What I did for beer today

[Maivz]

Today I assembled a sct-1000 for use with my freezer I bought off Craigslist recently. I also finished painting the fridge as it was beat and a bit rusty but isn't anymore.

I still have to figure out how I'm going to go about getting heat in there. Might order a heat lamp from amazon, didn't see any at lowes.

I'm from pittsburgh so my freezer got a black and "gold" paint job for ****s and giggles. It was mainly for rust prevention though.


I also put my 2nd air distributor in series with the other so I can pressurize all 4 kegs I can keep in the fridge at one time. Now I'm just pondering when I can get 2 more kegs...

 

[Trippel-A]

Tried one of the Mr Beer Belgian tripels from my last batch before moving to 5 gallon extract brews then onto all grain. Took four years to become palatable. 😕

 

[Brewitt]

Did my first party-gyle yesterday. Didn't quite go as I expected but I got about 2.5 gal of 1.045 wort out of the second rubbings of my 5 gal batch of 1.096 imperial stout. Curious to see what the flavor profile is. A bit over hopped since I misjudged the runoff. Interesting getting two beers for the price of one.

 

[GrainToGlass]

Went to my IBD class and afterwards installed my Perlicks!

 

[finsfan]

Yesterday I made started for an 11 months old jar of yeast that kicked right back up. I also bottled a mosaic saison and pitched sour dregs into the extra gallon of it. Sample tasted fantastic!

 

[Hello]

I removed beer from the beer fridge to make room for my carboy to cold crash, properly this time around.

 

[unionrdr]

Took out the hops, yeast starter & LME for the PM kottbusser brew today.

 

[biochemedic]

Finally cleaned that dirty ol carboy from my last batch! Gotta get to my 5 or so kicked and uncleaned corneys too...I might rather backsweeten my cyser...

 

[Psylocide]

Got 3 new sets of O-Rings for my kegs, we don't even inventory them because we give out more than we sell, so... I win.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, had to put everything away for morning. Computer emergency came up. Damn hacker crap again with Spyhunter4 & avast canceling each other out. Cost 180 bucks for one year fix & the smart-a$$ ****** erased BS2 before signing off when I specifically told him not to erase personal programs. That I was a brewer & writer. He got someting to do with open office "X" in recycle bin I may?? have to restore so as not to loose all my books? Frickin smart a$$...

 

[Zepth]

Packaged 10g of California Common. Half in a keg, half bottled for gifts. Not going to lie here, it took less time to fill the keg than it took to remember my bottling procedure. I don't miss it.

 

[kpr121]

Broke down and cleaned four kegs, then my brew buddy and I got our mlt pex manifold put together! Just gotta decide whether to drill holes or cut slits

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[kman6234]

Ordered a pH meter

 

[smitty8202]

I still have to figure out how I'm going to go about getting heat in there. Might order a heat lamp from amazon, didn't see any at lowes.

I have seen a lot of guys use the heating pads used for reptile tanks. Probably can get em at any pet store

 

[smitty8202]

I still have to figure out how I'm going to go about getting heat in there. Might order a heat lamp from amazon, didn't see any at lowes.

I have seen a lot of guys use the heating pads used for reptile tanks. Probably can get em at any pet store

 

[govner1]

Racked my Belgian Blonde to secondary w/ some freshly cracked peppercorns.
Also participated in the Peach State Brew Off tagging party of the 450 entries.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Cleaned a keg and filled another with mixed fruit blonde. Damn pipeline is running low.

 

[Maivz]

I did a good bit today however most of it was rearranging the garage for the new freezer. So that took a couple hours out of the day. Then I decided to sample my bourbon vanilla porter which was really good but I think needs some more time sitting in the keg.

I mounted the temp controller but have yet to plug the freezer in. As I am just shy of having a point to do so. Will prob plug it in on Thursday. As I want to cold cash and American home wheat I did.

And if you can tell I am from pittsburgh from the freezer. And that is some of my brew gear in front of it. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1423628190.683506.jpg

 

[Zepth]

I mounted the temp controller but have yet to plug the freezer in. As I am just shy of having a point to do so. Will prob plug it in on Thursday. As I want to cold cash and American home wheat I did.

If you let the freezer cool itself first before loading it with something you'd like to cold crash it will give itself a little bit of cold thermal mass before adding the less- cold keg of beer. It will make it a little easier on the thing to cool the beer as compared to needing to run to cool itself, the air inside, and the beer down. You now have a reason to plug it in a day early.

 

[jperry]

Went to the LHBS earlier, and bought some supplies. Got a few grains, a few yeast varieties, and also parts for a keg jumper line.

I ended up with:

WLP English Cider Yeast
WLP Dry English Ale
Safale US-05
Black Roasted Barley
Crystal 40°L
Vienna

 

[DizzyPants]

Went down and checked on my two carboys. They looked happy and will be enjoyed after our Hawaii trip in a few weeks.

10 gals Citra Hopped Pale Ale

 

[Maivz]

Let's see. I plugged in my freezer with temp control and placed a keg of water in there after it got to temp the first time to probably cold crash my American honey wheat.

Took the fg reading on the American honey wheat and an IPA I brewed. the wheat came out to about 5.9% abv and my IPA came out to 7.2ish abv.(long story on the IPA).

 

[unionrdr]

Brewed the kottbusser yesterday. The airlock centerpiece pegged the cap about 7PM. Covered it with a tee shirt as it struggled to get to 64F this morning. 7:21 it started bubbling slowly. I was worried about the WL029 yeast being half frozen upon arrival with ingredients. Small starter did it's job, apparently.

 

[Artifishal]

Almost done making a one gallon glass conical with yeast trap collection vessel. Both my one gallon car boys are in use right now so I'm just water testing this right now with a growler. I'm normally a 10 gallon batch guy, in a 15 gallon conical (so don't F-ing judge me for being a small batch guy), but this is for making my small sample batches easier and more consistent tasting. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1423789518.002061.jpg

Just waiting for a 1" diamond hole saw to arrive so I can put an airlock in the top...bottom...top...you know what I mean!

 

[kman6234]

Made a starter for the German pilsner I plan on brewing this weekend

 

[Ski12568]

Bought a keg for keggle conversion for 40$

 

[unionrdr]

Finally got the kottbusser warm enough for the WL029 yeast to do it's machine pistol fermentation. It was tough lately to get it to 64F, then a bit above that. I guess the yeast reproduced more slowly at just below it's sweet spot?

 

[Qhrumphf]

Spent way too much at the LHBS. 70 lbs of malt (sack of pils malt plus various specialty grains), a whopping 2 oz of Magnum hops, and 5 additional fermenters. Wahoo 25 gallons of sour beer between the next two weekends...

 

[finsfan]

Spent way too much at the LHBS. 70 lbs of malt (sack of pils malt plus various specialty grains), a whopping 2 oz of Magnum hops, and 5 additional fermenters. Wahoo 25 gallons of sour beer between the next two weekends...

gotta keep the sour pipeline full! Happy brewing

 

[Qhrumphf]

gotta keep the sour pipeline full! Happy brewing

Two 10 gallon batches and a 5 gallon batch (5.5 technically). Got me a 5 pack of ECY20 to use. Sold off one at cost, will be splitting the other 4 between 5 fermenters.