between Florida and Warwick about 5 years ago.... Nice area. So you were born in St. Anthony's which is where my wife and kids where also born. Again small world !!

 

[Aschecte]

Aschecte did I already tell you I was born in Warwick and grew up in Wallkill?

Damn I just noticed you live in Astoria now ...... Ironic I'm in Astoria every other week. Me and my wife are Greek and we go shopping at Titan in Astoria.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Dude I went to Pine Bush High. Maybe I KNOW you... HA!

Class of 1998.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

Just scored 10 dozen 12 oz bottles and 2 dozen 22oz bottles. And unless I'm doing my math wrong I can bottle my next 3 batches of beer with those... (Thank you craigslist and awesome people giving stuff away for free)

Then I start to think, thats only 3 batches, I already have 2 of those planned, 1 of them for this weekend...

Then I think, that means I need to drink more beer.

 

[dcHokie]

Just scored 10 dozen 12 oz bottles and 2 dozen 22oz bottles. And unless I'm doing my math wrong I can bottle my next 3 batches of beer with those... (Thank you craigslist and awesome people giving stuff away for free)

Then I start to think, thats only 3 batches, I already have 2 of those planned, 1 of them for this weekend...

Then I think, that means I need to drink more beer.

Circle of life, my friend

 

[TNGabe]

Bottled 10 gallons. Empty fermenters look so sad. Guess I'll hafta make some more beer.

 

[MindenMan]

Speaking of propane bottles: The "bottles" that come from Blue Rhino with a triangle on the fill valve can NOT be filled by anyone except Blue Rhino. $20.00 for 3.5 g of propane? WTFIT? What can be done is the stores that have 24 hour self service propane doesn't care whose bottle you use for a core, because Blue Rhino, Amerigas, and the like trade bottles back and forth all the time. Any the generic tanks can still of course be filled for a major discount at your local RV park. Propane is $3.15 G at my local RV park. I hope this helps somebody...

EDIT: This response was regarding a post about picking up propane for brew day. 4 or 5 pages back

 

[Aschecte]

Dude I went to Pine Bush High. Maybe I KNOW you... HA!

Class of 1998.

Damn this is weird yeah we where in high school at the same time though you would have been in your sophomore year when I was a senior. I graduated in 1995...... I knew a lot of people in your class though.... I was friends actually with a lot of people in your class....... I'm not sure if I should post names though.... don't want to piss anyone off. I'll PM you though.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

The beer gods giveth (10 dozen bottles and 2 dozen 22oz bomber).

And the beer gods taketh away. Spent an hour last night cleaning up 2 bottles of my home brew that miraculously decided to bottle bomb after sitting for almost 2 weeks with no ill effects, and sat in a warmer part of the house than where I moved them to.

 

[luke_d]

Biked to the LHBS and got a mother hydrometer, a wine thief, starsan, an ounce of Citra, an ounce of Simcoe, and and two ounces of Cascade.

 

[Shred]

Just threw the chopped habaneros into my dry-hopping Habanero Imperial IPA.

 

[user 103238]

Kegged 5-gallons of Galaxy Pale Ale V4.0 and 5-gallons of African Amber. Harvested the yeast from both batches for future use. Finished my second STC-1000 controller and hooked it up to a standup freezer I picked up. The temperature appears to be holding steady, in anticipation of tomorrow's pilsner.

 

[ArcticBear]

put my black sour mash berlinerweisse in a secondary with 2lbs of cherries and 1.25lbs of blackberries.... crazy tart, lets see what happens

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Ordered 1lb of Columbus and .5lb of Citra to go with my supply of Simcoe and Amarillo. Working on a IIPA recipe to use a boat load of each of these hops in right now.

 

[PerfectD3]

Foil taped my fermentation fridge, tucked up the wiring, and am waiting for the JB Weld to cure for the relocated light switch. Tomorrow I should be able to finish buttoning it up. Built a simple STC1000 box today, too.

 

[funnycreature]

Planned Memorial Day brewing

 

[Bostonbrewin63]

went to the local dispensary and got 30 22oz bottles for 3 bucks... threw them in the dish washer/ oven to sanitize and before i bottle a once over with starsan... sweet!