What I did for beer today

[PandaBrau]

Still waiting on my honey ale to finish fermenting but enjoyed a Boulevard's Double Wide IPA and Unibrau's Terrible

 

[celticdevildog]

Bottled 5 gallons on English Nut Brown Ale today. Looking forward to trying this one out.

 

[Nightshade]

Brewed up 3bbl of Pumpkin Ale

 

[Leadgolem]

This stuff arrived. I mocked everything up, and realized I was missing a couple of things.

 

[Xtant]

Finishing up a brew day...

Our budget is gonna be razor thin for a bit. I had all the ingredients on hand. I'm a partial boil extract brewer, but over the past year I've been slowly piecing together an AG setup. Very slowly...

Anyway, I typically buy 6 gallons of spring water to brew with and 2 22lb bags of ice for an ice bath in the tub ( kitchen sink is too small). This usually runs $13.

Back to the razor thin budget...

I rigged up this setup out of parts I had on hand and boiled all of my water to sanitize it. Saved$13 on brew day...

 

[winvarin]

Racked my mead to secondary and added k-meta and potassium sorbate to stabilize. 1.096-1.000 in 3 weeks. Made with honey from a buddy's apiary. This may be the start of a whole new phase of our friendship.

 

[nukebrewer]

Brewed up a mint chocolate imperial stout today. Dropped off beer for two competitions yesterday.

 

[Dave37]

Brewed up a mint chocolate imperial stout today. Dropped off beer for two competitions yesterday.

Im sure your beers will do very well in competition. Which ones did you enter?

I also saw you decided to classify your stout as imperial. Nicee.

 

[nukebrewer]

Im sure your beers will do very well in competition. Which ones did you enter?

I also saw you decided to classify your stout as imperial. Nicee.

Thanks. I entered an oaked vanilla chocolate imperial stout, the rye ipa you tried, a barleywine and a single hop El Dorado IPA.

Yeah, got better efficiency than I was planning for which put it firmly in imperial territory. Going to clock in at about 8.2% depending on how far it attenuates.

 

[Trail]

I bought my 4th fermenter, recalced some recipes I've bought materials for with updated efficiency numbers from my last several batches, and (consequently) figured out how much additional malt I'll need to buy before I can brew my Scotch Strong Ale.

Also took a hydro sample of my saison, currently in primary for its 30th day.

 

[Hanso]

I think I've got a bottle hoarding problem.

So true. Don't we all...

 

[bleme]

Helped a friend brew 10 gallons of porter, then he helped me brew 5 gallons of brown. Had tri tip and potato salad in there somewhere.

 

[Leadgolem]

Bought a freezer to turn into a keezer.

 

[Dave37]

Bought a freezer to turn into a keezer.

Dopeness. That is all.

 

[Frige]

I brewed 10 gals of vienna lager yesterday. Turned out great right on the money.

 

[JonM]

Got more CO2 for the keg fridge and picked up ingredients for two batches I have planned for next weekend (Packers have a bye week, so I better take advantage of the free Sunday!) Doing a Scottish 70 shilling and a Belgian dubbel.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,with all my fermenters full,money gettin low,another batch in the BB will have to wait till the 1st. Bottles all clean & ready as is all my equipment. So I'll be sending a care package to a fellow member & call it a day.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Since I ended up being immensely lazy yesterday and did nothing but drink some beer and watch football, today I have to get my @ss moving! Need to bottle my pomegranate saison and clean some bottles!

 

[luke_d]

My wife filling bottles, and my father in law capping. Bring on the Imperial Stout!

 

[NickTheGreat]

Kegged my Amber. The FG sample tasted GOOD

 

[Shred]

Designed and ordered caps for my Russian Imperial Stout, named "Dolph".

 

[jperry]

Checked f.g. of last batch, 1.015, and I'm not happy about it... I thought I mashed low enough, and I used wlp007. Oh well, there goes the f.g. 1.010 streak.

 

[uatuba]

My wife filling bottles, and my father in law capping. Bring on the Imperial Stout!

No bottling wand?

 

[Xtant]

I scrubbed my keezer, and cleaned the lines. Thursday I brined a turkey in it and the bag leaked. Figured turkey brine should get cleaned out thoroughly ASAP... which was today.

Also cleaned and sanitized the four kegs that were in there...

 

[TNGabe]

My wife filling bottles, and my father in law capping. Bring on the Imperial Stout!

No bottling wand?

I was so impressed that he had other people bottling for him I didn't even notice!

 

[insanim8er]

Drove across town to pick up a couple of cans of Maui Brewing Company's coconut porter. It's been out of stock everywhere for a while.

 

[Trippel-A]

This was actually Saturday, but I was too tired to post by the end of the day. I brewed my second all-grain batch, with friends who were newer to the process than me. We avoided the temperature loss problems I had the first time in my mash tun, but seemed to have temperature problems in my hot liquor tank this time, instead. Weird, since we pre-heated both of them.

Also, when recirculating it took a very long time for the mash to run clear. Probably because we stirred right before adding the mashout water. Oops. I know we lost some mashout temp during that extended process, and also while waiting for more water to boil to add to my HLT. I think it probably came out okay, though. The gravity was pretty close to but just under target, so I suppose mashout was successful despite the delays.

I had no problems with too much water in the kettle, and resulting boil overs, this time. I think this was largely because I also used BeerSmith 2 this time, which I didn't do last time. I liked it, and I suppose I'll buy it.

 

[Trippel-A]

Finishing up a brew day...

Our budget is gonna be razor thin for a bit. I had all the ingredients on hand. I'm a partial boil extract brewer, but over the past year I've been slowly piecing together an AG setup. Very slowly...

Anyway, I typically buy 6 gallons of spring water to brew with and 2 22lb bags of ice for an ice bath in the tub ( kitchen sink is too small). This usually runs $13.

Back to the razor thin budget...

I rigged up this setup out of parts I had on hand and boiled all of my water to sanitize it. Saved$13 on brew day...

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That looks like a nice little counterflow wort chiller, so why do you need the ice bath?

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Bottled my pomegranate saison split. Got 21 375ml bottles filled, corked and caged - and had a glass left over to sample and enjoy!

 

[Xtant]

That looks like a nice little counterflow wort chiller, so why do you need the ice bath?

Yeah, it worked great, but it's been sitting around waiting for full boils.

I haven't picked up a burner, yet, so I can't use that nice keggle, either.

I'm doing my partial boils in that old canning pot sitting on the counter. It's too wide for an ice bath in the sink.

I'm hoping to pick up a burner, soon. Been trying to hold off for a Blichmann, but might go the other route and pick up something cheap, for now. Looking to pick up one of those Dark Stars, maybe.