What I did for beer today

[erick0619]

Making a Yeast starter drinking good craft beer along with some homebrew with some dead kennedys in the background View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1424744882.406173.jpg

 

[1977Brewer]

Making a Yeast starter drinking good craft beer along with some homebrew with some dead kennedys in the background View attachment 258887

I approve of punk rock brewing.

 

[erick0619]

I approve of punk rock brewing.

Oi!!!!!

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Kegging up my DIPA. Never got around to it yesterday.

 

[erick0619]

Drinking this fine IRS YES I AM MAKING MULTIPLE POSTES ABOUT THIS BEER IM DRUBK AND VERY PROUD OF THOS BEER SORRY HBT BUT **** MAN THiS TASTES GOOD gram crackers and red wine and chocolate View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1424753328.564384.jpg

 

[smitty8202]

Just moved my cream ale to the fridge to cold crash. This is my first time doing it. Hope it turn out ok

 

[unionrdr]

Got caught up on reading articles the last few days. Lots of good stuff in there. All the while my kottbusser is maintaining a bit of pressure during these bone chillingly cold days. That WL029 is a real trooper!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Took FG and sampled experiential IPA, the dry hopped. FWHs were citra, simcoe, mosaic. No 60min hops, 30min w/centennial. Aroma and dh w/citra, simcoe and mosaic again. VERY floral and topical fruity. No harsh bitterness detected. Know more in 2 weeks.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

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

But that ever happens, bottle some then tell your friends this was the BEST S**T you ever made!...and be entertained by their facial expressions.

 

[unionrdr]

Took 1st FG sample of my kottbusser @ 2 weeks today. Needs to knock of a couple more points. Flavor is slightly sweet/tart so far. Right on track.

 

[BowAholic]

I bottled 9 six packs of Cream of Three Crops and washed 4 pints of US-05 yeast. I also pulled the Fizzy Yellow Beer carboy out of the fermentation chamber to hill before bottling. Started researching the next couple of batches...thinking about an Irish Red and a Scottish Ale...

 

[Rotor_Head]

Cleaned the carboy and kettle for brew day this Friday. Bought a dagone funnel so I can get water in the carboy without spilling it all over the kitchen floor. I swear this beer thing has me looking like a monkey tryin' to funk a football.

 

[erick0619]

Just mashed in for our first pale ale picture taken by swmbo im in the white... View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1424841198.275158.jpg

 

[erick0619]

Pitched the yeast into our pale ale this brew session ran real late.

 

[Jaymex98]

SWMBO and I are prepping to buy the LHBS and growler fill station. It's ours next Monday if all continues to go well.

 

[kpr121]

SWMBO and I are prepping to buy the LHBS and growler fill station. It's ours next Monday if all continues to go well.

Awesome! Good luck!

 

[NickTheGreat]

Wow! That's a big deal. Good for you!!!

 

[unionrdr]

Took care of some real estate business & saved 1% & 143 bucks on my payment besides by getting rid of 2nd mortgage. Mo money, mo money! Especially since I saved several hundred last year on it already with the same company. Mo money, mo money!

 

[warix]

De-labeled sixty odd bottles. Thirty something to go. Sitting on a dozen Corona bottles just in case I get sick of scrubbing glue.

Go to your LHBS and get some straight A cleaner. Fill a large container (I used a new Rubbermaid garbage can) with water and a few tablespoons of the cleaner. Sink your bottles and let them soak overnight. Remove bottles and you will find all of your labels at the bottom of the container - glue and all! This will not work with foil labels.

 

[govner1]

Picked up my new HLT w/ ball valve, sight glass, & flexible Blichmann Brewmometer.

 

[Auger]

Made a starter last night, kicked in the second step tonight to get up to 2L in preparation for brewing this weekend.

 

[Zepth]

Acquired a fridge to convert to fermentation chamber. Plugged it in and nothing happened but the light bulb turning on when the door was opened. Couple minutes later I had the compressor plugged directly to wall outlet and it purred to life and made refridgerant moving sounds and the coils inside got cool. Unplugged the monstrosity at that point before there was an incident.

So it seems my STC-1000 will be bypassing every bit of manufacturer recommended wiring. I plan to splice it in to run that fan beside the compressor in parallel, I'm sure it's there for a reason as it seems to share the same stock circuit. Only caveat is no internal lighting at this point. I'll survive.

 

[1977Brewer]

Many a fridge has been kept grudging by bypassing everything you can. Good job.

 

[unionrdr]

Cleaned up the man cave/brewery for mortgage inspector later. Trying to save more money on this fancy dog house. And we all know what that means...

 

[Rotor_Head]

I also cleaned my man cave today (see Naval Aviation Home Bar thread) and made..... wait for it. MAPLE BACON Brown Ale. BOOM!! OG. 1.60... If I read the hydrometer right.

 

[drainbamage]

Finished tweaking a DIPA recipe. I bought all the hops and yeast when the nearest LHBS closed last month, but I need to pick up the grains tomorrow. Brewing Sunday (I hope)?

 

[Zepth]

Many a fridge has been kept grudging by bypassing everything you can. Good job.

Also finished stripping it today. Nothing non - cooling related left. Lines for the ice maker, the ice maker bucket, rails for the flimsy shelving, the panel that had temperature control knobs, all gone. Blank slate. Somebody did the courtesy of removing the cardboard from the rear which is apparently an integral baffle in some instances. I can conjure something up as a replacement.

That's what I did for beer today. Still working on scrubbing some of the "used appliance gunk" off. Almost there. Wait I lied. I didn't strip the doors down yet.

 

[themachinist]

Currently brewing some stout partigyle style. 3.5 gal 1.100 imperial stout and 5.5 gal "small stout" not realy lol 1.055. All from the same grain bill. Added just a little dme. It was a full mash tun.

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[Rotor_Head]

Checked the Maple Bacon to see how its fermenting. Looks good. Recipe recommends 67-70 deg but I'm running 72-73. No fermenter so we we'll see what it gives us.

 

[Rotor_Head]

Maple Bacon. and Guns. and Freedom.