What I did for beer today

[smccarter]

Bottled 10 gallons. Surly Cynic Clone, and a German Alt. Both NB all grain kits.

Tasted both... very nice indeed. Should be a couple of nice beers.

Popped the cap off of a couple of ESBs, poured them into a glass (each individually), and raised the glass to my mouth.

That's what I did for beer today.

 

[jerryteague]

I worked, then drank, then drank some more. I was hoping to brew today, but no such luck. Maybe this weekend...

 

[Swarley88]

I am drunk currently. Have to work in am. Dont give a damn.

 

[trapae]

Hooked up the CO2 to my new conical and cranked the temperature down to cold crash my first brew in my new conical. Exciting.

 

[smccarter]

realized that bottling beer has become my demise. I hate it.

Bottled 10 gallons last night. Start to finish about 1.5 hours. Still not the most enjoyable chore, but the new bottling bucket has made a big difference.

I bought a bucket with a spiggot. Bought a 2nd spiggot, 2 3' lengths of tubing, and 2 bottling canes. Drilled a 2nd hole in the bucket and added the 2nd spiggot. Attached tubing and canes. Bottled 2 at a time instead of one.

Very simple fix, easy to work with as well. Just start one to the half point, start the second. Watch the first until full, move to another bottle, watch the 2nd until full, move to another bottle, watch the 3rd... etc...

 

[Xtant]

Bottled 10 gallons last night. Start to finish about 1.5 hours. Still not the most enjoyable chore, but the new bottling bucket has made a big difference.

I bought a bucket with a spiggot. Bought a 2nd spiggot, 2 3' lengths of tubing, and 2 bottling canes. Drilled a 2nd hole in the bucket and added the 2nd spiggot. Attached tubing and canes. Bottled 2 at a time instead of one.

Very simple fix, easy to work with as well. Just start one to the half point, start the second. Watch the first until full, move to another bottle, watch the 2nd until full, move to another bottle, watch the 3rd... etc...

So glad I spent some of my deployment money on kegging equipment years ago and have never had to bottle anything. Bottling does not sound fun at all...

My bottling experience is limited to six bombers of Apfelwein straight from secondary using my autosyphon as I was transferring to a keg...

 

[bleme]

So glad I spent some of my deployment money on kegging equipment years ago and have never had to bottle anything. Bottling does not sound fun at all...

My bottling experience is limited to six bombers of Apfelwein straight from secondary using my autosyphon as I was transferring to a keg...

I would probably brew twice as much if it weren't for bottling.

On the other hand, I can't drink as much as I make now....

 

[celticdevildog]

I'm working out the plans on when the next brew day is. Got it narrowed down to a few based on when the in-laws are leaving (which is currently a moving target :smack.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Hit the LHBS, grabbing stuff not for beer, but for wine, mead, and cider. Gonna hit the grocery store later and grab the rest.

 

[Cheapo]

Confirmed a brewing partner which will save my back

 

[JonM]

Nearly made a big boo-boo. I kegged my Golden Promise/Centennial lawnmower beer. At least that's what I thought I did. I really kegged my Simcoe/Citra/Centennial IPA. Which means I almost dry-hopped the lawnmower beer with a huge dose of hops.

Turns out to be no big deal - I'll just dry hop the IPA in the keg, but I think I'll resume labeling my fermenters from now on.

EDIT: Oh, and my LHBS got a new shipment of cornies, so I grabbed one and it's in REALLY good shape - looks practically brand new.

 

[Oceantendency]

Kegged my Raspberry Wheat this morning smells strong but also tastes a bit tart from all the Raspberries I used, hoping the priming sugar and a week under pressure evens it out more, still not bad for my first all grain batch.

 

[beerclone]

Nice. I am sampling my raspberry wheat tonite! Been in bottles 2 weeks but I just can't hold off any longer.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Fixin to go get some grains and brew tomorrow and/or Sunday. Gonna be a beer weekend for this guy!

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Bottled half of my saison and racked the rest onto five pounds of pomegranate. Then this afternoon I packed up a 33 pound crate and shipped it off for a trade. Created and printed the labels for the freshly bottled saison (and if I get to feeling really energetic, I'll put them on the bottles!)


Only thing I still need to do is finalize the recipe for my American Barleywine. Going to visit my good friend next weekend and am going to surprise him by bringing all my brewing equipment so we can do an all grain brew (he's only done Brew Kettle and partial grain extract brews at home.)

 

[TNGabe]

Only thing I still need to do is finalize the recipe for my American Barleywine. Going to visit my good friend next weekend and am going to surprise him by bringing all my brewing equipment so we can do an all grain brew (he's only done Brew Kettle and partial grain extract brews at home.)

Sounds like fun until you realize you have to pack everything up twice! I'll do it for my club's get together for Big Brew Day, but never seem to find the motivation otherwise.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Sounds like fun until you realize you have to pack everything up twice! I'll do it for my club's get together for Big Brew Day, but never seem to find the motivation otherwise.

Well when I brewed the saison he kept peppering me with questions on all grain brewing so it's a good chance for me to pay it forward and get some beer karma
Plus he gave me a case of Hopin' Frog beer over vacation so I also owe him!

 

[TNGabe]

Brewed a batch of BdG that I'm pretty excited about. Angered my back lifting it onto the table I use to get a good siphon. Dumb move, really need a pump. Got my upright freezer I use for temp control cleaned up the rest of the way and the quad moved out of there. Need to get a 5G BB tomorrow to transfer quad over to and it's still going to be short becuase I lost so much blow off. Might pick up an 8 gallon bucket for big beers while I'm there.

 

[BGBC]

Racked my saison off the blueberries and rhubarb it's been sitting on. Color is great, nice tart flavor. Didn't have time to bottle - maybe this afternoon or tomorrow.

First fruit beer, breathed a sigh of newb relief when I popped the top and it wasn't covered in mold.

 

[TNGabe]

Racked my saison off the blueberries and rhubarb it's been sitting on. Color is great, nice tart flavor. Didn't have time to bottle - maybe this afternoon or tomorrow.

First fruit beer, breathed a sigh of newb relief when I popped the top and it wasn't covered in mold.

How much of each did you use? I can see rhubarb overwhelming blueberry pretty easily.

 

[user 103238]

Yesterday I brewed up Jamil's West Coast Blaster, the second brew using my new setup. The Barley Crusher tore through the 15 pounds of grain, and I added the grist to the water, let it settle for a few minutes before slowly setting the grain-bed (i.e. no stuck mash/sparge!). Still working out some kinks on volume, so I ended up being slightly lower gravity than expected, but quite a bit more volume than I expected. I couldn't let myself toss out that sweet, sweet wort, so I put 5.5 gallons in the fermentation freezer with a recycled pitch of S05, and additional 2 gallons with a packet of Nottingham.

 

[BGBC]

How much of each did you use? I can see rhubarb overwhelming blueberry pretty easily.

About 2/3 lb rhubarb and 2 lb blueberries in ~1.5 gal of beer. The rhubarb will probably be the dominant flavor, but I think I'm ok with that, big fan of rhubarb. I figured the blueberries would give more color than flavor.

Thoughts from your experience?

 

[winvarin]

Yesterday I brewed up Jamil's West Coast Blaster, the second brew using my new setup. The Barley Crusher tore through the 15 pounds of grain, and I added the grist to the water, let it settle for a few minutes before slowly setting the grain-bed (i.e. no stuck mash/sparge!). Still working out some kinks on volume, so I ended up being slightly lower gravity than expected, but quite a bit more volume than I expected. I couldn't let myself toss out that sweet, sweet wort, so I put 5.5 gallons in the fermentation freezer with a recycled pitch of S05, and additional 2 gallons with a packet of Nottingham.

Have you brewed this one before? Dad and I are looking for something close to Green Flash Hop Head Red. I hear this recipe is in the same neighborhood as Bear Republic Red Rocket. I have this recipe bookmarked as next up once I free up space in my ferm fridge next weekend.

 

[user 103238]

Awesome - looks and sounds delicious! I've got some rhubarb sitting in the freezer for an upcoming blonde ale that I'm going to rack onto cranberries and rhubarb in the next month or so.

Racked my saison off the blueberries and rhubarb it's been sitting on. Color is great, nice tart flavor. Didn't have time to bottle - maybe this afternoon or tomorrow.

First fruit beer, breathed a sigh of newb relief when I popped the top and it wasn't covered in mold.

 

[user 103238]

I brewed it once last summer, however I experimented with some first wort hops and added additional bittering hops, so while good, it was a hop bomb. I am looking forward to seeing how the significantly more tamed version comes out! Unfortunately I haven't had either of the beers you mentioned, so I can't make a comparison for you. Either way, I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

Have you brewed this one before? Dad and I are looking for something close to Green Flash Hop Head Red. I hear this recipe is in the same neighborhood as Bear Republic Red Rocket. I have this recipe bookmarked as next up once I free up space in my ferm fridge next weekend.

 

[free2scour]

Racked a batch of Centennial Blonde to the Secondary....

 

[user 103238]

Ordered a pound of Galaxy hops and a few other miscellaneous 2 oz bag for future brews. Did some preliminary testing on my RIMS panel. Looks like all of the components are talking and working as intended. Just need to install a couple of fuses, and get everything packaged neatly in the box.

 

[ong]

Made an all-grain Chinook IPA outside while boiling an extract Amarillo Cream inside, cleaned two kegs and lines, kegged my Ahtanum Amber, racked blackberry wine off the lees. Now to start cleaning up the house.... oy.

 

[Yellowirenut]

Bought water for Fridays brewday.

Meijer spring water - Michigan well water taste a whole lot better then my local municipal water.

 

[Trippel-A]

Bottled half of my saison and racked the rest onto five pounds of pomegranate.

Five pounds of pomegranate! Did you spend a fortune on that or peel all those pomegranates yourself?