What I did for beer today

[kman6234]

Brewing an APA

 

[Destovi]

Just fired the burner for 5 gallons of Yoopers hoppy American amber

 

[unionrdr]

Finished bottling the Hellfire IIPA at 2:13. got 50-12oz bottles when the spigot plugged up & lost 3-4 bottles worth. Hosed out the buckets & nylon bag from the hops. Sure makes the job faster. But dang my fingers are frozen!

 

[PrairieDawg]

Bottled my 2nd all grain batch.
3 gallon IPA dry hopped with Amarillo.
Now watching the football game.
CFL West Division Final. Home team is losing..

 

[user 163849]

Converted my welding area of the garage back into a brewing area so I can brew a stout tomorrow morning.

 

[user 163849]

Brewed a stout.

 

[Psylocide]

Making sure my racking tube's clean & sanitized to bottle the Hellfire IIPA I hopefully saved today. Hopefully, sinking the hop/pepper sack this time will have kept it from getting infected as easily? I'm definitely getting a 2L flask for bigger starters & using a more proper amount of rehydrated dry yeast from now on with these big beers. It's definitely far more critical with the big ones. This is what I get for being too thrifty...

Did it get infected?

 

[BGBC]

I made a false bottom for my mash tun. Bought a pizza pan for this.

Doing BIAB with that? Pretty big holes

 

[malt81]

Hello BGBC

This is only needed to hold the bag not being in contact with bottom, in case I need to heat during mashing.

 

[permo]

Ordered 200 pounds of grain through a local brewery.

 

[unionrdr]

Did it get infected?

Nah, I forgot about cleaning it, & had to soak the inside with PBW & use a keg line cleaning brush on it. All better now. the tubes anyway. Darn cheap schools & busted car ruined my finances again though. Screwed again...

 

[Psylocide]

Nah, i forgot about cleaning it, & had to soak the inside with PBW & use a keg line cleaning brush on it. All better now. the tubes anyway. Darn cheap schools & busted car ruined my finances again though. Screwed again...

I meant your pepper IIPA.

 

[unionrdr]

Oh no, it smelled fruity again with the hot pepper aroma as well. I used some NZ hops to give some of that fruitiness with a bit of citrus super hot peppers have. Darn trub kept wanting to clog the spigot, even though the beer settled out clear & straining the wort into the fermenter. I only got 50-12oz bottles though. The rest was trub loss. Never had US-05 do that before with the trub/hop debris strained out?...

 

[drainbamage]

Transferred a gallon of my peated Scottish ale onto oak chips before bottling this weekend. The peat smoke wasn't very strong from the hydrometer sample, which makes me sad.

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[beergolf]

Thought about rinsing and sanitizing a couple of bottles that had homebrew in them...

 

[unionrdr]

Gota do about a case of bottles today. Tried some of the Cooper's English bitter I made with plain extra light DME this time. Crystal clear, nice 3 finger head, 2.1 Vco2 seems nice & light carbonation as well. Semed to bring out the bittering in the Cooper's can a bit more nicely. Rather like Morebeer's ESB kit.

 

[Psylocide]

Picked up some caps that fell on the floor when I picked up the bag. There was a hole in it?

 

[unionrdr]

I keep my bags of caps in a 1 gallon zip lock freezer bag. but it wore out after so many years of use. gotta get more, as the 1 gallon size is also handy for dried spent grains.

 

[oujens]

Brewed a porter which was my first beer over 8 SRM to brew. Loved the smell of it. Pitched some harvested wlp007 from a starter and it is taking off like crazy. Also tapped my MO Cascade SMaSH.

 

[brewbama]

Tapped my holiday spiced ale. Yummy - O

 

[philipCT]

gelled the Pliny clone. taster off the stirring spoon was pretty damned bitter. this will cold crash for a few more days then keg & burst carb so it's ready for the big annual flag football game. can't wait!

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Mixed up some apfelwein and bottled up some hard root beer and hard lemonade to share with my coworkers that are in tomorrow.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, let's see...sides done, beer in fridge, prep done, gotta make stuffing for the turkey, get candied yams going. Bread rolls & cheddar bay biscuits X's 2 later. And clean those darn empty bottles.

 

[ericrichards420]

Yesterday at work I drilled 2 holes in a 2" tri-clamp blind and welded 2 3/8 compression unions in place.
I ferment in 15.5 gallon snake keg. with this I can have the fermentor at a higher elevation then my corny kegs. I have to add the 3/8 rubber tubing but I will be able to blow in one tube and start a siphon easily into my kegs.

 

[brisboy]

Brewed a red ale which I'm excited about.

Singed a patch of hair off my right hand trying to get my burner lit the first time. (Oops)

 

[Qhrumphf]

Cleaning some bottles. That'll be about it.

 

[mtm68]

Good day today! Bottled my Nelson wheat pale ale, and a batch of pappy's cider.
Moved a Scottish 80 and a milk stout to my corny' to carb up.
Moved a Belgian strong dark to a secondary to age, and uploaded ~11 recipes to beersmithi' with had bouncing around in my head.
Now to decide what to brew....

 

[philipCT]

Finally kegging the Rumble - a Pliny clone. Fermented down to 1.010 - 9.1% - yeesh!. I'll put up two cornies and maybe a few bonus bottles. Can't wait for this - it's gotten to be an annual favorite. I'll be burst carbing one keg for a big event next weekend.

 

[drainbamage]

Bottled the regular and oaked versions of my Islay Scottish ale. Now, trying to decide what to brew next.

 

[dano]

Emptied some bottles...