What I did for beer today

[Amadeo38]

Made a bacon consommé to be added to my barrel aged imperial maple brown ale at bottling

 

[alexnova]

sipped my rye anniversary ale. not fully carbed yet
booked my train tickets to HomebrewCon in Balto!

 

[philipCT]

Nursed two Pulseners up to diacetyl rest temp. Looked in on a S Hop Chinook APA that should finish secondary in a week or so.

 

[signpost]

Added 12 ounces of dry hops to a big IIPA lady night. Used Lemondrop, Columbia, Denali, Calypso, and Cascade.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Primed and bottled 2.5 gallons of MOM Beer smells and tastes really good.

 

[MaryB]

My least favorite chore....

washed bottles...

I gotta find some cheap corny kegs!

 

[starsman20]

Got home to find this box
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With this in it

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Have a few things to fugure out but this is pretty cool.

 

[Yeastieboy]

I sent my wife to the LHBS for ingredients for tonight's brew session.

I always send the Wife to my LHBS. She works right down the street... super convenient.... for me.

 

[brewbama]

Just mashed in a Blonde. Took a hydro sample of a SMaSH. It's ready to keg. Which makes room for the Blonde in that fermenter.

 

[Devon]

Picked up my 50 lb sack of 2-row, some various specialty grains and hops. Now I can brew on a whim without schlepping over an hour round trip to the LHBS.

 

[scram]

Bottled my first homebrew beer! Learned that a jive ass wing capper doesn't get along well with Stella bottles. Room temp and just residual CO2 but still tasted great! I see kegging in my near future...

 

[Erik_Mog]

Racked 5 gallons of Hefeweizen on top of 3# of blood orange puree. Also marked .25gal graduations on a carboy, and took my new mash tun out of the truck finally.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Thought about how I gotta get this chocolate milk stout out of the primary after 5 weeks and into a keg. Then didn't. Maybe tomorrow!?

 

[erick0619]

Thought about how I gotta get this chocolate milk stout out of the primary after 5 weeks and into a keg. Then didn't. Maybe tomorrow!?

Man do I know the feeling my brightest down fall as far as brewing Is that I'm lazy as **** I have a mash tun full of grains that's been sitting for almost a week I've been needing to clean my empty keg and lines for like 3 week ugh I suck as a HOMEBREWER

 

[dcrog]

...I have a mash tun full of grains that's been sitting for almost a week...

Boy that should be ripe by now.

I'd be afraid to open it up.

 

[JonM]

Screwed up a test mash for Saturday's brew. I added:

10% of the water
10% of the grain
10% of the salt additions AAAAAAND

100% of the acid. Mash pH was a tad lower than predicted. Just a tad.

 

[philipCT]

Got home to find this box
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Have a few things to fugure out but this is pretty cool.

I like the looks of that CIP rig. I didn't realize they had that... and the 3" TC fitting on the top. And the sample valve. My 1/2 BBL doesn't have any of that.

That's a sweet looking rig.

 

[erick0619]

Boy that should be ripe by now.



I'd be afraid to open it up.

Ooooh yeah it's gonna be a chore getting rid of those grains. I may just go out to the farthest part of the back yard and dig a hole and burry those suckers.

 

[Elkobrewer]

I will be kegging an Irish red today.

 

[MaryB]

Drilled my new Concord 15 gallon kettle for a ball valve, and drilled my former Bayou 10(to the very top...) gallon boil kettle for a thermometer. Those Concord kettles are some tough stainless! I killed 3 bits getting a pilot hole drilled! And yes I went slow and used oil! Twice it grabbed and the bits snapped, third bit lost its edge... in contrast the Bayou kettle drilled like butter... Now I can handle some 10gallon lower gravity batches!

 

[catdaddy66]

I'm entering my first "competition" which is really a taster rated "beauty pageant" kind of competition. Its for the 1st anniversary of a local craft beer bar, Southern Brewed (Columbia, SC).

 

[brewbama]

I cold crashed a kegged SMaSH a few days ago and gelatin fined and put it on gas to slow carb today

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Got 16 pounds of grain. Doing a Celts blood Irish red and 2 1 gallon test batches for my wild yeast.

 

[Stillraining]

Continued training my two buds, it was their second time...we brewed up 30 gallons.
Both of them are OCD...I answered more questions then Wikipedia today. :smack: I'm all wore out. But the camaraderie was good.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Transferred a Wit from a 5G to a 2.5G keg to make room (freakin' finally) for a 6 week old Choco Milk Stout. Got the stout in the keg and cold conditioning. Tasted good. 1023... Seems a little high; lactose I suppose. This is going on Nitro.

 

[zlaker]

Made a Pale Ale. Just put it in the fermenter and now to wait for the magic to happen

 

[philber]

Went to local dollar store to get filter bucket for new mash tun and they had one that fit it perfectly!
Crushed 38lbs of grains with my cheap ass grain mill (1.5 hours), everything went wrong....
Found I left my brew kettle dirty from last brew session.
Broke a carboy during sanitation.
Put off brewing till Monday (Staying home from work--or lack there of--to finish)
Dreading looking in the freezer for the correct hops, I sure hope they are there...

 

[kman6234]

Kegged 10 gallons of an Amber ale and cleaned the conical

 

[starsman20]

First got the homemade glycol chiller running again. Leak checked the new fermentor. Since its in an uncooled garage thought i would run a week long test to see how the temps hold. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465766927.225085.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465766938.427548.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465766949.551318.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465766961.297159.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465766977.198069.jpg
Then had a heif in the rain
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[erick0619]

First got the homemade glycol chiller running again. Leak checked the new fermentor. Since its in an uncooled garage thought i would run a week long test to see how the temps hold. View attachment 358357View attachment 358358View attachment 358359View attachment 358360View attachment 358361
Then had a heif in the rain
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That's a pretty sweet set up man I'm
Hoping to set something up like that in a few months. Only difference is that I'll be turning my current ferm chamber chest freezer into my glycol reserve.