What I did for beer today

[Andrew Hodgson]

Bottled 1 gallon of Tart Cherry Mead and brewed up another batch of Tart Cherry Short Mead, a little less ABV and hopefully a quicker turn-around. Used the last of my sushi rice and Chinese yeast balls to start another batch of Rice Wine. Will check the gravity of my Mosaic SMaSH tonight to see if I can bottle in the next day or two, I want to package it as fresh as possible. I also racked my lambic from the primary into a glass carboy to age.

 

[Bluefin]

I bought 10 feet of silicone tubing and a garden hose faucet adapter to use on my new RobrewV3. I brewed outside the first time but during the winter, I will brew in the kitchen.

 

[aharri1]

Cleaned my Kegerator line and cleaned out two kegs. Next week my Oktoberfest lager should be carbed up and ready. Leaving it slow and low on co2;while I'm out of town for the holiday.

 

[ESBrewer]

Now listening to the constant flow of bubbles from the ESB fermentation. Also bought some demerara (raw cane sugar) and citric acid in order to prepare a test batch of invert syrup.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Added my first, first place ribbon to the mash paddle.

 

[Dade0]

Made a starter of Scottish cider yeast WLP something

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I bottled up my Mosaic IPA last night. Smells like a friggin' tropical cocktail and the hydro sample tasted good already, no strong hop astringency or hot fire in the back of the throat. This makes me happy because it is only 9 days from brewing this and I am going to try to get the carb to go very quickly (daily rolling the bottles etc.), I will sample the first one exactly 14 days after brew and see if it has that hop pop and color still. Then I will drink them like crazy before they go brown and the hops fade away.

Also picked up 13lb Marris Otter to do a Galaxy SMaSH to compare the Mosaic SMaSH with. And degassed my tart cherry short mead.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Damit! I cleaned and sanitized what I needed to prime and bottle 2.5 gallons dunklewiessen ( half the batch was kegged, because I only had a small keg empty) only to find a thin furry pellical across the top. I was going to do this today so I'd just have to move the sanitized bottles from the dish washer once. Oh well, put the lid back on and deal with it another day. Back to prepping for turkey day. BTW, I just tasted a sample from the keg and it tastes fine, thankfully.

 

[JAReeves]

Bought the ingredients for Sunday's Brew Day when I will: Bottle the Smoked Old Porter, Bottle the Wild-Fermented Cider, and cook up an IPA with Mosaic & Citra.

 

[Master]

Went to LHBS and bought ingredients for a Berliner Wiesse.
Bought 4 cases of Belgian Bottles, Corks and a Corker for bottling a batch of Lambic.

 

[seatazzz]

Just did a secondary for the first time in 3 years. Latest WF lager; reason being, the one brewed previously has issues with autolysed yeast (taste is fading, thank ninkasi) and I want this one to be ready for holiday quaffing. Also moved the fermenter with House IPA from the brewroom where it fermented at 70 to the fridge to start crashing, hoping to keg later this week. No brewing this weekend (sad face) because running low on hops and family stuff.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Lol to the sad face because of " family stuff"! I'm trying to non chalantly check on the temp of my 5 gallons of spiced Xmas baltic Porter but got caught! Then my wife took my 2.5 gallon fermenter of spiced Brown ale and sat it on the floor! I was not happy! I guess it was "in the way", being in the middle of the dinning room table where the turkey needs to go!

 

[Bluefin]

I brewed a smash beer I called "Smasharillo" My second brew with my new Robobrew V3. Very easy cleanup with this system.

 

[Dade0]

Set three kegs to carbonating. Tasted my Gruit. It seems to have soured after moving it to 2ndry. Cleaning and Cleaning.

 

[ESBrewer]

Inoculated yeast cultures in order to obtain some fresh yeast at the time of bottling. Raised the waterbath temperature of my ESB fermentation. Krausen is getting smaller and smaller and looks very smooth and creamy now. Krausen in the red ale has dropped almost completely and I'm planning to cool it down during the weekend.

 

[seatazzz]

co2 tank was running low last night, so brought it with me to work today to exchange at the welding shop down the street. Black Friday and all, they were closed; also it was a slow day at work, so had to hie me to the LHBS down in Puyallup to exchange. Darn it, those 2 lbs of special b and packet of yeast just jumped on the counter and begged to be bought! I just couldn't resist those sad looks when I tried to say "no". At least that's what I'm telling myself. And I just can't let them sit in the brewery all lonely when all they want is to be married up with the two row, crystal 40, & hops I already have....plus some spices to make a holiday ale that should have been brewed 3 weeks ago. Brewing...somebody's gotta do it. Sigh..guess I'll just have to. (are you reading this honey????)

 

[BikerMatt]

Bought some new glassware to snob out with some brews.

 

[BrewMan13]

Added more yeast to my braggot; prepped for brewing tomorrow.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Posted many times on HBT and encouraged people to smoke their own grain.

 

[tgolanos]

Transferred 22L of mocha stout to secondary on top of 2 cups of coffee, bottled 21L of Altbier, and got a Kölsch yeast starter going. It's been a good day.

 

[Pkrd]

Finished building the collar for my Esky. Now I know the kegs fit I can fill them with beer.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Some coffee then brewing a Galaxy SMaSH. 13lb Marris Otter and half a pound of galaxy what could be bad about that?

 

[gunhaus]

Not today, but last night, my son and i cracked a keg of a modification of BierMunchers Centennial blonde. I have brewed this beer many times as is, and am quite content with it. but my son has recently taken a liking to Sam 76, and since this beer strikes me a somewhat hoppy/citrusy sort of blond ale we decided to tweak the old standby a tiny bit. We bumped up the 2 row by a half pound and the vienna by a half pound, to bump up gravity just a bit. We subbed out the Notty for Hornindal Kveik, and we started fermentation at 68* and after 48 hours raised it to 80. I do not know if this latter was needed, cause it was pretty much done at 48 hours! Still we raised it up slowly and left it in primary for 7 days. Then we kegged for two weeks. The only other tweak too this batch was the addition of .5 oz of Citra right at flame out. Pretty darn close. I like it quite a bit, it has a real citrus/fruity (Almost pineapple) sort of note in your nose. ABV came in at 4.9% so pretty close to the Sam, and only a tick higher than the 4% or so I usually get with BM's original gem. the kid says he can't put his finger on what is missing too him and the whole thing may need more/longer sampling sessions to figure it out SO. the experiment continues, and we will put up the end results when ever the kid deems the end result publication worthy! As it stands it is a fizzy yellow bright refreshing sort of beer that inspires joyful bouts of excessive consumption - Not an all bad thing.

(One confession about the above grain amounts - They ARE NOT the strictest of experimental numbers and the word ABOUT is about right. I think we actually had .89 lb of Vienna, and 7.57 lb of 2 Row left on hand when we started - so that is what we used. I am not going to sweat the little decimal differences on this, but some do so i thought i would add the actual numbers we used)

 

[Schlenkerla]

Finished building the collar for my Esky. Now I know the kegs fit I can fill them with beer.

Very, very nice!!!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Some coffee then brewing a Galaxy SMaSH. 13lb Marris Otter and half a pound of galaxy what could be bad about that?

Nada...[emoji482]

 

[aharri1]

Driving back to Orlando from Memphis after visiting family for the holidays. When I get back my Oktoberfest lager should be carbed up and ready! I will post a taste test later hopefully!!

 

[NewJersey]

Ordered a SS brewtech 1V to go eBIAB to replace my dated 3 vessel gas setup!

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Kegged 5 gallons of Jamil's Hoppiness is an IPA

 

[BrewMan13]

Brewed up my take on a sticke altbier. I've only had something like it once or twice, so it'll be interesting.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Finished 3 days diacetyl rest of my 5 gallons Spiced Xmas Porter(6.5%) and 2.5 gallons Partigyled Spiced session brown ale(3.9%), now cold crashing to low 50's high 40's in my cool brewing bag for 5 days then will clarify for several days with Gelatin finings.