What I did for beer today

[NickTheGreat]

Something is terribly wrong with me. Instead of "picked these" I read "pickled these" and thought "hmmmmm... I think I might like pickled blueberries. Intrigued am I."

I read and then thought the same thing!

 

[unionrdr]

I cut,dug & weeded my ass off in the lamp post garden today. It was so damn humid that even though I had to sit (bad back & hips),I still got soaked with sweat. A mist hung in the air at one point as well. Cleaned up & gettin ready to shoot another Tgif Tasting video. This week I'll combine my regular vid with the tasting one...might keep it that way. Not sure yet. After that,goin for more beers & vodka. Startin to like gettin the gardens cleaned up for fall mulching. The cacti went nuts this year. It's miller time now! :rockin:

 

[RyRae]

So I've found out that if I buy brewing equipment gradually over time instead of all at once my SWMBO asks a lot less questions. That being said, I ran down to AIH today and picked up a 10b CO2 tank and should be pouring draft beer shortly.

 

[Bulls Beers]

Kegged an Oktoberfest today..Six weeks of lagering should be good...

 

[TNGabe]

Brewed my biggest beer to date, 1.100 OG quad with ECY02 Flemish blend slurry and t-58. Visible fermentation after less than 3 hrs, I hope there is some beer left after all the blow off. 9 hr brew day, grind to clean up. 24 lbs through a corona mill including 2.25 lbs wheat berries and 2.25 lb shell corn. Cereal mash and double decoction, 2.5 hr boil.

 

[jerryteague]

I dumped 10 gallons of infected beer (gag the dog infected) and planned a brew day tomorrow to replace said beer. I think I'm gonna just do 5 gallons of Saison, and call it a day. I'll do a rugby clone in a week, or so...

 

[Cheapo]

Drank it. Cornerstone ale, and apricot wheat ale. And picked up a few extract kits.

 

[Yellowirenut]

trying to reconfigure my brewing scheduled...

On call scheduled at work has been tossed out to add more people to the mix. Now no one is quite sure who is on call when. Good news is that instead of once every 4 weeks now I am only on call once every 6 weeks.

 

[tugbucket]

We tapped and poured our first two kegs. 5' lines at 39 degrees. Great pours. Having a party tomorrow and hopefully we wont 'float' both of them as we have no new beers ready to brew yet.

 

[user 103238]

Worked up a starter with Wyeast Bavarian Lager for tomorrow's Oktoberfest, built a new wooden brew stand, cleaned out the keg that I converted into a mash tun, hooked up lengths of hose to camlock fittings, connected camlock fittings to my Chugger pump, took the pump and hoses for a test run. Tomorrow's brew day is going to be interesting!

 

[cheesehed007]

I made my first starter at 5:30 this morning for my brew day tomorrow.

 

[andvari7]

There are five other smaller bottles you don't see - they're crown-cap bottles, and in a Rubbermaid bin.

 

[TNGabe]

Worked up a starter with Wyeast Bavarian Lager for tomorrow's Oktoberfest, built a new wooden brew stand, cleaned out the keg that I converted into a mash tun, hooked up lengths of hose to camlock fittings, connected camlock fittings to my Chugger pump, took the pump and hoses for a test run. Tomorrow's brew day is going to be interesting!

I've never made a lager. Do you make the starter at room temp or does it need to be kept at lager temps?

 

[user 103238]

I do the starter at room temperature. The reason being that I'm not worried about any off-flavors produced in the starter wort , since the primary purpose is for yeast reproduction. I then put the starter in my fermentation chamber, so the yeast will be at the temperature I intend to pitch, and decant off the liquid before pitching.

I was hoping to about do a double starter, but unfortunately my yeast arrived on Friday, and today is my only chance to brew in a week, so it will have to do!

I've never made a lager. Do you make the starter at room temp or does it need to be kept at lager temps?

 

[Cathedral]

Ordered a Blinchmann floor burner to go with my new pot, ordered ingredients for a SMaSH APA, about to order a temp controller! Im tired of making only average at best beers.

 

[unionrdr]

I got enough grains,plain light DME & hops for two more batches of my IPA's. The Maori one will have fresh hops this time. And my newest version,Cougar Country will have mosaic & simcoe in it,to name two hops used.
I also added more tags to all my Brewvision videos on my youtube channel (unionrdr there too). It's been a lot of work to figure out what heading to list my brewvision videos under,much less the tag lines people will think of searching for them. Really need more views to put this hobby on a payin basis without all the work & expense of going commercial.
I also got the idea of moving "homebrew wednesday" to "tgif tasting" on Friday. I figured,since Murray Saul made a darn good living with his weekend salute on WMMS FM,that I'd try something of the same thing here.
We gotta gotta gotta gotta gottagottagottagottagottagottagotta get down,damnit!

 

[Trippel-A]

Brewed my first all grain batch today. We'll, still boiling, actually. Kept losing temp in my new Rubbermaid 10 gallon MLT, and so ended up adding too much hot water for my boil kettle. It's really a turkey fryer, too small for these shenanigans, so I couldn't completely sparge and I've had some boil overs while working my way down to 5 gallons. Only 4 minutes of boil to go, though. My neighbor in our condo building thoughtfully brought out a work light and ran an extension cord out his window (which I'm brewing right under) so I can see to keep going.

Also, my 2 year old daughter helped me recirculate. Is that legal?

All in all, good brew day. :-D

I just hope I learn why I kept losing temp so I can avoid it next time.

 

[uatuba]

I bottled 5 gallons of my 10 gallon all grain Octoberfest With A 'C' Ale. The one that took four weeks to reach an acceptable final gravity using Wyeast 1007. I used a secondary and cold crashed, and I am very pleased with the clarity, color and the aroma. We will see how she tastes in three weeks.

The other 5 gallons will be kegged as soon as I can find someone to fill my damn CO2 bottle.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Brewed my first all grain batch today. We'll, still boiling, actually. Kept losing temp in my new Rubbermaid 10 gallon MLT, and so ended up adding too much hot water for my boil kettle. It's really a turkey fryer, too small for these shenanigans, so I couldn't completely sparge and I've had some boil overs while working my way down to 5 gallons. Only 4 minutes of boil to go, though. My neighbor in our condo building thoughtfully brought out a work light and ran an extension cord out his window (which I'm brewing right under) so I can see to keep going.

Also, my 2 year old daughter helped me recirculate. Is that legal?

All in all, good brew day. :-D

I just hope I learn why I kept losing temp so I can avoid it next time.

Is the lid or walls dead air space?? Mine was, I fiilled the void in the lid with a can of foam insulation, now I can hold mash temp within a degree for two hours!!!

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

I put some washed Oktoberfest yeast in a starter to get it ready to be used to bottle my Oktoberfest next week and I bottled a batch of Yoopers American cream ale. I usually ferment all my ales for 21 days, but after 14 days, no activity and it hit FG of 1.010 and had no off flavors, so, time to bottle!

 

[Yellowirenut]

Took my first pour of an Alt I brewed.
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Something is off

 

[mrphillips]

Switched my citra-hop-heavy APA into the secondary and added 1/2 oz of diced ginger root. One more week, and we'll see what we have!

 

[unionrdr]

Got some more newly emptied HB bottles to clean. Been spending the last two weeks on my youtube channel. Hard to get views without one of the cheating apps out there. Got a big box of grains,dme,& a new load of hops in the freezer,yeast in the fridge waiting for another cool spell to brew two more PM IPA's.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Brewed a Milk Stout and English IPA.

 

[TNGabe]

Worked on recipes for my next few beers. Cascade/Centennial saison, lamebic, and biere de garde.

 

[trapae]

Cleaned the keg and lines my dry irish stout was in. Dumped the trub in my new conical.

 

[uatuba]

Built a stir plate and stared at my empty CO2 bottle. But I did find a place to fill it, so I will get around to taking a vacation day to get it filled.

 

[stbnj]

Recovered from a beer centric bachelor party for my brother, way better than playing golf. Stopped by Philly Homebrew Outlet on our way home and that place was awesome. I picked up some bottles and some yeast but would love to go back and hand them more of my money as they offered me some Skeeter Pee which really took the edge off.

 

[Dutchbier]

Brewed a citra sessions ale and put IPA in the secondary. I got a Blichmann kettle yesterday; much nicer than my turkey fryer stock pot. Will be able to use the Blichmann down the road for AG.

 

[ballsy]

Replaced thawed bottles in swamp cooler with frozen ones to keep my Notty under control in the Ranger Creek Oatmeal APA I brewed yesterday. Staying at 60-62 ambient thus far. Keep it up for 5 days then move to 72 ambient.