What I did for beer today

[Schlenkerla]

Played music for my sleepy yeast!

"Beck - Dreams"

Seriously, the bass from the boom box got the air lock busy.

I think the vibration from the bass even got the finished fermenter to start bubbling!!!!

 

[Schlenkerla]

They liked this one too....



I truly wonder if sub harmonic vibration on a firm surface would make yeast more active.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Even the shot glass of water had surface movement.

 

[brewbama]

I pieced together the jumpers required to closed transfer from fermenter to CO2 purged keg. Worked like a charm.

 

[seatazzz]

I started to make one of those, then had to sacrifice the black liquid connect to the kegerator to force carb two kegs at once....I need more of those things.

 

[jiMithing83]

cleaned 4 kegs, replaced the gaskets on 2 of them, bought apple juice for cider, confirmed with wifey which beers she wants to bring on a work retreat so I know what to make on Saturday.

 

[leftcontact]

Stripped, cleaned, and reassembled my kegerator taps. Put new lines in that are the right length to match the carb chart taped to the fridge. May start getting decent head now.

 

[seatazzz]

Last night pulled my lager keg out of the kegerator to warm up a bit, as it has the dreaded diacetyl virus. Taste isn't too bad, but the smell is like someone dropped heavily buttered movie popcorn in my beer. Have decided underpitching was the culprit. 2nd one ain't gonna have that problem, it fermented out in less than 4 days (1.059 down to 1.010, on rinsed 34/70 from the first one) and tastes fantastic.

 

[atlref]

Re-Plumed my old plate chiller to run in tandem with a new ( craigslist) plate chiller I recently purchased.
Plan on running separate water sources to each chiller. Not sure it will make much difference but this will allow me to run water from an ice bath thru the second chiller while using ground water for the first. Hoping this allows me to get to largering temps even with 90+ degree days here in GA.

 

[catdaddy66]

Planned a brewday tomorrow at my lhbs for national homebrew day slash Cinco de Mayo. Worked on a barleywine recipe and secured bottles for my pale ale.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Dry hopped my milkshake IPA with 2 oz. Mosaic cryo, 1 oz each of Vic Secret and Lemondrop. Plus 1 vanilla bean and the vodka it had been soaking in.

 

[EtchyLives]

Collecting up the remaining bottles of the Simcoe wheat beer I made for my unit. It was a big hit and they killed 15 of the 18 cases we brewed. Always nice to get a couple hundred non-craft beer drinkers talking about the great tasty beer. Plus I've got some leftover for the next few weeks here at home.

 

[BudgetBrewer]

Cleaned 3 kegs, filled 2 up with a Hopwork Orange clone, cleaned the fermenter and milled the grains for a Falconers Flight IPA brew day tomorrow.

 

[bracconiere]

Since a get a report of recents posts in my mailbox everyday, saw this one and thought "why not"...lol

I put half of my barley sprouts in the oven at 170f to kiln, other half tomorrow, and brewing a light lager the day after!

 

[Phingertoes04]

Brewed my first lager today, happened to be national brew day so I attempted the Rocky raccoon honey lager... got my ferm chamber setup earlier this week . Only my fifth time doing AG and first time at a step mash. We will see how it go, I got a really low OG

 

[BrewMan13]

Kegged my lichtenhainer, and took measurements of my first wild ale.
Lichtenhainer about what I wanted so far, sourness is subtle, but to be expected since I only used acid malt and nothing else for the sourness. Can't wait til it's carbed up, going to be a good warm weather beer.
Wild ale still has a ways to go as far as gravity; I hope it hasn't petered out. Also, the pellicle isn't looking like the test I ran (nor does it smell the same), but I didn't even check on the test for months and it's only been like 6 weeks so far, so still optimistic.

 

[MaryB]

Kegged a batch of my "house" ale I make a lot of.

 

[beermanpete]

I replaced the short serving line on my keg with a longer one in an attempt to reduce foaming during the pour.

 

[BrewMan13]

Tueday night I created my largest yeast starter ever for my first lager in my absurdly large 5L flask.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Tueday night I created my largest yeast starter ever for my first lager in my absurdly large 5L flask.

Wut fer? [emoji12]

You said lager, what beer, how big is it?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Yesterday I brewed the festbier, today I pitch the yeast.

 

[jcav]

Today I cleaned two of my tap lines on my kegerator and sanitized them as well afterwards. Also yesterday I made a yeast starter for my Belgian Patersbier that I am brewing on Saturday.

John

 

[BrewMan13]

Wut fer? [emoji12]

You said lager, what beer, how big is it?

LOL, I thought someone might be curious...since I like to challenge myself, my first lager is going to be a doppelbock using a hochkurz double decoction mash. It's one of the styles that turned me into a beer geek and one I've always wanted to do properly. I spent a significant amount of time reading about it, but you can only read so much, so it's time for doing!

 

[dave damage]

Made some kegerator magnets for the two beers currently fermenting.

 

[Schlenkerla]

LOL, I thought someone might be curious...since I like to challenge myself, my first lager is going to be a doppelbock using a hochkurz double decoction mash. It's one of the styles that turned me into a beer geek and one I've always wanted to do properly. I spent a significant amount of time reading about it, but you can only read so much, so it's time for doing!

Be sure to post more about this or post your source info for the decoction method.

 

[Leapsandbounds]

Washing bottles for an IPA I’m bottling next week but later tonight (after the kids go to sleep) I’ll be brewing my first Saison.

 

[catdaddy66]

Getting ready to bottle the latest version of my house pale ale, which was dry hopped 6 days ago.

Getting my grist together for an apricot wheat beer my daughter asked me to brew. Tomorrow it will be ground and Sunday it will be brewed.

Preparing the fruit for introduction to the beer around 10-14 days after pitching. Gonna mash it then puree it then freeze it. Wheee!

 

[seatazzz]

Tasted my second lager that's been sitting a few weeks, and am amazeballs at how good it tastes. No diatcetyl like his big brother, just a great tasting beer. Going to keg it up this weekend. And put his big brother back in the kegerator after letting it sit in the warm for a week, hope the diacetyl is gone now but will drink it anyway. Planning a nice Racer clone for my mother's day present to myself as well.

 

[BrewMan13]

Be sure to post more about this or post your source info for the decoction method.

Sure thing; appreciate the interest
I got a lot of help from the braukaiser wiki; poked around other places as well. I wanted to make something vaguely like celebrator but not a clone. I settled in on a recipe, then investigated the decoction options. I decided to us the hochkurz double decoction as it seemed the best option considering the malts I was using and what I wanted to achieve. As is to be expected from a first attempt, neither decoction reached the perfect temp right away, so I had to do a quick pull and boil each time (my setup lost a lot of temp each time, something I anticipated, but not to the level that occurred). All in all, I got amazing efficiency for my system, and the airlock is bubbling away ~7hrs after pitching.

 

[brewbama]

Set up a RIMS, a foot switch for a pump, primed a keg to natural carb, and brewed.