What I did for beer today

[NCSU_Brewer]

Bought a dual-tap kegerator for $300 on Craigslist!

 

[brewbama]

Brewed for the first time since Aug. Exceeded OG by a cpl points. Like falling off a log.

 

[BigMack]

Bought a dual-tap kegerator for $300 on Craigslist!

I got my two tap keezer on craigslist last year. Best brewing purchase I've made yet! Few things are as wonderful as the first pour of your homebrew on tap.

 

[Ike]

Bought a 6.9 cuft chest freezer. This means I'll be able to ferment three 5gal Better Bottles or even three 6.5 gallon BMBs at once. ... once I build the collar, that is...

Furthermore, this frees up my current fermentation chamber (an upright fridge/freezer combo) to be re-commissioned as a kegerator.

Boomsauce!

 

[philipCT]

Pitched a 4L starter to 11.5 gallons of NEIPA-to-be. First NEIPA for me - all excited and ****. Almost can't get to sleep.

 

[govner1]

Moved my White IPA from secondary/dry hop to kegs; cleaned carboys & transfer equipment.

 

[brew_dawg23]

Cleaned out a really nasty keg that I've been pretending didn't exist for a couple of months.

 

[Ike]

(FINALLY) ...bought a 5Gal Torpedo kegging system from MoreBeer.

I... am... soooo... tired... of bottling.

 

[philipCT]

Racked two carboys of Imperial Stout to secondary for bulk aging at 65. One was at 1017 and the other at 1022. Go figure. Maybe I didn't swirl the yeast enough to get an equal pitch. Anyway the 1017 is borderline dumpable. The 1022 is just okay but way more dry than I'd like for this stage. At this stage I'd like sticky sweet and boozy. Let that sit and mellow out for a few months.

Not sure what to do with the 22.

 

[walt4777]

Just kegged a Scottish stout and ordered supplies for some holiday beer.

 

[mattrox]

Dry hopped.

 

[govner1]

Organized and inventoried all my hops.
Cleaning & prepping my new Blichmann 15g MLT for a Monday brew.

 

[Ike]

Built the wooden backbone for a collar to go on my new fermentation chamber.


<-------- WORST. CARPENTER. EVER.


...I was sober, even. If I knew it was going to turn out looking that bad, at least I would have had a couple brews.

I'm not sweating it too much, though. Once the insulation and tape is in place, the gaps will be filled and so far everything looks like it's going to sit level, even if it looks like crap. We shall see...

 

[itsnotrequired]

woke up at 5:30 this morning to keg 10 gallons of russian imperial stout before heading off to work

 

[Devon]

I picked up the grains to make 5 gallons of Revvy's Kentucky Common and a single gallon of the Apple Pie Ale featured in this month's BYO.

 

[Ike]

BBT DELIVERED MY TORPEDO KEGGING SYSTEM! ...from morebeer.com.


SO thrilled to see it. SO sick of bottling.

NOW, to brew something to put into it!

 

[Oceantendency]

Cleaned all my gear last night for an early morning brew this morning

 

[tat2Pompadore]

I cleaned 5 sankey kegs today. I need to find a good recipe to brew and fill them up.

 

[catdaddy66]

Went to a monthly beer tasting at my lhbs. Always good stuff from the regulars.

 

[DurtyChemist]

Made a starter and then checked volumes. It's been a while.
Measured 1.1L HOT water. It helps dissolve DME.
Added 150 g DME.
brought up to a total weight of 1.5kg.

Yeah a little too concentrated for a yeast calculated to have ~50% viability from Homebrew dad. It hasn't done anything but sit on the stir plate. I hope to wake up to better news.
Edit: a few days ago I replaced all my keg gaskets because one had a bad air in gasket (dry rot) and I lost a 20 lb tank.

 

[phug]

went to go pick up my LHBS order. You order online and can either pick up in store of free, or at one of 6-7 local breweries (also for free) if you don't want to pay for shipping. 1lb of amber dme for <3.50 CAD after sale price, and club discount.

 

[Yeastieboy]

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New Hoses!

 

[biochemedic]

Converted my first of 4 Spartanburg kegs to ball lock...

Kegged my fruitcake old ale for the 12 Beers of Xmas!

Cleaning a bunch of hoses and kegging parts...

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[Devon]

Bottled five gallons of Revvy's Kentucky Common, a gallon of pale ale made of the little bits of grains I had kicking around, and racked my Apple Pie Ale onto some more fresh apples.

Found a full bottle of beer in among what I thought were all empties, so that's a bonus. Found beer is the best beer.

 

[Oceantendency]

Assembled and tested the new Banjo Burner on my 10 gallon SS Brew Tech brew pot with 7 gallons. much cleaner and even burn that my previously King Cooker burner and most importantly , no scorching.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

Kegged my latest batch, a Motueka Pale Ale.

only my seconed time brewing on my new setup, still dialing it in. Hit my numbers within 1 point.

First time cold crashing as well, beer is crystal clear and tastes great.

 

[catdaddy66]

Filling a growler to enjoy while watching college football tomorrow.

 

[Eucrid]

I added a second tap to my keggerator and tapped a keg of Janets Brown

 

[PCL]

Poured my first draft of homebrew after bottling for 3 years. Was delicious and easy. Should have changed over years ago

 

[JonM]

I tried something totally new. Last night I started an overnight cold steep of about a pound of dark grains for the schwartzbier I'm brewing today. I'll mash the base grains alone then add the extract from the dark stuff with 10 mins left in the boil.