What I did for beer today

[Vinnyb722]

About 700 ml. I tasted the beer and it didn't taste good. This was my 1st all grain and I didn't vourlouf, that may have been the off flavor. I went ahead and started over. I think I will go get grain alcohol and use it in my blow off bottle? What a rookie mistake! After I poured it out I did think that it is a no rinse concoction, fermentation is, for the most part over, what would it hurt. So now I am regretting pouring it out. I think I read somewhere on here, never pour out! May not be as good as I wanted, but I wouldn't have an empty keg. Hahaha

 

[inthebackwoods]

Checked on my triple decocted Dunkelweizen which is happily fermenting. Also, shared my hoppy wheat, smoked IPA, and double IPA with family for a backyard BBQ.

 

[Inkleg]

Bottled 5 gallons of Big Fuzzys Double Chocolate Coffee Stout.

Checked FG of Da Yooper House Pale Ale, looking good at 1.010.

Dropped a 5 gallon keg of Stones Vertical Epic 09-09-09 clone into the keezer.

It's been a good day for beer around here. Thank You everyone on HBT for making me a better brewer.

 

[user 103238]

Worked up a starter (last night) of 1098 that was harvested from a previous batch, and just now finished brewing an Irish red ale. Used my Thrumometer I picked up on vacation for the first time. Worked like a charm. Time to do a few chores around the house before firing up the grill for BBQ chicken tonight!

 

[andvari7]

I tasted my wheat beer:

3:1:1 Wheat:Gambrinus ESB:Maris Otter
Wyeast 3333
1oz. Chinook - bitter (60m)
1/3 Citra (30)
1/3 Citra (15)
1/3 Citra (10)

I think I overdid the Chinook a bit, but it's not so bad, really. I like bitter, and if you let it warm up, it mellows a bit. Two more weeks in conditioning, and I'll have a really nice beer. Next time, I'll use properly-filtered water, ferment at 55-degree temps, and do a five-gallon batch, to accommodate the hop load. Maybe double my yeast pitch.

 

[unionrdr]

Put away some bottles I had srubbed & dried. Made labels after fixing the printer to pack yooper a couple Maori IPA's for her & her hubby. I needed a drink after cursing at the darn printer for a couple hours.

 

[Leadgolem]

About 700 ml. I tasted the beer and it didn't taste good. This was my 1st all grain and I didn't vourlouf, that may have been the off flavor. I went ahead and started over. I think I will go get grain alcohol and use it in my blow off bottle? What a rookie mistake! After I poured it out I did think that it is a no rinse concoction, fermentation is, for the most part over, what would it hurt. So now I am regretting pouring it out. I think I read somewhere on here, never pour out! May not be as good as I wanted, but I wouldn't have an empty keg. Hahaha

Huh. I honestly don't see the need to use anything other then water in an airlock or blowoff bottle, unless you are having issues with fruit flies. Those little bastidges will crawl in an airlock with water in it, but not one with distilled alcohol. Good luck with your new batch.

What did I do for beer today? Well, I drank more then a 750ml bottle of wine in 40 minutes. Does that count?

 

[jperry]

Went to Costco today, and picked up a case and a half of Stone's RuinTen. Ridiculously low price, for such a good beer.

 

[stbnj]

Dumped grout in my beer, does that count? Was on batch 1 of 3, gravity was a bit low so I ran into to get some extract. Oh good I must have taken it out already cause its on the dining room table. Turns out my wife decided to put the left over sand colored grout in a big zip lock bag on the table. I was so looking forward to brewing today too after redoing our bathroom after work for the last week or so. As soon as I dumped it the smell hit me and I realized what I had done.

 

[Guden]

Got stuck in San Francisco due to airplane crash. Won't be able to brew today but helping my bro with bottling his first beer instead.

 

[winvarin]

Emergency beer line cleaning. Finally got a look at those guys in the light. More beer stone than I thought I'd have. But with all 4 taps full and my friends on vacation, stuff is hanging about longer than it should.

Oxyclean did great on 2 of 3 lines. The line with the most stone still has some. May need to invest in a proper line cleaner.

 

[jgm038]

ordered my first all grain kit!

 

[goaliemanpat]

Sweetened my first 5 gallon batch of Skeeter Pee. In the fridge chilling to be kegged tommorow.

 

[Chadwick]

Ordered a fat sack of 2-row and a small grain mill. No crush complaints and efficiency excuses for me. Other than using some DME for yeast starters, I'm going AG.

 

[adiochiro3]

organized my brewing supplies & equipment in new totes while tasting the first bottle of honey cream ale I brewed with my daughter.

 

[Vinnyb722]

Huh. I honestly don't see the need to use anything other then water in an airlock or blowoff bottle, unless you are having issues with fruit flies. Those little bastidges will crawl in an airlock with water in it, but not one with distilled alcohol. Good luck with your new batch.

What did I do for beer today? Well, I drank more then a 750ml bottle of wine in 40 minutes. Does that count?

Thanks, no fruit flies, and I am now using a cheap bourbon in the blow off, if that gets sucked in, no problem.

I brewed a Belgian duppel, 2nd AG recipe, much better efficiency today thanks to my LHBS advice.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Finally got off my butt and bottled the second half of a 10 gallon batch of IPA (kegged the first half 15 days ago). I get to feel good for one evening. I have 10 gallons of blonde ale ready to keg or bottle tomorrow and all of my kegs are at least partially filled. I need to buy more kegs.

 

[histo320]

Dry Hopped my NB DeadRinger. One more week until bottling day!

 

[unionrdr]

Tomorrow I'm going to try out my new 66" long,3/8" line cleaning brush from Keg connection for my bottling wand tubing,racking tubes,etc with some PBW. for today,I'm satiated from getting 49 bottles out of my PM Berlin lemonweisse. Party on of course!

 

[seigex]

was able to purchase 17 cornies and 2 shirron plate chillers for $480 out the door...

 

[unionrdr]

Well,yesterday was busy. I cleaned everything up from bottling day,including nearly a case of empties. Half of which came back from my lawncare guys whom I gave a mixed 12'r to for the 4th. Asked them to rinse the bottles before putting them back in the box to return. Of course they didn't. One was full of flies stuck on the inside. Had to do a soak-n-scrub to clean them all. They even lost one of my prized German bottles. Dang.
At least the fermenter & bottling bucket,hoses are all cleaned & sanitized. The yeast was washed as well. Get to relax today.

 

[Dave37]

Picked up ingredients for 2 batches i will be making in the next week or so. Also picked up some already made beer which tastes pretty good.

 

[Dave37]

Forgot pics

 

[unionrdr]

Got my WY3056 yeast washed into 2 Tostitos queso jars,& let'em settle 3 days in the fridge. Decided to get more yeast in one jar by draining off liquid into 2 sanitized glasses covered in plastic wrap. Swirled up the yeast in one jar,dumped into the other jar. Topped it off with saved liquid to fill the jar to the bottom of the threads. Back into fridge with more yeast to make a starter with next time.
Since I had some 55oz of yeast/liquid/trub left in the washing jar,I decided to do an article to submit on yeast washing with common stuff from the grocery store. Save for the Starsan & yeast of course. It'll be next week before it gets submitted though. May even do a slideshow for my youtube channel.

 

[Yellowirenut]

Filled 9 bottles and keg the rest of Spotted Cow.
Transferred an Altbier into secondary and stowed it in a closet covered by a hoodie to be long forgotten.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Picked up grains to finally brew another batch of beer (next weekend) - a saison. I just hope I haven't forgotten how to brew!

 

[allenH]

Picked up 28.75lb of grains for a 5.5gal imperial stout tomorrow





Double mash and a two hour boil, gonna be a long day tomorrow

 

[unionrdr]

But it'll wind up a good kinda tired...:rockin:

 

[Komocabo]

Got the rest of the grain for a 10 gallon Blonde. Brewing tomorrow! Going to pitch 2 yeast (one in each fermenter). Got the 1098 (London Ale) and 1272 (American II). Looking forward to tomorrow, but off to the yard work for today.

Cheers!

 

[LoloMT7]

Ran string for my hop plants to grow towards the house. Also pumped co2 into my Conan Vienna simcoe Amarillo omg the Amarillo hops smell down right amazing with simcoe and Conan yeast. I can't wait to try this one.