What I did for beer today

[celticdevildog]

I bought my next beer kit. An Oatmeal stout that some friends have been asking for. I have not been a stout fan in the past from the beers that I've tried, but I'm up for having my mind changed by a brew any day.

 

[unionrdr]

I put 7 of my Cougar Country IPA's in the fridge a couple hours ago for next weekend. Got some new bottles to rinse out,probably in the morning,since I have to sample how well the oak/bourbon is doing in my stout. One week tomorrow.

 

[finsfan]

Dumped a few bottles of different brews that have become infected in the bottle. Not sure what the hell is going on but will be re-configuring my bottling days and over sanitizing from now on. Just glad these werent amazing beers. Still learning but this was a tough mistake

 

[unionrdr]

Fer sher,man. I feel that way about my latest batch of Maori IPA. All the grains,hops,etc for to different IPA's at once wasn't cheap. Still look good carbing/conditioning across from me. Still have hopes it won't be a dumper. We''l know in a couple weeks.
I started washing the "new" bottles a lil bit ago. I'm going to sample the Whiskely stout later with a hydrometer test too. I was gunna do it with the last one,but forgot. I'm curious as to any change in FG,just for the sake of knowledge.

 

[Dave37]

Took my 2nd gravity reading of my RIS. 1.028. I dont want her to drop any more than a couple points from here. Go to sleep Yeast! 1.024-1.028 would be perfect.

With only 1 lb of roasted barley in my 23 lb grist ~4%, it is still shining through a little too much for me at this point. Was hoping for it to play more of a background role. If she dries out any more i can only imagine the roasted character being more apparent.

 

[prohl84]

Took my 2nd gravity reading of my RIS. 1.028. I dont want her to drop any more than a couple points from here. Go to sleep Yeast! 1.024-1.028 would be perfect.

With only 1 lb of roasted barley in my 23 lb grist ~4%, it is still shining through a little too much for me at this point. Was hoping for it to play more of a background role. If she dries out any more i can only imagine the roasted character being more apparent.

My Impy Stout stopped @ 1.011 US-05 is a beast. It was supposed to quit 20-26. Only a pound for background role? I used 1/4 lb. in mine also for background and it's in there nicely- 3 weeks in bottle so far.

I think I will see if they're coming along, I know it's still early, but it's in the name of beer.

 

[jperry]

Very long day today, Double Ipa all-grain brew day, not quite the brew day from hell, but certainly not heavenly either. Lessons were learned, like my tap water is just too warm to chill rapidly. I had to go buy ice, in the middle of chilling my wort. Oh well, I'm going to rack to the carboy soon, and forget about it in the ferm chamber for awhile. Gotta love the STC-1000.

 

[Shred]

Cleaned bottles... I hate cleaning bottles.

 

[unionrdr]

Started sanitizing things to rack my oak aged stout to the bottling bucket & forgot the priming solution. Waitin for the water to boil now. Had forgotten to pay a bill yesterday while out voting,& had to put it off today to get my stout bottled after a week on oaked bourbon. Bills tomorrow.
**Fijnished bottling @ 3:17pm,got 54.5 bottles Dang 3/8" tubing from the lhbs is a bit oversize compared to home depot's. Dang thing sucked air & had to be pumped manually the whole time. Got less than an inch of course foam. Hope it'll be ok,'cause the whole thing mash to bottles went pretty well.

 

[tommyguner03]

cleaned bottles and bottled 5 gallons of oatmeal stout.. still have 5 gallons to bottle of the oatmeal stout

 

[unionrdr]

Bottled my Whiskely stout yesterday,54.5 bottles from 5 gallons. gotta clean it all up today. Got done late & was too tired last night...

 

[finsfan]

cleaned bottles and bottled 5 gallons of oatmeal stout.. still have 5 gallons to bottle of the oatmeal stout

I dont think having 10 gallons of oatmeal stout is anything to frown about!

 

[cheezydemon3]

PULLED THE TRIGGER ON 3 NEW CORNIES, TAPS, ETC. and TRIPLED MY CO2 CAPACITY!!!!:rockin:

This will up my capacity to 30 gallons on tap (6 kegs) and 15lbs Co2!!!!(a 10 and a 5)


SORRY TO YELL!!!

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Excited much?

 

[finsfan]

You're hurting my ears cheezy!

 

[cheezydemon3]

So sorry fellas! Once in a lifetime "double my gear" kind of event!!


Yes, MUCH excited.....

 

[NickTheGreat]

Good for you! Get a good deal on kegs or just decided to spend the $$$?

I'd like to be one of these guys that finds a garage full of cornies for $5 a pop. Things like that never happen to me

 

[unionrdr]

Well,got half the mes from bottling day cleaned up before running errands. Just got the BB & bottling bucket left to do.

 

[prohl84]

Marked volume graduations on my 7.9 gal Speidel tank only to find that it isn't 7.9 gallons- it's like 8.5!!! Triple checked to be sure. 7.9 Imperial gallons is 9.5 gallons so I'm sort of scratching my head on this one. Also the ale pail bottling bucket graduations are incorrect (low)- 5 gal is at the skirt.

 

[prohl84]

Also got some distilled water. Time to calibrate hydrometer.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Good for you! Get a good deal on kegs or just decided to spend the $$$?

I'd like to be one of these guys that finds a garage full of cornies for $5 a pop. Things like that never happen to me

www.kegconnection.com

I checked craigslist, but nothing looked good.
$367 for 3 cornies, 10 lb Co2, all the hoses and taps, dual regulator and splitter, rings and lube.

I am happy to pony up.

 

[bleme]

I'd like to be one of these guys that finds a garage full of cornies for $5 a pop. Things like that never happen to me

+1
I have had 2 people learn that I was a brewer and volunteer a load of great equipment.

The first decided to check with her sons first to see if they wanted it.

The other I haven't heard from in the 8 months since.

 

[NickTheGreat]

www.kegconnection.com

I checked craigslist, but nothing looked good.
$367 for 3 cornies, 10 lb Co2, all the hoses and taps, dual regulator and splitter, rings and lube.

I am happy to pony up.

Ok, thanks. I've gotten 3 kegs off Craigslist for about $40 a piece. My LHBS sells for $60 I think.

 

[BorealBrewer]

I just bottled my Improved Scots Ale. Boiled on an open fire, not smoky at all - experimental batch, so only a 2-4's worth...but am I ever anticipating tasting it in a few weeks!

 

[unionrdr]

Scraped,split & chopped two GE Market District vanilla beans into it's jar with 1.5" of cheap vodka. Swirling it occasionaly to dissolve the pasty center of the beans I scraped out. Going into a robust porter when I git-r-done fermenting. Gunna brew it tomorrow.

 

[celticdevildog]

Cleaned a few bottles and created a yeast starter for tomorrow. I also finished compiling a list of beers that I need to try based on a few "Top X number of craft brews to try". So far I have 153 beers to try and find and drink. That should take me a while to complete.

 

[Nightshade]

Kegging up a Pale Ale and an Amber to take to a wine show then standing around schmoozing and serving beer to wine snobs.

I am not looking forward to this event, does it show?

 

[dyqik]

Making a California common. It's nit going so well...

Forgot to buy the half pound of victory make in the recipe, so it's not going to be as designed.

Missed my mash temps by 6 degrees, so had to add an extra half gallon of near boiling water.

Missed mash out temps, so ended up 7 point light on the pre boil gravity ( after adjusting the recipe for the lack of victory malt).

But I had plenty if sugars left in the mash tun, so I kept sparging and managed to collect enough gravity points with out running below 1.010. I'm now doing a vigorous 8 gallon boil in an 8 gallon pot, which hasn't boiled over yet!

Of course, I now expect to run out of propane before the boil is up, and end up flame out steeping the flavor and aroma hops...

 

[unionrdr]

Kegging up a Pale Ale and an Amber to take to a wine show then standing around schmoozing and serving beer to wine snobs.

I am not looking forward to this event, does it show?

Hey it's been proven that wine snobs can be converted! Just check out the video from the black guy at Brooklyn brewery. He does it all the time. chin up lad! I got the local spring water I need to brew my robust porter tomorrow,& got the vanilla beans scraped & choped & into their jar with some vodka to dissolve the pasty part.

 

[MarcusKillion]

What did I do for beer today ? Well i saw an old beer trying to cross the road so I helped it on across ..... and then into the alley where I pulled off it's head and slurped down it's guts .