What I did for beer today

[gometz]

Bought the ingredients for my table saison and made a starter off brett C. The brett is for a barley wine I made last year that's been adding with brett already, I'm going to make a starter to get the pitch used to high alcohol content. The idea is to add more brett so that it'll munch through the rest. It's only gone from 1.024 to 1.018 in about 10 months.

 

[beerluvva]

Euphemism?

Never heard that one...but my bottles are very,very clean.

 

[beerluvva]

Pumpkin truly has a mild taste in and of itself. But a lot of so called "pumpkin" beers should really be called "pumpkin and spice" beers. Where theres loads of nutmeg, cinnamon, etc.



AKA . . . disgusting

Some pumpkin ales have no pumpkin just the pie spices

 

[Ms_Goodlife]

Pumpkin truly has a mild taste in and of itself. But a lot of so called "pumpkin" beers should really be called "pumpkin and spice" beers. Where theres loads of nutmeg, cinnamon, etc.

AKA . . . disgusting

Naa I made it with beautiful caramelised roast pumpkin and spices but not an overload of them. Hopefully as it matures it will develop some tasty aromas and flavour.

 

[unionrdr]

Looked up the NB priming calculator for Irish red & 2.2 Vco2 sounds good. Gotta get to makin' sure the bottling bucket is clean & ready to sanitize after I get 2C water boiling for a couple minutes. Gonna have to check my dry stout & see if it's ready for oaking in secondary yet.

 

[razyrsharpe]

Consumed a few, contemplated a brewing session on Sunday... and downloaded several charts and graphs concerning beer from Pinterest. shut up.

 

[unionrdr]

Got done bottling 10 minutes ago, got 50 1/2 bottles of Irish red. Used some orange caps this time just to be different & see how they work in the long run. Took 2 hours from set up to done. This kottbusser tastes better after conditioning a couple months & like 2 weeks fridge time. More saison aroma, but almost no saison taste anymore. Might just be getting my dry stout into secondary on oak & 8 year old bourbon tomorrow. Dng rain ruined my garlic butter chicken bbq~@@!$#$%^^#$*$%#@$@!

 

[govner1]

Made Beer Candied Bacon for a club brew day

 

[geek_chaser]

Bottled my beer late last night. Just in time for me to pack for our move.

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[1fast636]

Got this for trade of a homebrew six pack I'm not complaining lol
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[unionrdr]

Cleaning up after bottling yesterday. Darn back & hips only let me do so much. Nice to see the pipeline starting to fill again! Nice trade for the bench capper!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Built this and celebrated with a $10 bomber RIS. Will control fermentation temperature much better now I think.

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[ThirstyPawsHB]

Consumed a few, contemplated a brewing session on Sunday... and downloaded several charts and graphs concerning beer from Pinterest. shut up.

I won't shut up. Your living a dream...beer..charts...brewing.... Awesome!!

 

[BrewinBromanite]

...Opened up to find my 5.5 gal batch drained to just over the 3 gal mark.

Apparently in my rush, and dark garage, I shoved the blow off tube down into the liquid. Doh!!! Yeah, don't do that...

I'll try and be optimistic. Still smells great and fermentation still chugging along, with what's left of it...

... Bottled this today. Ended up with 2.75 gal in the bottle. Still pissed it should have been at least 5. Tasted great though, so not a total fail. Had a nice moderate bitterness and good citrus cascade hop flavor. Should be really nice after carbing up.

Also got ingredients in for a hefe with WLP300 to brew in a couple weeks (Frank's Hefeweizen from Midwest). Picked up a pair of 6.5 gal big mouth bubblers in their buy 1 get 1 from last weekend, and thought a nice light hefe sounded good for summertime.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

... Bottled this today. Ended up with 2.75 gal in the bottle. Still pissed it should have been at least 5. Tasted great though, so not a total fail. Had a nice moderate bitterness and good citrus cascade hop flavor. Should be really nice after carbing up.

Also got ingredients in for a hefe with WLP300 to brew in a couple weeks (Frank's Hefeweizen from Midwest). Picked up a pair of 6.5 gal big mouth bubblers in their buy 1 get 1 from last weekend, and thought a nice light hefe sounded good for summertime.

Glad it ended up nicely for you. One thing you'll never do again...check that off the list.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, after getting 50 1/2 12oz bottles of my Buckeye Red Friday, I was faced with the usual clean-up of buckets, hoses, etc. Then, it crossed my mind Friday night while trying to get to sleep to just try the garden hose. I rinses the yeast out of the primary bucket & flushed it, as usual. Figured the caker near the corner of my lot in the sewwy hole system could use the help?
Anyway, I then took the primary, bottling bucket & home depot bucket outside & turned on the hose. I adjusted it for a tight spray of 2-3 inches at the point of contact. As long as the gunk is still wet/moist, it blasts right off slick as a hound's tooth! The krausen ring came right off with no sticky residue. Ran a gallon or so of clean water through the spigots as well. I love this quick & dirty way of getting my buckets clean! No more measuring out PBW into them, then hauling water back & forth, which with my bad joints takes seemingly forever. Then draining/rinsing/drying. Funk that! I'll just hose'em down real quick from now on to save time & water. :rockin::rockin:

 

[Arty76]

Raining like crazy today, perfect day to brew, I'm doing a Wheat beer but i"m using a mixture of three yeasts I had from previous batches, A wienstephan 3068, A White labs WLP-833 bock, and a White labs WLP-320 American wheat.
We'll see how it turns out, it's a good experiment.

 

[unionrdr]

Was raining pretty good here for an hour at least. Thunder-boomers led the storm in from a distance. The 1st FG on my dry stout was 1.012. Still a bit green tasting, but some roasty coffee flavor showing through from the English chocolate malt.

 

[gometz]

Raining like crazy today, perfect day to brew, I'm doing a Wheat beer but i"m using a mixture of three yeasts I had from previous batches, A wienstephan 3068, A White labs WLP-833 bock, and a White labs WLP-320 American wheat.
We'll see how it turns out, it's a good experiment.

Not sure if the 833 is a good idea, it likes it a lot colder than the others.

 

[gometz]

As for what I did: brewed an table saison with oats and bottles a sour saison.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Kegged my Stormy Sundae APA.

 

[unionrdr]

Measured out some PBW in my gallon jug to make more cleaner solution. Go some bottles to clean yet. At least the man cave/brewery is looking better. If FG is stable tomorrow or Wednesday, I can get my dry stout into secondary with the oak & bourbon. Glad I realized the garden hose cleans gunky fermenters quick & easy. Saves time & money.

 

[Ski12568]

Finally got a batch going in the new home. German Pilsner
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[ThirstyPawsHB]

Measured out some PBW in my gallon jug to make more cleaner solution. Go some bottles to clean yet. At least the man cave/brewery is looking better. If FG is stable tomorrow or Wednesday, I can get my dry stout into secondary with the oak & bourbon. Glad I realized the garden hose cleans gunky fermenters quick & easy. Saves time & money.

Hope yours will turn out better then mine.

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[catdaddy66]

Changed out frozen water bottles (2L) in my two swamp coolers in prep of the anticipated high temp of 103* today.

 

[unionrdr]

Hope yours will turn out better then mine.

Looks great, save for the easy-to-get big head. Mine needs to finish & get rid of some green flavor from the 1st FG sample Sunday. Tasted like roasty coffee with a bit of semi-sweet chocolate so far. I used Black Prinz & English chocolate malt in the mash. I have 1 1/2ozs American white oak chips on a little Beam's Black 8 year-old bourbon in the fridge.

 

[brisboy]

Burned my fingers brewing my first crack at a blonde ale. Better taste really good!

 

[unionrdr]

Burned my fingers brewing my first crack at a blonde ale. Better taste really good!

Don't do dat!

 

[Peruvian802]

Balling a blonde

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[1fast636]

Well I sandblasted the rusted areas and revamped the springs with some that were around work

Before:
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After:
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