What I did for beer today

[unionrdr]

I poked fun at BMC's & myself all in the same post. How's that work here?? But to be serious, I'm cleaning up some more bottles for my son & the few I'll send out from the kottbusser next month. Darn Root beer ale labels are worse than Great Lakes to remove!

 

[corn]

Transferred my Pilsner to the secondary and ordered another ball lock keg for the previously mentioned Pilsner.

 

[Rotor_Head]

Checked the fermenter on the blackberry red just to make sure all is happy happy, ordered a MAPLE BACON (!!) LME kit (which I am STOKED to brew) along with a graduated cylinder for taking gravity, bought a turkey baster for the same, and took some notes on how I did the fruit puree, pasteurization, and transfer from primary to secondary on the aforementioned blackberry red.

 

[Ski12568]

Transferred my Porter to a keg. Need to put together my splitter so I don't have to keep switching the gas line back and forth...

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Checked the fermenter on the blackberry red just to make sure all is happy happy, ordered a MAPLE BACON (!!) LME kit (which I am STOKED to brew) along with a graduated cylinder for taking gravity, bought a turkey baster for the same, and took some notes on how I did the fruit puree, pasteurization, and transfer from primary to secondary on the aforementioned blackberry red.

Love your enthusiasm! My first batches, all grain, were IIPAs, Barelywines, etc, myself.

 

[unionrdr]

Soldiering on delabeling more bottles. Soaked the Small Town Brewing bottles three days & those root beer ale labels won't budge at all. Tossed'em. Great Lakes going south too. I'm tired of scraping to get labels & glue off.

 

[Arty76]

Transferred my Porter to a keg. Need to put together my splitter so I don't have to keep switching the gas line back and forth...

yeah it's a pain switching back and forth, check out my youtube video on how I put together a double regulator set up off of one co2 tank, here is the link
http://youtu.be/bS3CyltgrMI

 

[1977Brewer]

Bottled my blonde, moved the Session IPA out if the ferm cabinet for bottling tomorrow, I hope.

 

[Arty76]

Brewed a Bock today, and how's this for a way to make all this damn snow useful

 

[Ski12568]

yeah it's a pain switching back and forth, check out my youtube video on how I put together a double regulator set up off of one co2 tank, here is the link

http://youtu.be/bS3CyltgrMI

Will do, thank you

 

[brewbama]

Kicked a keg of Porter ...so tapped the Munich and racked an Irish Red into the clean keg.

 

[smitty8202]

yeah it's a pain switching back and forth, check out my youtube video on how I put together a double regulator set up off of one co2 tank, here is the link
http://youtu.be/bS3CyltgrMI

That's pretty awesome. Are you taking orders. Haha

 

[JonM]

Kegged a pale ale that I made a couple weeks ago and started a 3-gallon batch of simple cider.

 

[smccarter]

Yesterday... Brewed 5 gallons Ordinary Bitter, kegged 5 gallons Ordinary Bitter, and kegged 5 gallons Saison. Then went to dinner and to a hockey game.

Today... Brewing 5 gallons 80 shilling Scottish Ale. Will be setting around and taking it easy as much as possible today. Yesterday was a busy day.

 

[Rotor_Head]

I took a sample of Merlin Blackberry Red Ale using a sanitized turkey baster. I tried to use a wine thief but dagone thing wouldn't work (can't figure out how to use it). It tasted AWESOME. A little sweet with a great backberry aroma coming off it. Deep red hue. I would like for it be a little clearer but for a first batch, I am one happy brewer!

As a function of that, is it ok to pop the lid off and grab a taste while in secondary?

 

[jperry]

Kegged a 5 gal batch of IPA, onto some dry hops. I used combo of Amarillo, Citra, and Simcoe.

 

[Maivz]

I kegged my Irish red that had been cold crashing. After that is when the fun started. I cleaned 3 kegs I had sitting around that were recently emptied. I also started brewing my honey wheat that everyone but my wife likes (she has yet to like one of my beers, not bland enough I guess). On top of that I made some homemade meatballs and spaghetti.

Everything's all cleaned up and stored now on the shelf I built yesterday.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I took a sample of Merlin Blackberry Red Ale using a sanitized turkey baster. I tried to use a wine thief but dagone thing wouldn't work (can't figure out how to use it). It tasted AWESOME. A little sweet with a great backberry aroma coming off it. Deep red hue. I would like for it be a little clearer but for a first batch, I am one happy brewer!

As a function of that, is it ok to pop the lid off and grab a taste while in secondary?

As a recommendation, try to keep the beer away from oxygen as much as possible. Only open lids, and xfer if needed. For example, I stopped using secondary for dry hop as others suggest. Last Pliny the Elder was the best I ever made.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Bagged up a # of cascade into ounces, brewed a batch of white ipa, and gonna keg a batch of my house DIPA in a bit if I don't get lazy. Also cleaned around the house and made a nice dinner for the kids. That should earn me points to brew more later this week

 

[CJ-3]

Today was a very simple day for beer.

All I did was move my Irish Ale to secondary and wash my primary bucket.

 

[Rotor_Head]

As a recommendation, try to keep the beer away from oxygen as much as possible. Only open lids, and xfer if needed. For example, I stopped using secondary for dry hop as others suggest. Last Pliny the Elder was the best I ever made.

Dang it. Ok. No more sneaking a taste until it's ready! Hey, at least it didn't taste like old socks!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Brewed up an amber-ish 10 IBU 1.030 OG beer and pitched a bunch of bugs. In a year to 18 monthsish (whenever cherries start ripening) I'll rack onto 5 lbs of fresh sour cherries and then age another year before bottling.

 

[BrianMac]

Vacuumed, and botched some laundry, money in the bank!

 

[1975brewer]

Racked my milk stout (that I forgot to put the lactose in) to the secondary. It tasted so good I'm going to leave it as is.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Added dry hop of Citra, Amarillo, and Columbus to my ipa fermented with wlp644. Smells so good!!
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[kpr121]

Added dry hop of Citra, Amarillo, and Columbus to my ipa fermented with wlp644. Smells so good!!
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Looks so good! I think I might borrow that dry hop combo from ya on my ipa!

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Looks so good! I think I might borrow that dry hop combo from ya on my ipa!

Normally I include simcoe as well (simcoe + amarillo = retarded good) but decided to see how I like it without the simcoe this time. You know, for science!

 

[Ski12568]

Finally split my co2 so I can carb and serve without switching. Wish I watched Arty76's video before I bought the splitter...

 

[Ski12568]

Also made an appointment with a ear, nose, and throat doc to get my nose checked. I need to be able to smell to taste properly.

 

[Oberon67]

I checked my small-batch barleywine (which is in its third week in primary), and placed online orders for hops, malt, and amylase.