What I did for beer today

[Tactical-Brewer]

Bought all the stuff for my mash tun... Except the stainless steel washer... Of course (couldn't find one at lowes or my local small town wally's)

 

[BigMack]

Stared at a krausen that is being very stubborn about falling. As much as I love 1272 it can be annoying in that way.

 

[chisena]

Fined a carboy with gelatin

 

[PeteNMA]

I finally got around to actually brewing and made a hoppy brown/amber and a bo pilsner

 

[D-MOTITAN]

Brewed a 10 gallon batch of American Wheat with Orange peel.

 

[slym2none]

De-labeled another case of bottles.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Just finished bottling 5 gallons of ipa

 

[Elkobrewer]

Kegged 5 gallons of my #9 clone. Hydro sample tasted good. Also purchased the grain for my next batch.

 

[mattrox]

I did some R & D today.

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And now I'm quite buzzed. Did I make a mistake taking my hopped extract kit to 60 IBUs at 5.2%?


All these high hopped, high ABV beers are messing with my mind.

 

[PeteNMA]

IBU numbers are overrated that sounds like a good beer to me.

 

[mattrox]

IBU numbers are overrated that sounds like a good beer to me.

It's only a pre hopped kit

Coopers Australisn Pale Ale 1.7 kg
Plus LME 1.5 kg
Some light crystal and caramunich 1 @ 125g ea

25grams Columbus and Simcoe at 10
And another 25g of each st 5

It's actually closer to 66IBUs.

BRY 97 which usually works really well for me.

I got carried away....

And now I'm drunk.

 

[mattrox]

Freaking App double posts all the time making me seem drunker than I am!!!

 

[PeteNMA]

I find that whilst you do get bitterness from those later additions it is somewhat counterbalanced by the flavour

 

[mattrox]

D'oh

Another double post.

 

[mattrox]

I find that whilst you do get bitterness from those later additions it is somewhat counterbalanced by the flavour

That is what I was thinking while I crossed my fingers and ignored Ianh's awesome spreadsheet.

:-D

God, it smelled good when I poured the boil into the FV.

 

[Alpotun]

Doing my first wet test on my electric build

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[sleepspeaking]

cleaned out my 2.5g keg getting ready to keg/bottle my "Defective Clone" this weekend. Attempted the Dogfish Head 60min clone.... mistakes were made, but she's almost ready.

 

[slym2none]

Picked up another LBK, plus the grains for a mini-mash to make a rye APA tonight. Also got some Campden tabs, and knocked out the chlorine & chloramines from 3 gallons of water already.

Just waiting for late-night tonight to make the beer!

 

[unionrdr]

Gonna get going this morning with my first AG. Going to take pics along the way.

 

[erick0619]

Gonna get going this morning with my first AG. Going to take pics along the way.

Very nice!! Will you still be doing your pm/pb brews?

 

[BigMack]

Currently have a Brown Ale coming to a boil. Smells wonderful. First day in the 60s in a couple weeks. Had to take advantage.

 

[slym2none]

Put my weird-Alice rye pale ale to bed this morning at 3:00AM.

BOY, do whole-cone hops suck up the wort!

 

[bransona]

Today I bottled a Belgian ipa, am brewing a Belgian porter, and am bottling a Belgian blonde. Belgians are life.

Related: I'm officially a fan of t-58. It's a solid choice for Belgian dry yeast. Can't wait for this Belgian porter

 

[unionrdr]

Very nice!! Will you still be doing your pm/pb brews?

I'll still be doing the pb/pm biab beers, besides kit-n-kilo & modded AE pipeline fillers as well. This one is a surprise that came to me,so I'm going for it! The mash is close to done atm. Matter of fact this is a biab beer as well, albeit 1 gallon. Smells good all the way into the man cave!

 

[CJ-3]

Today I bottled 5 gallons of stout and started on a tap handle design.

 

[unionrdr]

Gotta get the chilled wort in the jug & my first AG biab will be done.

 

[bransona]

Gotta get the chilled wort in the jug & my first AG biab will be done.

I hope it turns out well! What did you make? I just set my 15th AG biab to free rise. Belgian porter, here I come.

 

[unionrdr]

It's a porter. Porter goood! OG Est was 1.058, I got a 1.060 with 60F wort. Chilled it down a hair too much, so it got to free rise in the kettle while I got everything else ready. Not bad at all. Had boiled it down to within about 1/4C of the one gallon mark too! Weighed the half packet of S-04 & dumped it in. I'll finish pics in the morning.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Removed the blowoff tube then put an airlock on my chocolate milk stout. Water in the jug smelled pretty good.

 

[PeteNMA]

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I bought a jigsaw to make the square holes for the PIDs in my new panel. Went pretty well, largely recovered from a disastrous attempt to use a spade bit to make starter holes through the plastic.

Also got the holes made for the element outlets. One of those single 240v 20a outlets fits perfectly in a 1.5" hole using a gasket removed from a heating element.

I also stocked up on specialty grains for a coffee stout, ESB and an IPA