What I did for beer today

[Oceantendency]

Cleaned my new 10 gal SS Brew Tech kettle and polished up my old kettle to sell. Bought new copper tubing for new wort chiller.

 

[PrairieDawg]

Racked my Spruce Ale to secondary this morning.
Had a little sample. Seems to have the flavor profile I was looking for.
There is more than just a hint of the spruce taste.
I am going to pick some more fresh tips, vacuum pack, freeze and try this later in the fall again.

 

[BigMack]

Built two awesome homes for my hops.

I always feel good about the things I put together for my brewing until I come back on these forums and get completely shown up....

Looks great!

 

[CJ-3]

Today I placed the order for my next 2 batches.
Cream of 3 Crops &
None More Black

Should be here tomorrow some time according to the folks at ritebrew.com

going to be my first brews since January and I'm kinda jonesing for a brew day.

 

[losefreeze]

I always feel good about the things I put together for my brewing until I come back on these forums and get completely shown up....

Looks great!

I truly appreciate the compliment

 

[philipCT]

Built two awesome homes for my hops.

This looks. Really sweet. What kind of wood is that, looks like redwood? And what are the dimensions of the boxing wood on the bottom?

 

[Devon]

Found a Nugget hop plant at the local farm market of all places.

 

[losefreeze]

This looks. Really sweet. What kind of wood is that, looks like redwood? And what are the dimensions of the boxing wood on the bottom?

I used the new weather shield pressure treaded wood safe for gardens. The dimension of each box base is 10w x 3d x 18 inch H. Boards for base were 1x6s. Each box will be filled with 12 inches of good gardening potting/top soil with 6 inches original clay underneath. The trellis is built with 4x4x12 poles buried 1ft into original clay, holes filled with rock and the will have the additional 12 inches of added soil. The headers are made of 2x8x12 boards that were dog eared on the ends. Beams were bolted in at base in 3 spots per with 3/8th lag bolts.

Still to be done is run horizontal balauster 2x2s across the top for horizontal support and growth for plants as well as fill boxes with dirt, run twine and plant hops and other assorted veggies.

 

[scram]

Winemaker brewing 1st batch of beer! Brewers best IPA... here we go with another brewdiction...

 

[philipCT]

Winemaker brewing 1st batch of beer! Brewers best IPA... here we go with another brewdiction...

We welcome you (heh, heh, heh)

 

[philipCT]

Okay, so this is more of a what I did for beer this week kinda thing - busy week...
.

• got ingredients for 10g Pilsener at the blessed LHBS
• made separate starters of the Wyeast Czech Pils and Wyeast Budvar strains
• brewed up 10g Pilsener wort and split into two 5g carboys in separate ferm chambers, pitched starters
• bottled 3 beers, 4 bottles each, packed and shipped to Ballast Point's OG20 competition
• bottled another 3 beers for a local competition at Cask Republic
• kegged a Robust Porter, ahem, excuse me, an American Porter, that had been aging in a 5 liter Bourbon barrel for a month
• ordered a roll of stickers with the beer label artwork as a freebie for the beer I'll be pouring at a fundraiser in 2 weeks
• ...and of course: kept the hops watered

And I suspect I'm not done for the week yet

 

[philipCT]

I used the new weather shield pressure treaded wood safe for gardens. The dimension of each box base is 10w x 3d x 18 inch H. Boards for base were 1x6s. Each box will be filled with 12 inches of good gardening potting/top soil with 6 inches original clay underneath. The trellis is built with 4x4x12 poles buried 1ft into original clay, holes filled with rock and the will have the additional 12 inches of added soil. The headers are made of 2x8x12 boards that were dog eared on the ends. Beams were bolted in at base in 3 spots per with 3/8th lag bolts.

Still to be done is run horizontal balauster 2x2s across the top for horizontal support and growth for plants as well as fill boxes with dirt, run twine and plant hops and other assorted veggies.

...and it looks like you stained it to get that redwood look - am I right?

I just found this weathershield stuff for sale at the depot and I was just about to build out a few new hops beds so thanks again for the timely post!

 

[HopVol]

Got yeast starter going for Citrillo Wit.

 

[govner1]

Kegged my Amber Hopper & brewed 6g AG batch of Kölsch. Cleaned up all the brew equipment.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Put some of the wild yeast sample in a starter I made up and on the stir plate. Hoping it takes off

 

[losefreeze]

...and it looks like you stained it to get that redwood look - am I right?

I just found this weathershield stuff for sale at the depot and I was just about to build out a few new hops beds so thanks again for the timely post!

Didn't touch the wood outside of putting it together. The weather shield was that red in store.

 

[losefreeze]

...and it looks like you stained it to get that redwood look - am I right?

I just found this weathershield stuff for sale at the depot and I was just about to build out a few new hops beds so thanks again for the timely post!

Didn't touch the wood outside of putting it together. The weather shield was that red in store.

 

[MaryB]

Put a coat of polyurethane on my burner shelves, cut back the bottom steel supports so just hold the burner... and added casters in case the weight makes them sag.

 

[starsman20]

Octoberfest starters
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[MaryB]

Second coat of polyurethane on the burner shelves. Bolted down the burner on the metal part of the stand and revamped how I mounted the casters so they were closer to ground contact.

And not beer but I enjoyed a fresh picked garden salad!!! First greens of the spring always taste so good! Thinned a few of the larger radishes and put them in it too.

 

[Devon]

Ordered a Corona mill from Amazon.

 

[brewbama]

Played Dominos:
-- Kicked keg 1 Vienna Lager last night.
-- Cleaned keg 1 this AM.
-- Racked Czech Pils from fermenter to keg 1 and placed in lager chamber.
-- Moved keg 2 Old Specklen Hen into space vacated by keg 1 in kegerator.
-- Cleaned fermenter.
-- Tapped keg 3 Belgium Amber Ale for quality control purposes for tomorrows family cookout.
-- Brewed a 1.044 SMaSH Session Ale Lawnmower Beer and racked to now clean/empty fermenter.

What a great day!

 

[ChelisHubby]

Bought the grain for tomorrows brew and a new torpedo keg!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Training hops to climb.

 

[catmandu1999]

M'lady's birthday, cooked a Sam Adams Chocolate Bock clone at her request

 

[MaryB]

Finished my brew stand finally(needed some stainless bolts). Burners are all screwed down and can't shift. I might cut some aluminum heat shields for under the burners if needed.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Dumped the wild yeast starter I had been building up was a sad day. Was hoping the gross smell would go away the more I built up the yeast but that was not the case. All well. Easy enough to do and will so again. One day I'll snag me a saccs that'll knock socks off!

*I still have a Mason jar of wild yeast starter that doesn't smell had I've got high hopes for so that's a plus!

 

[philipCT]

Labeled 60 bottles of wedding beer for a friends celebration next weekend.

 

[ChelisHubby]

I had to brew and share some with my friend and then family came over. It was terrible as several pints were pulled and freed from the metal Keg prison. All In all a very good Day!

 

[signpost]

About to bottle up my batch of Norther Brewer's Ares' Biere de Mars. This should be carbed up and ready to drink just in time to take on a road trip to visit friends in a few weeks.

Also, yesterday I checked on my hops and barley. Pulled out a bunch of weeds surrounding the hops and trained some bines to the twine.

It's been a productive weekend.