What I did for beer today

[jperry]

Im having a brew day from hell already, and I haven't even doughed in yet. First strike temp was way high, then I had to take apart my bulkhead and redo the teflon tape, while scolding my hands, then the strike water was too cold and there wasn't enough. I got up early, but started late because of all the unforeseen problems.

 

[smonteton]

I thought this was a post for helping out beer! lol as in starting groups against dry counties ... or spreading the word of beer to foreign countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state

These would be are target zones the ones in red! LoL

 

[Jbird]

Im having a brew day from hell already, and I haven't even doughed in yet. First strike temp was way high, then I had to take apart my bulkhead and redo the teflon tape, while scolding my hands, then the strike water was too cold and there wasn't enough. I got up early, but started late because of all the unforeseen problems.

Hang in there buddy. Remember that it always adds to the story of your brew day.

 

[unionrdr]

I had a fermenter & bunch of hop socks soaking since last weekend's bottling & brew days. It's taken a couple days this week for me to get it all clean again. Scrubbed,emptied,rinsed,& sanitized FV already. gotta rinse the hop socks & get'em drying. Burned one a little. Haulertauer bittering addition went straight to the bottom for some reason last Sunday. Cleaned out the homer cheapo bucket after all that so it's ready for catching crushed grains tomorrow.

 

[BGBC]

Dropped off two HB's for a local contest at the LHBS, and picked up grains for a pumpkin saison while I was there.

 

[StompingClover]

Bottled 5 gal of lager. Racked 3 gal of lemon wheat and 3 gal of ipa to secondary.

 

[lumpher]

brewed a nut brown ale and a premium lager, and kegged an american amber

 

[bzwyatt]

I assembled a temp controller for my new craigslist fridge with an STC-1000 and a Stanley tool box. It is 10:05pm here so I may not finish today, but I think I am going to brew some porter tonight, probably my favorite style and will be my first batch of it, so I am excited...

 

[cdunn1221]

Bottled 5 gallons of northern brewers cream ale

 

[bobmcstuff]

Racked my cascade/willamette IPA experiment and split into 3 FVs - one with some grape concentrate, one with amylase and one plain.

 

[Inkleg]

Oh, lets see.

I ordered somewhere from a Butt Munch to a S**t Load of electrical parts from Ebrewsupply and Auberins to start my build.

Wow, this cheaper by brewing your own beer sure is getting expensive

 

[bleme]

Racked my cascade/willamette IPA experiment and split into 3 FVs - one with some grape concentrate, one with amylase and one plain.

You are just all kinds of crazy! ;-)

 

[pellis007]

Kegged a batch of Honey Cream Ale today. 4 weeks fermenting with a full week cold crash. This is the SWMBO's favorite. 2 More batches to brew next weekend and that'll be all till the fall. Got a massively full pipeline.

 

[UnderPressure]

- Brewed a batch of Hefeweizen:

4 lbs Weyermann floor malted Pilsner
7 lbs Weyermann floor malted white wheat
1 oz German Hallertauer (60 min)
Wyeast 3068
OG: 1.045

- Racked and dry hopped a 1 gallon extract batch of double IPA made with Simcoe, Amarillo, Cirta, Mosaic and Cascade hops

 

[StompingClover]

used up some left over ingredients to make a 3 gal batch of habanero wheat beer.

 

[Shred]

Sniffed my Lambic Style Sour and then had to take a taste. The wheat flavor is still too dominant and it's not sour enough yet. Oh well... a couple more months in the basement, I guess.

 

[andvari7]

I bought two bottles of Rogue XS Dead Guy, for the ceramic bottles - I'm getting two more tomorrow - and I bought new coasters. Go ahead and laugh, but sandstone coasters seem to make all the difference. Now, I just need a nightstand that isn't made out of laminated MDF.

 

[ianw58]

I built a hopper for my old grain mill.

I bought the mill 15 years ago and milled many batches on it before my brewing hiatus.

I'll do the woodworking next weekend.

I'll power this with my 3/8" Reversing Variable Speed Drill.

 

[Leadgolem]

Started a gallon of cold brewed coffee for some coffee wine.

 

[NicolaiGj]

Surfing ebay for stuff for my kegerator project. Bought my refrigerator this weekend, and I consider living on leftover mash for food the coming month to be able to buy kegs, faucets, regulator and a tank.

Also checked upon my IPA I brewed yesterday.

 

[Fordmi]

I admittedly didn't do much for beer this weekend.

Today I picked up a 4 pack of some random brand of tall boys. I swear I'm a glutton for punishment. I can't explain it but I always feel like I have to try the cheap unheard of beer. It was $3.75 for 4 16oz cans. Must be good, right? Put it in the fridge and forgot about it. I did have a homebrew heff while watching a movie and one of my Ambers with dinner...

 

[Vedder014]

Bottled my I-131 Pale Ale yesterday and today I will finish cleaning up (scrub the walls) from where I had a blow out while it was fermenting.

 

[Shred]

Bought an old mini fridge from Craigslist that will be used as the cooling element in my DIY fermentation chamber build.

 

[Channel66]

Went to the lhbs, my grain stores are getting out of control. But they keep running sales, I can't stop. Can't stop.

 

[TNGabe]

Went to the lhbs, my grain stores are getting out of control. But they keep running sales, I can't stop. Can't stop.

Hah. I had that problem for a while. I'm almost out of base malt now, just a little pilsner. I had four different bags of base malt going for a while.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Dry hopped a batch of Yooper's Ruination clone. Now I have to decide whether to bottle it so it will last a a little longer and I can savor it over time, or keg it and drink till I am sated, but have it last only a short time. I need a bigger MLT so I can do 10 gallon batches of this one.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Picked up some PBW to clean out a keg so it's ready to fill this weekend.

 

[BlindFaith]

Drove to Charleston to get some grain from Holy City Brewing. Checked on my delivery status for my stainless wort chiller and sampled some beer.

 

[luke_d]

Picked up 10 ounces of Cascade, 2 ounces of Simcoe, 2 ounces of Citra, 2 oz of Willamette, a grain bag, a thermometer, two stoppers with airlocks, and grain for an Amber Ale, a Pale Ale, and a Habanero IPA. Saturday will be a day to remember!

 

[Leadgolem]

Emptied a whole bunch of over-carbed bottles before they exploded.