What I did for beer today

[starsman20]

Brewed up up 10 gallons of LL heif. Will add the lime in 2 days. Kegged 10 gallons of Blizzard Pale Ale. Felt kinda sad as I only have 3 beers on tap right now.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Going to try my hand at collecting wild mid Missouri yeast and isolate to see what happens. Kind of neat to think about what beer would be like a thousand years ago if the monks were here vs Europe.

 

[MaryB]

More work on the brew stand, built the burner shelves. I know those burners will heat the wood underneath them so I left a gap on purpose to help cool things. Need to bolt the lower one down after I decide if I need to raise it more so I can gravity drain to a bottling bucket. Upper shelf needs to be bolted down and I need 2 L brackets on the uprights for safety.

 

[Stillraining]

Enjoyed a cold one after a hard day.

 

[philipCT]

Going to try my hand at collecting wild mid Missouri yeast and isolate to see what happens. Kind of neat to think about what beer would be like a thousand years ago if the monks were here vs Europe.

I am fascinated with this. If you start a separate thread on this I will totally subscribe. I may even be inspired to do some work like this here in Connecticut.

It would be interesting to isolate locally occurring wild yeasts and compare results of fermenting on a standard wort.

 

[Oceantendency]

I made a hop tea, 1 oz of Mt Hood 7.1% in 1500mL of water + 2 tsp of light DME, boiled for 21 minutes, netted only about 300 mL of tea, and added to my Honey Nelson Saison bubbling away in my Chronical.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

I am fascinated with this. If you start a separate thread on this I will totally subscribe. I may even be inspired to do some work like this here in Connecticut.

It would be interesting to isolate locally occurring wild yeasts and compare results of fermenting on a standard wort.

I sure did bud,

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=582554

Mute Dog even popped in on there which is pretty cool cause that's where I learned a bunch about it.

Local wold yeast are awesome because it makes you wonder how beer would have turned out had the monks been here vs Europe.

 

[philipCT]

Okay, thanks. Subbed over there and will now have to catch up on mute dog blog and other references.

I've brewed with local honey and would love to catch some cool local yeast and work with that too.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

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Bottled 50 bottles of my Cherry BMC clone. 4.6%abv. Nice and clean, crisp drinker. Can't wait for it to be carbed!

 

[philipCT]

Today I bottled two and a half cases of an APA I made for a friends wedding. Also kegged five gallons that will stay in- house (Brewers share).

Then I kegged 10 gallons of a Pliney clone. Actually had enough left over to fill 10 bottles.

In between I visited with Mike from Noble Jay to check on the progress of his brewery.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Checked gravity on 2 in primary.

 

[FatDragon]

Soaked off labels and washed bottles. Friend dropped of 2 cases of Fat Tire bottles. 4 went straight in the trash, I was not dealing with someones chew spit... rest got a 3 hour soak in hot water and PBW. One of my favorite bottles as far as removing labels. They float off. Also tossed in 6 Lift Bridge(Duluth MN) bottles, I had to use a razor blade to get the labels off those... since I doubt I will buy that beer ever again I won't have to do that again!

Importers in China put translated labels on the back of bottles that have a glossy coating (hard to soak) and glue that will be on this planet long after the cockroaches die out. I've found that when you've got difficult labels like that, giving them a bunch of random slits with a knife before soaking allows a much better soak and makes removing the labels a lot easier.

Alternately, if the labels have a thick but uniform sticky backing like Brewdogs beers, a regular water soak sometimes loosens them up enough to pull off in one piece while an Oxy soak often deteriorates them just enough that you have to pull them off in tons of sticky pieces.

Some labels are simply terrible, but for many it's just a matter of following the right strategy for the right label.

 

[FatDragon]

Picked up some super cheap Cascade hops of questionable origin and started two 1.2 liter side-by-side all-DME test batches to compare Yakima Chief cascade hops and these cheap ones. Had enough wort left over (by design) to mix the dregs of both in a third water-bottle fermenter and pitch some wild yeast I caught in a forgotten hydrometer sample a couple months ago. Let the party begin!

 

[BigMack]

Brewing up a batch of a "clone" of a local traditionally brewed vienna lager. Guys at the local brew shop have been fine tuning a clone for forever and I'm making a batch with the latest untested tweak. Hopefully this one turns out well because I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Cold crash and Gelatin a batch and clean a keg with a few bottles too.

 

[1fast636]

Made a mill table and storage center this morning
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Kegged two beers for local live pour comp
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My fav of the two is the golden stout the other is a peach beer that just didn't really come thru like I was wanting
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[Hoppy2bmerry]

Peeling labels and cleaning bottles... Replanted hops... Long story.

 

[brewbama]

Put together a new Blickman burner and did a deep clean on my boil kettle ball valve.

 

[Brewenstein]

More work on the brew stand, built the burner shelves. I know those burners will heat the wood underneath them so I left a gap on purpose to help cool things. Need to bolt the lower one down after I decide if I need to raise it more so I can gravity drain to a bottling bucket. Upper shelf needs to be bolted down and I need 2 L brackets on the uprights for safety.

I'm trying to figure out some guy hasn't snatched you up! Great work!

I bottled off two kegs today to kill them. Then cleaned them up and kegged an amber and a mocktoberfest ale. My plan is to let the mocktoberfest sit in my keezer until September and start drinking it then. Not sure I will be able to resist for that long.

 

[filthyastronaut]

Bottled my Wit. I added juiced nectarines at flameout and left out any kind of orange peel, and I think it succeeded in imparting a stone fruit note in place of citrus.

Also brewed a White IPA bittered with Warrior, 5 oz. of Equinox in a theoretically 0 IBU hopstand at 170 degrees, which will be dry hopped with 3 oz. of Equinox.

 

[MaryB]

Drank a 6 pack... planted garden today and back is screaming at me!

 

[Peruvian802]

Kegged a lemon wheat ale that I came up with. Hopefully it will bring the sunshine back!

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[Stillraining]

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Bottled 50 bottles of my Cherry BMC clone. 4.6%abv. Nice and clean, crisp drinker. Can't wait for it to be carbed!

Hey Tactiacl:
I cant help but notice your caps don't look like they are fully crimped..You may want to recheck them...They look like long shoulder bottles but those crimps look like the ones I get when I try to cap shot shouldered bottles. Maybe its all in the camera lens distortion or something but they look incompletely crimped to me.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Hey Tactiacl:

I cant help but notice your caps don't look like they are fully crimped..You may want to recheck them...They look like long shoulder bottles but those crimps look like the ones I get when I try to cap shot shouldered bottles. Maybe its all in the camera lens distortion or something but they look incompletely crimped to me.

Looks to me like the photo is pre-crimp.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Hey Tactiacl:
I cant help but notice your caps don't look like they are fully crimped..You may want to recheck them...They look like long shoulder bottles but those crimps look like the ones I get when I try to cap shot shouldered bottles. Maybe its all in the camera lens distortion or something but they look incompletely crimped to me.

Looks to me like the photo is pre-crimp.

Yep, I snapped the pic before I crimped them. I was crimping and SWMBO was putting them away as soon as I was done. Little assembly line action going on :rockin: so I wanted to get a pic before they were all put up in boxes to carb up lol

 

[Xernex]

Lets see, toasted 4 lbs of coconut to go in the coconut milk stout, put together a 6.5 gallon raspberry lime cider kit, fished the collar of my keezer, chaulkboard sprayed the top of the freezer, stained the collar, ran all the airlines, marked the collar for the shanks and then couldn't find a single freaking 1/4 inch drill bit in either of my 3 kits...the one thing i needed to do to finish today...who loses 3 drill bits in the same size

 

[ChelisHubby]

Brewed a bitter for a friend and kegged a blonde for me and a few bottles

 

[Alpotun]

Bottled a batch of a Rye Coffee Stout. Hydrometer sample was quite tasty. I just hope I have enough willpower to let them age for a few months.

 

[losefreeze]

Built two awesome homes for my hops.

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[Tactical-Brewer]

Built two awesome homes for my hops.

Nice!