What I did for beer today

[Leadgolem]

Attempted to read some more on making rice wine. Failed. I've been drinking for three hours and can't concentrate anymore.

 

[jdboes]

Built a counter flow wort chiller. Tried for 50' because I found 1/2 copper tubing on a great sale. I couldn't get all the tube inside the hose it kept binding up even with tons of soap in the hose. So I settled with a little over 26'. I can't wait to try it out.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Drank some Weihenstephan Hefe at a Biergarten, and bottled my English Barleywine with Brett C.

 

[bleme]

Bottled my Moose Drool 'clone' tonight.

I missed my OG by quite a bit so 10 days ago I added 10 oz of brown sugar to get it back in the ball park. As long as I was adding, I couldn't help myself and added a glug of maple syrup.

Cold crashed it Friday. It's the hardest yeast cake I have ever seen - almost like peanut butter! There was no way any of that was going to siphon into the bottling bucket!

Busted the neck off one bottle as I was capping. Curse you Anchor Brewing and your weak-necked bottles! ;-)

 

[JamesHoffman]

Brewed a pumpkin porter of my own design today, and yesterday I bottled my NB Dead Ringer IPA. 'twas a good weekend.

 

[unionrdr]

Bottled my Maori IPA yesterday,racking out from under the lacto sinse it smelled/tasted ok. Got 47 bottles out of it. gotta finish cleaning up today & soaking the bottling bucket after having cleaned it. Wanna be sure the lacto is gone. I figured soaking out the bottling bucket after having cleaned it would do. The beer wasn't in there that long. but the fermenter,racking tube & tube from the bottling wand along with the hop bag are goin south.

 

[govner1]

Cleaned my recently emptied keg of Dunkelweiss and tapped my Whitbread Flowers Ale - tasty!

 

[LoloMT7]

Built a counter flow wort chiller. Tried for 50' because I found 1/2 copper tubing on a great sale. I couldn't get all the tube inside the hose it kept binding up even with tons of soap in the hose. So I settled with a little over 26'. I can't wait to try it out. View attachment 155295


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That is a thing of beauty my friend Nice work Jeff!!

 

[uatuba]

Bottled my Maori IPA yesterday,racking out from under the lacto sinse it smelled/tasted ok. Got 47 bottles out of it. gotta finish cleaning up today & soaking the bottling bucket after having cleaned it. Wanna be sure the lacto is gone. I figured soaking out the bottling bucket after having cleaned it would do. The beer wasn't in there that long. but the fermenter,racking tube & tube from the bottling wand along with the hop bag are goin south.

I don't think this is necessary. Soak it in 1.5x strength StarSan for 1 week, then put it in direct sunlight for a day.

"She gone"

 

[TNGabe]

Got some bugs and critters in my biere de noel, might be ready for xmas 2014. Got brett going on the stirplates and fed my lacto. Collected the first ton or so of wood I've been cutting to keep the electric company from taking all my beer money this winter.

 

[Leadgolem]

Got shipping confirmation on the parts I need to tweak my keezer so I can actually use it. Stole some of TNGabe's wood.

 

[nukebrewer]

All I did was open up the fermenter for my Gandhi-bot clone to give it a whiff and see if it's ready for the dry hops. It smells insanely good, but I think it needs a couple more days before I take a gravity sample and add the dry hops.

 

[TNGabe]

Got shipping confirmation on the parts I need to tweak my keezer so I can actually use it. Stole some of TNGabe's wood.

You'd be picking birdshot out of your backside if that was true.

 

[Leadgolem]

You'd be picking birdshot out of your backside if that was true.

Is that what that was? I was starting to think you had loaded with rock salt this year.

 

[ChefRex]

Just finished kegging a milk stout.

 

[nukebrewer]

Picked up the rest of the parts I needed for building my heat sticks. Got the cord attached to the elements tonight and will probably be finishing up the build tomorrow or Thursday night. Can't wait to brew with these.

 

[BrewYoke]

Finally dry hopped my Pliny clone tonight.

 

[govner1]

Racked my Doug's Dunkel & PumKing to kegs for conditioning.

 

[unionrdr]

Cecked the temp on my stout,which is down to 19C or 66.4F. Put away somemore stuff to tidy up a bit more.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Cleaned and delabeled lots and lots of bottles.

 

[nukebrewer]

Added the dry hops to my Gandhi-bot clone and bottled BM's OctoberFAST that I brewed for my buddy's housewarming party.

 

[campbelldm1]

Kicked my first hb keg! Luckily I have some brews waiting in secondary

 

[finsfan]

moved a red ale to cold crash, cleaned the drinking bar/mancave, and delabeled too many bottles

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Did my part to keep several breweries in business.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Got two entries together for my first comp . Entering a Schwarzbier and a wee heavy

 

[smccarter]

Opened a few, poured a few, put a few in the refrigerator... drank a few.

A good beer day I must say...

 

[1fast636]

Brewed up the first part of a 2gal batch of hard root beer thanks nizzle for the recipe, pitched the yeast and a nice fermentation going on now, also started a harvest of some heady yeast not sure which yeast but figured it doesn't hurt to have some good yeast around

 

[unionrdr]

2 week FG test on my PM Traditional Stout. Down to 1.012 from 1.050 2 weeks ago today. So by Cooper's formula that's 5.59% so far. Smooth dark flavor,but a little watery yet. Roastiness is starting to come through. Nice lil buzz from hydrometer sample. Also checked bottles of my Maori IPA that had the lacto infection I racked out from under. Clear as a bell with nothing floating on the surface of the beer in the bottles so far @ 6 days in.

 

[signpost]

Sniffed an airlock.

 

[Oceantendency]

Yesterday I did some more work on my 2 brew paddles, coming along nicely now that my dremmel got fixed, did some engraving as well. Last night made a starter for some captured Ovila yeast trying to grow for a healthy batch size for an upcoming brew.