What I did for beer today

[Devon]

I started a couple batches cold crashing, and will probably mill the grains for tomorrow's brew tonight.

 

[unionrdr]

De-labeled a bunch of bottles. Got the labels dried & pretty flat for framing.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Kegged my first ever ale with real fruit pieces as part of the fermentation. I've done sours with purée but never with pieces of fruit that I processed myself. What a disaster from a process perspective! Racking cane clogged up. Pieces of fruit got into the keg. Ended up getting pissed and just carefully pouring from the fermenter through a half-ass sanitized metal strainer into the keg. It was a oxidation nerd's worst nightmare. Even dropped an unsanitized rubber band into the carboy while racking. Don't even ask.

They reality is that the beer ended up at 1.010 and tasted delicious. It will probably turn out awesome. Might not age to well though, which isn't in the plan for it anyways.

 

[brewbama]

Brewed an English Pale Ale

 

[unionrdr]

Peeled another batch of labels to lay out & dry. PBW solution seems to dry out of them rather quickly?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Making a starter for a Saison.

 

[unionrdr]

Just noticed the Mumme is still bubbling slowly. Gotta wait till maybe Wednesday for the spruce extract to get here...

 

[ChelisHubby]

Botlled a 8 pack and kegged the rest and made a new top for the tempature control cooler to fit the fermonster. I also saved some slurry for tomorrows brew.

 

[Dfitz]

I'm turning my garage into a cool mancave/brew space. Seeing as when it's 95F in there it's not cool, I picked up a used 25,000 BTU A/C unit for a fair price to make it cool. I had no windows in my garage large enough so I had to Frame an opening.

While it's more for the brew space than the brew, I'm counting it as doing something for my beer.

 

[unionrdr]

I love having a man cave/ brewery. a space to do with as I please, as long as I'm neat & somewhat orderly about it. Try to keep it clean & organized, as it were. Wrote some more of my 2nd HB book while soaking another bucket of bottles to loosen the labels. I've got quite a stack going already. Looks like I'll have a lot of labels to trade for other brewery swag? :rockin:

 

[Dfitz]

I love having a man cave/ brewery. a space to do with as I please, as long as I'm neat & somewhat orderly about it. Try to keep it clean & organized, as it were. Wrote some more of my 2nd HB book while soaking another bucket of bottles to loosen the labels. I've got quite a stack going already. Looks like I'll have a lot of labels to trade for other brewery swag? :rockin:

Labels can be traded? I'm holding probably a dozen cases of 3 floyds labels, mostly zombie dust. What can be done with these?

 

[PrairieDawg]

Just finished cleaning up from a brew day. Did a batch of a mostly mosaic IPA.
Trying to clone a commercial beer called "Windstorm", from Stanley Park Brewing in Vancouver B.C.
I will call it "Rainstorm" because we have had a couple good ones over the week.

Cheers..

 

[phendog]

Put together a 1.4L starter for my Saison brew day tomorrow.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Pulled a couple cases of old Jester King 29mm bottles out the attic to wash and sanitize in preparation for bottling a 12 month old Kriek and a Peach Sour.

Drank a few DF 60s with lunch.

 

[MaryB]

Man caves humph!

I built this 24x30 new garage because I was tired of not enough woodworking space! 8" of insulation in the walls, R50 ceiling R26 overhead door... We are into mid MN summer and right now it is 70 in there...

I'm turning my garage into a cool mancave/brew space. Seeing as when it's 95F in there it's not cool, I picked up a used 25,000 BTU A/C unit for a fair price to make it cool. I had no windows in my garage large enough so I had to Frame an opening.

While it's more for the brew space than the brew, I'm counting it as doing something for my beer.

 

[unionrdr]

Labels can be traded? I'm holding probably a dozen cases of 3 floyds labels, mostly zombie dust. What can be done with these?

Folks on here & our sister site, http://www.beerforum.com/ Trade brewery swag, like caps, coasters, labels, etc for what others have. Some three floyds labels, say one of each different one you have, would be great for some of mine? I collect coasters to frame as well, I use poster frames for coasters & labels. On the wall, rather than all over the place.

 

[Devon]

Bottled 6.5 gallons, muttered about getting a kegging system finally.

 

[liquidcourage]

Pitched yeast in 10 gallons of Kolsch, soldered a new sparge arm, and put some parts on the new keggle.

 

[libardinho]

Started designing my brew rig with sketchup. Single tier with 10 gallons HLT, MT and BK

 

[Dfitz]

Folks on here & our sister site, http://www.beerforum.com/ Trade brewery swag, like caps, coasters, labels, etc for what others have. Some three floyds labels, say one of each different one you have, would be great for some of mine? I collect coasters to frame as well, I use poster frames for coasters & labels. On the wall, rather than all over the place.

I could do that! There's quite a few different 3F brews and I do enjoy their beer so I'll start saving the labels for you.

 

[Dfitz]

Folks on here & our sister site, http://www.beerforum.com/ Trade brewery swag, like caps, coasters, labels, etc for what others have. Some three floyds labels, say one of each different one you have, would be great for some of mine? I collect coasters to frame as well, I use poster frames for coasters & labels. On the wall, rather than all over the place.

I could do that! There's quite a few different 3F brews and I do enjoy their beer so I'll start saving the labels for you.

 

[unionrdr]

Cool, thanks! I've got a nice stack dried & pressing now. Still got some cases of bottles to go through. One of some, dozen of others, as it were. I have several of the Sam Adam's Rebel IPA, Crystal Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Shiner Prickly Pear too. I wish the Aldi's around here would carry Wernesgruner Pils again. I have one of those shiny gold labels. Once in a while, Giant Eagle gets some Little kings. Got one of those labels. I only got one of the copper foil Kentucky Bourbon barrel ales though. Darn glue is really stubborn, as the paper gets rather soft before the glue dissolves. I'll have to try some more of those & see what I can do.
Be careful how much PBW or the like you use in how much water! Too much, & it dulls the ink & soaks the foil off! I have four of the Victorian style UK cider bottles with foil labels I have to experiment with. I'll see if I can get you one of those. Gotta look through the garage stash. BTW, I save all the labels any particular bottle has, so some will be in sets.

 

[libardinho]

Just ordered some SS fittings for my pumps

 

[sleepspeaking]

Woke up sore from a needlessly long brew day yesterday... for the love of the game...

 

[catdaddy66]

Woke up sore from a needlessly long brew day yesterday... for the love of the game...

My calf muscles were sore for the same reason. Woke up today for OG reading and to pitch yeast after the beer was sealed in the primary for 12 hours. Hit 1.060 (anticipated was 1.058)!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Applied some labels for sharing.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

just filled all my kegs with fresh beer, 2 are almost carbed the other new wort, Ill be set for my daughters baby shower, at least for us guys with cheap cigars and good home brew

 

[ChelisHubby]

Had to exchange co -2 bottle . A line blew off and emptied the bottle, that is what you get for not doing things right. But I went to the more beer shop and drooled over the 22 gallon brew kettle.

 

[Devon]

Picked up some bottle caps and a five gallon collapsible water container that I may try to rig as a cask.

 

[unionrdr]

Tried a suggestion by a fellow member for using a piece of dowel rod in my bench capper for straightening commercial bottle caps for trading, using as collectables, etc. I'm using a 3/4" diameter wooden dowel rod 13 1/2" long in my super Agata bench capper. The length keeps the lever nearly horizontal for less effort applied. It presses out the creases in caps just fine, but not so much with dimples from pointy protrusions on the bottle cap removal tool. Overall, it works pretty good.