What I did for beer today

[BrewinBromanite]

Ordered this:
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No more shaking 5.5 gallons any more!!

Also spoke to a colleague at work for quite a while about her wanting to purchase her husband good starter equipment and ingredient kits for Xmas. Hopefully another addicted home-brewer in the near future. She actually wants to brew with him...lucky guy!


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[rowan57]

Are the pots all aluminum? As a beginner, it's my understanding that aluminum pots don't do well for brewing. Am I misinformed?

Yes mine are both aluminium. Aluminium is fine for brewing, there is a whole thread about the discussion at the top of the equipment/sanitation board.


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[eadavis80]

Will rack vanilla porter. Yesterday I bottled chocolate stout and made a starter for tomorrow's honey nut brown ale. Gotta' keep the pipeline rolling...

 

[govner1]

Racked my two carboys of my Columbus Whole Hop IPA to secondary for dry hopping & washed the WY1217 yeast for another brew.
Cleaned up the carboys, etcetera.

 

[ol-hazza]

Wired up my stc 1000 for my fermentaion/lager chamber.
Am quite excited about controlled fermentation

 

[89vision]

Brewed my first all grain! I used BIAB and my efficiency was right around 75% with 13 lbs of grain and a half-assed sparge, so I'm pretty excited for my first try. Missed my OG by only a few points. It's an IIPA with a ton of hops at flameout, and I got a bunch of trub in the fermenter, but should settle out in secondary hopefully.

I used Vermont Ale yeast for it, and as a side note, that is the best smelling yeast I've used yet (for whatever that's worth)

 

[brewbama]

Added cocoa nibs to my milk stout in secondary today.


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[SupervisingChildren]

Put a gallon of apfelwein into a couple of growlers, cleaned that keg, and filled a keg with mixed fruit blonde.

 

[lolznrofls]

I ordered a plinian legacy kit from northern brewer.

 

[leftcontact]

Cleaned 40 swing top 0.5L bottles. Put punkin clone into 30 of them.

 

[Salty-Dawg]

Brewed my first batch today !

Canadian Blonde (Coopers Extract)

Figured I would make my first brew as simple as possible.

It's sitting in the sink in ice and water just waiting for it to cool enough to pitch the yeast.

I hope it turns out good.

 

[govner1]

Made a stir plate w/ lots of help from a brew buddy. Completely solderless.

 

[Zepth]

Kegged up 10g of Orfys Hobgoblin II. Then realized I had just over a gallon left in the fermenter. Quick rush to find a few soda bottles that I had kicking around for ghetto growlers* and filled them as well using the fancy "pinched tubing" valve method. Added priming sugar directly to bottles. Better than letting that 4.5 litres go to waste.

*Ghetto Growler is a Trademark of Zepth. Free to use but give me props!

 

[billsteiner26]

Since Friday I have stacked my ferm Chambers, built a hop spider, and finally drilled my bk.

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[BrewinBromanite]

Brewed my first batch today !

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Welcome to the addiction...err...hobby!!





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[CJ-3]

Today I finally got around to putting labels on my latest batch of Vanilla Stout.

Also kicking around ideas for the next batch, thinking of an Irish Red for St. Patrick's. Day.

 

[jperry]

Racked an IPA, off dry hops, into a keg. Siphoning went well, racking could have gone smoother, if only I had more hands.:cross:

At least, I remembered to take an FG reading.

 

[ArrogantDusty]

In my brewing off season (because I'm a wuss in the cold), I make wine, Edwort's Apfelwien, and meads. I just bottled all my Christmas gift beers/cysers. But today, even though I didn't brew, I did something for beer. Check it out on this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/civil-life-brewing-behind-scenes-507509/ -- I helped produce this video for the small marketing company I work for. Really cool look at a local brewer's complete process.

 

[lolznrofls]

I unboxed my northern brewer pliney the legacy kit today.= hard on !!

 

[govner1]

Went to my LHBS and purchased the ingredients for my next two brews:
Smoked Rye IPA
Evil Twin Red Ale (zymurgy recipe)

 

[Quaffman]

Kegged my belgian blonde.

 

[govner1]

Cleaned up around my brewery, cleaned a keg & my Drink Tank.
Cooked two pounds of Beer Candied Bacon for my brew club Christmas Party tonight.

 

[Psylocide]

I cleaned 50 bottles on my lunch break to get ready for bottling tomorrow... just needed a quick spray with the bottle washer/hot water.

Cheers to the "rinse immediately after drinking" policy.

 

[wilson42203]

I got to brew!!!!!

 

[gometz]

I transferred my Baltic porter to a keg, hope to bottle it Monday or Tuesday. I had to dump a batch of porter I messed up the carbonate addition on, but have the yeast starter for a replacement batch I will brew tomorrow.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Racked my wheat onto cherries and lactose last night.

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[lolznrofls]

I brewed my plinian legacy..whole lot a yumm about to be on tap!

 

[Flboy]

With no fermentation chamber, and tired of swapping out ice bottles, I turned off the heat in the house. Central Florida, it is staying right around 60F. Have 8 carboys going at the moment.
Oh so worth it!!

 

[Zepth]

Started work on the collar for the perlicks. Stained, all but one side polyurethaned at the moment, tap mounts drilled. Later on will be a quick polyurethane job for the interior and assembly tomorrow morning.

 

[JonM]

Kegged my crystal-clear ESB and harvested the yeast (002, so the yeast cake was like thick cake batter) for the robust porter I'll do hopefully next weekend, and then worked through the water calcs for the robust porter.

Then I cleaned up a keg which held cider up until I kicked it on Thursday. Now it will hold my nieces' favorite homemade root beer when they arrive for a Christmas visit.