What I did for beer today

[SirHC_]

Bottled a corn beer experiment yesterday, fresh corn stalks from my garden boiled in a wheat beer wort. Squeeze the snot out of them once they cool a bit...
Transferred a barleywine to secondary. My father in law used to brew but quit 10 or more years ago. He's been hoarding some BW in the basement that never really fermented, the gravity when I checked was still 1078. Dumped the 19 bottles of 10 yr old bw onto a yeast cake and it was 1020 today when I transferred.

 

[jafo28]

Made a big starter of WLP041 Pacific Ale for this weekends brewday. Gonna be a Wee Heavy 1.092og

 

[JonM]

I stepped up this starter (150 ml to 1L) about 13 hours ago. I’d say it’s active and pretty darn healthy.

 

[calsker]

Installed new MKII pump; cleaned/sanitized four corny kegs getting ready to keg 10 gallons each of my blonde and nut brown; inventoried to ensure I have all the ingredients to brew my Tropicana Session White IPA; ordered parts to add four more gas connections in my kegerator...

 

[brewbama]

Installed quick disconnects on a linear flow control valve for my chugger.

 

[6Tap]

Fixed my sparge pump Buddy.
Ready to rock and roll a new batch for
this weekend!

 

[pinchegil]

Made a stirplate for my nephew

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Cleaned bottles and kegs.

 

[jafo28]

Kegged two batches of beer from a few weeks ago, Kolsch, and AleToberfest. Then cleaned fermentors. Later I’ll weigh out my grain for tomorrow’s brewday.

 

[davidabcd]

Bottled my Belgian Golden Ale (Tripel). Looking good, weighed in at 9.1% ABV. Has a nice color, even right now. Primed it with 1.2 Cups of corn sugar. It's a good extract recipe, right out of How to Brew (except that I added an extra half pound of sugar during the boil.

 

[BudgetBrewer]

Assembled brewery parts, quick clean, crushed grains, filled up HLT, added my water additions.
Hopefully keg 10 gals of a blonde ale and clean up the fermenter while brewing, ready for this batch.

 

[BrewMan13]

Attended the judging at the first ever homebrew competition I've ever entered. I always go in with low expectations just because that's how I am, but surprisingly I won big: best IPA, best stout/porter, and best of show for the porter. It was a small local thing with only 4 categories (aside from best in show of course), but to win 60% of the categories blew my mind! Most proud of my porter win, as it's a recipe I've been honing for years.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Congrats @BrewMan13

 

[jcav]

Today I kegged my Dusseldorf German Alt. The sample tasted malty, bitter, amazingly smooth and dry. Going to lager it for two months and then it should be a real dandy! Can't wait for this one to be ready to tap.

John

 

[seatazzz]

Brewed a batch of what should be a pretty dank IPA. Tested and tasted the warm fermented lager from last weekend, diacetyl avoided and it's coming down from its d-rest with an eye to kegging on Wednesday. Now sipping on my American Strong that just blows me away with how good it tastes and looks.

 

[itsnotrequired]

replaced the di resin in my ro/di system. i ran it for a while but damn if the tds readings would not drop. after a few minutes of going bananas, i realized the issue: had the damn canister in upside down. flipped it over and now a glorious 0 ppm tds coming out of the system.

 

[Carrollyn]

Ramped up my fermentation chamber a degree for the two buckets of saison fermenting away in there.

 

[brewbama]

Racked 5 gal Czech Dark Lager from fermenter to keg to clear up the fermenter for an APA.

Also installed a 10” thermowell from Brewhardware in the lid of my SS Brewbucket. The Brewbucket guys wanted to sell me a shorter one that went thru the side but I preferred to go thru the lid. In fact they tried to talk me into their product and when I insisted they scoffed at me. Oh well, Bobby gets it, makes a great product for a great price, and ships fast. He even fixes my ordering screw ups.

 

[6Tap]

Drank, drank, and drank....

 

[Schlenkerla]

Bought Pearled Barley to make my own unmalted roasted barley.

Gotta red ale and some stouts that need this in the future.

....and it's fvcking heart healthy. LOL

 

[Clef051]

Brewed 14 gallons of a NEIPA, that I wanted for when some friends and my bro comes in from out of town. Going tap a brut ipa when I feel like getting back up. Probably going to start planning the next brew session.

And of course work on emptying kegs so I can refill them.

 

[calsker]

Kegged my house Blonde Ale; harvested/washed yeast from my Blonde and Double Nut Brown

 

[buckinin]

Grainfather has arrived! I haven’t brewed in 4 months with moving and renovations. Excited to brew with this guy this weekend!

 

[seatazzz]

Opened the fermentation fridge to gloat over the dank IPA brewed last Saturday. Going to give it a taste tomorrow (krausen is down) and after that, dry hop with at least 3oz of mixed whatever-is-in-the-hop freezer that I think will make it pop. Have also been overthinking the next brew, which will probably be a Milkshake Tangerine/Orange Wit. And late as it is after a long day and night at both jobs, sipping on some of my current House IPA and American Strong. Tired but good beer is GOOD after a long tiring day.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled up a small batch of bourbon vanilla porter. The next time will be a bigger batch... This is good. Not to worry the half pint is being consumed as I post.

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Blonde Ale I brewed a week ago Saturday.

 

[seatazzz]

We've got Fantasy Football draft this Saturday. End of last season I promised a keg for draft for this season (yes stupid me). Now I'm torn. I've got 3/4 keg of Milk Chocolate stout that is good, 2/3 keg House IPA that is YUMMY and I don't want to share but should, and a WF lager that's getting kegged tonight that promises to be epic. Whatever I take is coming home as an empty keg, with only the newest Dank IPA to replace it (which won't get kegged until next Wednesday since it just got dry hopped today) and no time (or $$) to brew for 2 weeks. ARRRRRGH.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I am going to the HBS to pick up ingredients for my next 2 brews back in the saddle. A riff on NB's Kama Citra IPA with the hop schedule changed up a bit and a kettle sour lactose blackberry monster that hopefully doesn't suck.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Malt and other goodies. ( Oops wrong thread, this is what came in the mail.)

 

[Lee Shephard]

I siphoned my Block party Amber Ale into bottles today.
The Ale just needs to condition for two weeks... I can’t wait!
Will let you know how it turns out.
From a Newbie brewer.
The Crafty Ale Enthusiast