What I did for beer today

[BrewZer]

Bottled the "Septic Red Eye" Irish Red Ale. Got 12x24 oz and 20x16 oz bottles out of the batch. I left some in the bottling bucket due to yeast rafts hanging about the surface...

 

[connell89]

This is a thread intended for anyone that does anything related to home brewing. You can post any thing you want as long as it was what you did today. What I did was make a Stout. If you made a chiller, brew pot, ordered hops, ordered grain, brewed a beer, made your first beer, whatever... what did you do for beer today?

Horse heads Brewing DIPA

 

[jaybo]

Added the first of 2 dry hop additions to my HT clone.

 

[BrewMan13]

Yesterday I kicked a keg, so I immediately cleaned it and the tap line it was on. Then I hooked up my scotch ale (strongest beer I've yet done) to the previously emptied tap line. Also transferred my doppelbock to a keg to finish lagering, since all that head space so long after fermentation completed was making me nervous.

 

[catdaddy66]

Bottling my Irish red today. Just got home from work so I am taking a breather with my brown ale.

Liquid courage! Lol

 

[itsnotrequired]

dry hopped an ipa, picked up some grains for the next brew (a porter)

 

[Murphys_Law]

Bought a 10G round cooler and a false bottom to modify my BIAB process. I’m going to boil water in my kettle, move (underlet) to cooler for mash, and move back to kettle for boil. This is in an attempt to do LODO in BIAB so I’ll be purging hoses, etc during the process.

Looked at my frozen watermelon juice for Saturday’s brew, and started thinking about a stout for the fall.

I think I have more fun tinkering then anything.

 

[jaybo]

I weighed out my grain bill and hops for a session NEIPA tomorrow. I'm using Citra, azacca, and mosaic as a combo with this one.

 

[BrewZer]

Popped test bottle #1 from the Septic Red Eye Irish Red Ale. Yes, it's only been in the bottle 5 days... and it needs a week or two more. But I got a good pop with the swingtop, and the color is good. It's clearing nicely. Flavor has warm, malty/bready notes and there's very little bitterness, even in the finish.

I will endeavor to wait a full two weeks before opening another one.

 

[6Tap]

Filled many pint glasses with HB in order to empty kegs for the next batch!! Oh yea! [emoji482]

 

[boxboybrewing]

Bought a 10 gallon kettle and a 6.5 gallon fermenter. Finally moving up from 2.5 gallons to 5 gallon all grain BIAB! Woohoo!

 

[orionol73]

Yeast starter for a batch this weekend

 

[wepeeler]

Oktoberfest! Actually more like a Long Trail Ale clone, but getting it ready for the Fall.

 

[fourfarthing]

Stemmed and pitted 2.25 lbs of cherries for a future fruited beer experiment.

 

[seatazzz]

Helped my brewpub friend/boss get his garage taproom ready for the final night in the garage before he opens his new taproom. Cleaned, helped move full kegs to the new digs, and ate some truly delicious ribeye that he provided for the occasion.

And here is a shameless plug...anyone in South King County (WA) who needs something to do next Saturday night, I strongly suggest hitting up Rail Hoppn' Brewing on Main Street in Auburn (next door to Oddfelllas). We won't be brewing there for a month or two (still waiting on a couple permits) but the taps will be flowing. Tell Billy Jack that Becky sent you.

 

[dabber18]

Today, I'll include last night... Last night, I kegged the cider; today I: racked the blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry melomel, and did my first solo all grain batch (fresh squished from MW supplies).

 

[alexnova]

Repitched a starter on some old liquid yeast. (One small perk of working in a homebrew shop is getting out-of-code yeast for free.) Much to my surprise, the first starter actually fermented down to 1.001. There is life after 6 months.
Brewed a wheat malt / Mandarina Bavaria SMaSH. Efficiency wasn't what it ought to be (70%) but I BIAB super thin (3qt/lb) and boil full volume. Could be worse, I suppose.

 

[itsnotrequired]

cleaned two kegs. made up a fresh batch of starsan in one, used co2 to transfer to second keg and again into bucket. now i have two santized, purged kegs ready for tomorrow.

 

[itsnotrequired]

cleaned two kegs. made up a fresh batch of starsan in one, used co2 to transfer to second keg and again into bucket. now i have two santized, purged kegs ready for tomorrow.

kegged an ipa and cleaned the conical

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Kegged a belgian blond, cleaned the fermentasaurus, cleaned the kitchen for tomorrows brew day.

 

[BrewZer]

Drank yet another bottle of the Septic Red Eye Ale (Irish Red) and it definitely needs more time to carbonate. Of course, this bottle's been in the fridge for almost a week, and only in the bottle for 10 days, so I'll wait another couple of days and test another bottle Saturday or so at 2 weeks in the bottle.

 

[alexnova]

Tweaked the Inkeeper English Pale Ale recipe so I have something to use my miraculous Wyeast 1469 starter on.

 

[Sheehan]

Kegged my Tangerine Pale Ale.

 

[Desert_Sky]

Just checked on my two starters of Wyeast 3787 Trappist HG

I forgot how much this falls out......chunky.

 

[jiMithing83]

Kegged my wheat ale last night, assembled my 3 roller grain mill today as I get close to switching to ag BIAB

 

[jiMithing83]

Kegged my wheat ale last night, assembled my 3 roller grain mill today as I get close to switching to ag BIAB

And today I customized a 5 gallon bucket lid to use as a mount for said mill. Tomorrow I get my ingredients, plus an extra lb of 2 row to run through it to dial in my gap and clean off any residual manufacturing oil

 

[catdaddy66]

Sanitizing bottles to package my dark mild. May have to scrub a few as I got half from my brother, and they haven't been used for several months.

He is a beer slob...

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Racked a wheat beer onto some raspberry puree

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Racked a wheat beer onto some raspberry puree

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[Desert_Sky]

Im loving my new LHBS Brewmented in Longmont. I walk in and head into the grain room. I weigh and crush by myself then hand them my phone for my beersmith recipe. Then I walk to the back and sit my bucket of crushed grains down at the bar with me and order a couple really great brews. Thats right, my LHBS has about 10+ beers on tap

So i got a buzz and 20lbs of milled grain for beer today, and its only 2:30