What I did for beer today

[Brizzo]

Yesterday I decided to try a 10gallon biab batch to split between to fermenters. I wanted one to be an American pale ale and the other half to be a farmhouse/ saison style, and I wanted to utilize the hops that I needed to harvest from my 7 vines

The neutral base I made was as follows:

16lbs 2 row
4lbs Vienna
2lbs wheat
1lb crystal 20
1lb rye

1oz magnum 15% @60
.5oz magnum 12% @30

Mashed in at 140 for 20mins
150 for 20
154 for 60

Boiled for 60 and at the end of boil I transferred half of the base into another kettle. I did a hop stand with 4ozs of fresh picked mt hood and a handful of magnum for 90 mins. This will be the farmhouse ale

The other half I did a hop stand with 4.3 ozs of centennial, 2.5ozs of cascade, 4.6 ozs of Columbus and 6.5 ozs of nugget all fresh off the vine

I then used an immersion cooler to chill the wort, and transferred into the carboys.

I pitched s05 with the pale ale and danstar belle de saison in the farmhouse ale. When I woke up 6 hrs later they were both chugging along nicely.

The hydro samples were tasty, smooth bitterness in both, the pale ale had massive pine, fruit, dank notes but just very smooth. I saved 6 ozs of fresh magnum that I am drying and will make a tea with if needed to add extra bitterness to the ales.




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[Brizzo]

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[wahmbush]

Harvested some hops for my Cascade Harvest Ale.

 

[Clankenbrew]

Made some candi sugar and brewed 10gal amber alert ale. Added cocao nibs and hazelnut extract to a chocolate nut brown.


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[histo320]

Bottled my HipHOPapotamus IPA.

 

[brewbama]

Drank three 500ml Dampfbiers.


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[SupervisingChildren]

Picked up 2 outdated 5# co2 tanks and regulators, kegged an apfelwein, and made an apfelwein. Also got some connectors for commercial beers, a new tap, a shank and faucet with the co2 setup. And I set up one regulator for my kegs. *feeling productive*

 

[magpiebrew]

Bottled my APA, hooked up with someone on craigslist and bought a brand new burner, 5 gal glass carboy, bottling bucket, bucket fermentor, hydrometer, thermometer, tubing, two cappers, caps, 1 gal glass jug and other misc stuff...all for $60. Didn't need most of it, but too good to pass up. Yeah for spouses who don't know better and just try to get rid of stuff.

 

[unionrdr]

Emptied my bottle tree of cleaned & dried bottles & weighed the priming sugar for my watermelon hefe. Gotta clean the spigot & bottling bucket next & sanitize. Just wanna be sure it's clean & fresh.

 

[bleme]

Emptied my bottle tree of cleaned & dried bottles & weighed the priming sugar for my watermelon hefe. Gotta clean the spigot & bottling bucket next & sanitize. Just wanna be sure it's clean & fresh.

Sounds like a job for Summer's Eve!

 

[Peruvian802]

Transfered an IPA to the keg.

 

[unionrdr]

Yepper! Just got done a couple minutes ago. Got 55 1/2-12oz bottles of the watermelon hefe @ 2.8 Vco2. Gotta clean up after a couple beers (HB's of course!) to rest my back. Coming through the racking tube, it had a nice gold color with a blush of coral pink. Even the krausen was tinted pink. Saved the half bottle for some German sausages from that guy who has two shops full of German meats. His store & the W25th Market in Cleveland.

 

[lolznrofls]

I dropped three trees for my in-laws to get cash for my next brew kit.

 

[gometz]

Dumped 13 bottles of Helles that had gone bad. They were in the bottles for about 5 months and had developed a bad taste. Hope it has to do with dead yeast and not something on the front end. I get the feeling it could be a combination of bottle carbing hot with lager yeast, dropping temperature too quickly during lagering, and age.

 

[JonM]

Picked up ingredients for the dunkelweizen I'm doing this weekend. I made Jamil Z's hefeweizen a few months ago, and it was awesome. I decided to take the same recipe, but swap the wheat in the original recipe for dark wheat and sub the pilsner for Munich. Then I can add a pinch (2 oz tops) of dehusked Carafa II to darken it up a touch.

 

[Trippel-A]

Attended a local home brew club meeting for the first time last night. About 4 or 5 guys brought great stuff, including a spot-on Octoberfest, a really good swartz beer, and a Earl Grey/bergamot flavored golden ale. A couple of the other guys... Well, they made me realize that I have nothing to be ashamed of.

 

[12pmmike]

I finally built some drying racks for my hops. Got to use them this last week too. They work a lot better than air filters. The mess on the deck is from the carnage from picking. Got a total of 16.7 oz. Dry weight.

 

[shecallsmeblue]

Got my ingredients for my first brew in over a year, my first 15 gallon batch, and my first batch on my brewing sculpture. Exciting weekend ahead for me!

 

[unionrdr]

After talking with the brewers at Midwest on their new chat feature, I'm finding what I need to brew version 2 of my dampfbier PM recipe next week. Retiree payday Monday, so I reworked the recipe in Beersmith 2.1. Got the color right this time for the light amber/orange German example I saw. And switching from WL380 hefeweizen IV yeast to WY3638 Bavarian hefe yeast that gives the bubblegum esters this rare beer is known for. First example not bad & clear golden, but not close enough for me. Bottled the watermelon hefe yesteray, finishing clean up today. Gotta get things ready for the dampfbier re brew.

 

[bobeer]

I'm going to pull the trigger on a nitro setup today and also buy some random odds and ends I need as well as ingredients for my next 3 or 4 brews. :rockin:

 

[plath]

Harvested hops!


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[Qhrumphf]

Package my Bluebird Bitter clone and English Summer Ale, each 60/40 between polypins and bottles (three 1 gallon polypins and just shy of a case of bottles of each), and now washing out the yeast from the English Summer Ale for this weekend's English IPA.

 

[BGBC]

Jealous of all these hop harvests

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Jealous of all these hop harvests

Me too. One hop each off two different 2nd year plants so far. *fail*

Exchanged a 5# co2 tank last stamped in '93 for a new one for $21. Now I have a full backup. Happy.

 

[brewbama]

I checked the Imperial Red Ale for FG. It's definitely high ABV from the taste of the sample! LOL. I look forward to seeing if it's done fermenting at the next sample reading.


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[Komocabo]

Gonna dry hop my RyeIPA tonight

 

[jperry]

Cleaned/sanitized a few empty kegs, and now I'm gathering everything to brew a batch.

 

[unionrdr]

I gotta clean some bottles after anniversary yesterday. The saison paired pretty well with roasted turkey.

 

[Bosogiz]

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