What I did for beer today

[jerryteague]

I went to work, so I can make more money, so I can brew more. Yeah, I can see a pattern here...

 

[Cheapo]

Haven't been able to do much today, but yesterday got 3 flats of pop top 341 mL bottles to replace my 650's. I just like having the little ones and a consistent carbonation throughout the entire beer, not second glass being flatter.

 

[Leadgolem]

Haven't been able to do much today, but yesterday got 3 flats of pop top 341 mL bottles to replace my 650's. I just like having the little ones and a consistent carbonation throughout the entire beer, not second glass being flatter.

It sounds like you need a bigger glass.

I answered some posts about rice wine... BEFORE opening any.

 

[bobmcstuff]

I want to try the Danger: Hops! simply because that is quite possibly the most awesome name for a beer I've ever heard.

It's pretty good, nice and hoppy but true to its British roots (i.e. not just a clone of an American craft beer like so many British craft beers are at the moment).

Would buy again.

 

[jperry]

I met up with a fellow home brewer, through a craigslist ad. I sold him a pound of hops, It was extra and I want to get something else, also gave him some Carafa III that was extra.

 

[unionrdr]

Scrubbed a bunch of bottles,a couple of my good Libby's glasses,& my hydrometer & tube. Straightened up the brewery a little,got all my HB videos & constituent files together in one folder. Weeded out doubles of pics & got rid of uneeded camera upload files. All I need now is a DVD-RW to save my videos on,& I'll clear up about another megabite. At 6pm,it's HB time & watch Bonanza with my multi-handicapped son. Def startin to warm up again too.

 

[Trippel-A]

I tried to get the coupler and pipe nipple that make up Northern Brewer's cooler bulkhead kit to screw tight enough that the o-ring won't be sitting on threads. No luck. Searched HBT for a similar problem. No luck. Sent an email to NB, hoping for a useful response.

 

[stbnj]

I brewed a batch of Eagle Rock Solidarity Clone. I also researched a kegerator. I have a 4.4 foot magic chef and a bunch of pinlock kegs. It looks like I can fit one full pin lock and one 2.5 gallon ball lock on the hump without doing any mods to the fridge. So I am thinking I will keep 5 gallons of a "house" beer (like Solidarity) and then a smaller keg of a "seasonal" or one off (like my pumpkin ale) around and bottle the difference. I am pretty excited to get started as I ghetto kegged all winter by keeping kegs on my patio and hitting them with gas from a co2 cartridge as needed.

 

[Mozart]

Bought grain (wheat and pilsner malts) and yeast (WLP300) for my next batch -- a small (3g) AG BIAB batch of Hefeweizen (have some leftover noble hops I'll be using).

 

[Ridire]

Bought a stir plate.

 

[jjefrey]

Finised my keezer build, will be kegging tomorrow.

 

[jdboes]

Started my first starter on the newly built stir plate. Having a go at a hard cider tomorrow.

 

[Brewmex41]

Got some hard root beer into the carboy. Planning on brewing up a root beer float Russian imperial stout and pitching on the yeast once the root beer is ready for the secondary.

 

[ballsy]

Opened a package to find these;
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A club u ordered from?? Me like, me want!!

 

[ballsy]

Tossed more ice blocks in water for cold crash...stopping by LHBS for some hops to add to my imperial stout kit I will be brewing tomorrow...

 

[TNGabe]

Got one beer bottled yesterday and the yeast rinsed. Have 2 beers to bottle today and about 20 lbs of beer soaked fruit to get out if the better bottles. More likely I will not bottle and go drink beer while a friend brews.

 

[tugbucket]

We shared a bomber of our Flanders with two friends this morning. Both were all big eyed in enjoyment. Good times.

 

[unionrdr]

A club u ordered from?? Me like, me want!!

They were sent courtesy of remmy. It'll be great to try some beers not available here. Yet another excuse to do some videos. Maybe you could get a trade going with him? I'd like to indulge in these trades more myself.

 

[jerryteague]

I had a beer (or 2) and have been designing a few brews around Conan yeast to brew very soon. I'm thinking about a pale ale, a HT clone, and possibly a triple IPA. I may slant some Conan for later...

 

[user 103238]

Picked up a pound of Vietnamese cinnamon (should last me most of my life) and repackaged it into various sized bags, did the same with 5 pounds of corn sugar, kegged a 7% ABV Irish red ale, sorted a few cases of bottles and recycled anything that still had a label on it, waited patiently for the USPS to deliver my Chugger pump, and am now prepping for a BBQ with 2 different salmon recipes.

 

[andvari7]

I brewed some. It was a multi-malt, two-hop, two-yeast deal. I'll know if it's any good in October.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Bottled 5 gallons of Oatmeal Stout today to go with the 5 gallons I bottled yesterday. And I still have about 5.5 gallons of 5+ month old RIS to bottle. I'm planning on keeping warm next fall/winter.

 

[jdboone42]

Bottled my lagunitas red IIPA clone last night, brewed a DFH 90 minute IPA clone today, drinking a Sierra Nevada torpedo and Widmer's Alchemy ale at the moment

 

[Leadgolem]

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Started my first starter on the newly built stir plate. Having a go at a hard cider tomorrow.

Awesome. Just awesome.:rockin:

 

[Fuzzymittenbrewing]

Didn't realize I was out of dme and needed to make a starter. Found out Malta will work in a pinch. The ferment took off like a rocket!

 

[uatuba]

I racked my never-ending ale that is still fermenting after three weeks with Wyeast 1007 because I really needed to use the primaries. At this point, we will see where that batch ends up, but it's moving at about 1-point every three days.

I washed the 1007 yeast (I will try it again with a starter), removed labels from some bottles, oh and ordered about $800 worth of equipment so I can start legging, making starters, and pumping instead of lifting heavy ass kettles for my 10-gallon batches.

Speaking of those controllers,I wonder if I could use one to control a small room size a/c unit connected to a fermentation cabinet? I'm thinking of building one,& a small a/c unit seems to be the easiest way to get fermenter temp control in a cabinet sized to sit on top of my fermenter stand.

Build your own controller using the aquarium temp controller posted in the DIY forum. It is cheaper and gives you both heating and cooling, and it seems to last much longer than the Johnson units.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Bottled 5 gallons of saison and heating strike water for a rye saison right now.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Got a Quadrupel in to bottles where it'll sit for as long as it needs.

 

[winvarin]

Today, it's about what beer did for me. Did a LOT of work in the flower beds this afternoon. Now I am rewarding myself with a glass of my German pils as I look over all my hard work

 

[Gary22]

Well. I should start with what I did for beer yesterday. Yesterday I bought 6 cases of old labeled bottles from an older fella for pretty cheap. SWMBO needless to say got mad bc she had to sit in the truck for half hour while I listened to the guy talk after an hour ride (I didn't mind her frustration). Today we got an early start on de labeling 2 cases of the bottles/cleaning/sanitizing them. I then bottled a one gallon AHS Baby Blonde Ale(5.5% ABV) along with a Rebel Brewers 5 gallon Red Beaver Belgian Saison Style Ale (7.5% ABV). Thinking about mailing the old man I got the bottles from some of my brews (an English Brown Ale, the Blonde Ale, and the saison) to show my appreciation.

Overall, a very productive weekend.
Cheers