What I did for beer today

[catdaddy66]

Brewing a batch and drinking a few.

... what??! Lol

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,def don't want them stems & seeds. Cleaned the grain mill to crush 4lbs of grains for the Berlin Wheat freeby kit. Bottled the first one yesterday.
But gunna cut the Haulertauer flavor addition from 30 to 20 minutes. Trulemon crystal in the priming solution. I'm hoping for a smooth lemon spice kinda thing.

 

[jduke]

Went and picked up a couple cases of empty bombers to be filled this weekend. Then went and picked up a treat...

How was the Devil Dancer? Might pick some up Monday, been eyeing it on the shelf.

 

[StompingClover]

How was the Devil Dancer? Might pick some up Monday, been eyeing it on the shelf.

Its ok. Not worth the price tag though.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Dry hopped 10 gallon of my IPA.

 

[Jbird]

Nothing better then bottling a smokin hot blond with my 3year old son listing to Barney on the iPhone. Got to be a great Father's Day.

 

[unionrdr]

Mashed & sparged grains for the 2nd Berlin wheat. gotta wait for son to make Breakfast before going to work to start the boil. Darn mash temp started at 152F,then while wrapped up for an hour went up to 156F,1 degree higher than recipe calls for. not bad I guess. Gunna dry grains for later use. They kinda smell like banana bread.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,grains have been in a 200F oven for nearly an hour,pitched WY3056 on another OG1.050 wort 4 minutes ago. Brewday done,it's miller time!...better make that homebrew time! Nice to be done about 20 to three. Twice in a row I got the same OG on the same kit. Those spent grains ground into flour are gunna be great in pancakes.

 

[Quaffman]

Brewed a batch of evil twin.

 

[jperry]

Drove to my local Stone Brewery location, the South Park Company Store, and filled up a couple growlers of their new release, RUINTEN. I also bought 3 bottles of it, there wasn't a limit on growler fills/bottles! I can't wait to pop some open...

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Weighed out grains and hops for another 10 gallon batch of Centennial Blonde I am going to brew tomorrow or Wednesday, depending on how I feel.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

divvied out a new can of hop extract, this time I only managed to get a little bit of the extract on my hands.. much better than last time.

 

[DMTnew2brew]

Flushed my lines, and kegged my own original recipe...not quite sure what to expect

 

[munro]

Put Shirley's Nut Brown Ale in to cold crash, washed Wyeast 1028 London Ale yeast and drank some Vanilla Oatmeal Stout and some Stratcona Pale Ale.

 

[Skeptidelphian]

First AG batch...supposed to be a best bitter, but ended up an ordinary bitter due to 64% efficiency. My mash tun needs more frequent infusions than I thought it would.

 

[winvarin]

First AG batch...supposed to be a best bitter, but ended up an ordinary bitter due to 64% efficiency. My mash tun needs more frequent infusions than I thought it would.

Good times. Glad I am not the only one. I have brewed a few "supposed to be ordinary bitters or premiums" that turned out to be premiums or ESBs while dialing in my new 10 gal system. I figured I would shoot for the middle of premium every time. My thinking was that I over shot or under shot, I would be somewhere within that broad style.

I just bought extra hops and kept track of my pre boil volume so that I could adjust bittering on the fly.

I love English pales as it is. And it's a forgiving style when you're trying something new

 

[winvarin]

Canned 4 qts. And 4 pints of starter wort, and finally diagnosed a foamy keg issue that had been bothering me since the weekend

 

[tommyguner03]

just finished transferring my "double IPA" to secondary and added an other dry hop 1oz of centennial..

 

[unionrdr]

Brewd the other PM Berlin wheat yesterday. Smacked the activator pack,but not much came out. Guess it had a leak even though it blew up to critical mass. Gotta wait till 10am for lhbs to open so I can get another one. Just hope what little was left in the first activator pack makes some co2 to protect my work!?

 

[NicolaiGj]

Today I did a lot of forum browsing (if that even counts), and went dumpster diving for a better mount for my STC-1000.

 

[Bostonbrewin63]

Opened my fermenter closet just to smell the nice aroma.. Lol

 

[unionrdr]

That lil bit of yeast left in the smackpack started visibly fermenting my Berlin Wheat at 11:12.17 1/2 hours to the minute after pitching. Whew,that saved my concerns about another trip to Westlake. Much less a batch gone bad waiting for the car to get done,which will likely be after the lhbs closes for the day.

 

[celticdevildog]

Went to the LHBS here in town and bought some bottles, caps, cleaner and sanitizer.

 

[mkringii]

Its ok. Not worth the price tag though.

Idk its still one of my favorites..

 

[TNGabe]

Bottled and then realized I can't find 29 mm bell for capper. It's only the last 5 bottles, but it's kinda pissing me off. I'll look around some more and then give up and cork the dang things.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Brewed 10 gallons of Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde. And cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned . . .

 

[NicolaiGj]

Spontaneously made mead for the first time. Just water, honey, yeast(soon), nutrition(soon) in fermenter, and I'll probably add some fruit in secondary.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Got a big ol' starter going for next week's Quad.

 

[TNGabe]

Got a big ol' starter going for next week's Quad.

What yeast are you using?

 

[unkyjack]

Taste tested a bottle of my Spring Lager (Brooklyn Brew Shop recipe) that's been conditioning for the past week. Carbonation was good and it was mighty tasty. The rest of the batch should be ready for the fridge in about seven more days.