What I did for beer today

[Qhrumphf]

Went through and redid my water averaging spreadsheet for the new water at my new address. Took much longer to set up initially even though the data didn't go back as far. Originally averaged all my water data month by month from annual water reports dating back to 2006 from my old water source, took about 6 hours to set up from scratch. My new source goes back to 2001, but only took about 2-3 hours just to punch in the new data.

 

[Gixxer]

I calculated my water additives for a batch of westy 12° for Sunday... Also bought the distilled water...

 

[Brewitt]

Need to wash some bottles. Damn!


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[provball96]

Happy homebrew day from canada... 10 gal bottled

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[dx6x]

Bottled my hard lemon-aid. Racked my blueberry vanilla mead.

 

[unionrdr]

Took the yeast,LME out of the fridge & hops outta the freezer for an ESB today. Get the grains crushed in a while.

 

[ballsy]

Switching out frozen water bottles to keep swamp cooler at a nice 62 deg's while Notty does their work on my Sumpin Sumpin clone

 

[philipCT]

Ordered a 1/2 BBL fermenter from SSBrewTech. Been waiting for months. Psyched.

This means I will be able to ferment 10+ gallons batches in a single vessel rather than splitting into two separate carboys. This also expands my pipeline capacity from 15 gallons to 30 gallons.

This will go into the upright freezer I bought on Craigslist for $75. I'll have to pop an STC-1000 into that pretty soon for use as a ferm temp ctl chamber.

 

[quincy07]

I checked the gravity on my APA and added the dry hops.

 

[dkevinb]

I bottled 5 gallons of Fizzy Yellow Cream Ale, as well as a gallon of Mandarin Orange Mead.

 

[plath]

Put together my own kit to brew tomorrow morning!


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[unionrdr]

Finally got my son to work,store & all so I can get my boil going for my ESB.

 

[histo320]

Bottled my Pilinian Legacy. The sample was definitely hoppy which is what is expected of the kit.

 

[unionrdr]

Aaaah,I smell ESB & bittering hops boilin'!...

 

[bleme]

Stayed home and sent my wife yard-selling. Worked out pretty good!

 

[Hopinista]

Washed my bottles, was going to bottle but got lazy and will do it tomorrow lol

 

[unionrdr]

I hear ya. I gotta clean up after yesterday's brew day this morning. Had to wait a bit long for son to get off work in that cold,dark parking lot last night. But my ESB started bubbling during the night. Covered the fermenter this morning & noticed it's still at 22C (71.6F). But the nearly 5L of cold break compacted down to about 1/2L by this morning,so it's all good. The markings on my Cooper's Microbrew FV read in Liters & the temp strip in Celsius in case anyone's wondering. Out of a max of 1.049OG,I got a 1.060. Checked it twice again to be sure. I guess my mash/steep efficiency is good after more than a year of practice at mashing?...

 

[JonM]

I was an ambassador for the hobby.

While brewing in the garage, a neighbor was walking up the alley with his two little girls, and he stopped to chat about brewing and how he'd like to get into it. I told him how it's really easy to start with extract and recipe kits, and how you can start just using the stovetop and not a whole lot of fancy equipment, etc.

 

[Hopinista]

Finally bottled my saison

 

[unionrdr]

Almost done with cleaning up after yesterday's big brew day. I guess I got the re-hydrate temp vs wort temp nailed last night. It started fermenting in a couple hours! Seems like the brew gods were smiling on us all yesterday?! :rockin:

 

[Clankenbrew]

Worked on my brew panel still waiting for a heat sink for the SSVR and 3 switches. Need to have the box powder coated after just like the lid.


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[unionrdr]

After brewing yesterday & cleaning up today,I decided to order NB's Petite Saison de'ete kit with the French 3711 yeast. Gonna try brewing a saison next when the red ale fermenter opens up. It's good to have the extra cash again to brew regularly once more.

 

[Hopinista]

After brewing yesterday & cleaning up today,I decided to order NB's Petite Saison de'ete kit with the French 3711 yeast. Gonna try brewing a saison next when the red ale fermenter opens up. It's good to have the extra cash again to brew regularly once more.

Just bottled my saison with 3711 (on the left) it's definitely my favorite saison yeast

 

[unionrdr]

Nice color. I've been doing some pipeline fillers this time. Some beers I haven't brewed yet. Then I'll get back to pb/pm biab after I get a few bottled.

 

[bleme]

I looked at empty bottles and thought about filling them.

 

[Jupapabear]

Added my braided filter for my new mash tun, and made a starter for the black ipa on deck

 

[unionrdr]

I looked at empty bottles and thought about filling them.

My thoughts precisely. After some refinancing & all,I got to start brewing again. If I didn't know better,I'd swear it made my wife smile? I just hated seeing those poor bottles being so neglected.

Added my braided filter for my new mash tun, and made a starter for the black ipa on deck

I started nuking the spring water for my re-hydrations in my 1,000mL flask myself. Then use my All-Temp laser thermometer to get it to the right temp for re-hydrating my yeast. Quicker & easier just using the flask.

 

[jperry]

I am anxiously awaiting a message back, from someone selling a keg nearby. I'm hopeful that this will work out, however I have my reservations.

 

[plath]

after MUCH debating, I ordered a new brew pot!

 

[Hello]

Kicked a keg of root beer today and a keg of blonde on Friday. Cleaned them and the lines, made more soda and I'm waiting on a beer to finish for the other keg.