What I did for beer today

[Alpotun]

Bottling my Dark Saison

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[govner1]

Brewed a 6 gal AG batch of Redheaded Rye Child Amber. Moved my Edmund Fitzgerald Porter to secondary.
Cleaned up.

 

[Hulud]

Finally made my stir plate. My dad sourced the magnet out of an old hard drive for me almost a year ago. I never procrastinate.....View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1439174332.572161.jpg

 

[DrunkleJon]

Thats a sweet looking stirplate. What is that, an old jewelry box?

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Washed these. Gonna finish rebuilding them after dinner and make a keg of starsan.

Little bit of work but at $40/ea after the conversion posts and not including shipping, worth it!

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[CJ-3]

Today I updated my blog.

Then I breathed a sigh of relief because my Strong Scottish Ale finally started to show signs of fermenting. Nottingham Ale yeast was pretty slow to start on this one, almost a 30 hour lag from pitching to showing signs of action. Now it's roaring away!

 

[smitty8202]

Kegged my hefe hoping to have fully carbed beer by friday

 

[noggins]

got my co2 tank and regulator in my (soon to be) keezer freezerator freezeg kegzer keezerg!

 

[EtchyLives]

Stared lovingly at my bubbling carboy. A few more days until I cold crash both this one and the one I'm dry-hopping. I should keg by the weekend.

 

[Hulud]

Thats a sweet looking stirplate. What is that, an old jewelry box?

Thanks! Yea that's exactly what it is. Sweet find at the goodwill store haha got the box and a charger cable as I only have iPhone ones which don't work well for computer fans. Walked out paying $5

 

[Hulud]

Put in an EvaDry Wireless Dehumidifier and computer fan in my keezer and fermentation chamber to help keep it dry and more consistent temp throughout them.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Brewing today, hoppy amber IPA, didn't start out amber but boiled for 90 minutes and it just keeps getting darker

 

[chisena]

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Sent the Wife to pick up some Lambic Blend after work today. Not her top priority so she needs reminders...

 

[finsfan]

Built a table and stands for my two 15 gallon barrels. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1439347257.477564.jpg

 

[chisena]

Built a table and stands for my two 15 gallon barrels.

Very nice! Where'd you get your barrels?

 

[erick0619]

Since i finally have a batch fermenting ive started assembling my kegerator

 

[markvale5]

Was about to extend the copper pipe heat exchanger in my kegerator til I realized I didn't have the fittings I need. So I just cleaned my CO2 line and prepped my work area for a Saturday brewing session.

 

[Rotor_Head]

So I kegged a couple batches from 2 weeks ago; a Hazelnut Brown and a Blackberry Wheat. Both were LME LHBS kits so at least the grain was fresh. The jump to AG is soon approaching. Stuck'em on 30 pounds of CO2 a piece and wound it down to 10 48 hours later. Here's hoping it comes out to be worth a ****. I take another pull this weekend and report back.

 

[finsfan]

Very nice! Where'd you get your barrels?

Keystone homebrew.

 

[noggins]

I just kegged my first batch!!! Sooooo much better than bottling. Waaaaaay faster, def worth the money. Can't wait to taste it in a couple weeks :rockin:

Foam Monster!!!

It's so lonely

 

[JustLooking]

No gas line? Not going to carb like that. Did you seat the lid?

 

[noggins]

No gas line? Not going to carb like that. Did you seat the lid?

I've got a bluetooth regulator. It's hard to see in the pic but as long as the keg is within 15 feet of the regulator it will get gas.

 

[user 141939]

I've got a bluetooth regulator. It's hard to see in the pic but as long as the keg is within 15 feet of the regulator it will get gas.

Love it.

 

[hifidelity]

Drinking a dry irish stout I kegged yesterday. It's a little undercarbed but oh so yummy. Lots of coffee and bittersweet chocolate.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Pulled the spear out of a sanke I got. Gotta do the other in the next few days and then rinse and then cut both.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Dry-hopped my mango saison. Was going to put in 2oz, but the hops had a mind of their own so it ended up 2.5oz of Mosaic. Who am I to question hops?

 

[Psylocide]

Dry-hopped my mango saison. Was going to put in 2oz, but the hops had a mind of their own so it ended up 2.5oz of Mosaic. Who am I to question hops?

Welp... my mouth is watering now.

 

[EtchyLives]

I'll be pulling the dry hops (3oz Citra... I guess they'll be wet by then, though) from my IPA and then cold crashing both my ESB and the IPA tonight. The day cannot end fast enough.

 

[PlexVector]

I was racking an IPA last week that was dry hopped with galaxy and after opening my eyes after a clamped sneeze I saw a plug of green run through the hose. Unfortunately this was while I was trying to get that last little bit of beer and my hand shook during the sneeze. It didn't look like much at the time, but last night took the first pour and the disconnects plugged up immediately. Depressurized, cleaned the poppets, gas, pour, plugged again. After three times I left the poppets out of the disconnects and after three beers still got hop. It didn't look like much at the time of the accident.

Beer tastes great, but has clumps of green in the bottom of the glass. It'll clear before kicked for sure, but PITA! Also left a note to self beside disconnects not to remove unless zero PSI. That would be a hell of a geyser! I was thinking maybe doing a Randell as a filter possibly. I'll have to see what whole hops are available that go with Galaxy.

I guess I'm calling this one Allergy IPA.

 

[TampaGary]

Kicked a keg of Düsseldorf Alt.