What I did for beer today

[erick0619]

Started dropping the temp for the cold crash

 

[Elkobrewer]

I'm going to raise a glass of suds that should count

 

[titansvol]

Cleaned 5 kegs and started a cold crash.

 

[gometz]

Bought grains for the next three batches, yeast for one of them (already have yeast and hops). Also bought 4 cases of bottles, need to build up my stock again, I was throwing away a lot during the holidays.

 

[PeteNMA]

So far I've cleaned out my new kettle and RIMS tube with hot circulating PBW. Filled the HLT be arranged things to brew later after the kids go to bed.

 

[alexnova]

My first answer was "shoveled 2' of snow for a bottle of Missing Elf" but then realized that's not exactly what the OP meant.

So, I checked on my Snoatmeal Stout (cooked yesterday on the porch in blizzard conditions) and it's bubbling away in primary.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Racked my Triple to secondary for additional conditioning and my ipa to secondary on to dry hops.

 

[bleme]

Bought grains, good and yeast for my next 5 batches. I can't wait to get these kegs filled!

 

[PeteNMA]

Picked up some 1318 and 007 yeast along with 30lbs of golden promise. Got to get my pipeline going

 

[bransona]

I bottled an ipa, brewed another ipa, bought a fermenter and filled it with about 3.5 gallons of cider for swmbo. It's been a good day for booze.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Bottled 5 gallons of Amarillo/Citra Farmhouse Rye Ale. I'm starting to build up a supply of sour and funky beer finally.
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[SyrettHomebrew]

I downloaded a bunch of metal inspired fonts for making labels :rockin:

http://www.1001fonts.com/search.html?search=metal&x=0&y=0

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Found a heck of a deal on a 10 gallon cooler. Picking up a brand new one for 15 bucks!

 

[gometz]

Tried to use my old plate filter again for the first time in probably 7 years. Well it worked in theory per the picture. It seemed to not be moving at all, so I stopped after about 5 minutes.

Now the filtered one tastes extremely oxidized. I will try again in a few weeks using a coarse pad. But next time I am going to first purge the filter housing and then fill it with clean water. I will also make sure the beer is 100% non carbonated.

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[erick0619]

Took a hydro sample of my BPA fermented with the antwerp strain and added gelatin. Finally was able to pick up some founders. After seeing so many posts featuring founders beers im glad it made it to san diego.

Edit: added stuff i did for beer

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[bransona]

Took a hydro sample of my BPA fermented with the antwerp strain and added gelatin. Finally was able to pick up some founders. After seeing so many posts featuring founders beers im glad it made it to san diego.

Edit: added stuff i did for beer

Founders is a godsend. Their porter is my absolute favorite. I actually have a clone brewing now. If you like their stuff, their lead brewer is very willing to help with recipes!

 

[unionrdr]

Tried to use my old plate filter again for the first time in probably 7 years. Well it worked in theory per the picture. It seemed to not be moving at all, so I stopped after about 5 minutes.

Now the filtered one tastes extremely oxidized. I will try again in a few weeks using a coarse pad. But next time I am going to first purge the filter housing and then fill it with clean water. I will also make sure the beer is 100% non carbonated.

I was just thinking about this myself. I used to have the Mr Gasket velocity stacks on my 4bbl carb'd small blocks that had a thin foam filter in the top. I had to put in some cleaner & squish it to get the air bubbles out, then the same thing in the thin oil used on it to help trap dirt, yet let plenty of " clean" air through.
So in this case, purging those air bubbles with water first seems like it would cut out the oxidizing factor?

 

[gometz]

I was just thinking about this myself. I used to have the Mr Gasket velocity stacks on my 4bbl carb'd small blocks that had a thin foam filter in the top. I had to put in some cleaner & squish it to get the air bubbles out, then the same thing in the thin oil used on it to help trap dirt, yet let plenty of " clean" air through.
So in this case, purging those air bubbles with water first seems like it would cut out the oxidizing factor?

That's my hope. I read the instructions again afterwards (should have done it before...), and they recommend pushing a gallon of boiled hot water through the filter first to remove "any papery flavors". I ordered some coarse pads (5 micron) and will try it on my next kegged beer. I will probably overdue it and push a half gallon of star san, then a gallon of hot water into a spare keg. Leave it full, then push the beer through it. Once I get clean beer into the out line, I'll swap to the serving keg. Another part that lets me know I should have read the instructions first is that it says it should take 45 minutes for 5 gallons. I felt like I wasn't getting flow after 5 minutes and quit.

Basically, big failure on my part due to impatience and not reading instructions.

 

[erick0619]

Founders is a godsend. Their porter is my absolute favorite. I actually have a clone brewing now. If you like their stuff, their lead brewer is very willing to help with recipes!

Awesome cant wait to try them out. It was late by the time i got home last night and after a fat @$$ burger i was ready to knock out. That makes me very happy to hear man ill most likely send him an email after a few pints.

 

[slym2none]

I bought some oak chips (finally!) and got them soaking in some bourbon to add to my winter warmer in a couple of days. I will later be lightly toasting a couple ounces of cacao nibs to add to said winter warmer, just tonight.

 

[Arty76]

Finished up my new brewing stand, I made it to assemble and disassemble in about 10 minutes for easy storage, here's a couple of pics, you can check out my video with full description on my you tube channel, here's the link, https://youtu.be/OZECjMEK05M [ATTACH=full]333419[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]333420[/ATTACH]

 

[BUCKNUTS]

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Just finished bottling my tripel.

 

[enokidaki]

I moved both my beers downstairs to heat them 2 degreess. It looks like the 10 day old beer will be ready before the 30 day old beer.

 

[PeteNMA]

I made a starter with a pack of 1318

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Got up and got my cooler today in another town. 15 bucks for a nice 10 gallon cooler. Just got done bottling 4 gallons of my New Castle Clone. Going to try to brew Monday of Tuesday.

 

[Pantherjon]

Just got done bottling 2.5G of a brown ale...Came out a tad darker then anticipated..

Tried to take a final gravity reading(my hydrometers had been having fun playing hide and seek on me so I didn't get an original gravity, but I finally found them!), and I could use a little help interpreting what I am seeing..If I read it correctly I THINK that it is reading 1.012? If so, then I DO know what I am doing!LMAO..

 

[chisena]

Ordered stuff for an Avery White Rascal clone. Heaved a carboy of Caribou Slob into the keezer to cold crash.

 

[gometz]

Boiled my rye IPA (mashed it last night), cleaned my tap, and installed a new line.

Now I'm going to chill done beers for the party we are having tomorrow.

 

[slym2none]

Put some bourbon-soaked oak chips in my winter warmer.

 

[Wiscohio_brewer]

Brewing my own Belgian Wit today. Using a step mash for the first time as well.