What I did for beer today

[slym2none]

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

The past two beers, that is exactly what I had to do, due to the fact I am using whole-cone hops. I fish the bulk of the hops out and throw them away, and then use the strainer over the opening of the LBK when I pour the wort in.

Maybe this time I'll leave the hops in the strainer to act as a filter-bed... hmm...

 

[philipCT]

Holy crap busy night in the brewery...

-poured a double IPA from the tap to kick things off

-deepened the cold crash from 5C to 1.5C on a Rye IPA that's finishing

-tested the Pilsener that's 15 days into primary and 3 days into diacetyl rest - 1.007 now - woot! - still seems like there's a faint buttery aroma and flavor - I'm chalking that up to the Wyeast 2001 Urquell yeast. I'm very sensitive to diacetyl and it's not objectionable, so I'm calling it good, so...

-racked Pilsener to 2ndry and crashed to 35F for lagering

-collected a pint of Urquell yeast slurry from the carboy

-PBW cleaned the carboy primary

-PBW cleaned a keg I had sitting around waiting to be cleaned

-while all that was going on I boiled up a 4 gallons of water with a couple of 1 liter mason jars in it to sterilize them. I use those for collecting yeast

 

[Alpotun]

Gathered supplies from my LHBS for this weekend's Hoegaarden clone. Yesterday, that is.

 

[biochemedic]

Finally got around to ordering a new water report from Ward...came back the other day, so I've started back reading this again:

And crunching the numbers...

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[BUCKNUTS]

Dry hopped a brett pale ale, blended a saison and a golden sour then dry hopped it as well. I'm contemplating bottling 11 gallons of sour brown that have been on oak for a couple months. Right now I'm doing the best thing you can do for homebrew, I'm drinking it.

 

[gometz]

Brewing a Chinook single hop IPA. The hood smell great, not as much pine as I had expected.

 

[TorMag]

Bought a Tap-a-keg system so I can take 3 gallons of my brew to the beach this weekend.

 

[BigMack]

Bought grain for the American Wheat I'm brewing tomorrow as well as two vials of WLP 090. First time brewing with WLP instead of Wyeast in a while.

 

[tgif]

Made a starter from some US05 slurry I had in the fridge

 

[lateknightucd]

I just racked my IPA over to a keg and put it on to carb. It smells amazing and the sample tastes great. This will be a good one. I'm also picking up some BLC and building the fountain pump draft line cleaner to do a little Spring cleaning on the draft system.

 

[kman6234]

Measured and crushed grain for tomorrows brew day

 

[BigMack]

Brewed up a batch of an American Wheat, kicked a keg of Brown Ale, and kegged up a Wit. A good day indeed.

 

[brewbama]

Inventoried my grains. I'm gonna need a kitchen sink brew recipe someday.

 

[Brewenstein]

Cleaned some bottles and organized my empties. Put a sack of Vienna into Homer buckets. And drank some brews with a friend.

 

[latium]

I brewed for the first time in just about forever today. I packed up my equipment, went to my friend's house, and we drove to his girlfriend's dad's house, and I helped them brew a vanilla porter. (Well, I'm bad at giving directions and asking for help, so I may have hogged a good bit of the brewing process myself.) Before today, I think it was something like at least two years since I brewed a batch. Hopefully I can get more energy for brewing in the future, because I am worn out, and it was only extract!

 

[Elkobrewer]

Drank it.

 

[gometz]

Made a starter for the porter this weekend. Tried a neighbor's homebrew, took some notes for him.

 

[beerb2u]

I joined a very interesting and lot of active beer brewers forum. This is my very first step in becoming a home brewer.

 

[brewsao14]

Unpacked what was left over in my brew equipment from nine years ago.... Clear tubing was sortof melted and gooey. Looked at a couple of recipes from the early 90s and an old LHBS order sheet from 1995. Guess I'm gonna be updating some things.

 

[bendog15]

Cleaned my fermentors, made a 3rd stage yeast starter for an imperial amber IPA. Oh and drank a lot of homebrew.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Mashed in on a golden sour and a farmhouse rye

 

[philipCT]

I stewarded this past weekend at the NHC judging event at Singlecut Brewery in Queens, NY. A lot of fun and a great bunch of people. Shout out to Chris Cuzme for organizing and Singlecut for providing space.

 

[BGBC]

I stewarded this past weekend at the NHC judging event at Singlecut Brewery in Queens, NY. A lot of fun and a great bunch of people. Shout out to Chris Cuzme for organizing and Singlecut for providing space.

I hope you handled my beers well

 

[philipCT]

I hope you handled my beers well

I worked Porters in the morning and Strong Belgian Ale in the afternoon. If yours was in those categories, then I shook it up on the way to the judges table

 

[BGBC]

I did enter a BDSA - damn you!

 

[Psylocide]

Nothing at all...

 

[Pkrd]

Ordered some Nelson Sauvin to dry hop Tuesdays brew, and some Golden Promise and Mosaic for a smash.

 

[philipCT]

I did enter a BDSA - damn you!

You're safe.

Per BJCP 2015, Belgian Dark Strong Ale is now in category 26 "Trappist" (go figure). I was stewarding 25c Belgian Golden Strong.

I'll get ya next time.

 

[brewbama]

I built a wooden shelf from deck boards and 2x4(s) in my keg fridge. The glass shelves and plastic rails weren't built for two full kegs.

 

[Oceantendency]

Last Night I kegged/ bottled my Blackhawk Black IPA, can't wait until it carbs up..