What I did for beer today

[unionrdr]

Got some beer & vodka for the weekend while I was out. boxed up a load of bottle caps I collected up for a trade with a member on beer forum. Boxed some more bottles I rinsed out.

 

[finsfan]

Racked a black ipa to secondary onto 3 oz of simcoe

 

[stbnj]

Checked in on my oat saison, added dry hops to an all Centennial session ale, and dry hops to an all Simcoe Black IPA based on the Alchemists El Jefe. I also started weighing out grains and adding oak cubes to mason jars of wine for my sour pipeline that I am starting on next week.

 

[user 103238]

Brewed up a 5-gallon batch of IPA, kegged my Annibrewsary, and dried out some of the spent grain from the day's brew session.


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[tripplehazzard]

Swmbo picked up a stir bar and a 200 flask fir me!! Also got me my first wine kit. major brownie points!!

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[brewbama]

Cleaned the brew kettle real well in anticipation of my upcoming brew day this weekend. Get the starter going tomorrow.


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[uatuba]

I upped the temperature on my Belgian Quad to 78...doing so required reverting to the 100w bulb since the reptile heater just wasn't cutting it. Cleaned my brewpot, mash tun, mash paddle, a fermenting bucket, bottling bucket, wort chiller, and the like. Squeezed on my PET test bottle to see if my first IPA is carbing after bottling a week ago. Daue to a scheduling crunch* and the need for the fermenter, I had to add gelatin in the bottling bucket after racking the beer to try and clear it up some. I was worried that it wouldn't carb as fast or at all since I added gelatin and priming sugar at the same time. It's actually only a week in and the bottle is very firm.

*I had crushed grains for a big beer that I needed to use, and my other fermentation buckets are 6 gallon rather than 7...I prefer fermenting all in one vat rather than losing yeast via blowoff, and it requires a bigger bucket to do that. Hence the scheduling crunch. I've actually brewed three batches in the last month...which is a record for me.


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[bleme]

Filled my swamp cooler with ice and wrapped with sleeping bags to get my Deception Cream Stout ready to rack to a borrowed keg on Sunday.

 

[cochised]

Kegged a black IPA, sample tasted very nice indeed.
Transferred Brooklyn summer ale clone to secondary.

Shall drink some O'Haras IPA later on with my dinner, taking the wife to a gastro pub for Valentines day

 

[zdbrown1]

I added cocoa nibs and vanilla beans to a milk stout before bottling next weekend.

 

[NTXBrauer]

Currently brewing a 5 gallon American Brown Ale...Timer just went off..time for the last hop addition.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Cleaned my downstairs kitchen so I can clean 6 kegs, then fill 3? 4? of them with beery goodness after the FIOS lady finishes setting up.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Raided my LHBS. I love that while the owner and I are on a first name basis (as well as the main other guy, who I believe has now departed for brewing school in Deustchland, since I haven't seen him in a few months), I don't know the names of the other folks. However they all know me by name as soon as I walk in.

Picked up 55 lbs of Maris Otter, 20 lbs of US 2 row, 10 lbs of various specialty grains, 1 lb of EKG, 4 oz Chinook, 2 oz Cascade, 2 oz Challenger, Wyeast strains 2565 Kolsch, 1469 West Yorkshire, and 1332 Northwest Ale, along with WLP007 Dry English Ale. And then restocked on gyspum, calcium chloride, calcium carbonate, and lactic acid.

 

[jc5066]

Went to brew store and got two batches of grains and a wort chiller .

Ready to get brewing!


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[max384]

I did a rough cutout of my new 36" mash paddle. I'll sand and finish it tomorrow. I got tired of dealing with the cheap bendy plastic spoon. I went online to check out mash paddles and was a bit taken aback by the prices. $6 for a three foot length of red oak plus a few hours of my time seemed far better to me!

EDIT:

I wasn't tired, so I decided to stay up and sand it.

 

[Hello]

Looks fantastic and quite professional. I too was taken a back by the pricing on just your basic mash paddle (wooden). I felt as though unless it was a custom job that required a CNC router or something, I wasn't really following the pricing. Although, if I didn't have the tools or the basic know-how, I'd probably pay.

 

[Trippel-A]

I did a rough cutout of my new 36" mash paddle. I'll sand and finish it tomorrow. I got tired of dealing with the cheap bendy plastic spoon. I went online to check out mash paddles and was a bit taken aback by the prices. $6 for a three foot length of red oak plus a few hours of my time seemed far better to me!

EDIT:

I wasn't tired, so I decided to stay up and sand it.

I've see a lot of people do this and have wondered, what makes this better than a metal spoon?

 

[max384]

I've see a lot of people do this and have wondered, what makes this better than a metal spoon?

I can't speak for everyone, but I won't use a metal spoon because I mash in a plastic igloo container and I don't want to scratch the sides with a metal spoon, and my plastic paddle is far too flimsy.

 

[finsfan]

Waxed about forty bottles. Most were bigfoots or apfelwein, but also some barleyswine, special release bretts and big BA stouts . I love the way they turned out!

 

[leftcontact]

Went to a combined meeting (dubbed a Jam-beer-ee) of a number of different DC-area homebrew clubs. Had a blast.

I have *got* to tag up with you guys. How was it?


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[geek_chaser]

I got a recipe for a honey ale with juniper berries.

 

[Gixxer]

Went to HD to get some wire twist caps, and PVC parts for a blow off. Then went to the LBHS for water adjustment additives. Then went to the local beer warehouse and got a bottle of Mikkeller Black. The 17.5% one... And a bottle of Ommegang Belgian chocolate stout.

 

[uatuba]

Paddle looks great. How much for one?

I can't speak for everyone, but I won't use a metal spoon because I mash in a plastic igloo container and I don't want to scratch the sides with a metal spoon, and my plastic paddle is far too flimsy.

Why the concern about scratching the sides?


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[jdot6]

I bottled my tangerine cardamom imperial blonde, racked my car bomb milk stout onto cocoa nibs, and then did my first all grain batch, a cherry bourbon porter. Great day!

 

[max384]

Paddle looks great. How much for one?





Why the concern about scratching the sides?


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Thanks... Though there are some imperfections up close.

Although the mash is preboil and harboring bacteria is less of a concern, I'd still like to minimize it, plus scratches make cleaning more difficult, and it looks unsightly.

 

[uatuba]

Thanks... Though there are some imperfections up close.



Although the mash is preboil and harboring bacteria is less of a concern, I'd still like to minimize it, plus scratches make cleaning more difficult, and it looks unsightly.

I get the unsightly part...but if you get an infection from your mash tun, we as a human race are doomed because some kind of super bacteria is going to destroy us all.

So...how much for one of your mash paddles?




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[max384]

I get the unsightly part...but if you get an infection from your mash tun, we as a human race are doomed because some kind of super bacteria is going to destroy us all.

So...how much for one of your mash paddles?




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If you had the choice of a mash tun that harbored bacteria, or one that doesn't, all else being equal, which one would you take? Knowing full well that neither would contribute to an infection.

I'm not selling any paddles, but asking is a compliment, so thank you. There are quite a few small imperfections that I can live with, but I wouldn't feel comfortable selling them for a profit... Plus I'm not willing to put in the time to make more. Making one for me was a labor of love. Making them to sell would be much less so...

 

[winvarin]

Cleaned my taps and racked an apricot melomel off the apricot purée so it can start clarifying

 

[uatuba]

If you had the choice of a mash tun that harbored bacteria, or one that doesn't, all else being equal, which one would you take? Knowing full well that neither would contribute to an infection.

I'm not selling any paddles, but asking is a compliment, so thank you. There are quite a few small imperfections that I can live with, but I wouldn't feel comfortable selling them for a profit... Plus I'm not willing to put in the time to make more. Making one for me was a labor of love. Making them to sell would be much less so...

So now I guess we see why they are so expensive, eh?

Regarding the mash tun, with all else being equal (and we know it isn't), I'd pick whichever got me to the path of least resistance for making good beer. If that means a metal spoon because it's within my budget, that's what I'd use. However, since all else isn't equal, I prefer a wood paddle because they look bad ass...and I, too, didn't want a scratched up mash tun until about the third all grain batch I did when the damn lining warped faster than the freaking Enterprise due to the heat. Now, since I've got that ugly warped lining, I don't care about the looks of the tun in general.

Not knocking those who do at all. Hell, I have a buddy who sanitizes his mash tun.


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[mrboz]

Brewed an Imperial Amber, cleaned three kegs, racked a stout to keg, bottled up a case of pale ale.