What I did for beer today

[actech]

So that's an aquarium pump with a ball lock outpost attached? Pretty cool...I may stick with the CO2, but still, pretty cool!

Works great you can recirculate, pump from bucket into bucket. dont have to make as much cleaner

 

[BeardedBeerMan]

Had a rather adventurous brew day today (well, I'm calling it today. I haven't gone to bed yet)

I was super excited to try out the new Edelmetall Bru Burner, which overall I'm pretty pleased with. Also had added a valve, dip tube, some camlock fittings and silicone tubing to my keggle.

It was a rainy day but I wasn't going to let that stop my plans! Got the mash started, did a 20 minute protein rest - was super fast getting the water to temp with the new burner. Stepped it up to the Sach rest (I use a cooler, so I just add more hot water to the cooler). First, overshot the infusion water temp. Added some cold water, well, too much cold water; heated that back up. Ended up undershooting target sach temp by 20 degrees. Added enough hot water to the tun to get the 150 that I wanted.

Came back to it at 30 minutes to give it a stir and check temps.... it was back down to 130!? Ran off a gallon to decoct and bring the temp back up, hit around 140. Gave up on temp management and decided I'll just iodine test to make sure there's no starch left.

After first runnings and sparge, I was a little over 2 gallons short on my pre-boil volume. Thinking I ground the grains too fine and got too much flour, it looked quite doughy. So guessing I just lost more water to that than normal.

Boil went okay, immersion chiller did it's job. Time to try out the new valve, dip tube and fittings!! For the most part, that went okay. I didn't use any sort of hop bags, so I got a lot of junk in the carboy. The wort is also waaaay darker than I expected it to be (5 pounds of red wheat and 4 pounds of 2 row, but looks like an amber ale). With a new burner comes a new learning curve. I think I'd be better off with a slightly slower heat-to-boil instead of putting the spurs to it.

But the yeasties are chugging away at it, has a slight krausen going already!

 

[erick0619]

Took a gravity sample of my dipa second gen wlp 515 took it down from 1.082-1.012 and added 4 oz of el dorado pellets. Man this thing is goooooood can't wait to keg this beauty View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1461207514.621314.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1461207525.375921.jpg

 

[Oceantendency]

Kegged and bottled my Cream Ale recipe last night as well as drank a few in the process.

 

[philipCT]

Ran an open taproom night. Had a half dozen guys from the neighborhood over last night to sample the four beers I have on tap in the basement taproom right outside the brewery.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Sample i.e. Finish off... ;-)

 

[PeteNMA]

Got my panel wiring finished, so did a couple of calibration runs for the eHLT and RIMS tube.

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Got to figure out the pump mounting location and power, then start cutting hoses to length and see if I need to get any more camlocks

 

[Zepth]

Finally got around to mounting that keezer fan. Running a computer fan at 5V (usb adapter). Wasn't sure if it would be enough, but it's already doing wonders to keep CO2 pockets out of my lines.

 

[filthyastronaut]

Just bottled an Imperial Belgian IPA, which had an insane 89 percent attenuation with the Ardennes strain, finishing at 1.006 and 8.6 ABV. I guess that's what you get when you mash @ 146 and pitch a lot of yeast. Will also brew a hoppy table saison in a few hours.

 

[brewbama]

Just moved a Vienna Lager from Lager chamber to serving fridge and put on gas for low n slow, set it and wait carb for a Cinco de Mayo tap.

I need to brew a Kolsch or Yellow Fizzy beer next

 

[philipCT]

Picked up ingredients and got some pointers on improving an APA I'm brewing for a wedding tomorrow.

Also did some tasting and was gifted some hops rhizomes from @brizzo. The dude brews some awesome sour beer!

 

[beergolf]

I'm brewing for a wedding tomorrow.

Wow 24 hour grain to glass, that is impressive...

 

[ChelisHubby]

Made a bee Cave Pale ale today, The first keg
kicked to fast. I think my Step sons might of helped that happen. lol

 

[BigMack]

Kegged up a Wit brewed with WLP 090 instead of a traditional wit yeast. Also put a dent in my two beers on tap right now.

 

[PrairieDawg]

Just finished up first Kolsch Style.
All grain BIAB.
Will not be true to style, I had to hop it up a little.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Picked up a sanke keg from a buddy of mine and ordered a conversion kit from brew hardware going to be my sour solera.
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[m00ps]

Will not be true to style, I had to hop it up a little.

 

[ChelisHubby]

I cleaned a keg that kicked and filled it with sanitizer, then run a little thru the lines. The bee cave pale has huge krausen but has not started blowing bubbles yet.

 

[philipCT]

Holy crap, busy evening in the brewery...

• Gravity tested the DIPA. Done at 008 and crashed to 60F for yeast collection. Next step: 2 stage dry hopping
• Sample and gravity test a Dunkelweizen. Done but pretty thin. Pleasant banana aroma but not much going on for flavor. This might have fermented out too low at 008
• Sampled a Robust Porter that's aging in an Bouron oak barrel. So far so good. Could stand another few days.
• Decanted, warmed and pitched yeast to the wedding APA
• Developed a big bitch about refractometers (separate thread)

 

[BeardedBeerMan]

Put together a brew day kit of sorts. I've been looking for ways to organize some gear. Had a tool box sitting around that wasn't doing anything, so I put a bunch of stuff in that. Mostly stuff that I would use on brew day: tubes, hydrometer, refractometer, assorted additions, other test kits/strips, scissors. As well as some other items I just want to keep track of: air locks, stoppers, a bulkhead that will eventually go in a kettle, spare keg o-rings...
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[filthyastronaut]

Bottled my Pooky Porter, which is named after my sister's lovely dog Eli that everyone calls Pooky. I dry beaned it with whole dark roast coffee beans from Trader Joe's for a week, and the coffee flavor and aroma is incredible. Really, really happy with it.

 

[Sammy86]

Kegged 10 gallons today...5 Kolsch and 5 American Wheat...put them on gas and now waiting the week for them to carb up...I'm very excited about the Kölsch...brand new brew that I've never brewed before

 

[JonM]

Kegged my Nugget/Centennial IPA. Man, that stuff smelled good.

 

[kman6234]

Kegged a centennial IPA this morning

 

[philipCT]

Had a few guys over last night for a tapping party for my first lager. It was a BCS American Pilsener recipe that came out very well if I don't say so myself. And the boys agreed. I have to say I didn't think I'd ever be so excited about a lager, but this is some clean lovely beer.

 

[Elkobrewer]

Moved a new keg into the kegarator. And brewed 5 gallons of the Yoopers house pale ale

 

[ian128]

Kegged 10 gallons today...5 Kolsch and 5 American Wheat...put them on gas and now waiting the week for them to carb up...I'm very excited about the Kölsch...brand new brew that I've never brewed before

My Kolsch is good.

 

[Sammy86]

My Kolsch is good.

Looks good! I'll sample mine on Wednesday and by Friday/Saturday I should be good to go...ill post a pic when I pull the first pint!

 

[ian128]

Looks good! I'll sample mine on Wednesday and by Friday/Saturday I should be good to go...ill post a pic when I pull the first pint!

It is my 3rd brew. Got a new 10gal pot and a wort chiller today plan to brew a couple kits this weekend! the plan is to not have to buy store bought beer except for back up soon

 

[Transamguy77]

I have had a problem with my BG10 burner under my BK having a yellow flame when turned down so I removed it and separated it and cleaned out all the rust, man what a difference! Can't wait to brew on it soon.