What I did for beer today

[Brewbuzzard]

i deculmed some crystal malt, that smells heavenly! Mmmmm, freshly toasted barley malt.

What is deculmed?

 

[bracconiere]

What is deculmed?

cleaning the rootlets off sprouted barley kernels. i do it in front of a box fan and pass it back and forth a dozen times from tote to tote...only takes a minute, so i didn't do too much for beer today but i am looking forward to using it in my next beer!)

i guess that's something else i'm doing for beer right now! Dreaming about my next batch!

 

[RCope]

New to the forum... not completely new to brewing or drinking beer. Had a friend over to play pool and help me drink some of all this frickin' beer...gotta make room for more. The third faucet was stuck (again), no big deal, usually opens up after a few oscillations of the tap. Played a few games of pool (I won!) and then went to watch the Dolphins game. My buddy went to take his wife to the airport...went back to get another draft and BOOM!...about 3 gallons of bourbon porter on the floor and the tap whistling from the CO2 escaping. I guess I didn't close the tap. So an hour of vacuuming up beer and mopping and cleaning everything. But the Dolphins won...and despite the loss of beer, I was psyched that I now had room for my next batch in the fermentor. It's almost ready to cold crash. I kinda feel bad that I don't feel bad about the beer loss...that porter wasn't my favorite. A NEIPA awaits...What do you guys do to make room?

 

[bracconiere]

gain a few inches on my waist! i haven't started mopping the floor with it yet though...lol

hows the room smell? good, bad?

 

[RCope]

gain a few inches on my waist! i haven't started mopping the floor with it yet though...lol

hows the room smell? good, bad?

When the wife got home...Why does it smell like beer? Explanation ensued...now it smells like fabuloso (cleaning stuff).

 

[bracconiere]

When the wife got home...Why does it smell like beer? Explanation ensued...now it smells like fabuloso (cleaning stuff).

fabuloso? but wasn't the smell of the beer magneficento! lol

And i just walked ALL THE WAY to my beer fridge to fill up a glass of beer (damn i need a glycol chiller and crawl under house to install taps at my chair)

 

[MikeInStillwater]

Today I created an account here and later I'll bottle my American Light Ale (light top-fermentation beer with a lot of american hops for aroma).

Welcome aboard and good luck with your ale!

 

[MikeInStillwater]

When the wife got home...Why does it smell like beer? Explanation ensued...now it smells like fabuloso (cleaning stuff).

Women! Can't live with 'em ... pass the Beer Nuts. LOL

 

[bracconiere]

Women! Can't live with 'em ... pass the Beer Nuts. LOL

she let him have a pool table!

and i just did this for beer, be brew'in this stuff up probably Wednesday...another 10g's for the tally!

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I will take a first hydro reading on my first sour. Hopefully Wednesday/Thursday it will match today's reading and we can bottle it this weekend. Might also have to get together a brew day for the weekend also we will see.

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Turned off the stir plate for the Voss Kveik starter, and watched it drop clear in 54 seconds. This strain is already blowing my mind.
The yeast was pitched 18 hours befor this.

 

[BrewMan13]

Hooked up some quick disconnects that just came. A couple more on order to complete the transition. Better all be here before the weekend, as I plan on brewing!

 

[brewbama]

Brewed a Tx Brown Ale

 

[homebrewer_99]

New to the forum. What do you guys do to make room?

Welcome!

Plan A is to brew 5-6 more batches before the holidays before Plan B has a Plan C for me to do...

I brew and keg any way. I put them in the back room until there's room in the keezer (holds 8 kegs, 1 opening), kegerator (holds 2 kegs, full) or SOFC (3 kegs, currently full with 1 ready to keg and 1 in the primary brewed 5 days ago).

In the winter time I store them in the garage.

If it's a Hefe Weizen I bottle them. I usually make 2 batches and blend them before bottling.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Currently smoking 5lbs of pale malt with Pecan Chips for something Hoppy & Brown or Dark & Malty.

 

[bracconiere]

i smoked some pale malt WAY WAY back, was real rough at first but after sitting in the keg/bottles for a couple months turned really smooth and sweet...

And for beer today, i'm drinking it...and STILL having to walk back and forth to the fridge for it. But unfortunately the walk isn't long enough to burn the calories, so i also bought an alarm clock to get up for work tomorrow to burn more calories...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Sniffed the airlock on my wet hopped Hefe. Some banana aroma, moved it to a swamp cooler yesterday.

 

[ajw85]

Slowly working on my HERMS HLT

Still slowly working on it.

I don't know what I'm doing.

The coil is a 50 ft er from Home Depot, wrapped around a corny keg; it's 11" tall which is quite high, so I assume some of it will be exposed to air versus in hot water after I mash in. The holes in the keg are close to each other which in hindsight, I regret, but anything else would push the coil up vertically even more. I figure the bottom valve can have it's handle on the side (vertical position) and the valve on the bottom of the HERMS coil can be mounted in normal position. We'll see. When I get time to work on this I rush through it pretty hard. That step bit from Harbor Freight is magical. Where has it been all my life. I should have made the top hole in the keg much wider to fit the coil in easier. The coil will be loaded up so that the inlet/outlet are on the same plane. I'll solder a brace made out of solid strand wire once everything is all fitted up. The coil will probably have to be supported at the bottom but we'll see. I have to ground down the solder as it looks terrible right now. I bought some weldless compression fittings from aliexpress.com a long time ago, they have burrs inside of them but otherwise are nice.

 

[Schlenkerla]

i smoked some pale malt WAY WAY back, was real rough at first but after sitting in the keg/bottles for a couple months turned really smooth and sweet...

And for beer today, i'm drinking it...and STILL having to walk back and forth to the fridge for it. But unfortunately the walk isn't long enough to burn the calories, so i also bought an alarm clock to get up for work tomorrow to burn more calories...

I love smokey beer. It's like being a hop head with smoke, NEVER can have too much smoke. Unless you're talking peat.

Bleack. [emoji13]

Peat to me tastes like burn circuit boards.

 

[bracconiere]

I love smokey beer. It's like being a hop head with smoke, NEVER can have too much smoke. Unless you're talking peat.

Bleack. [emoji13]

Peat to me tastes like burn circuit boards.

Never tried peat myself....But it makes sense, i don't know who thought up smoking with mud...apparently some people like scotch whiskey though...

funny thing about the smoked beer i made, i was still a tween and tried selling it. sold a twelver for 5 bucks, 10-12 years later working at the grocery i over heard someone talking about it. small town and all i guess, lol

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Tasted my first sour and took a gravity yesterday. Today we will do the same and see if rousing the yeast will give me a couple more points or if she is done-done.

 

[ronson92]

Today I'll bottle Christmas Ale and drink one bottle Saison

 

[SirHC_]

First run w my new cooler mash tun. Doing a parti gyle of old ale/ ESB/mild. Will end up if all goes as planned with 11 gallons fermenting this evening.
Transferred my BB Porter to secondary with the Bourbon and oak and rinsed the yeast to use w the old ale and ESB.

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Currently brewing a NEIPA. Will be pitching Voss Kveik in about another hour and dry hopping before bed. I also closed loop kegged a batch of Brut Ipa with Peaches fermented through a dang hurricane. Finished at 1.001 and at about 6.8%. Just cleaned the fermenter, and of course drinking a home brewed rye pale ale.

 

[ronson92]

I botteled Christmas Ale - almost 3 weeks after brewing, still very sharp and very strong alcohol. A lot of things that bottle conditioning will take care of
I have one 0.3l bottle and I'll taste it around 1st November.

 

[ajw85]

Still slowly working on it.

I don't know what I'm doing.

The coil is a 50 ft er from Home Depot, wrapped around a corny keg; it's 11" tall which is quite high, so I assume some of it will be exposed to air versus in hot water after I mash in. The holes in the keg are close to each other which in hindsight, I regret, but anything else would push the coil up vertically even more. I figure the bottom valve can have it's handle on the side (vertical position) and the valve on the bottom of the HERMS coil can be mounted in normal position. We'll see. When I get time to work on this I rush through it pretty hard. That step bit from Harbor Freight is magical. Where has it been all my life. I should have made the top hole in the keg much wider to fit the coil in easier. The coil will be loaded up so that the inlet/outlet are on the same plane. I'll solder a brace made out of solid strand wire once everything is all fitted up. The coil will probably have to be supported at the bottom but we'll see. I have to ground down the solder as it looks terrible right now. I bought some weldless compression fittings from aliexpress.com a long time ago, they have burrs inside of them but otherwise are nice.

Test fitting. The coil leans over and separates to the unsupported side hence the wire to try to keep it together. More to come, 5 minutes of work at a time.

 

[BrewMan13]

Yesterday I kicked my saison, freeing up tap space for the brown. Also started a massive yeast starter for the huge braggot I'm going to do this weekend. The yeast was old, so I got 2 packs for the price of one, and want to give it time to propagate and cold crash by Sunday.

 

[Jd-brewer]

Bottled up some chocolate porter and some double ipa for a competition and also drank some.
Also going to be kegging and back sweetening a cider today.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Just doughed in on an Irish Red with Pistachio Smoked Pale Malt.

 

[BrewMan13]

Yesterday cleaned the keg I just kicked and the tap line it was on. Also finished hooking up all the quick disconnects, so I am now totally converted and ready to roll this weekend. Starter showing nice activity, so the yeast was obviously still viable.