What I did for beer today

[brewbama]

Kegged my Spiced Winter Ale. The hydro tube sample tasted pretty good but I expected more mulled spice presence. So, I steeped some cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a cup of Maker's Mark last night, strained it thru a coffee filter this AM, and added it to the keg after I racked the beer. I tasted the bourbon: it definitely had some holiday cheer so I am excited to draw a pint of this for T Day.


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[bleme]

Got both of mine off ebay

Be careful with the ones on eBay. There is a model out there that looks identical but you have to choose heat or cool. It can't do both.

 

[unionrdr]

Drinking the first bottle of version 2 of my PM dampfbier. Color is golden amber/orange, so that's really close. A little bit of the bubblegum esters the bier was known for. Warms these old bones on this teens-all-day winter blow. Wrote a couple more pages of my 2nd home brewing book as well as working on the comp all morning. Now for some warming good old German beer! These all-German malts taste better in this configuration...:rockin:

 

[JonM]

Just happened to be driving past the LHBS so I stopped in and got ingredients for the ESB I'll do T'giving weekend.

This was the first time in almost 6 months I've had to buy yeast, too. I have on hand 1272, 1007, 3068 and some probably dead 1450, but no English ale so I got some WLP002. I might have to make some more English style beers so I can be sure to wring every penny out of this vial.

 

[Zepth]

Tried my chilled and carbed chocolate oatmeal stout. Big chocolate on the nose, extra black, slightly leaning towards bitter. Unfortunately still seems a little green. Can't say that last one is shocking. I just think back to my first stout and how it was "alright" when green then awesome when I had 2 bottles left. Guess it's time to cellar it for a couple months.

 

[jperry]

Brewed all day, I'll upload some pics in a min. Right now, I'm just glad to be sitting down, finally.

Recipe:
15 lbs 2-row
1 lbs Crystal 15°L
1 oz Carafa III
Hops:
1 oz Galena (90min)
1 oz Amarillo (Whirlpool) (30min)
1 oz Mosaic (Whirlpool) (30min)
2 oz Simcoe(Whirlpool) (30min)
3 oz Citra (Whirlpool) (30min)

 

[chrisroarshack]

I bottled my Pale ale, All Hail The Pale Ale, and damn this stuff is good even uncarbed!

This is the first batch I've ever been completely happy with and I owe this to the wonderful homebrew community and their awesome tools. The trick kiddies is that here in Bourbon country, our water is variable as hell (and who knows what the hell is in those pipes your landlord has never replaced). Building my own water has been the best refining to my process yet!

 

[kadozen]

Put together my first RIS recipe for SWMBO.

 

[SmCranf]

Entered 2 mead and 2 jalapeno cream ale bottles for competition and brewed a citra, sorachi ace, simcoe brown IPA

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brewed SoCo Town Lake IPA. PM version.

 

[cochised]

Where did you order this from? I need one but don't know where to get them... Thanks!


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Sorry, just saw this

Ordered off Amazon, but I am in Ireland so probably no use to you

 

[unionrdr]

I sold a couple & loaned a few out of my homebrewing book on Amazon Kindle that put me back in the top 100 in the US & top 25 in the UK. Does that count?

 

[catdaddy66]

I got 6 cans of LME (Muntons) at 30% off. Two light, two Amber and one each of extra light/dark, 3.3 lbs each.


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[unionrdr]

Drank some of my dampfbier last night while watching Bonanza on youtube with my multi-handicapped #1 son. He loves the old westerns. Definitely gotta wash a ton of bottles today as well.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Racked my cherry wheat onto the cherries and lactose last night, right after smashing what was my last remaining hydrometer.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Oh yeah, and I got my 44 yr old snowblower that died 2 years ago working again. Since I saved a bunch of money by unseizing the engine versus replacing it, I now get to buy more beer and more ingredients

 

[themachinist]

Cleaned up for last night's brew session. Did a blackberry wit with 5 lbs of local blackberry puree. Found that I love my new stove. The big burner will bring 7 gal of wort to a nice rolling boil in about 30 minutes from mash out temp. So it looks like I won't have to brew in the cold this winter.

 

[dkevinb]

I just finished bottling 5 gallons of English ordinary bitter. On the patio wearing T-shirt, gym shorts and flip-flops. Man, I do love SoCal.

 

[NTXBrauer]

Cut the tops off 2 kegs I got a deal on recently.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Ran to the lhbs and stocked up on some stuff, and just finished racking my blonde onto some mixed fruit and lactose.
Gonna try and brew later too.

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[W0GWT]

I bottled 10 gallons- 5 gallons of Pilsner and 5 of Hefeweizen. It took too long; I need to get kegging.

 

[gometz]

Bought ingredients for my porter (second place in the Dixie cup!) which I had to scale up because this batch is for my wedding, and ingredients for a Flanders red tip pitch into my de bom yeast cake.

 

[philipCT]

Started to clean and repair an old kegerator I got my hands on. Yukity yuk, lots of muck. Someday it will be really cool, but it's disgusting and leaks and the temp ctl is all over the place right now.

 

[JonM]

Dry hopped my Simcoe/Centennial/Columbus IPA, then worked through the Bru'n Water stuff for the ESB I have coming up and measured out the water additions, and got the WLP002 starter going.

 

[chawn]

I FORCED myself to drink a bottle of Chimay Grande Reserve to compare my clone with the real thing. Unfortunately the trappists beat me this time.
Perhaps mine needs another month.

 

[benco]

I kegged 5 gallons of EDWorts apfelwein and drinking my Bells two hearted clone.

 

[govner1]

Bottled my Gingerbread Ale for my 12 Beers of Christmas exchange w/ much help from a brew buddy- I'm a keg guy!

 

[catdaddy66]

Late last night I swirled the snot out of my fermenter full of Kate the Great RIS and today it was gurgling away about every 5 minutes. Yay!


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[jtbrewcrafter]

Bottled my Winter Warmer. And grabbed a sample. Delicious.

 

[tripplehazzard]

Bottled up 2.5 gallons of hoppy conan partygyle. In growler.. still took too long