What I did for beer today

[Schlenkerla]

Found a much cheaper solution and just ordered a grain basket via ebay Found one that`s as if it was made for my boiling pot for 50 eur.

My grain baskets are made from aluminum screen for pennies...

A 20 ft roll of screen was $6USD. Just, cut fold and staple.

 

[BikerMatt]

...but how'd you make a cylindrical vessel that'll hold itself off the pot pottom without a skeleton? I'd probly make my own but don't got the right gas to weld stainless, besides got a zillion projects going as is, fifty for a ready one isn't that much more than what the stuff to make my own would have cost.

 

[pshankstar]

My grain baskets are made from aluminum screen for pennies...

A 20 ft roll of screen was $6USD. Just, cut fold and staple.View attachment 596454

How do you like those fermenters that’s in the background? I want to get some stainless steel fermenters, I’m just on the fence as to which ones to get eventually.

 

[aharri1]

Checked on my Dark Lager I brewed over the weekend to see if my harvested yeast from my previous lager would take off. I did make a 3 liter starter with it and I have never harvested yeast so I was worried after I didn't see much activity after 24 hours but at the 36 hour mark it took off like a rocket! I also voted [emoji41]

 

[Schlenkerla]

How do you like those fermenters that’s in the background? I want to get some stainless steel fermenters, I’m just on the fence as to which ones to get eventually.

They're great. Anvil makes some nice fermenters. Cheap $129 each. They clean up easy and filling kegs are super easy. The pickup can be rotated for sediment free beer. The valve and pick up disassemble for easy cleaning. I have no complaints.

When I first ordered them, I got a valve with a buggered up ball seal. They overnighted one to me. I broke the buggered one apart, reset the seal and put it on my sanitizing bucket for sanitizing my keg filling cane.

There's a thread here in hbt dedicated to this fermenter. I'll find it and post it.

https://www.anvilbrewing.com

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/index.php?threads/636927/

 

[aharri1]

A sample of my hybrid style beer I call the Bavarian honey hop bomb IPA. Half US 2 row and half German pilsner malt with bavarian ale yeast and half German and US hops with honey at flameout Abv 7.7%. it's done at 1.010 and taste delicious flat so I'm pumped! My local homebrew Club is doing free samples of our Homebrew on tap at one of the local beer festival's here to try and get members to join. I'll be dispensing samples of this there!

 

[ESBrewer]

Inoculated some Wyeast 1084 (Irish ale yeast from Guinness) and some of the bottle dregs from Fuller's India pale ale on agar plates. About to build starters from the plates & freeze some yeast with glycerol for long term storage, too. Probably going to pick up a bottle of Young's bitter tonight to plate it as well. There was a ton of yeast at the bottom of the IPA, compared to their 1845.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Cleaning the extract kettle/setup and fV's for the extract Lambic I am brewing tomorrow after work, then transitioning into a starter to step up for Sunday's brew. All I need to buy is grain for Sunday which is nice.

Also tasted the 9.5% saison that I have been bottle-carbing. It is fully carbed, beautifully carbed even, nice even head that seems to stick around and now the two cases go under the stairs to age a couple weeks a bit cooler. Every week I try one bottle and the fire from the high abv mellows a bit more, you get a bit more malt on the nose with the saison spice notes. This is a tasty one. Not sure I am a huge fan of using tons of malts and fermenting to bone-dry but the style is different from the norm and I like different. Mysterious and a high abv punch.

 

[JAReeves]

Just added the grain the instant pot to mash for 8 hours, no pressure, 153F, and keep warm afterwards.

Off to work....

I have not heard of this yet; do I understand correctly that you are basically using a crock pot to do your mash?

 

[aharri1]

Kegged my bavarian honey hop bomb IPA. 7.7%. Then I'm going to wash and collect the yeast for another batch of German style ale later this month

 

[pshankstar]

Dry hopped my partygyle beer from the American Barleywine. It was hopped with home grown Cascade and Chinook hops, plus some Sorachi Ace hops. So I dry hopped it with the same hops.

Popped the top to the fermenter for the first time and I have a feeling the Sorachi Ace that I have are more dill then lemon.

 

[seatazzz]

You do anything special for the black lager? I'm always looking for a good black lager recipe.

Not really, just messed with the hops a bit. Used Cascade and Chinook for bittering, and some Cascade at 30 and chinook at flameout. Just tasted it today, it's a bit weak on the dark malts (it is a second runnings session after all) but the hops came through as well as a good 'bite' from the lager yeast. It's going to get a nice long crash & lager for a week before kegging. Color is more 'nut brown' than black but it will do.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

What i did for beer today, had to think then realized...I just bought a foot of 12 guage .999 silver wire to weld a ring for my middle finger to give to ABInBev!


edit: and i just put 23lbs raw barley in the maltin tub to soak for a couples hours, because apparently they own Northern Brewer now too!

That's right they sold out a couple of years ago. I haven't ordered anything from them since.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I have not heard of this yet; do I understand correctly that you are basically using a crock pot to do your mash?

Yeah my instant pot that has 1 degree temperature increments. So it works good for mashing. The range is 100F to 200F. It's an Instant Pot Ultra, 6 quart.

I'm mashing whole grain that's at 50% moisture content to change the inside of the barley kernel. Then it becomes crystal malt. I toast it after that to get the right color. This last time I just dried to make Carapils.

I'm NOT using it to mash a beer recipe. I'm using it just to make some specialty malts.

 

[aharri1]

Washed some Bavarian ale yeast last night from the primary carboy got two 32 oz jars. Only been 12 hours in the fridge looks like I need to pour it into some smaller jars once everything settles out .

 

[BrewMan13]

Kegged up my pumpkin ale. As I always feel necessary to mention, this is a beer brewed for others; I'm fine after just having a few pints out of the keg.
Did it late in the season so there's some left for visitors we have coming the first weekend of December.

 

[tegman]

- Kegged my Huell Melon/Mandarina Bavaria Cream Ale
- Dry hopped my Sierra Nevada Celebration Clone
- Unpackaged my new SS Brewtech Brew Bucket to prep for TSP cleaning and passivation.

 

[pshankstar]

Cleaning my transfer line so I can keg my session melomel tonight. Or tomorrow depending on what happens tonight.

 

[jcav]

Cold crashed my Autumn Vienna Amber Ale, so I can keg it up on Saturday!

John

 

[ESBrewer]

Inoculated a small liquid culture (5-10ml) with Wyeast 1084 to build a starter for the red ale. Fuller's bottle yeast is growing on the plate, too, but it always takes longer to get going so the colonies are barely visible after 40hrs. Young's bottle dregs were plated yesterday so no visible colonies there yet.

Also fine tuned the insulation and build a new manifold to my mash tun .

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Bottled 2 each of American porter, American amber, and imperial milkshake with peach and mango for a competition. Dropped them off at the lhbs to get mailed with the rest of the clubs entries. Picked up yeast and more dme to make a starter for next weeks brew(still not sure what, but it will be with chico)

 

[seanjwalker1]

Brewed 5 gallons Xmas spiced Robust Porter all grain, O.G 1.070. Partigyled 2.5 gallons to make mild brown Xmas spiced session ale, O.G 1.040. Cheers .

 

[aharri1]

Took a sample of my bavarian honey hop bomb IPA to test carbonation . Looking good ! Ready for an event tomorrow!

 

[wepeeler]

Last night I brewed up 11 gallons of a Scottish Ale along the lines of Long Trail's Hibernator. I contacted Long Trail via email, and they gave me a few pointers on the recipe I sent them. Hope it comes out great for Christmas. Very good brewery in VT, and very cool people to help me out!

 

[BikerMatt]

Never seizes to amaze me that the breweries not only answer but steer you into the right direction. Guess they don't see homebrewers as a threat to their revenue

 

[ehk089]

Legged my first oatmeal stout (thanks to Yooper) and added a stout tap and nitro rig to my ferm/lager/garage beer fridge

 

[bracconiere]

here's my .999 silver wire ring for my middle finger to give to you know who!

and yeah, that tobacco bullet is loaded with homegrown tobacco!

 

[wepeeler]

Never seizes to amaze me that the breweries not only answer but steer you into the right direction. Guess they don't see homebrewers as a threat to their revenue

My dad said the same thing to me. I figure, most breweries realize we aren't a threat. If we like a certain beer, we're most likely going to continue to buy it. I would think most home brewers aren't drinking just their own beer. I just thought it was cool that they helped. They could have just said, "good enough!".

 

[BikerMatt]

Drove nearly 150km there and another back to get these (amongst a few other things from different shops here and there) next gonna wash a few fermenters and sanitize a bunch of bottles. Come evening will first bottle a batch of Theakston Old Peculier clone then gonna get that ruby red started, fire up the sauna and down a bunch of brews.

Not a bad day IMO.

 

[JAReeves]

If all goes according to plan:

Barley wine in secondary on whiskey-soaked oak (maybe one more week, it’s still bubbling a wee bit)

Pale Ale bottled

Smoked Porter brewed

And the Red Rye should be fully carbed. (Yup, and it is amazingly delicious!)