What I did for beer today

[Pkrd]

I swapped out my 9% IPA keg for a 4% Pacific ale, should be less falling over this christmas, and I can put the IPA back when the guests are gone.

Did some painting on the new kegerator. My 8 year old suggested I put a secret tap in the back for beers that I don't want others to drink. :rockin:

 

[JonM]

Quick carbed a half batch of root beer that I make every year for my nieces. It's a half full keg, so it's really easy: chill, hook up to 25 psi and charge, disconnect and shake the bejeebers out of it, reconnect the gas, repeat. Fully carbed in 5 minutes.

I also taste tested my schwartzbier that has been lagering for about a month. It's perfect, but it looks exactly like root beer so let's keep our glasses straight, shall we?

 

[Bulls Beers]

Making a yeast starter for a dark lager I'm brewing this weekend

 

[govner1]

Moved my Smoked Rye IPA to secondary for dry hop w/ 3 oz Simcoe, cleaned the carboys & transfer equipment.
Put the 2nd keg of my Cappuccino Stout on CO2 for carbing

 

[MaryB]

Checked on the house ale that is fermenting happily. Nice strong fermentation so I may be bottling by Monday!

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

Finally checked the FG of the stout I brewed at Thanksgiving, hit my number spot on.

Cold brewed coffee which will be added to the keg today.

Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!

 

[catdaddy66]

Weighed out grain for the next two brews on my list. Last night I tasted my new batch of nut brown ale vs a commercial version (Messiah Nut Brown Ale). Color was a couple srm points lighter on mine and the commercial version was a tad richer in maltiness. Other than that they were extremely similar! I was happy.

 

[libardinho]

Ordered "a few" books:

Modern Homebrew Recipes: Exploring Styles and Contemporary Techniques

Brewing Better Beer: Master Lesson for Advanced Homeowners

IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale

Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers

For The Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops

Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation

Malt: A Practical Guide from Field to Brewhouse

 

[ChelisHubby]

I had to move inside the garage to brew today, 10 mph wind was too much for the burner to handle.

 

[brewbama]

Added all the grain, hops, and yeast from all the recipes in Brewing Classic Styles to a spreadsheet so I can do a search with the ingredients I have on hand to see what I can brew with those ingredients. By doing that I figure my next brew will be an 80/- because I have 99% of what I need. Cheers!

 

[govner1]

Kegged my Smoked Rye IPA, cleaned secondary carboys, dry hop tubes, & transfer equipment.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Just clean a few bottles!

 

[brewbama]

Went and looked at my fermenter bubbling away while pour a beer.

 

[fenners]

For Hogmanay party on Saturday:

Drank a couple of pints of a saison to empty a keg.
Kegged 5 gallons of my "Vader's Lament" dark IPA & decided to give an extra dry hop in the keg.
Threw in some frozen blueberries/strawberries/raspberries (in a sanitized bag) into half a keg of bland but fine American wheat.

 

[Elkobrewer]

Kegged 5 gallons of my house ale

 

[hagar]

Bottled some dunkelwiezen (a bit late) and got all my gear cleaned up.

 

[BigMack]

Organized all of my brewing equipment/ingredients. They've been getting a bit disorganized so my next brew day should be a breeze now.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Cleaning bottles for tomorrow's bottling session.

 

[pshankstar]

1. Yeast starter/over build to save some yeast.
2. De-labeled and cleaned some bottles.
3. Setting up my brew stuff in the garage to brew hopefully later tonight or sometime tomorrow.
4. Crockpot dinner so I don't have a big dinner to make and clean up before brewing. Trying to think ahead.

 

[JonM]

Pressure canned about 5L of starter wort in varying sizes of mason jars and made up some new agar slants to re-slant my yeast collection.

 

[jleiii]

Brewed an imperial stout, used second runnings with another 10lbs of pale malt for a dark doppelbock, and second second runnings for 7 qts of starter wort.

 

[Sparkncode]

Modified my old Fisher and Paykel activesmart Fridge/freezer for use as a temperature chamber.

No switching off the power for me. I just hacked into it and controlled just the fridge part. It looks like its going to manage to keep the freezer still working which is very handy.
I'm using an STC1000 like most people but turning off the main power on active smart would generate annoying beeps and would effect the freezer so I modded it properly.

I have a few more tests to do but its looking good.

I will write up the modifications later in case anyone is interested but finally I have a fermentation chamber ... Beer Time.

 

[Pantherjon]

Organized all of my brewing equipment/ingredients. They've been getting a bit disorganized so my next brew day should be a breeze now.

No you won't...lol..Like me, I am sure you got used to the dis-organized array of your tools. So, now that you have it organized it will make you hunt for it, when it is in its proper storage area! Happens to me ALL the time when I "organize" my work areas..LOL

 

[garzlok]

Got my Raspberry Pints going w/o the Raspberry Pi. In lieu of Flowmeters, I have buttons associated with my normal serving sizes to track my pours and adjust my batch volumes accordingly.

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[brewcat]

Rough draft of a brewing schedule for the year.

 

[Transamguy77]

Soaked some bottles to remove the labels and clean them out, haven't had to do that in years but I want to give some beer away and I'll need some bottles to do it.

 

[Pkrd]

Kegged my Blue Moon. Washed some stuff. Fed some US05 and put it on the stir plate. Mashing a Pale right now.

 

[JonM]

Saved my Oktoberfest lager from a near disaster - or at least a near mild inconvenience. I had root beer hooked up to a gas line at about 25-30 psi. I hooked the Oktoberfest up to the same line without noticing that the reg was still set at soda pressure. It sat like that for a day or so before I realized the mistake and purged the keg and turned the reg down. At least it'll get carbed faster than usual.

 

[Sparkncode]

I finally tried to use a jet bottle washer I brought from an online homebrew shop here in nz a few months back. A US made one but annoyingly it turned out to be the US version too, ie only a couple of turns would thread onto our 3/4" BSP outside taps. Leaked like a sive as nothing was tight so I added a 18mm 3.5mm o-ring ontop of the exsisting seal got it to hold preassure without leaking.
Needed that as I have 3 batches needing bottling in next 2 weeks.

After sorting that I rinsed enough bottles with it for a batch. They had been cleaned a while ago so possibly didn't need the rinse but better safe than sorry.

They do get starsan as part of my bottling process.

Then bottled my first all grain batch. A pale ale malt / Motueka SMaSH.

 

[BigMack]

Just mashed in on a Maris Otter/Cascade SMaSH. I have never had a mash gum up and clump like this one did. Had to stir like crazy so I slightly undershot the mash temp. Oh well, a couple degrees never killed anyone