What I did for beer today

[kal]

Brewing Electric Hop Candy Jr!

Measuring out water adjustments and hops: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZPT1vpAlva/?taken-by=theelectricbrewery

Filling the HLT: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZPvqc3g7Y4/?taken-by=theelectricbrewery

Heating up strike water: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZQ8oppAahV/?taken-by=theelectricbrewery

Also bought some yeast:

Kal

 

[HopGobbler]

Checked my Belgian IPA last night and it's happily chugging along in primary. Will be racking to secondary this weekend

 

[catdaddy66]

Bottling my APA, 6 days after dry hopping with Pacific Jade, Green Bullet and Warrior hops (2.5oz total). Hope all goes well!

 

[govner1]

Brewed a 6g AG batch of a bitter chocolate oatmeal stout with my daughter. Will secondary with bourbon soaked cherries.

 

[Dcpcooks]

Moved this big old unit to the new house and hauled the old concrete double sink out. I'm to old for this stuff. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1506017653.660424.jpg

 

[MaryB]

Brewed a chocolate milk stout kit I had sitting around way to long(year, it was a freebie...). Got in 8 packets of Notty yeast and 10 pounds of UK extra dark crystal. I might brew an IPA today if temps drop a bit...

 

[Gagunga]

Texted a guy selling 15 corny kegs for 25$ a piece. Sadly he was all sold out..

 

[biochemedic]

Gravity checked for FG and dry hopped two batches...

 

[fourfarthing]

Started the process (read spending money) of upgrading to kegging...

 

[kal]

Dry hopped my Electric Hop Candy Jr at high krausen:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZUOEEuA135/?taken-by=theelectricbrewery

Kal

 

[seatazzz]

Just finished my first ever "evening" brew. Working Sunday and going to the Fair tomorrow, so took advantage of a Friday night with nothing to do and brewed up a batch of House IPA. "No-chilling" and will pitch in the morning. Now time for relaxing and HBT.

 

[MaryB]

Weighed everything out to make a batch of my house ale. Little brother liberated a keg for my nieces wedding this weekend(in CA and I am not going, flying kills my back). She requested it and it is my gift to them. Little brother is taking it with on the plane(no clue how he is getting that by the TSA... his problem! He sad they would allow it as checked baggage and he has a box to hide what it is with lots of padding. Told him as soon as gets there tonight to put it under 30psi for 24 hours to make sure it is carbonated).

Kind of killed my plan to make an IPA today but with the heat we had brewing wasn't an option anyway, 94 degrees and 56% humidity. Little cooler tomorrow so I will replenish the house ale everyone loves. Got the brew rig prepped, water in the mash tun, grains crushed. All I have to do is turn the burner on and as the mash water heats I can fill the HLT(has a tiny leak from the thermometer if I leave it full overnight, need to fix that one of these days!) and start it heating on a low burner after I mash in. Might do the 5 gallon IPA batch Sunday if I have the energy left... might be a couch potato and watch NASCAR instead LOL.

 

[seatazzz]

Pitched yeast and cleaned the keggle & pump after last night's brew date with myself. I hate cleaning but it sure is nice to see all of my equipment clean and stacked away neatly for the next brew day. Off to the Fair later, hoping to convince the man that we need to stop by Jon's Homebrew Supply in Puyallup afterwards, just to say hi...really. I need to get a Winter ale started STAT and I'm out of grain.

 

[jcav]

Brewed 11 gallons of a Munich Helles and what a nice day it was brewing on my rig!

John

 

[MaryB]

Fed the mother........... mosquitoes as I brewed 11 gallons of a modified version of my house ale... Finished at 6pm, 6 hours later I am still itching! Been fighting to find decent brewing conditions, they are burying new water and sewer lines in front of my house so lots of extra dust and diesel smoke... don't think either will add that special flavor to my beer! They finished water lines early and only had to move a sand pile this morning so they were done a couple hours before I started brewing. Now if I could only find a cure for the mosquitoes attracted to the burner CO2... Minnesota is in the middle of a totally horrible mosquito hatch, I used 98% DEET today and still got bit up! When I picked strawberries yesterday I had 20+ on just one arm...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Just woke up to start what might be my last brew day for a little while. Next weekend will likely be taken up with last minute preparations for the new baby coming the following Monday. Who knows what my schedule will look like after that. This will be my second overnight mash and a continuation of my experimentation with fast brewing. It will be a kind of beefed up clone of the stone pale ale if my conversion efficiency from the last overnight mash was any indication.

 

[Master]

Tracked down a CO2 leak in my kegerator.. Valve around the stem. Brand new freaking valve.

Downside of 20# CO2 Tank.. You burn up a LOT of CO2 with small leaks(too small to hear but big enough to slowly drain tank).

 

[JonM]

Brewed up a stewbrew - mostly base malts and leftover Cascade plus fresh Cascade, so it'll probably turn out like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Then kegged my Altbier and got yeast going for the dunkelweizen I'll do next weekend.

 

[orionol73]

Making my first attempt at a Russian Imperial Stout

 

[brewbama]

Pitched yeast in a Landlord clone I brewed yesterday. I had to cut cooling short because my Brewery is on the deck and a thunderstorm threatened to invade my fun last night. So, I placed the fermenter in the ferm chamber to finish cooling to pitching temp. This AM I was where I needed to be.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Harvested Mt hood hops, to use as a late addition in tomorrow's pumpkin porter brew day.

 

[fourfarthing]

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[fourfarthing]

I drank

 

[MaryB]

Added yeast to yesterdays brew, with temporary water lines my cold water has been running 80 degrees instead of the normal mid to low 50's so I only got temps down to 92 yesterday then put the fermenters in the pantry to finish cooling down.

 

[Master]

Continued chasing down a CO2 leak.

Keg Pressure gauge got an internal leak just sitting in the fridge. There goes a full 20 pound tank.

 

[seatazzz]

Had a 13 hour brew day at the taproom...with many snafus. First a hose popped off the HLT spraying 180 water on my boss' foot (my fault), then we were both standing on the scaffold checking the boil kettle when the heavy spatula fell off the top, hitting the tri-clamp fitting on the bottom and of course knocking it to the floor, to the tune of 12 gallons lost from a 110 gallon batch. No burns, but when I got home my jeans were so stiff with dried wort they almost walked away by themselves. Also thank heavens wore my heavy work boots.

 

[Master]

Kegged 5 gallons of Fat Dog Porter and bottled the remainder. 11 bottles.

 

[BikerMatt]

just picked up eight stacks of pallets and two stacks of dirty kegs from my favourite craft brewery and delivered them to the major distribution hub. As I was loading the truck the bloke that works at the brewery came out and gave me a bag full of small production specials! Muchos dineros if you'd go get the same batch from a store.

Wanna guess what I'm doing today

 

[MaryB]

Drank! One of those days LOL

 

[seatazzz]

Transferred and pitched yeast on the Oatmeal Stout I brewed last night. OMG the flavor on this one is out of this world. Tastes like really good oatmeal with brown sugar. And the OG came in at 1.073, going to be a butt-kicker. Using the carboy because I overshot the volume, wound up with over 7 gallons so will be bottling a few as well as kegging. Also added some Simcoe dry hop to the IPA I did last Friday, taste on that one was good as well. Pipeline is finally full with 3 kegs in the kegerator and two beers coming up. Downside to that is I won't have room to brew any more until mid-November.