What I did for beer today

[beermanpete]

Bought a scale at the flea market to weigh out grains. 100 LBs max. with 0.01 LB resolution and an ounce scale as well.

 

[WildernessBrewing]

Bought a scale at the flea market to weigh out grains. 100 LBs max. with 0.01 LB resolution and an ounce scale as well.

Nice find!

 

[pshankstar]

Picked the neighbors Cascade plant and placed the cones in the dehydrators. Later this week will be my Chinook getting picked.

 

[brewbama]

Put together a HLT and MLT with new parts.

 

[Staticsouls]

Ordered a stainless cfc to replace the last copper parts in my brewhouse.

 

[6Tap]

Added 8 oz of dry hops to my 15 gal batch of AIPA.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I am going to the HBS and Fresh Market for ingredients for my first kettle sour.

 

[davidabcd]

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Added 8 oz of dry hops to my 15 gal batch of AIPA.

The unbeatable and ultimate hopped beer. That's what I thought when I saw them in the glass.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Just got back from shipping off a couple entries to a competition.

 

[seatazzz]

Pulled the PRV on the Dank IPA again. I'm not happy with the way it's tasting so far. I'm about 98% positive it has to do with all of the yeast and gunk that got in the keg with the wonky autosiphon, so patience and time to let it settle after force carbing should help. Right now it's a hoppy, vomitous (from the yeast and hops in the bottom) mess. I can taste what it SHOULD wind up as behind the nastiness, but if this doesn't turn out....there goes a lot of hops.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I toasted 2oz of white oak chips, bought a bottle of knob creek to soak them in, and right now I'm smoking some maple syrup with pecan wood. It's all going into a 1.060 Belgian stout that will be ready to transfer into secondary on Sunday. I had been hoping to pitch a RIS onto the 1762 yeast cake this weekend but didn't manage to get all the ingredients together. I'll just save the slurry in a large jar till next weekend I guess.

 

[brewbama]

Inventoried my partial bags of grain, weighed them, and secured them in a rodent safe bin. I’ll try to use them as a recipe called for them.

Also took a hydrometer reading on the APA. Not done yet.

 

[Novacor]

Currently trying to decide if I should go ahead and buy a 30L Speidel fermenter now, or wait a bit and ask for one for Christmas..

 

[seigex]

Took a sample of my Bavarian hefeweizen today, hit my gravity perfectly at 1.009. Great taste to the 70° uncarb'd sample. Can't wait until it's kegged, carb'd and chilled.

 

[seatazzz]

Brewed up two batches of warm fermented lagers. Each with a different harvested yeast, (34/70 in one and S-23 in the other) and the first one got a ton of Mosaic hops as well. Now waiting for them both to take off while cooking dinner, was going to go to the Fair today but decided to be a nice wife (HA!) and let the husband go golfing in Yakima so I get to drag him to the Fair all day tomorrow. Good smells in my house today.

 

[Lee Shephard]

What I did for beer today was taste it.
My Northern Brewer Amber Ale was ready today !
It has been second fermenting in it bottles for two weeks .
After reading other forum members that had trouble getting good carbonation brewing this beer I was a little worried that it wouldn’t have carbonated enough.

However I am pleased to report that the bottle opened with a satisfactory hiss and the gas vapour cold be seen smoking out of the neck of the bottle.

Pouring the Amber ale, into my favourite “I love craft ale” glass, the liquid was indeed a deep clear Amber colour almost chestnut brown. The little bubbles rising enthusiastically.
To form a nice 5mm foam head on top of the beer.

I have to say it tasted lovely with notes of burnt caramel or Treacle Toffee and no bitter after-taste.

For my very first brew I would say I am very pleased.

My son said it is similar to some of the ales he likes like Hobgoblin.

On to the next brew!

Double Otter and Mosaic Hops me thinks!

You can follow my first ever attempts
At brewing on my YouTube channel
The Crafty Ale Enthusiast.

 

[seatazzz]

Finally went to the Fair, and look what we got!!! First real competition, scores were decent, comments well worded and helpful. Beyond happy!!!

 

[Brewboz]

I brewed a scotch ale founders dirty bastard clone. Named it filthy bastard because I changed the grain bill because my brew store didn't have the exact ingreadance I posted a picture of the recipe below.

 

[Brewboz]

I also upgraded my burner from propane to natural gas pictures below

 

[Induction2766]

Popped the top off of a bottle of beer and poured it into a glass.

 

[ajw85]

Slowly working on my HERMS HLT

 

[Jayjay1976]

Bottled a batch of hefeweizen, basic recipe with 3638 bavarian wheat yeast. Grav sample tasted green but promising. Also boiled up 2 pounds of raw peanuts in a pressure cooker, seasoned with chachere's creole seasoning and hot hungarian paprika. Great with beer!

 

[6Tap]

Started cold crashing my IPA. Will keg on Wed.

 

[seatazzz]

Most ambitious brew weekend to date finished up with what I hope will be three successful beers. today is for laundry, resting, and staring at my ribbons. Yah I know, 2nd place so what, but it means the world to me!

 

[BrewMan13]

Brewed an oatmeal stout in the heat; quick brewday, hit my numbers pretty well, fermentation started fast.

 

[BoozeMedic]

Most ambitious brew weekend to date finished up with what I hope will be three successful beers. today is for laundry, resting, and staring at my ribbons. Yah I know, 2nd place so what, but it means the world to me!View attachment 586470 View attachment 586471

I want to hear about this peach milkshake IPA!

 

[seatazzz]

I want to hear about this peach milkshake IPA!

Oh you will! Was actually the husband's idea. We really like the few milkshake IPA's we've tried so it was time for me to do one. The only thing I was concerned about was the yeast I used (BRY-97 as the LHBS was out of my go-to Notty), it took almost 24 hours to really get going but it's chugging along now. I hope to get it on the fruit by Thursday and keg 7-10 days after that. Also the first IPA I've done with all of the flavor/aroma hops added at flameout.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Shipped more contest entries.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Buying a 10' hose for my plate chiller so I can brew on my setup in winter as well, this will finalize the hardware for my BIAB setup. With the hot side covered, the next money pit will be fermentation!

 

[leftcontact]

Rebuilt my regulator. It wasn’t allowing gas through. Something had gotten clogged in the coupling between the reg and the hose. Took the brass bits apart and put it back together and now the gas goes into the keg.