What I did for beer today

[BrewinHooligan]

Bottled up 58 bottles of apa.

 

[Leadgolem]

How would I do that?

Something like this maybe?
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/banana-wine-33636/
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques5.asp

I also did some coffee wine recently if you want something really odd.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/1-gallon-brewers-unite-311884/index320.html#post5250044

 

[lumpher]

after all these years, got a stir plate/flask setup

 

[Channel66]

You see I would but I'm looking for something crazy to make. Maybe tea. I guess I wasn't clear.

With washed beer yeast? Your call I guess.

 

[Jbird]

Something like this maybe?
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/banana-wine-33636/
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques5.asp

I also did some coffee wine recently if you want something really odd.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/1-gallon-brewers-unite-311884/index320.html#post5250044

These sound very different. The coffee one sound really neat. I'm not sure how it would taste.

 

[Leadgolem]

These sound very different. The coffee one sound really neat. I'm not sure how it would taste.

Interesting. Cold brewed coffee doesn't have the pseudo-tannins in it. It's still definitely coffee, but it's an easier drinker. More like tea that way. No bite to the taste at all.

I sweeten it and use it as a replacement for coffee liqueur. IMO, it's a bit much to drink without sweetening. The caffeine also means it's an occasional drink, or it will keep you up in spite of the alcohol.

Make a little cold brewed coffee. If you like that, you'll probably like the wine. I like to keep a quart of cold brewed coffee in the fridge, then microwave a cup when I want coffee.

 

[seigex]

Bought myself a set of 6 beer glasses to add to all my standard pint glasses. Filled up two 5gal propane tanks, and a bunch of odds and ends at morebeer, including a new thermometer that will go in my keggle.

Cleaned equipment and insulated my home depot cooler mashtun.

Made a 2L starter for my brewday tomorrow, just tossed it from the stir plate into the fridge to cold crash.

Now I'm sitting back and RDWHAHB'ing.

 

[williamsdm1111]

Brewed up a centennial blonde and made my first starter with harvested yeast. 2nd brew this week = a good week.

 

[Vinnyb722]

Finished conversion of two coolers for a HLT and Mash Tun. Received my 1st all grain kit, an AK 47 Ale. Got the Darkstar burner and an aluminum pot. I still need a propane tank and a process. Next weekend I will brew my first all grain batch. Oh, Yeah! Feel like a kid going on his first date!

 

[Jbird]

Interesting. Cold brewed coffee doesn't have the pseudo-tannins in it. It's still definitely coffee, but it's an easier drinker. More like tea that way. No bite to the taste at all.

I sweeten it and use it as a replacement for coffee liqueur. IMO, it's a bit much to drink without sweetening. The caffeine also means it's an occasional drink, or it will keep you up in spite of the alcohol.

Make a little cold brewed coffee. If you like that, you'll probably like the wine. I like to keep a quart of cold brewed coffee in the fridge, then microwave a cup when I want coffee.

Ok I will do that. So drinking the coffee wine by its self is not a good idea is that what you are thinking?

 

[unionrdr]

Got an FG of 1.010 on my PM Berlin wheat,so I'm gunna bottle it up.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

just stripped down all of my threaded parts, and ball valves for their 6 month cleaning, teflon taped and reassembled it all.

 

[Ridire]

Bottled my blonde. I swear, if I had 10 gallons in my ferm, I'd still only end up with 4 in my bottle bucket after leaving the yeast cake behind.

 

[nickydballs]

Sold my immersion chiller on Craigslist and bought a counterflow chiller on eBay...

 

[unionrdr]

Cooling the priming solution for the Berlin Wheat. Went to clean & sanitize the bottling bucket,& found it had already ben done! Took apart the spigot & scrubbed it with Starsan,re-installed & sanitized the lid & bucket. Gotta clean bottling wand & tube though. forgot that one.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Racked 5gal of IIPA onto 4oz of dryhop and some amylase enzyme.

 

[clarksc4]

Dry hopped a 5 gallon batch of rye IPA with 1 oz Columbus

 

[user 103238]

After being out of town for nearly 2 weeks, and having my wife babysit my lagering Bohemian Lager during the diacetyl rest, I checked on it last night after I came home. Apparently the temperature sensor fell out when I opened and closed the door, because when I checked it this morning it was in the early stages of freezing. Looks like I caught it in time, the freezing has subsided, no obvious signs of damage to either the beer or the carboy.

 

[unionrdr]

Got 53 bottles outta that batch of Berlin Wheat. Gotta clean up after being sent to the store.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Finally, my favorite LHBS has its low-priced, but very good, base malt back in stock. I ordered online yesterday and today I picked up a 50 pound sack of GW pale malt premium 2-row ($29.90 - up $.40), a sack of GW Northwest Pale Ale ($29.50 - GW's try at a British type 2-row), a half-dozen pounds of specialty malts and 2 each packages of S-04, US-05, and Nottingham. Out the door for $84.50. I now have enough ingredients with the hops, yeasts, and grains I already had at home to brew for a couple of months without worry (although, now that I think about it I should pick up another pound of Magnum hops for bittering). It may be the homebrew, but I have a warm, fuzzy feeling in my tummy today.

 

[celticdevildog]

I brewed! First batch is in the fermenter! 5 Gallons of Irish Red.

 

[coldcrash]

I brewed! First batch is in the fermenter! 5 Gallons of Irish Red.

Congrats! Welcome to the obsession

 

[celticdevildog]

Congrats! Welcome to the obsession

Talk about obsessed already. I was dreaming about brew day last night. Hoppy dreams are awesome!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Went to the LHBS. They were sold out of two yeasts I wanted (which they're ordering for me and will have next week) but other than that I'm set for an Ordinary Bitter, English Barleywine, and a Belgian Quad.

Then, after 8 months of near zero carbonation and a likely exceeded alcohol level, dosed the last of my Imperial Red with champagne yeast.

 

[StompingClover]

The swmbo and I hit The Four Firkins.

Mine



Hers

 

[JohnSand]

So your wife likes... (Don't say it!)

I drank a growler of Great South Bay Blonde, and brewed a two gallon extract batch.

 

[Leadgolem]

Ok I will do that. So drinking the coffee wine by its self is not a good idea is that what you are thinking?

Not exactly, it's nice by it's self too. It's just that I don't usually drink it by its self because the caffeine will keep me awake at night. Flavor wise, it makes a good sipper.

I bottled and am pasteurizing my banana wine right now. This stuff got good really fast.

 

[SixStrings]

Bottled 5G of a session-ish IPA. First brew using citra, it smelled incredible.

 

[unionrdr]

Cleaned up after yesterday's bottling day this morning. Got 53 bottles of Berlin Wheat. Gunna brew the other PM BW today.

 

[winvarin]

Removed the stems on two 15 gal kegs and gave them a good PBW soak. Once the parts are back in stock I will order the fermenter conversion kits