What I did for beer today

[6Tap]

3 days of seminar classes at the Homebrew Con and I gained more knowledge of hops, grains, owning an online business, Homebrew equipment, and beer types so I can apply this knowledge to improve my homebrewing.

 

[Murphys_Law]

Picked up a 50# bag of 2 row, got specialty grains and yeast for next two beers, kegged my brown ale, and bottled my red wine (ok, not beer but same business!).

And now sitting by my fire pit enjoying a Vienna and a big ol’ cigar!

It was 105 a few days ago and droppped to 58 today.

 

[mkelly601]

Kegged for the 1st time today. It was a simple Irish Stout but the hydro sample tasted awesome. Can't wait to give it a try.

 

[seatazzz]

Got up super early to get started on my very first Milk chocolate stout. Waiting on the boil now, going over the recipe and having the first beer of the day. Had a bit too much of it brewing my Strong yesterday and made a rookie mistake, started the burner before the wort hit the keggle. Made a huge SIZZLE as it went in, gonna get some burnt sugar flavor out of it but might be interesting. Keggle bottom didn't look too bad at cleaning time so may not be an issue. Sitting happy in the ferment fridge now, beautiful krausen going and color is spot on. Stout smells great, got high hopes for this one.

 

[Robin0782]

I bottled up a batch of strong, smoked ale that I made about a month ago. I normally keg and this was the first time I've bottled in years. Now I remember why. Pain in the a$$. But it felt appropriate for this brew.

 

[mkelly601]

Brewing a Sierra Nevada inspired pale ale. Mashed in right now and about time to head to the boil.

 

[pshankstar]

Bottled some club beers with some of the members today! Always more fun to bottle when you have an assembly line going instead of yourself.

 

[jiMithing83]

Moving day was yesterday, so I took advantage of the keezer being apart. Deep clean on the inside, cleaned the outside as well, changed out all the liquid lines, touched up a gap in the collar seal with foam insulation. Hopefully I'll brew twice this week and throw a batch of cider together, then I'll only have one empty tap.

 

[seatazzz]

Just got home from 2nd job to find some beer on the floor in front of the ferment fridge, the strong I brewed yesterday went crazy and popped the blowoff. I can hear the darn thing bubbling with the door closed.

 

[BrewMan13]

Brewed my first ever attempt at a NEIPA yesterday. Despite mash temp issues due to a faulty thermometer, I hit my target gravity pretty much spot on and it was bubbling away in 3 hours.

 

[itsnotrequired]

from yesterday, brewed a simple west coast ipa. i've been thinking about and tinkering with my process to try and drive down brew day time. with a one hour mash and one hour boil, i finished up in 6.25 hours, which included all the cleaning.

 

[BrewZer]

Popped test bottle #3 from my APA, "Experiment 626." Three weeks in the bottle, this stuff is pretty nice, with a malty smell, a fairly neutral start, and a nice assertive, but not aggressive, hoppy finish.

 

[BrewZer]

And, today, drew a FG sample from the fermenter on the Irish Red, "Septic Red Eye Ale," and got a 1.010, for 6.96% ABV (a bit high for an Irish Red), but that's probably because the 1 lb of local honey turned into about 2 lbs 'cause it had solidified and I had trouble getting it out of the jar, so I said screw it and put it all in.

Good aroma, nice maltiness up front, with a bit of biscuity sweetness, flavorful mid-swallow with a pronounced mouthfeel, and an ever-so-slightly bitter finish. The color is a bit light for what I was shooting, but still within the spectrum for the style.

i think I'll keep it on the yeast for a couple more days to see if it cleans up some.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Getting home and ordering my Clawhammer eBIAB setup to move on up from the stovetop extract brewing to proper electric brewing.

 

[seatazzz]

Pondering on brewing a 'true' lager tomorrow since I've got the grain and some fantastic S-23 slurry that worked well in a 'warm' fermented one a few weeks ago, and the time since the husband is playing golf with his buddies tomorrow morning and we have nothing planned until late afternoon. Hmmm. Or I could just relax and work on emptying some kegs...ah the possibilities.

 

[jaymosbeershack]

I ordered parts to build a diy quick carb. Took the pump off the grainfather for a deep clean and checked on the Belgian blond i brewed yesterday, its chugging away at 64*f.

 

[beermanpete]

I kegged my Jaryllo pale ale. SWMBO says to call it Jeronimo Pale Ale.

 

[seatazzz]

Didn't brew because slept in. Did take a taste sample of both the Strong and the stout I brewed last weekend last night, after over vigorous fermentations I was worried, but both taste great at this point. Daughter and son-in-law are in town this weekend, looking forward to bringing them bottles of the lager and IPA I have on tap. Tonight staying close to home to keep the furbabies safe.

 

[ESBrewer]

After three days of fermentation I switched from blow off tube to a traditional airlock. There has been a huge krausen for two days but zero bubbles were escaping through the blow off tube (yeast is extracted from a bottle of Fuller's 1845). When I switched the airlock it immediately started to bubble once in a second or so... The leak may exist even if it is not visible and the connections feel rather snug..

Btw, it is very hot inside and it has become too difficult to control the temperature of my water bath. Just tried to keep it reasonable in the beginning and then it went up wildly...it is going to be an experimental ESB.. I am not so worried about the ester production but I just hope there won't be too much fusels etc.

 

[Ron Nelson]

Checked pH on a lacto fermentation that's nearly done for what will be my dry-hopped, kettle-soured "summer sour". Also checked gravity and pH on my lambic and Flanders Red, and had a wee sample of course

 

[DavoOhno]

Today.. I bought quick disconnects for gas line to hook up the bottle filler. I'm also waiting to hear some details on a guy selling a HERMS 8gal system. I only really want one kettle and the pump to create a recirculating BIAB sytem.

 

[BrewZer]

Did my final gravity check on the Irish Red Ale in the fermenter. 10 days in, and it's starting to clear, there's some stubborn yeast clinging to the side at the edge of the wort, but the gravity hasn't changed since my last check on Monday... still 1.010.

Flavors are mellowing some, and it still has a malty slight sweet start, toasty/bready mid, and barely bitter finish. Color is a bit lighter than I wanted, but at least it's reddish and not brown. My brewing assistant likes it... I liked it... looks like bottling tomorrow. I'm putting the bottles in the bleach bath right now... If all goes well I'll have 32 x 16 oz and 16 x 12 oz bottles starting to carbonate tomorrow afternoon.

 

[catdaddy66]

I have enough bottles to package my Irish red ale, now I need to bum two cases from my brother for my dark mild.

Gotta find a local source for bottles that are minimal in $, plentiful in #.

 

[jiMithing83]

I have enough bottles to package my Irish red ale, now I need to bum two cases from my brother for my dark mild.

Gotta find a local source for bottles that are minimal in $, plentiful in #.

Ask friends to save pry top commercial brews. All of my bottles are reused ones.

 

[catdaddy66]

Ask friends to save pry top commercial brews. All of my bottles are reused ones.

Great idea... 100% non compliance by beer drinking friends. That is usually my instructions to people I gift beer. I also say If they like it I will return them full again.

No luck so far.

 

[sjfischr]

—>Instead of brewing just one batch, I did two. It’s only about an extra hour or so of hands-on work, and I got ten gallons! Did my NE IPA and a Citra IPA.
—>Really focused on brewing salts this time when compared to my city water. I think this will have a profound effect on both the mouthfeel and the persistence in the haze.
—>I am really, really looking forward to running downstairs to my chest freezer/fermentation chamber early tomorrow to see kräusen forming on two batches!!!

 

[jcav]

Today I cleaned both of my beer lines in my two tap kegerator, recirculating hot PBW in my pump system and then ran Sani Clean through it as well. Tomorrow I will keg my 10 gallon batch of Dunkelweizen!

John

 

[brewbama]

I cleaned up my RIMS tube element from my 4th of July brewday. Clean as a whistle.

 

[Pkrd]

Ordered a Red IPA kit and some stuff for a milk choc stout.

 

[seatazzz]

I've got a keg soaking in the tub right now with an eye to kegging the Strong I brewed last weekend. Planning on brewing another version of the warm fermented lager tomorrow since the current keg is about to kick. Also took a hydrometer sample of the milk chocolate stout I've got fermenting, it's only down to 1.030 from 1.076, and the krausen dropped after three days. Will give it a swirl tomorrow morning to see if I can get it to come down a few more points, if it doesn't I'll still be happy with it. Very dark, chocolatey, slightly sweet, and delicious. First stout I'm actually proud of.