What I did for beer today

[govner1]

Racked my Grapefruit Wheat IPA to secondary & dry hopped w/ 2 oz of Mosaic.
Cleaned primaries & racking equipment.

 

[mrkrausen]

Finally got around to cutting the top off my keg to make a HLT! Look out world...I'm moving up to two vessels! Not bad for freehand.

 

[sleepspeaking]

I installed a ball valve in an old cooler. Hello HLT!!!

 

[jperry]

Brewed for the first time in quite awhile. Used a bunch of my new equipment, too!

 

[Moebbels]

Tested my DIY immersion chiller and Brewferm kettle.
Went from 95c (203f) to 22c (71f) in 7 minutes.

 

[philipCT]

gelled a BCS American Pale Ale. Cold crash for a few more days then bottle half and keg half.

planned for a 10G Pliny clone brew day this weekend. Good Jesus that's a lot of hops. It was a tremendous beer last year - should be great again for a December hop bomb.

 

[BigMack]

Gave a 6 pack of assorted HB to a family friend in the hopes of converting him. Only time will tell.

 

[poptarts]

Rescued this poor little fella from the scrap yard, it appears someone went all drunk redneck on it. Gonna make an awesome bottom drain MLT.

 

[erick0619]

Took a gravity and picked up brewing elements series water.

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[unionrdr]

Finally wrote a recipe for the nearly-extinct German Mumme as done by a British fella in January 2010 in the post I started last April.

 

[Devon]

I bought a 4 gallon water container with a spigot to experiment with ghetto casking. It should work, in theory.

 

[Brauer]

Bottles up 2 gallons of a sour experiment

 

[EtchyLives]

Fired up my first of two starters for this weekend's brew session. I like the new White Labs containers much better than the test tube types.

 

[1fast636]

Kegged an all comet IPA tonight and it's delicious for first year hops
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[SupervisingChildren]

I cleaned up 3 kegs and organized some of my equipment last night. Gotta keg a batch and clean some more tonight.

 

[sleepspeaking]

I did a trial boil run with my new all grain equipment and then ran and got my water and ice for the brew weekend. And now I'm waiting for this wort to boil so I can work up my very first starter, and then i will be christening my Diy stir plate. All in prep for my first all grain attempt with the first recipe I've ever created myself. whew... so many firsts in one night... bowl a cherries and whatnot .... :rocking: :beer:

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[sleepspeaking]

Ps: in the what I did for me category.... I switched to this pot cause no one likes wort volcanos....

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[chisena]

I took an extended lunch to go pick up a load of 2-row for a SMASH. Also grabbed one of those new White Labs PurePitch WLP001s.... Yeah, still making a starter...

 

[Clankenbrew]

Melt down in the brewery View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446211825.086526.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446215128.999784.jpg

 

[DrunkleJon]

Ouch

 

[unionrdr]

Started ordering ingredients for the Mumme', & boy was that fun finding a site with secure payment! Let alone one that had that AND everything I need...

 

[phug]

Labeled a session wit with my daughter, and calibrated my carboyView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446224531.525291.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446224572.131643.jpg

 

[biochemedic]

Labeled a session wit with my daughter, and calibrated my carboyView attachment 312809View attachment 312810

Loved the Bumbo seat with my kids...be forewarned though...they will learn (suddenly) one day how to get out of it! Don't ask me how I know...but I will say it involved a near miss from an elevated position... (In my best Keanu Reeves voice: "Close one!")

 

[AQUILAS]

First thing I did this morning after waking up was make my yeast starter because I forgot to do it last night.

 

[punkrawkgeek]

I helped one of my pale ales escape a bottle about 5 mins ago. And now I am off to clean up from bottling my pumpkin brown ale.

 

[sleepspeaking]

Brewed my first homegrown recipe a honey themed Cream Ale. Turned out pretty clear. I think I got the color right.

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[Reggie22]

Turned up the temp on my stc for the amber that is fermenting and turned a bunch of stickers into magnets for the collection. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446348429.914418.jpg

 

[Alpotun]

Punched a couple of holes and sweated fittings in for the Herms coil. Woulda gotten it installed and maybe tested if one of the compression fittings hadn't seized.

 

[philipCT]

Kegged off 5g of an APA while I was brewing yesterday. Will bottle the other 5g today.
Started making a yeast starter of sorts for bottling an Imperial Stout tomorrow.

 

[BigMack]

Bottled an Amber Ale. Dreamed of kegging instead...