What I did for beer today

[unionrdr]

Wrote some more of my 2nd book on homebrewing after digging out some more info on Kottbusser & Broihahn. Interesting history.

 

[seigex]

Today I cleaned hops out of my hair.

An overflowing primary caused a clogged airlock which created a massive pressure buildup. When I went to relieve the pressure the flying stopper/airlock almost took my eye out. Rest assured I set up the blow off valve THEN cleaned the mess. Next time I'll set up the blow off valve to begin with.

I live in some Southern California mountains, but work and all my friends are down the hill. First time I took all my gear down the hill to do a brew day with a few friends, I drove back up the hill with the wort in a carboy and a full rubber stopper on top, no pressure valve. I guess I wasn't thinking from all of that wonderful homebrew I had while brewing.

On the way home, I put the carboy in the passenger seat and buckled it in. At about the 3000 ft level, pressure took over, my stopper blew off, put a small dent in the ceiling, bounced off, hitting me in the head. Luckily wort didn't spray all over the car. Scared the **** out of me though.

 

[BGBC]

Brewed a batch and bought grains for another brew tomorrow.

Also picked up another 1 gal carboy so I could rack my wild cider and frankencyser to free up a bucket for today's brew.

Bottling some beer from my sour dreg growler w/ carb tabs and will top that up too.

 

[wilson42203]

Took my raspberry ale out of the water tub to slowly start raising the temp, now that fermentation is almost done.

 

[histo320]

Made a yeast starter for my brew day on 12/31.

 

[Arty76]

Made a slight modification to my wife's new year greeting on the kitchen chalkboard

 

[brewbama]

Brewed my last batch of the year today. 24 x 5 gal batches this year.

 

[Pkrd]

Bottled the light beer that I was supposed to be drinking last week. The little guy took 40 days and 40 nights to ferment.

 

[unionrdr]

Bottled the light beer that I was supposed to be drinking last week. The little guy took 40 days and 40 nights to ferment.

Noah's ale? Last Days Light? Noah's Revenge? I didn't get paid before the holiday, so now I have to wait to get the ingredients for the Kottbusser & Whiskely I wanted to get going with the ESB that needs spring water to brew. Gonna be a busy weekend I guess? I'm thinking of using the 6 gallon BB I have laying around as well?

 

[kman6234]

Brewed an ESB and stored 2 sacks of grain in air tight containers

 

[Eugenio]

Printed labels for my flip top seal jars of Agar, DME, Dextrose and Sour Dough, and for the cultures of 3711, 3787 and Conan.

Itching to do something beer related yet dont have time hehe.

 

[Psylocide]

I moved my Centennial Blonde to the cement floor... day 3 of fermentation and temp bumped up 2° to 69°, so hope to knock a couple degrees off this way.

Made a new label for my APA that will be printed and applied today before our friends come over to drink it all. I think it came out alright.

 

[JonM]

Well, I ordered a 2000 ml Erlenmeyer to go with the new stir plate, and had hoped that it would have arrived by now so I could make a 1.3 L starter for the porter I'm planning for this weekend. It hasn't arrived yet, so this morning I made the 3L starter the old fashioned way. Oh well.

 

[1fast636]

Got the ingridents for my wit in the tropics ipa and 2gal sour project, got a 1000 ml flask finally and 1 inch stir bar and my home made stir plate is working like a champ now so excited to get San Diego super yeast on the plate tomorrow for Friday's brew day of wit in the tropics

Wit in the tropics
6.5lbs pale malt
5lbs white wheat

1oz warrior FWH

1.5oz Amarillo flameout whirlpool
1.5oz citra flameout whirlpool
1.5oz Galaxy flameout whirlpool

Starter of San Diego super yeast wlp090

.5oz Amarillo dry hop 7days
.5oz citra dry hop 7days
.5oz Galaxy dry hop 7days

Stirplate with new flask (the dogfish cap has a earth magnet and is my stir bar holder its holding my 2" in the pic on the inside of the stir plate)
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[Pkrd]

Noah's ale? Last Days Light? Noah's Revenge?

There may well be a great flood if this beer turns out funky.

 

[wilson42203]

I brewed a small batch (3gal) of robust porter for dad and grandma.

 

[Arty76]

There may well be a great flood if this beer turns out funky.

Man you can't pour it out! Just add some extra hops or some fruit it will be ok,

 

[adiochiro3]

1. Bottled my RIS after conditioning it in a bourbon barrel for ~6 weeks (fresh barrel). May be my best beer to date.
   
2. Racked my Black Pearl Porter into the barrel.

 

[warix]

Brewed up a batch of Honey Ale! This batch is for a coed baby shower for my son and his wife. My wife wanted to do a coed shower with the theme "A baby is brewing". It's really just an excuse for our large family to get together and drink beer.

Happy New Beer everybody!

 

[unionrdr]

Ordered ingredients for Kotbusser this morning. Now if the damn car ran...

 

[Hello]

Technically the other day, but cleaned a couple of kegs, filled them with beer, and ordered some hops. I need to clean three more kegs though.

 

[catdaddy66]

Making 5.5 gallons of a Scottish 80 with my brother (razyrsharpe to you people! Lol!) and he's using some Xmas hops to bitter, 1 oz of Wakatu (7.1% aa). It should come out 1.060 OG with a 17 SRM and 5.9% abv, 30 ibu's.

 

[JonM]

Ordered a basic pressure cooker for yeast slants and starter wort.

 

[wilson42203]

Replaced the blowoff tube receiver jug on my robust porter--twice! This thing is a beast!

 

[JonM]

After ordering the pressure cooker, I rearranged by brew cabinet, which had gotten pretty chaotic. Tossed some stuff that had outlived its useful life, organized things and made room for some new things that should be delivered soon.

 

[govner1]

Racked my Evil Twin Red Ale to secondary. Cleaned the two primary carboys & cleaned a keg that kicked plus the lines in my kegerator.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Made a batch of apfelwein, then lugged a giant old cyclomatic fridge out to the curb from the basement (with a lot of help from my dad). Now I have more storage room for my brewing equipment.

 

[kman6234]

Cleaned all 3 kettles with bar keepers friend. Hoping to do this at least once a year from hear on out

 

[kadozen]

Decided the shopping list section of the whiteboard in the kitchen would be better suited for beer notes. Finally dialing in my process.
We need a second board.

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[JonM]

Got a nice surprise at work this morning, and there was a little extra money for me at the end of the year. So, of course, I went right out to Northern Brewer and grabbed a Therminator and a Steelhead pump which, because of a promotion, came with nice stainless steel QDs and a SS ball valve. Sweet! I'll order the other couple fittings I need from bargainfittings.com over the weekend.