What I did for beer today

[Yeastieboy]

Cleaned up from last nights brew sesh. Pitched some yeast. Adjusted pressure on a Citra pils. Drank and bought some Jester King beers.

 

[govner1]

Kegged my One Armed Bandit ESB, cleaned carboys and transfer equipment.

 

[BigMack]

Whispered sweet nothings to my fermenters while they bubbled away keeping my beer safe from the outside world.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Filled CO2

 

[Alpotun]

Collected RO water.

 

[catdaddy66]

Bottling my Belgian blonde

 

[catdaddy66]

Bought 55# of pilsner malt. Got my grains ground for my nut brown ale. (Getting set to brew an election day brown ale!)

 

[BigMack]

Took a gravity reading on the brown ale I've got fermenting. 1469 can be a real PITA with its never ending Krausen.

 

[Pkrd]

Harassed the kind blokes at the local refrigerator shop for a bit. Eventually we tracked down a westinghouse without an ice box that should make a great little kegerator.

 

[Ike]

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

Yes! I just kegged my first batch today! I'm going to chill it overnight and force carb tomorrow.

I agree: why don't we all just start out with kegging right away? I know, I would never have done it because of money issues. But, setting aside a little bit of hemming and hawing because I'd never actually done it before, it was SO friggin' easy!

I'm going to score a beer gun for those occasional situations where a growler won't get things done. That said, I'm hoping to be done with large-scale (for me, at least) bottling for a long time.

 

[Yeastieboy]

kegged a coffee stout which i have pretty low expectations for. cleaned out the conical. getting ready for a IIPA next weekend.

 

[orionol73]

Bottled 5 gallons of grapefruit IPA, transferred a house pale ale to secondary to clear off: I know, I know...I use secondary with low headspace to let beer clear before bottling when the larger primary is in use) and brewed 5 gallons of coffee stout

 

[Yeastieboy]

switched coffee stout to nitro. recirculating PBW through this damn plate chiller. Its such a love/hate relationship.

 

[skraeling]

ordered another 145.00 in parts for my keezer. my anus hurts.

 

[Dfitz]

I went and picked up a couple of 50L carboys I've had my eye on. $20 a piece.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Began a yeast starter for a Doble IPA

 

[ChelisHubby]

I went to pick up the grain for a dark mild Brit. when I got there they were out of cry 40 so I asked what would they recomend for a subsitute and they said equal amounts of cry 20 and 60, Well I know it cant taste even similar but I thought what the heck maybe it will be good. In hindsite I think I should have went with Bairds 30,37 and 70,80 and it might have tasted more british. But at the worst it can be is beer tho I wont give it to my boss, that is who I brewed this for.

 

[Pkrd]

Ordered the grain for a Blue Moon clone. Started brainstorming my new keggerator design.

 

[schatzke]

Ordered all the bits to add a nitro tap to the keezer. Should be dispensing a nitro oatmeal stout just in time for thanksgiving!

 

[BigMack]

Just brewed up what should be a tasty Amber Ale.

 

[ncsuwerewolf]

Bought yeast (3711) and whirlfloc. Cold crashing 10 gallons of porter and drinking Kölsch to make room for it.

 

[brewbama]

Bought the ingredients for my Saison de Noël.

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Saison de Noël
Style: Belgian Specialty Ale
TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 7.00 gal
Post Boil Volume: 5.50 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal
Bottling Volume: 4.50 gal
Estimated OG: 1.052 SG
Estimated Color: 3.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 21.3 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 96.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (1.6 SRM) Grain 1 55.6 %
3 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 2 33.3 %
1 lbs Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 3 11.1 %
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 60.0 Hop 4 16.6 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 5 -
0.25 oz Saaz [4.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 6 1.2 IBUs
0.25 oz Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] - Boil 10.0 mi Hop 7 1.6 IBUs
1.00 oz Orange Peel, Sweet (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 8 -
0.75 oz Saaz [4.00 %] - Boil 2.0 min Hop 9 0.8 IBUs
0.75 oz Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] - Boil 2.0 min Hop 10 1.1 IBUs
1.0 pkg Belle Saison (Lallemand/Danstar #-) Yeast 11 -


Mash Schedule: (1) Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge 148°F
Total Grain Weight: 9 lbs
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Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 4.00 gal of water at 155.8 F 148.0 F 60 min

Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun , 4.33gal) of 168.0 F water

 

[Pkrd]

Finally tracked down a 15L bucket for fermenting my half batches. At the auto store of all places.

 

[Yeastieboy]

Today I made beer. An IPA loaded up with a variety of classic american hops.

 

[coyote68]

got these openers from pointcity-homebrew @
drink local openers. he did a fantastic job with my bee logo!!

Highly recommended if you want a custom opener.

 

[kman6234]

Kegged 10 gallons of APA this morning

 

[govner1]

Adjusted my Ranco controller to make sure the heat comes on with colder weather eminent

 

[Craigmn]

Zested, peeled, and puréed 50 pounds of blood oranges then picked up 50 more to do tomorrow

 

[ChelisHubby]

I had to Slog thru a nother brew of English dark mild. It was quite relaxing and I hope to do it again soon. I am worried about the recipe as Morebeer was out of crystal 40 and this brew needs a pound of it. I tried a sub that I dont agree with now. But if it doesnt work I will still have beer to drink.

 

[libardinho]

Changed orifices in my BG12 burners. Took 35 minutes to bring 5 gals of water from 90F to boil