What I did for beer today

[Pour_Man]

Built a mega cheap carboy/keg cleaner from a harbor freight pond pump, a bucket and some stainless tubing. Cleaned 3 kegs, racked into them and cleaned 3 carboys in about an hour and a half!

 

[razyrsharpe]

bought fresh pineapple to rack my American Wheat onto tomorrow.

 

[CJ-3]

Brewed 5 gallons of Yooper's FYB.

 

[Pkrd]

Kegged my American Stout.

 

[1977Brewer]

Bottling my Mosaic blonde...late. Oh well. It's still Saturday.

 

[KVANTAN]

Distributed my centennial blonde to friends and family to rave reviews....sniffed the airlock to my Mandarina hopped ale many times.

 

[1977Brewer]

Distributed my centennial blonde to friends and family to rave reviews....sniffed the airlock to my Mandarina hopped ale many times.

I'm your friend, didn't get one. Jerk.


Bottling time. I've hired local alchies to do this but they never show. Next time, I pay them after they're done.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I went to my lhbs and picked up ingredients for my next 3 batches, kicked a keg, cleaned the line and faucet, and had a few.

 

[razyrsharpe]

Racked my wheat beer into the secondary on top of 4.4 lbs of pineapple. Hoping it will be tasty!

 

[govner1]

Cleaned a keg from dry stout that kicked, racked my Grapefruit Wheat IPA to secondary & dry hopped w/ 2oz of Mosaic, cleaned up equipment & cleaned carboys.

 

[Jaybird]

Pitted and squashed 5 pounds of apricots and got them in the freezer awaiting a 12 gallon batch of Apricot Wheat for the ladies this summer!

Gonna try 50/50 MO and White wheat.....

Cheers
Jay

 

[JonM]

Double brewday. I did a batch of Orfy's Mild and then (after a quick lunch) immediately started a Simcoe Amarillo IPA. I went from 5:30 to about 12:30, which is about what a single batch takes me in the winter (you know, when I can't use the garden hose to clean as I go, can't use the plate chiller because sub-freezing temps will damage it, etc.) So I think I'm going to make this a habit. I just need to do one batch in to two-fer to not require precise temp control because there's only room for one in the ferm chamber. I'm thinking as the weather warms up, I might do things like saisons as the bonus, outside the fermentation chamber beer.

 

[erick0619]

Got to bottling two 2.5 gallon smash ales

 

[FossilHead]

I checked on my Irish red ale in primary. Still bubbling away

 

[Baja_Brewer]

(yesterday)
Purchased Beersmith2 and updated my ingredients library. Having a more difficult than expected time importing recipes.
Dumped ~30 bottles from two batches that were infected and not improving after 3 months in the bottle.
Washed those and delabeled another 40 bottles I had sitting around.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

(yesterday)
Purchased Beersmith2 and updated my ingredients library. Having a more difficult than expected time importing recipes.
Dumped ~30 bottles from two batches that were infected and not improving after 3 months in the bottle.
Washed those and delabeled another 40 bottles I had sitting around.

Importing recipes from Beersmith database or other suppliers (Northern Brewer, etc)? Sorry to hear about infections, not a good feeling dumping beer. If you give details on your procedure, maybe we can assist.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Importing recipes from Beersmith database or other suppliers (Northern Brewer, etc)? Sorry to hear about infections, not a good feeling dumping beer. If you give details on your procedure, maybe we can assist.

Other- I'm pulling down the recipes I've crafted (scaled) for my PicoBrew and wanted to give them their own (designated) recipes subfolder. I'm on a Mac and I can drag and drop the .xml recipes into Beersmith and they open, but they don't seem to easily save to a sub folder. I've also looked for the folder I've created in the beersmith file database, no dice.

I know how the beer got infected. I rushed 3 batches and thought I had cleaned all my gear but neglected to disassemble my CO2 breakout block before force carving. It was pretty gross after sitting unused for 5 years. All three tasted a little funny going into bottles but I figured they were a little green. After 2 weeks they were worse. It took me another 2 weeks to track it back to the block after going through all of my other gear again. One of the three batches only got short spurts of pressure rather than staying constantly connected for days- seems it made s difference.

Upside: They all cleared up real nice after being in the bottle that long!

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I planted 2 rhizomes with help from my son, racked a batch of blonde onto strawberries, and rebrewed the base beer. I'll call it a productive day...

 

[Oceantendency]

I dropped off my bottles of Chicken Chap Brown Ale and Juniskeet Smoked Wheat for the Karl Strauss Pro-Am Homebrew contest.

 

[unionrdr]

I wrote some more of my 2nd home brewing book. Gotta see if the Irish red's cleared up yet. Maybe take a 1st Fg on the dry stout?

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Other- I'm pulling down the recipes I've crafted (scaled) for my PicoBrew and wanted to give them their own (designated) recipes subfolder. I'm on a Mac and I can drag and drop the .xml recipes into Beersmith and they open, but they don't seem to easily save to a sub folder. I've also looked for the folder I've created in the beersmith file database, no dice.

I know how the beer got infected. I rushed 3 batches and thought I had cleaned all my gear but neglected to disassemble my CO2 breakout block before force carving. It was pretty gross after sitting unused for 5 years. All three tasted a little funny going into bottles but I figured they were a little green. After 2 weeks they were worse. It took me another 2 weeks to track it back to the block after going through all of my other gear again. One of the three batches only got short spurts of pressure rather than staying constantly connected for days- seems it made s difference.

Upside: They all cleared up real nice after being in the bottle that long!

Doubt if I can be helpful, no mac. Brewing my clone of a local brew pub favorite. Been 2 months since last brew. Love that smell! Drinking HB while doing HB.

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[signpost]

I topped off the airlocks on four carboys of sour beer. Then proceeded to ogle at the pellicles for a few minutes. However, the most recent batch is still pellicle-less. All in due time, I guess.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Cleaned some bottles, re-upped my base water supply composition spreadsheet with new data.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Investigated and utilized new water profile. This has new brew has less chloride (55) and sulfate (207) then my other IPAs. Interested in outcome. Also, against my intuition, oxygenated the wort by transferring between fermenters for, hopefully, better yeast productivity without hop oil disintegration. Can't wait for results...but shaking at the knees.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, after another Fg sample of the Irish red, it's cleared a little bit, bit still suspended stuff in it. It's apparently finishing kind of slow, it went from 1.012 to 1.010 in about a week. I wish this batch of S-04 had a little more giddy up to it.

 

[mrkrausen]

Went and picked up a sack of pale ale malt, maris otter and pilsner malt from a group grain buy. Also finally got a water sample sent off to Ward Labs to see what I'm working with. I can't wait to start tweaking my water and hopefully improving my beers!:rockin: Now if we could possibly have a dry day on my days off so I can brew. It's killing me.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Flashed my Picobrew to the newest Firmware.

Built and setup (if you can call it that) a recipe for a SMaSH Maris Otter/Mosaic Pale Ale - should come in around 1.05 OG and 33 IBU before I dry hop it. I'll be kicking it off first thing in the AM.

Also go around to putting away the 75+ empty clean bottles I have into 6-pack holders.

 

[CJ-3]

Today I assembled my new propane burner and started cutting out the shape of my mash paddle.

 

[BrewinBromanite]

Made a WLP007 starter this am for my summer pale ale I'm brewing tomorrow. Looking forward to my first brew day in quite a while!!

 

[JonM]

Pressure canned 5 pints of sterile wort for starters (seriously - I should have started doing that long, long ago. It makes starters so easy.) then I re-inoculated some slants of 1028. I had been using the 1028 slants so much that they were almost picked clean, so now I should have some fresh stuff. Then I went and got some odds and ends at the LHBS and re-pitched the mild that seems to be stuck. How the heck does a 1.037 beer with a proper pitch of yeast, 1 min of O2 and a dash of nutrient get stuck!?! Ugh.