What I did for beer today

[max384]

I just built a thermometer holder. Works well.

 

[Elkobrewer]

I didn't put a dent in my pipeline

 

[Pantherjon]

I didn't put a dent in my pipeline

Neither did I..drinking a couple of awesome brews I picked up on my trip out to California(Los Angeles).Absolution Brewing Company tonight...Trying to decide what to try tomorrow...El Segundo, Strand, Monkish, Smog City?? Decisions, decisions...LOL

 

[unionrdr]

Trying two bottles of my first AG brew, a porter.

 

[slym2none]

Dry-hopped some beer.

 

[brewbama]

Drilled out a Firestone Challenger keg gas in dip tube fitting (5/8") to allow a "regular" dip lube and o-ring. I pressurized it to ensure it will hold overnight. (fingers crossed)

 

[Wiscohio_brewer]

Brewed a DIPA for my sister's golden birthday. Used a ton of Simcoe, Columbus, and Centennial. Efficiency wasn't so great, but it will still be about 7-8% when it's all finished.

 

[brewbama]

Kegged my Better Red than Dead Irish Ale and put it in the lager chamber for a cold crash. I'll fine with gelatin after a cpl days in the cold. Cpl days after than I'll get it in the kegerator and put it on gas so I can serve it on St Pat's.

 

[slym2none]

Took a gravity sample & cold-crashed my (D)IPA.

 

[PlexVector]

Bottled some ipa from keg as gifts

 

[PlexVector]

Ordered another keg

 

[govner1]

Racked my first AG batch of Yooper's Oatmeal Stout to secondary. Hydro sample has lots of chocolate/coffee flavors. Great overall. Will keg in a couple of weeks before kegging and aging for a bit.

 

[chisena]

Cleaned a keg. Cleaned some lines. Getting ready to put a wit on draft tomorrow.

 

[TheWayne]

I worked

 

[catdaddy66]

Cleaned up the last little bit from yesterday's brew session and also tidied up my brew space.

 

[drainbamage]

Brewing a rye DIPA.

 

[BigMack]

Kegged up an APA with all Azacca hops.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Legged a barleywine that's been aging on bourbon soaked oak for 8 months. Will bottle from the keg later this week.
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Sample tasted great!
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Then opened two dozen 375ml and three 750ml bottles of a flat quad to add some CBC yeast to hopefully get it carved. Of course I had corked & caged the 375s and waxed the 750s so it was a major PITA. Hopefully it will carb them up - it tastes great flat so I can only imagine how it would be properly carbed.
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[BrewinHooligan]

Not today, but yesterday I put together my new to me Top Tier system and brewed 10gal of red ipa. Phone is broken so no photographic evidence

 

[philipCT]

Brewed a BCS Robust Porter. Should fit nicely into the lineup as "the dark beer" since my beautiful Imperial Stout kicked.

During the boil the whole brewery smelled like coffee and chocolate. Mmmm

 

[slym2none]

Bottled my DIPA. 22 bottles... I am never gonna get a full case, it seems. 2.25G extract batches, 21-22 bottles. 2.5G all-grain batches, 21-22 bottles.



And then my brew-bro - let's call him Adam Henry - makes his first batch ever on the same sized equipment, gets a full case & a half-full tester bottle to boot.



He never lets me forget it 'cos he knows how it bugs me that I can't get a full case! I will say, between using a cheap BIAB-bag and using 7 to 7-1/2 pounds of malt, the trub in my little LBK is ridiculous. I've had to rack the beer to my other one before cold-crashing it. Smaller grain bills (I imagine) won't be so bad.

 

[slym2none]

Please delete - I didn't post this twice, IDK why the forum decided to.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Bottled my DIPA. 22 bottles... I am never gonna get a full case, it seems. 2.25G extract batches, 21-22 bottles. 2.5G all-grain batches, 21-22 bottles.



And then my brew-bro - let's call him Adam Henry - makes his first batch ever on the same sized equipment, gets a full case & a half-full tester bottle to boot.



He never lets me forget it 'cos he knows how it bugs me that I can't get a full case! I will say, between using a cheap BIAB-bag and using 7 to 7-1/2 pounds of malt, the trub in my little LBK is ridiculous. I've had to rack the beer to my other one before cold-crashing it. Smaller grain bills (I imagine) won't be so bad.

Try letting it settle in your BK for a bit before transferring to your fermenter. You should get less trub transfer that way.

 

[slym2none]

Well, it takes 25-40 minutes (or I should say, ***I*** take 25-40 minutes) to chill the beer down to pitch temps, but I do stir occasionally to help the heat-transfer. Next time, I will not stir and see if that helps.

Thanks, DJ!

 

[brewbama]

I put my Red Ale on gas for Thursday's tap day.

 

[gometz]

Brewed a Flanders red to pitch onto the bacteria cake for my sour carboy. Bottled the sour rye tamarind off the cake. I pitched about 200 B cells of 3522 and allowed it to aerate, plus I'm not heating. Hopefully that will allow some more body and less sour. I also harvested two jars and three vials of the cake.

 

[erick0619]

This is a what was done for me and beer kind of post. so it turns out today is men's Valentine's Day aka steak and bj day. my swmbo really blew me away View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1458006823.290481.jpg

 

[chisena]

It's really more about what beer did for me today.

 

[gometz]

Cleaned my beer closet, twice. The Flanders red I brewed yesterday had two blow outs. After the first one it looked like it had calmed down so I didn't add a blow off tube. That has been corrected.

 

[Pantherjon]

Well, it takes 25-40 minutes (or I should say, ***I*** take 25-40 minutes) to chill the beer down to pitch temps, but I do stir occasionally to help the heat-transfer. Next time, I will not stir and see if that helps.

Thanks, DJ!

Transfer from your BK to LBK through a strainer. Trust me, it will catch a SH!T ton of hot/cold break trub!