What I did for beer today

[Pkrd]

I picked up some stick on blackboard vinyl yesterday. Cut it into beer glass shapes and stuck it behind the kegerator, so now I know what I'm drinking.

 

[unionrdr]

Cleaned a ton of bottles, including four new Grolsch ones. Got 8 or so to go. Then more home brews in the fridge for 40th reunion in a couple weeks.

 

[Gonefishing]

Bought OxyClean Free and cleaned some stuff up. Getting ready to dry hop a brew that I hope fermented out enough before my basement temp got too warm.

 

[philipCT]

Day off duties: Replaced the drain basket in the brewery sink. Freakin thing's been leaking for weeks. Also rebuilt the faucets cause they were leaking too.

Then I got down to brewsness: gelled an IPA that had been cold crashed a couple days ago, sterilized a couple of pint mason jars, collected some yeast slurry from the Rye PA, checked SG on that - day 13 and likely done at 1.012. Tasted the hydro sample - sultry and delicious. Time for dry hopping tomorrow!

 

[ImpendingDisaster]

Got my first ever lager into to a keg to secondary and put it back in my lagering freezer. Kegged my cream ale and stuck it in there two. Tapped a keg of witbier. Tonight I'll make some cider.

 

[Peruvian802]

Star-San snakes aren't scary.

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[unionrdr]

Kinda reminds me of those black pellet things you light that make " snakes".

 

[fimpster]

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I switched to SaniClean (also by Five Star) for my kegs and carboys. No more snakes. It's the low foam version of Star San but requires a 3 minute contact time... no bigs.

 

[catdaddy66]

Stopped by the LHBS and got a bunch of supplies like DME, bottling wand and a floating thermometer, 2#'s each of Vienna and Carspils, and a great big sack of this...View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1436643594.169965.jpg

 

[unionrdr]

SWMBO got after me this morning to clean the dusty bottles in my collection on top of the computer hutch. I've had them all over the bottling table, the hutch, & the fermenter stand. All three are reaching critical mass! So I had her help me get all the bottles down so I could dust'em off & stash'em in the plain boxes I was using for rotation bottles. Slid'em under the drop-leaf table against the front wall for storage till I can get the labels off intact. Out of sight, out of mind for now. Guess my son's going to get a couple batches worth of bottles. That's if he's still gonna brew those beers with me?
At any rate, the room looks a little less cluttered, so SWMBO's happy & I got one less area with so much to keep clean.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Passed a garage sale on the way home earlier and thought I saw some kegs. Went back and checked them out. Of 4, only one had a lid, one was dented beyond disbelief, and another was a racetrack style without a lid. I grabbed the 2 good ones for $16. I had a few extra lids floating around too. Score!

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[catdaddy66]

Dry hopped my IPA with 2ozs of centennial. Planned my next brew for this weekend.

 

[Ski12568]

Brewed an American wheat. Everything went well until flameout. Let's see how resilient this batch is...

 

[Peruvian802]

A friend is letting me borrow his jockey box for a HB fest. Thank god I have a few weeks. This thing is disgusting! First step is disassembly and an oxyclean bath.

 

[Gonefishing]

Over the last few days I have purchased 3 kegs (pin locks... paid $110 for the three), 1 gas in fitting, 1 beer out fitting, a picnic tap and line and ingredients for a dark beer.
Tonight I'm kegging one or two brews.

 

[NewJersey]

Bought some stuff.
8 5/8" wide SS hop spider
2 screw cap stainless dry hop tubes
Williams o2 kit for big oxygen tanks.
Stepping up my game a lil bit

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I oxycleaned 2 kegs the other night and swapped out an empty co2 tank yesterday. Today I plan on getting a beer kegged and cleaning a few more new to me kegs. We'll see how motivated I am at the end of the day.

 

[mgortel]

Transferred CHocolate Milk Stout to secondary and added Cocao Nibs.......now just to wait

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Oxycleaning 4 more kegs today. Might get to kegging a beer in a bit.

 

[brewbama]

bought the ingredients I didn't already have for tomorrow's brew and kegged my last brewday creation.

 

[Gonefishing]

Tonight I Oxy cleaned one of the pin lock kegs I bought last SUnday... gassed it up ro push Oxy and then sanitizer through the tube. So far I think I like the thing more than ball locks...why aren't these more popular?

 

[andvari7]

I bottled my IIPA. I somehow managed to get it right. Floaty protein break, but Whirlfloc does that. Smelled trubby, looked clear, and tasted like flat beer with bits of protein and yeast in it. I used palm sugar to condition. Having been out of the game for eighteen months, I had forgotten about the cleanup.

 

[Livendadream]

Bottled a Hefeweizen, I need to start kegging!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Babysitting a sour mash.

 

[razyrsharpe]

bottling today... a Munich / Glacier SMaSH.

 

[catdaddy66]

Very busy day doing almost anything non brewing related. Cleaning (bottles and fermenters/buckets), bottling my dempfbier and planning tomorrow's brew day. Going to do a second saison. And going to do this while watching the UFC on TV!

What?? I'll take breaks...

 

[Ski12568]

Began listening to the 2014 NHC conferences that interest me.

 

[unionrdr]

Just my luck to have a muggy day for our 40th high school reunion. But I've got at least one taker to share a 12'r of my home brews with later. Buckeye red & the Kottbusser. Whiskely isn't ready yet.

 

[Beernik]

Pulled a sample from my wheat-stout-thing. It fermented completely in less than a week.

It ended up browner and less malty because of the extra volume from a grain absorption / BIAB / brew calculator default problem. But I still ended up with a 5.4% beer because of some awesome efficiency from the new grain mill.

 

[Aaron1983]

shared my Saison with HBT!!! A recipe that turned out well for me. One of those, "I wish someone would invent taste-o-vision for the internet" moments. Doing an Irish Red with cherries tomorrow, i'll keep you all posted.