What I did for beer today

[Gear101]

To Ol Goliat Imperial Stout, To Ol Mine is Bigger, To Øl **** Art - Let's Dance, De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis, De Molen Hel & Verdi Barrel Aged, Evil Twin Aún Más Café Jesús, Evil Twin Even More Jesus, Evil Twin Femme Fatal Yuzu , Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven B.V. and Urthel Hop-It - De Leyerth Brouwerijen.

Had to drive an hour to get these.

 

[NTXBrauer]

Bottled a Christmas Ale just in time to allow for 4 weeks in the bottle before chilling to drink. This one should be good.

 

[Hello]

Not as much as I wanted to.
Was given a free fridge so had to transport it. Then found out GFCI outlets and fridges aren't good. I had to change out the GFCI for a standard outlet. I had to clean the crap out of the fridge. It was wiped down but the amount of gunk and dog hair inside was too much for me to ignore. Before all of this I had to build a table for my miter saw because the cabinet it was on won't let me store my lawn mower under it. I'm starting to be limited on space. I still have more garage organizing to do.

 

[Dave37]

Not as much as I wanted to.
Was given a free fridge so had to transport it. Then found out GFCI outlets and fridges aren't good. I had to change out the GFCI for a standard outlet. I had to clean the crap out of the fridge. It was wiped down but the amount of gunk and dog hair inside was too much for me to ignore. Before all of this I had to build a table for my miter saw because the cabinet it was on won't let me store my lawn mower under it. I'm starting to be limited on space. I still have more garage organizing to do.

Sounds like a pretty productive day to me.

 

[ianw58]

Then found out GFCI outlets and fridges aren't good. I had to change out the GFCI for a standard outlet.[\QUOTE]

Hmmm... I'd never heard that before. We have a freezer and a spare fridge in the garage and my fermentation chamber (fridge with SP2000 controller) all on GFCI outlets. We've never had any problems.

Googled the situation and found this...

http://www.esgroundingsolutions.com...hnical-reason-to-put-a-gfci-on-a-refrigerator

Just sayin'

 

[govner1]

Swapped 12 Beers of Christmas w/ brew buddies!

 

[Qhrumphf]

2/3 of the way through the boil of my first Dusseldorf Altbier. Off to a good start so far.

 

[BrotherGrim]

Transferred an English IPA to secondary for dry hopping with some Whitbread Golding. Stole a sample on the way and it was quite tasty!

 

[uatuba]

Finally got moved into the new house, which has a nice outbuilding that is perfect for brewing purposes. While my wife was gone, I moved all of my equipment in there and set it up how I like it. It will still be quite some time before I'm able to brew, but I'm that much closer at least.

 

[NTXBrauer]

I just put 5.5 Gals of Edwort's Haus Pale Ale in the fermentation chamber..and now enjoying a Belgian Blond home brew.

 

[Jnco_hippie]

Bottled a farmhouse graff to get access to my house yeast cake (WLP670 w/ additional cultures of brett brux & brett lambicus)



Then brewed an all grain saison indoors (brew stand blocked by snow and motorcycle)








And finally, drink one of our 100% brett beers!

All in all... a good day!

 

[NickTheGreat]

Kegged my two last batches yesterday. Had a gas post stick onto the keg when I was cleaning it out. Thought I had done the ol' gas post on liquid poppet trick, but that wasn't the case. It's almost like it knew I was trying to get done by 5:00 and it didn't be be a ***** about it

 

[slbradley01]

Checked the progress of the Rye Saison we brewed Sunday. Bubbling away nicely in the fermentation chamber at 80F Oo...oo that smell!!

 

[Dmlsys23]

Racking my 60 Minute clone to secondary. Been homebrewing for a year and it's my first secondary so it should be interesting.

 

[Hello]

Racking my 60 Minute clone to secondary. Been homebrewing for a year and it's my first secondary so it should be interesting.

In truth, I was oddly paranoid about my first racking to secondary and it went okay. In the end there were no infections and only a small amount of lost beer, so that was good.

Hopefully yours goes the same.

Me, I am trying to decide if I want to put my christmas ale into secondary or just bottle among all the trub/orange peel. Probably won't bother with secondary but I may cold crash so long as I can still bottle carb.

 

[bleme]

Probably won't bother with secondary but I may cold crash so long as I can still bottle carb.

I have only cold crashed my last 3 batches but I am sold. They have all carb'ed just fine, with barely any bottle sediment so I get an extra ounce from every pour. It also makes the trub in my fermentor so firm that siphoning to the bottling bucket is a breeze.

My method is a bit unconventional. My fermentor is in a rope tub full of water to stabilize fermentation temps. One or two days before I bottle, I take out some water and replace it with frozen water bottles and ice cubes. Then I wrap it up in sleeping bags until bottling time.

 

[Oceantendency]

Cleaned my keg that had my first run of T&C's Sweet Amber Ale, it's replacement of second batch of T&C's Sweet Amber Ale with minor enhancement tweaks has been cold crashing in the secondary and is ready to Keg/Bottle tonight, can't wait ! Might have to pop open a bottle of my Aigi Dubbley for QC purposes to aid the work tonight.

 

[unionrdr]

Just gotta box up some bottles I washed yesterday from the bottle tree. Gunna do a 2 week FG test on my robust porter tomorrow. Hope it turns out to be done on the 2nd test Friday so I can add the vanilla & bottle it for Christmas.

 

[winvarin]

Filled dad's 1.75 gal mini keg with an amber I had ready. Also filled a couple of growlers with Yooper's FYB and some more amber to take to mom and dad's for Thanksgiving. Also pulled a bottle of 3 year old Red Zin from one of my better attempts at winemaking for my family members who (gasp) don't drink beer.

 

[Yellowirenut]

Tossed some bottles in the fridge for thanksgiving.
My niece saw a local news piece on Craft Brewing. She FB me and asked if I would bring along my "craft Beer" to Thanksgiving. First I don't think of what I make along the lines of craft brew more like home brew. Second I am 50/50 of will they like it or be confused its not a real beer like Miller lite.
I plan on educating but not be a condescending ass. Just explain Miller and the like are fairly new recipes with corn compared to Stouts and the like that are 100's of years old.

What I am taking-
Honey Orange wheat
German Altbier
Andes Mint Stout

I am also cooking the bird tomorrow morning...my first ever.

Link to the video http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/nbc33/news/The-Growing-Popularity-of-Craft-Beer-231989331.html

 

[winvarin]

Tossed some bottles in the fridge for thanksgiving. My niece saw a local news piece on Craft Brewing. She FB me and asked if I would bring along my "craft Beer" to Thanksgiving. First I don't think of what I make along the lines of craft brew more like home brew. Second I am 50/50 of will they like it or be confused its not a real beer like Miller lite. I plan on educating but not be a condescending ass. Just explain Miller and the like are fairly new recipes with corn compared to Stouts and the like that are 100's of years old. What I am taking- Honey Orange wheat German Altbier Andes Mint Stout I am also cooking the bird tomorrow morning...my first ever. Link to the video http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/nbc33/news/The-Growing-Popularity-of-Craft-Beer-231989331.html

The honey wheat should go over well. I usually brew Yooper's fizzy yellow beer around this time of year to take to mom and dad's for Thanksgiving. I'm bringing a growler of that for my aunts and cousin (BMC drinkers) and a growler of amber for me, my dad and his Navy buddy in case he shows. I already sent dad home with a 5L mini keg of my best bitter a couple of weeks ago so it could settle out before we tapped it. Hope to break into that when I get there tonight.

 

[Bulls Beers]

Bought a new Spike brewing kettle. I can't wait to get it...

 

[The10mmKid]

Picked up my 2 bags of grain from the neighborhood HBS bulk buy.

1) GW 2-row, $36.50
1) Franco-Belges Pilsen, $57

'da Kid

 

[1fast636]

Pasteurized a case and a half of regular root beer for Christmas presents. Only lost 2 bottles out of the batch a leaky cap and one actually broke out the bottom no mess or shrapnel so it was all good

 

[midwestbiker]

Brewing 5 gal of Traveling Man's Pale Ale so it will be ready for Christmas. Have two other 5 gal batches (an IPA and a Brown Ale) in their second fermentation - one will be kegged this weekend and the second next weekend. This batch should be ready in 15 to 20 days. Guess I'll have to bottle or drink quick!

Happy Thanksgiving All.

 

[unionrdr]

I fridged a bunch of my Maori & Cougar Country IPA's a couple weeks ago for today. good carbonation & clear amber orange from subbing the 3.2ozs of chocolate malt for 1/2lb of Weyerman's melanoiden malt. Can't wait to see which goes better with herbed turkey & southern stuffing. Just got the giblets goin,sans liver for better flavor.

 

[ianw58]

I fridged a bunch of my Maori & Cougar Country IPA's a couple weeks ago...

Wow! Had to read that twice! LOL

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[nukebrewer]

Got all my grains crushed and hops weighed out for brewing tomorrow. Also, since I realized the only fermenter I have available was dirty as hell, I did a cursory cleaning with hot water and then put some Oxyclean and hot water in there and letting it sit until I'm ready to use it tomorrow.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Checked on my Alt in the swamp cooler. It's been holding at a perfect 58°, right where I want it, with no ice bottles needed.

 

[JonM]

A whole bunch of post-Thanksgiving brew stuff: Kegged my latest batch of Yooper's Hoppy American Amber, discovered I had a leaky poppet, so - drats - I had to drain the last three pints of my oatmeal stout so I could steal a poppet from that keg. Then cleaned and organized the brew closet which had gotten a little disorganized over the last two or three brewdays. All while watching a couple recorded episodes of Brew Dogs.