What I did for beer today

[BulldawgBrew]

Racked my hefe over to the keg.

 

[FermentNEthinG]

Just wrapped up a decoction mash on my Oktoberfest. Into the boil kettle now we go!

Wrapped my Saison I brewed yesterday and started to raise the fermenter temps.

 

[Dave37]

Just wrapped up a decoction mash on my Oktoberfest. Into the boil kettle now we go!

Wrapped my Saison I brewed yesterday and started to raise the fermenter temps.

Nicee. Looking forward to getting those in the next trade

How high are you going with the heat?

 

[FermentNEthinG]

Nicee. Looking forward to getting those in the next trade

How high are you going with the heat?

Definitely will send some your way Dave!

This is a 3711 so prolly go into the low 80's and call it good.

My other saison, It is at about 93 right now. Knocking out the last few gravity points of this pesky Wyeast 3724.

 

[tripplehazzard]

Brewed 5 gallons if hefeweizen. Half if it im going to rack off and put on blueberrys

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[finsfan]

Brewed 5 gallons if hefeweizen. Half if it im going to rack off and put on blueberrys

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This answer my previous question

 

[Zepth]

More like what did I do for MasterCard today...
Decided all grain / BIAB is the way of the future. 165 lbs of malt and a crusher. Need I say more?

 

[Dave37]

Hmmm pilsner, 2 row, anddd... A crystal malt of some kind? Hows my aim?

 

[SupervisingChildren]

$300 or so for it all I'd guess?

 

[nukebrewer]

Bottled my coffee black IPA, Darkest Before Dawn, which will be judged at Homebrew Alley in a couple weeks.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Finally kicked the keg of fruit salad blonde, cleaned the beer lines, tapped some apfelwein, and threw 52 stubby bottles and a few bombers into oxyclean to be delabeled.

 

[Zepth]

Hmmm pilsner, 2 row, anddd... A crystal malt of some kind? Hows my aim?

Not so great to be honest. 2 row, vienna - after hearing many good things about using it as a base/sole grain, and wheat. I can't keep my brew room cooled optimally during the summer months so I have a feeling that certain wits, hefes, and saisons will be the summer batches. Since I'm trying all kinds of styles all over the map, I didn't want to commit to a whole sack of specialty quite yet, I'll get them in the individual batch sizes for now. And I do have limited space after all.
Edit: Thinking I might add a dash of wheat to most beers, and clarify as best as possible. I can never seem to get a head to last more than 30 seconds. It'll come with time.
/Edit
I am aware of single room AC units, swamp coolers, wet t-shirt carboys, large buckets of ice water, problem is it just doesn't work for me. Work often has me away from home for a couple days, meaning the "wet" solutions will either stop working or cause unchecked condensation issues, and anything that requires cooling is going to both increase power consumption and make my AC need to work that much harder. Perhaps next year.

$300 or so for it all I'd guess?

Not too far off. $327 CAD and that included the filter bag. If adjusted for exchange rate you'd be bang on. Damn our exchange rate took a good slapping the past month.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

Rebuilt my 4 newest kegs. Always a blast and a half... homemade pbw, hot caustic, hard scrubbing, and the smell of new rubber. Kind of sounds like my honeymoon actually.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled my Dusseldorf Alt. Racked its bigger brothers, Sticke and Doppelsticke to secondary for "lagering" for a month or two (the Alts are at 5% ABV, 6.5% ABV, and 8.5% ABV respectively). Put my Maris Otter/Willamette SMaSH up on the counter to bottle tomorrow night.

 

[Dave37]

Not so great to be honest. 2 row, vienna - after hearing many good things about using it as a base/sole grain, and wheat. I can't keep my brew room cooled optimally during the summer months so I have a feeling that certain wits, hefes, and saisons will be the summer batches. Since I'm trying all kinds of styles all over the map, I didn't want to commit to a whole sack of specialty quite yet, I'll get them in the individual batch sizes for now. And I do have limited space after all.
Edit: Thinking I might add a dash of wheat to most beers, and clarify as best as possible. I can never seem to get a head to last more than 30 seconds. It'll come with time.
/Edit
I am aware of single room AC units, swamp coolers, wet t-shirt carboys, large buckets of ice water, problem is it just doesn't work for me. Work often has me away from home for a couple days, meaning the "wet" solutions will either stop working or cause unchecked condensation issues, and anything that requires cooling is going to both increase power consumption and make my AC need to work that much harder. Perhaps next year.


Not too far off. $327 CAD and that included the filter bag. If adjusted for exchange rate you'd be bang on. Damn our exchange rate took a good slapping the past month.

At least one of us has good aim! Haha 1/3 ain't too bad.

 

[tjmac5071]

Bought a 10 gallon water cooler from amazon, false bottom from eBay and bulkheads/ valves for that and my 5 gallon water cooler

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[The542]

Worked on getting the roll cart put together. Still have a lot to go, but trying to get this together with a broken dominant hand...

 

[max384]

I put a bunch of stickers on my newly build kegerator

And I built and installed a $10 homemade drip pan

From the angle of the picture, it looks like it's not under the taps, but everything is lined up correctly.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled my Maris Otter/Willamette SMaSH. Made a small starter (as in 1 liter, explicitly doing a simple starter without the stir plate, not even shaking it) to build up the pitch rate just a touch for tomorrow's Roggenbier. I'm aiming for a controlled underpitch, but I sat on the smack pack of 3068 a little too long.

Then pulled a couple beers out of the "cellar" for my birthday, Westy 12 and The Bruery Tart of Darkness.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Did some house cleaning, then went to the HBS and picked up what ingredients I need for a 10 G clone of buffalo sweat. Gotta get my starter going now, so I can brew tomorrow while hung over.

 

[campbelldm1]

Prep bottles for the ris I am bottling tomorrow

 

[jperry]

Today, I kegged my latest batch, 5 gal of Hoppy Dank Amber. Then Dry hopped in the keg, with NZ Motueka, NZ Nelson Sauvin, and Simcoe. I also saved some of the yeast(WLP090), for my upcoming batch.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Gradually working my way through a triple decoction mash for a Roggenbier. I'll be wrapping up an 8 hour brew day in the wee hours of the morning when it's all said and done.

 

[Trippel-A]

Finished cleaning and putting away (most) gear from the last brew day. Amazed by PBW. It was the first time I used it, and given time it just peeled off the burnt bits on the bottom of the kettle. I think I'll use it to clean the stovetop, too!

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[campbelldm1]

Bottled my 3 gal batch of ris. This is going to be a good one.

 

[geek_chaser]

Bottled from the primary. Kids awake and causing havoc, husband at work, so all on my own. Liberating knowing I can do it. Shame I don't make money for all the work I do. Oh well. I get paid in kiddie hugs and beer. best pay ever.

Don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweaty things.

 

[kharper6]

Patiently waiting and counting hours until tomorrow night when I can start cold conditioning my double jack clone. Can't wait to see this beer clear, there was so much hop and yeast in it when i took the gravity that it looked like swamp water.

 

[JonM]

Kegged my first ever lager and popped the keg into the fridge. I'll try my best to forget about it for 4-6 weeks.

 

[TopherJohn]

Cold crashing a Black IPA, made room in the basement for equipment, checked gravity on a messed up Fat Tire clone. Hoping for another couple points, but the yeast had to sit for a week at 50° while I was out of town.

The mess up was a bad calculation of boil to batch volume OG was just under .03 and it' snow down to .01. Still has flavor, and my wife liked the gravity sample she tasted. In honor of the low ABV I'm calling this near beer "Thin Tire."

 

[Hello]

In the middle of bottling two batches of beer. Best thing was I had 9 bombers so the first batch went by pretty fast. Then I have to clean more bottles and growlers that were dropped off in a bag. I appreciate my neighbor for doing that, but the bottles are visibly crusty and they all smell terrible. I didn't want to reject them and the growlers will come in handy if I start kegging, but I'm not looking forward to cleaning them.