What I did for beer today

[fourfarthing]

Bought the ingredients for my next four batches and unwrapped 2 new 2.5G kegs.

 

[MaryB]

Scrubbed a fermenter that had been soaking with PBW for 3 days, cleaned a keg, kegged 5 gallons of my house ale.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Primed and bottled a saison, cleaned fermentor etc. transferred wort of pumpkin porter to that fermentor, pitched yeast- more cleaning.

 

[brewcat]

Packaged some hops. Kegged some beer. Reminds me I need to go turn down the psi.

 

[fourfarthing]

Made some wort. Woot.

 

[govner1]

Transferred my Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout onto 3 lbs of Bourbon Cherries

 

[pshankstar]

Packaging up three shipments for trades. Sending out various beers from Veil, Aslin and Pizza Boy. In return receiving various California and other western states (West Coast IPAs) and NEIPAs. Good group of people to trade with! WOOHOO

 

[BikerMatt]

Bought a new 8L pump sprayer, a tin of Coopers Draught that was on -30% sale, 1kg bag of corn sugar and a bag of screaming green caps

No time to brew so gonna whip up an extract batch for change.

 

[BikerMatt]

Designed simple super quick labels and labeled a few bottles for a work mate to sample.

 

[fourfarthing]

Awesome labels

 

[fourfarthing]

Cleaned some kegs. Ok. I just flipped them over to let the pbw hit the other side.

 

[itsnotrequired]

Cleaned some kegs. Ok. I just flipped them over to let the pbw hit the other side.

hey, me too! just finished about an hour or so ago. had a keg in the keezer that kicked a couple weeks ago and finally got around to cleaning it. also dumped the last of my club keg, to clear a tapper for my bell's two hearted clone.

in addition, sanitized a carboy and treated some raw cider with campden. making my first ever hard cider with unpasteurized juice from a local orchard. tomorrow morning i'll add some pectic enzyme and come tomorrow evening, yeast!

 

[BikerMatt]

Awesome labels

Thx mate! Took me sth like two minutes with the beer labelizer, just a quick grab pic from a google search (I believe that's a clipart pic) resize and print. I only have a monochrome laser printer so doing elaborate pictures usually end up being a dark grey smudge so the simpler the better.

 

[BikerMatt]

^ Well that was quite surprising. Left the bottles to our cargo terminal for him to pick up, turns out he left me a twenty note. That wasn't agreed upon at all. So I did what any homebrewer would, and right after I got from work I drove to my LHBS and got me a tin of coopers sparkling ale and a brew enhancer 2 kit

In a minute gonna wash both fermenters and brew two batches, one sparkling and one draft I had bought earlier. Should keep me stocked until I have time to brew properly.

 

[pshankstar]

Dry hopped my IPAs late last night/early morning. I hope to transfer to the serving kegs this weekend with minimal O2 exposure.

 

[kal]

Cleaned my fermenters - using the kettles to hang things to dry:

Kal

 

[itsnotrequired]

cleaned a keg (kicked at 6 pm tonight), kegged a bell's two hearted clone, cleaned the carboys, added yeast to a cider

 

[seatazzz]

Yesterday cleaned a keg and filled it with the hoppy goodness that is my house IPA. Also gloated for a few minutes over the carboy that my oatmeal stout currently resides in, and forcibly restrained myself from having a taste of it. Oh, and cleaned up the rest of the mess from brewing it last weekend. Stout wort is STICKY.

 

[MaryB]

Weighed everything out for 11 gallons of Chinook Ale, made sure fermenters were clean, added a gallon of StarSan to each so all I have to do tomorrow is slosh it around and dump it.

 

[beermanpete]

Yesterday; installed sight gauges on my hot liquor tank and boil kettle.

 

[biochemedic]

In the last 24 hrs:

Bottled off the last of my cyser to make room in the kegerator.
Went to the LHBS.
Made a 4 L starter of WLP775 for new cider and cyser.
Kegged a pale ale and session mead.
Ordered a 1.5 gal Torpedo keg.
Cleaned and sanitized 3 carboys.
Made new StarSan.
Sanitized 3 buckets to go pick up fresh cider with tomorrow.

Whew!
But ready to go....

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[Murphys_Law]

Kegged a pils which freed a fermenter which means tomorrow is a brew day!

 

[biochemedic]

So what I did for *cider* since the last post is:

Back to the LHBS for replacement grains...my 4-legged a$$holes (dogs) decided to get into my brew supplies on the kitchen table and ate half a pound of C40 and a couple oz of Special B. SUPER glad they didn't get into the DME!

This AM picked up 18 gal of fresh pressed cider!
Made a batch of graff.
Made a straight cider.
Made a cyser.
1 gal test batch to try out SafCider.
1 gal 'control' batch with an old pack of WLP775.

I deserved this HB pale ale that's carbing up nicely!

Brew control now looks like this:

 

[biochemedic]

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[BikerMatt]

Bottled a batch of sparkling ale, might have been a bit immature though, yea imma lazy bstard and never bother with the FG following, usually just let it sit for three weeks or so, when I got it done I took a peek at the brew diary and realized it wasn't due til next weekend so boxed the bottles just in case...

 

[brewbama]

Kegged the TT Landlord clone. Looking forward to tapping it.

 

[BrooklynTom]

Kegged a batch of oatmeal rasin cookie stout. Now I have to keep my hands off it till thanksgiving.

 

[MaryB]

Added yeast starter to the house ale I brewed Friday...

 

[KevinMcN]

Cleaning Binge in the brew room today. Scrubbed and cleaned 6 fermenters, 5 carboys, and some new equipment. Some well needed fall cleaning and all because my brew day started bad, so I stopped before I couldn't. From experience, if the brew day starts bad it ends bad. Last bad start my chiller leaked into my wort just after I started cooling and my fermentation fridge died 10 mins into cooling my wort down before pitching. Reviving the fridge was an easy fix (luckily since it's my wife's extra fridge), just a tiny adjustment in the audio deftest screw thingy.

 

[hagar]

Bottling up the house grog this morning. Drinking commercial until this conditions as I got lazy and let the pipeline run dry.