What I did for beer today

[AdamBomb]

Bottled my Caribou Slobber.

Oh, and I made a sticky mess in the process as usual. Lol

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Cleaned out a keg, put sanitizer in it, and filled up a different keg with a DIPA.

 

[DizzyPants]

After building my dream 10 gallon AG setup with pump and plate chiller I didn't brew on it for way over year.

Today a Citra PA and I took extra care taking time with my mash tun.

Should be great after some dry hopping and drinking.

I love Beer.

 

[catdaddy66]

Gotta bottle my Cali Common today. Using the NB priming calculator it states to reach 2.6 volumes of CO2 I would need 1.2 cups of DME to prime. This seems like too much, especially since I've had issues with over carbonation in a few of my recent batches. Think I'll back that down to 1 cup for safety's sake.

 

[unionrdr]

Since you need more DME versus sugar to prime, I'd say 1.2C is about right.

 

[FatDragon]

Picked up six cases of empties from a bar last night. Washed 2/3, left the other 1/3 soaking. Also, I found 11 half-liters of my last brew hiding in the bottom crate of a stack of empties, just when I thought the pipeline had run dry - score!

Bottling the Imperial Black IPA and whiskey-oaked RIS 1.1 tonight.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Bought a wheat beer for the kids, They are in there 20s and 30s. This will be a first for me my third all grain and first wheat.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled my Robust and Brown Porters.

 

[erick0619]

Stepped up my starter for Tuesday's brew day of an arrogant bastard clone.

 

[kadozen]

Bottled esb, about to rack sour graff onto peaches

 

[Qhrumphf]

Going to get a 1332 Northwest Ale starter going for Saturday's Rye Pale Ale

 

[warix]

Drank a lot of honey ale and rootbeer yesterday.

 

[catdaddy66]

Planned my next 4 (5?) beers...

1) all grain saison this weekend

2) all grain blonde ale

3) Cascadian dark ale (extract/partial mash)

4) smoked porter (partial mash)

5) Westvleteren 12 clone

I'm still working on #5...

 

[BBBco]

Brewed a RyePA, bottled a Two-Hearted Clone and cleaned a bin of bottles. Drank some Hopslam, delicious.

 

[kpr121]

Received my restaurant bar mat for in front of the brewstand, bring on double batch brew days (brew buddy testing out the anti-fatigue)! View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1421723389.898394.jpg

 

[FatDragon]

Got home yesterday to find mold in my racking tubing (is there any good way to get all of the moisture out of tubing?). I had some extra tubing with a too-wide internal diameter for my autosiphon and too-thin walls to feel good racking the RIS that I'll be aging for nearly a year, so I just bottled the Imperial BIPA/CDA (I feel pretentious calling it a Cascadian Dark Ale, but Black India Pale Ale is such a stupid name...).

Measured my old tubing this morning and ordered some beverage grade tubing to replace it so I can hopefully bottle the RIS and Oatmeal Stout before the weekend. Hoping to do a session (4-4.5%) version of my "Can't Believe It's Not Bitter" IPA this weekend to drink during the Chinese New Year at my in-laws' place in the countryside.

 

[corn]

Got my buddies lit on my home brew. I had three batches ready for tasting: an octoberfest, a bitter, and a California common. We had one of each to start, then let them drink whatever they chose afterwards. They each had a preference and continued to drink my brews, even though there were commercial brews in the fridge to choose from also.

 

[cochised]

Ordered another STC to build a ferm chamber

Ordered the Brooklyn Brewery 1 gallon batch book. Have the room for a 1 gallon carboy in my current chamber behind the 5 gallon bucket, so gonna try and always have to brews in there

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Had a busy weekend. Cleaned a case and a half of bottled, bottled my nugget nectar clone (should be ready for the super bowl) and then brewed my imperial IPA. Should finally have a good amount of beer in the pipeline again in a few weeks. Oh, I also ordered a monster mill 3 so I can finally start buying grains in bulk and save some money!

 

[Zepth]

Got home yesterday to find mold in my racking tubing (is there any good way to get all of the moisture out of tubing?) to drink during the Chinese New Year at my in-laws' place in the countryside.

Bake it? Worked for me at work one time when a client saturated my clipboard of papers with coffee. They thought I was joking until I put the oven on and tossed it in. Caution: check temperature tolerances and/or flash points before proceeding. Alternatively one could run boiling water through it for a bit, then using a barb fitting seal it up. No it won't dry. But it will be sanitary and sealed up.

What did I do? Not much. Killed a keg and put the 3 month aged chocolate oatmeal stout into the place. Maybe if I'm bored later I'll do the right thing and clean / sanitize the couple of empties I've got kicking around so they're ready for service.

 

[philipCT]

Dry hopped a honey pale ale.

 

[JonM]

Got a starter going for the hefeweizen I'll make this weekend. First time using the stir plate!

While I was at it, I took my first try at inoculating slants with the 3068 I'm using on the hefeweizen. Before I did that, the LHBS had some expired 1007 dirt cheap and I grabbed some of that so I could do a test run with the slants and only lose $3 if it didn't work. So I now have some questionable 1007 slants which may or may not take off because I made a couple mistakes. But I think I got the kinks worked out by the time I got around to using the 3068.

 

[Skrazybrews]

The other day I was having lunch at BJs and used my AHA membership for the discount. The manager came out and told me that he had just started homebrewing with a kit. He asked for some advice so we chatted for a bit, pointed him to a few books and such.

 

[BowAholic]

brewed a 5.5 gallon batch of Saison... drank several HB beers... planned my next brew day which will be next week.

 

[jperry]

kicked a keg, swapped out a dirty faucet, and cleaned a few kegs.

Also, built a moving cart, for my Keezer, which fits my brew stand too.

 

[Arty76]

Got home yesterday to find mold in my racking tubing (is there any good way to get all of the moisture out of tubing?). I had some extra tubing with a too-wide internal diameter for my autosiphon and too-thin walls to feel good racking the RIS that I'll be aging for nearly a year, so I just bottled the Imperial BIPA/CDA (I feel pretentious calling it a Cascadian Dark Ale, but Black India Pale Ale is such a stupid name...).

Measured my old tubing this morning and ordered some beverage grade tubing to replace it so I can hopefully bottle the RIS and Oatmeal Stout before the weekend. Hoping to do a session (4-4.5%) version of my "Can't Believe It's Not Bitter" IPA this weekend to drink during the Chinese New Year at my in-laws' place in the countryside.

What about soaking it in a little bleach water, might discolor it a bit but it will be clean, and how about blowing it out with a compressor.

 

[erick0619]

Rigged a blow off tube and then swapped out the container like four times View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1421904326.466287.jpg

 

[Quaffman]

Uhhh, drank some?

 

[starsman20]

Uhhh, drank some?

^^^^^^^ That.

 

[starsman20]

Got home yesterday to find mold in my racking tubing (is there any good way to get all of the moisture out of tubing?).

The last thing I always rack is starsan. Keeps them little buggies from starting up. I do not rinse it afterwards so they never have a chance to start. Just a little shake to get the big drops out.