What I did for beer today

[philipCT]

Had a few of my local guys over to the basement tap room outside the brewery. One friend is a distiller and walks in with a one gallon oak barrel with bourbon that had been aging for four months. So we tasted the five brews I had on tap and sampled his bourbon. At cask strength. Pretty damned tasty and wicked hot. Stevie Ray Vaughn on the box. Great little evening.

 

[unionrdr]

I'd have loved that! Sounds like a good evening. Checked my English bitter & got a 1.012. Should be done, but I'll check it tomorrow or Monday to see if it is. Can't wait to get the malt vinegar going.

 

[MattyIce]

Harvested the yeast from this 750ml bottle of La Fin Du Monde. A week from today, I'll be doing a tripel of my own.

BTW...If I can fit 750ml of Belgian tripel into ONE glass, it still only counts as ONE beer right?

 

[Rhumbline]

I finally assembled my fermentation controller and got it running. I'm doing a burn in now and things seem to be working ok.

I included humidity control so I can use the chamber for cheese and curing meats.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

replace my old ssrs, 5 years old in my control panel, then decided to rewire the box NEATLY this time, taking longer than I hoped lol

 

[smAllGrain]

Tore my first keg apart to clean. Soaking in PBW now. Hope it gets rid of the pepsi smell

 

[MattyIce]

I finally assembled my fermentation controller and got it running. I'm doing a burn in now and things seem to be working ok.

I included humidity control so I can use the chamber for cheese and curing meats.

Can you provide details on humidity control?

 

[Rhumbline]

Can you provide details on humidity control?

Sure, I used a WH8040 Humidity Controller. It's the humidity version of the STC1000. Got mine on EBAY for not too much money.

It has a humidity sensor and temp sensor for correction. You can set it up to either control a humidifier or dehumidifier.

Wiring and programming are just as simple as the STC1000. You set a target humidity % and it will either trigger the dehumidifier when that threshold is exceeded, or the humidifier when it is not met, based on what mode you have it in. You cannot control both humidifier and dehumidifier simultaneously.

I have mine wired to a standard electrical outlet mounted in an enclosure. I've also got the STC1000 in there as well.

It was all very simple and I've probably got $65 or so in it.

 

[Hackwood]

Finally brewed after not brewing for a year.

 

[Destovi]

Almost time to drop the IC into 5 gallons of Yoopers DFH 60 clone.

 

[chisena]

Brewed another URCA Vanilla Porter tonight after putting the carpet-munchers to bed. Gonna double the vanilla beans this time. Loved the stuff last go-round. Hit 1.057 of the recipe's stated 1.061. Close enough for me on my eBIAB single vessel system. Chill overnight and pitch the 1056 starter tomorrow AM while I sip coffee from my environment-killing landfill-fillin' Keurig.

 

[garguy]

Cooked a batch of raspberry harvest ale, then cleaned the labels off of a dozen or so empties. Getting ready for bottling day next weekend.

 

[1977Brewer]

I opened at least ten bottles. If I could feel it, my wrist might hurt.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Brewing my annual turbid-mashed Lamebic.

 

[govner1]

Cleaned a keg that kicked & the line in my kegerator before tapping another keg.

 

[erick0619]

Went to the lhbs to pick up some dme and yeast for an upcoming mexican lager im brewing for my pops. Needed three vials of wlp 940 they only had 2 so guy at the lhbs told me to make up for it with wlp 830 well see how it goes.

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[CJ-3]

Bottled 5 gallons of Strong Scotch Ale.

 

[italarican]

Had a friend over for a sour tasting. He normally drinks nothing but Bud Light and helped me move last month. When we were taking a break, I got out the Bud Light I'd bought as a thank you, and he asked to try the homebrew sour (Flanders Red) I had cracked. He loved it and called me the next day to say he couldn't stop thinking about it and wanted to know where he could get something like that, so I set up a tasting of several different attainable sours. He liked pretty much everything but especially the more sour/funky sour reds and browns.

 

[sd_brewbie]

Made it to cellar 3 yesterday for the first time, green flash's barrel aging and sour facility, that is just a few miles from my house... Tons of fun, SWMBO had a bit too much. Today is cleaning out a keg I got on Craig's list and kegging up my hoppy Belgian ale.

 

[govner1]

Brewed a 12g AG batch of PumKing clone w/ a brew buddy. Just put my carboys in my ale ferm chamber

 

[unionrdr]

Got the peppa sauce goin...& the car that was dead as a doornail 3 weeks ago. Charged it up a couple hours this afternoon to check some things & blam! Fired right up like nothin' ever happened! Cool. I gotta start callin' in for jury duty on the 17th anyway. Wheew...:rockin:

 

[Ski12568]

Picked up a 10 gallon cooler. I'm done with 5 gallon batches. Have a larger square cooler if I decide I want a high gravity beer for some reason.

 

[chisena]

Worked...

 

[erick0619]

Got a starter going for the mexican lager im brewing for my dad.

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[biochemedic]

Installed my new magnetic bottle cap catcher....works like a charm!

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[Devon]

I racked my Centennial Blonde to secondary, bought a few new beer glasses yesterday.

 

[philipCT]

Late night in the brewery last night...
Kegged 10g BCS American Amber and moved it into the kegerator. Put one keg under 30psi for fast carbing.
Moved an imperial stout that was conditioning into the kegerator and put it on the gas
Dumped trub from an IPA that's in primary
Cleaned a bunch of stuff, of course
And tasted a few things in transit. The Amber is mellow. The Stout is wild with licorice, chocolate, coffee, molasses flavors. And pretty hot on the nose still after 4 months of conditioning.

 

[unionrdr]

Decided to do some rearranging in the man cave/brewery today. I have credit cards for a couple places & decided to look at 7-10 cu ft fridge/freezer combos. Thinkin' of getting one soon. I'll have the room now for it next to the wire drying shelf. I decided against buying a kegging setup, since I'm 59 & might not have many years left where I can still drink beer. Then again, I might. But at least I can get bottled beers, hops, yeast & LME in close range. :rockin:

 

[catdaddy66]

Cleaned some equipment (mash tun, primary, etc) and made a yeast starter of wlp080 for the cream ale I'll brew on Friday. Then I'm going to make a Jalepeno tincture to add before bottling in three weeks.

 

[govner1]

Kegged my Ninkasi True Believer clone, cleaned keg that kicked & the 2° carboys from the True Believer