What I did for beer today

[Baja_Brewer]

Ordered a new digital thermometer. Old one sat in the drink a bit too long.

 

[razyrsharpe]

got ready to bottle, then got severely pissed when i found my batch was infected! second in a row with an infection. damn. going on a cleaning tear now, F**K those little microscopic bastards. i will defeat them.

 

[Gonefishing]

Drank a glass of the Snowy Mountain APA that I kegged last week. Dissappointed to find hop pieces in suspension...drank it anyway.

 

[Qhrumphf]

got ready to bottle, then got severely pissed when i found my batch was infected! second in a row with an infection. damn. going on a cleaning tear now, F**K those little microscopic bastards. i will defeat them.

Bleach Bomb time, eh?

 

[drainbamage]

Did some *cough* "quality control" testing on my saison. I think it's ready.

It's pretty tasty!

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[uatuba]

I brewed a Fuggles IPA extract kit yesterday and came to the realization that, when using steeping grains for extract, those kits take me almost as long as my AG recipes. Since I heat my strike water while I crush my grain, heat the first running a while sparging the grain, and clean my AG equipment while the wort is cooling, my brew day for AG is literally only about 30 minutes longer (I steeped the specialty grains for 30 minutes). I bought the kits because Midwest was running a deal--3 kits for $17 each--and I thought it would help me get my pipeline going quickly since I'm about to take my annual four month brewing hiatus.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Lautered Thursday's sour mash, split the runnings evenly, one half also got the sparge runnings and some coriander and salt (Gose) in the boil, the other got no sparge runnings of the sour mash, but instead got a separate BIAB mash of 100% rauchmalz that was blended back in with its half of the sour mash (Lichtenhainer). Both hopped with Tettenanger to about 7 IBUs.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Dry hopped zombie dust, cleaned a keg, and filled another with a mixed fruit blonde. Need to do plenty of other stuff but ran out of time and energy. At least the back lawn is mowed so I can take care of other suff tomorrow.

 

[andvari7]

I bought the makings for a new beer. The best way to describe it is this: The Brewer's Best Red Ale kit, with different (read: not expired) extracts - the stock kit comes with 2x 3.3lb. cans of Briess CBW Golden Light Malt Extract, and I'm using one can of Briess CBW Munich, and one of CBW Rye - and new (read: not expired) hops - same varietals (Fuggle, EKG), but I'm going with leaf, rather than pellet.

It'll probably be awful, but experimentation is part of the fun of homebrewing, so...

 

[govner1]

Racked my Lemondrop/El Dorado IPA to secondary & dry hopped w/ 2oz of Citra

 

[geek_chaser]

The laundry room in our new house is big enough that my husband let me put up a "brewing office" for my equipment and recipes.

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[JonM]

Got ingredients for the Columbus IPA I'll do next weekend, and then started a starter of Bell's yeast. I poured the dregs from one Oberon into 150 ml of wort on the stir plate, so hopefully it'll take off and I can step it up.

Other than that, I dug into some fun stuff in the fridge. I tried Anderson Valley's "The Kimmie, the Yink, and the Holy Gose," Ethos IPA, and that Oberon for the starter.

 

[unionrdr]

Got some grain & hop bags soaking some stains out & bottles to clean today. Drank some of my PM Irish red & kottbusser over the weekend. The Irish red turned out pretty close to descriptions I've read, so that's good.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Added six plus ounces of dry hops to my rye DIPA. This included over two ounces of homegrown cascade hops courtesy of @Coyote68 -thanks Joe!
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[SupervisingChildren]

Went to get my carboy to transfer a blonde onto strawberries and realized that it was nasty, so doing an oxyclean soak to hopefully clean it up. If it's not completely clean I'll use a washcloth to take care of the krausen layer crud tomorrow.

 

[hifidelity]

Transferred a Maris Otter/ Mosaic SMaSH to secondary to dryhop. Yesterday I sampled the first pint of a Dry Irish Stout I kegged on Saturday and it's freaking amazing.

 

[Sammy86]

Gave a fellow home brewer some advice on a stalled fermentation problem...then checked my own gravity on American Wheat reached my FG of 1.009-1.010. Cold crashing and getting ready to keg on Wednesday!

Cheers!

 

[coyote68]

Added six plus ounces of dry hops to my rye DIPA. This included over two ounces of homegrown cascade hops courtesy of @Coyote68 -thanks Joe!
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You're welcome!!

 

[catdaddy66]

Harvesting some Munich yeast from the trub of my Dampfbier.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Ordered 6x3 gallon pinlock loose handle kegs from AIH (loose handle/bottoms are solved with JB Weld, incase anyone didn't know that) 3x corny fermenter lids, caps, and grains for a few more brews.

 

[JonM]

Stepped up a starter - check this out: I put the dregs of a single bottle of Oberon into 150 ml of sterile wort and let it go on the stir plate for 48 hours. Last night I stepped it up to just over a liter and this morning it is rocking! Huge krausen, wonderful beery aroma. Awesome.

 

[hifidelity]

Put my Maris Otter/ Mosaic SMaSH (MOMSmash) in the fridge to cold crash. I like cold crashing in the fridge instead of just cranking down the temp in the chest freezer fermentation chamber. Since it's off the ground a couple feet I can rack it to a keg without moving it immediately after cold crashing and not stir up any sediment in the process.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brewed 1st session IPA. But came out at 1.054 so don't think it'll qualify. 8.5oz of hops total.

 

[Gonefishing]

Just got back from picking up two free plastic brewing buckets. I knew one was a 5 gallon and that one is a 6.5, but didn't know the bigger one has a spigot, so I'm happy. They are very clean and still white as a wedding dress, so I'm planning to give them a cleaning and a sanitizing and put them to work. Think I might just take advantage of that spigot and bottle the next batch so I can give most of it to my son.
Now I'm off to put some gelatin in a keg... first time for that.

 

[govner1]

Cleaned 3 three kegs & the respective kegerator lines. All three kicked w/ in 48 hours.
I need to get busy brewing. Only two beers in the pipeline.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Cleaned 3 three kegs & the respective kegerator lines. All three kicked w/ in 48 hours.
I need to get busy brewing. Only two beers in the pipeline.

I had both of mine kick in successive pours tonight. Cleaned out my beer lines, sanitized them, and threw a keg in the kegerator to hopefully have one keg on tap tomorrow. I have 2 beers and 2 apfelwein fermenting but need to get brewing...

 

[Gonefishing]

Even though it's 1:07 am I'm in the process of adding gelatine to a keg. I'll also put the gas on it tonight because the current keg is going to kick very soon...like the next pint or two.
My plan tomorrow is clean, maybe brew and then pick up a 5 cf Craigslist freezer that the guy wants $15 for.

 

[NewJersey]

Just ordered three new perlick 650ss control flows with SS shanks to replace the tires chrome stuff on my kegerator

 

[NewJersey]

Ooh, also kegged my sessiin ipa and got em carbing @30psi @40*

 

[Firewalker11]

got ready to bottle, then got severely pissed when i found my batch was infected! second in a row with an infection. damn. going on a cleaning tear now, F**K those little microscopic bastards. i will defeat them.

Go get emm tiger!