What I did for beer today

[seanjwalker1]

Took a sample of my white stout after cold crashing overnight. The coffee is a little strong, but hopefully that will mellow out! Overall, the taste is really great! this will be my first beer to go in a competition to be judged by BJCP certified judges!View attachment 607574

Awesome! Good luck!!

 

[aharri1]

Awesome! Good luck!!

Thanks !

 

[Schlenkerla]

Washed and boiled my balls...

 

[seatazzz]

My car is in the shop and husband bowls tonight, so settling in for a night of kitchen/fridge cleaning and finally kegging the Southern Passion Smash IPA I brewed 3 weeks ago. It's been cold crashing for the last 6 days because work and laziness, so it's about time. Might have lost some of the flavor/aroma from the dry hops from extended cold crash, but it smells great at least. This one was the husband's idea so I hope it turns out well. Also have to give my Holiday Ale keg a good long soak in hot oxyclean to get the spices out. And gloated over my latest lager that is 5 days old in the ferment fridge, still lots of yeast in suspension and smells terrific in there. Used harvested S-23 yeast in this one that were "expired" in 2016 and did great in their initial batch so looking forward to a nice traditional lager in a few weeks, nothing but Tettnanger hops for bittering and flavor.

*EDIT* For anyone who is thinking of trying the South African hops, I can definitely recommend the Southern Passion. Tastes fantastic, not overpoweringly of guava/passionfruit, just a nice residual sweetness with enough bitterness to keep it from being sickeningly sweet. Can't wait to see what it does on full carb.

 

[6Tap]

Washed and boiled my balls...View attachment 607757View attachment 607759View attachment 607760View attachment 607761

That’s nuts you have so many balls!

 

[Schlenkerla]

That’s nuts you have so many balls!

Yeah....LOL. I need a lot. My wife tries to inmasculate me every weekend.

1000 of them fit in a 8x8x6 cardboard box.

 

[mullet6577]

Nothing yet today, but yesterday I picked up some drill bits, cutting oil, and step bits to drill a hole in my kettle for a valve. Also grabbed 10 gallons of RO water from the Walmart machine for the next brew day. Hoping to find a spot in the house to keep those that won't piss the wife off too much. Getting down to around 17* this weekend and really don't want 10 gallons of RO ice in the garage.

 

[helterscelter]

Washed and boiled my balls...View attachment 607757View attachment 607759View attachment 607760View attachment 607761

What for?

 

[Schlenkerla]

What for?

It's to act as a heat blanket and oxygen barrier in my MLT and HLT.

 

[Homergah]

Trying to get this insanity taken care of. Completely rearranging brewery space.

 

[Phildo253]

Replaced the fans in my keezer last night. Kegging my Orange Kolsch in the morning and dry hopping my NEIPA and brewing a blueberry berliner weisse on Monday.

 

[mullet6577]

Ball valve meet previously holeless kettle. Between this and the new Fermonster w/spigot I should be able to get rid of my autosiphon that I've never really liked using.

 

[jiMithing83]

Ball valve meet previously holeless kettle. Between this and the new Fermonster w/spigot I should be able to get rid of my autosiphon that I've never really liked using. View attachment 607898

Fermonster w/ spigot is one of the best decisions I've made, equipment-wise. Visual check ups, easy sampling, easy cleaning, I love it! I have 3 of them, 7 gal, 6 gal, and 3 gal for test batches.

 

[AJinJacksonville]

Nothing too exciting...but a simple thrill. Walked past the fermentation chamber, opened the lid, and took a long whiff of the brown ale bubbling inside. Can't. Wait.

And no, I'm not a Sharpie sniffer generally.

 

[6Tap]

I handed out 20+ 22oz bottles of IPA to company workers, Tap House & and brewery workers, and random people (over 21). Feels so good to give to people and get a smile from people.

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Abbey Weizen I brewed a coupe of weeks ago. In the process of rearranging the contents of the kegerator to make room for a third keg the liquid out post on a keg of Dunkelweizen started leaking. The o-ring under the dip tube had split. I pulled that keg out of the fridge and removed the post. The poppet fell put in pieces. I had the correct o-ring but no spare poppets, so I took the post out of an empty keg and was back in business.

What was going to be a 15 minute job turned into an hour of mixing and matching parts. But, the fridge is full again.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Washed and boiled my balls...View attachment 607757View attachment 607759View attachment 607760View attachment 607761

WTF are they??

 

[Schlenkerla]

WTF are they??

I'm using them as a heat blanket and as a dissolved oxygen barrier in my HLT & MLT.

They are hollow 20mm polypropylene balls. They good up to 230F. It's a pharmaceutical grade plastic. Got a 1000. However, 270 balls cover one square foot of surface area at 91% coverage in a hexagonal close pack formation. I have plenty to have multiple layers to improve the heat retention.

Primary benefit is the wort or water can remain covered while you insert a spoon or mash paddle to stir, or open the cooler lid.

 

[catdaddy66]

Picked up stuff for a blonde stout, and some OYL-052 yeast... It's not for the stout.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Ball valve meet previously holeless kettle. Between this and the new Fermonster w/spigot I should be able to get rid of my autosiphon that I've never really liked using. View attachment 607898

I did the same thing on my hot liquor tank & brew kettle. I also added bulkhead temp probe.

12 years of brewing and I just did this now. Partly because I used to use the kettle for Turkey frying. Don't know why I waited.

Did it for safety, convenience and for underletting to my mash tun.

 

[BikerMatt]

Tedium, depicted.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Doing a 3 gallon partial mash black IPA right now, and hoping to brew again on Tuesday.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Pushed my ipa brew day to tomorrow so today did other things. Brewed up kombucha and my first try at beet kvass. Made up a WLP644 starter for the ipa and de-labeling bottles.

Also started a tequila tincture for my margarita gose. Two cups tequila one oz tangerine peel 2 oz lime peel and 1oz oak cubes. Will let it sit a week and soak then add it to the bottling bucket for packaging.

 

[govner1]

Transferred my Black IPA from secondary to kegs that were purged and had priming malt solution for keg conditioning.
Cleaned transfer equipment and carboys.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Cracked one of my 7% Orange Amber spice ales carbonating for a week, orange has mellowed nicely, just in time for NFL playoffs!

 

[aharri1]

Installed my new dual regulator! Works great !!

 

[brewcat]

Cleaned a keg, filled a keg, dry hopped an amber.

 

[Homergah]

Rigged up an emergency temp controller for a previously out-of-commission freezer. It had a bad fan and tstat. My hop freezer went down. It was a nice chest freezer. I had roughly 30 lbs in it, along with 2 or 3 bags of ice. The ice melted, and floated/submerged my hop inventory. Lost about 4 lbs of galaxy, 2 lbs of Denali, 2 lbs of El Dorado, and quite a bit of miscellaneous whole cone. Even one of the unopened bags managed to get water in it. I am depressed.

 

[orionol73]

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Rigged up an emergency temp controller for a previously out-of-commission freezer. It had a bad fan and tstat. My hop freezer went down. It was a nice chest freezer. I had roughly 30 lbs in it, along with 2 or 3 bags of ice. The ice melted, and floated/submerged my hop inventory. Lost about 4 lbs of galaxy, 2 lbs of Denali, 2 lbs of El Dorado, and quite a bit of miscellaneous whole cone. Even one of the unopened bags managed to get water in it. I am depressed.

There is nothing to say but I'm sorry, I feel for that loss!

 

[Homergah]

There is nothing to say but I'm sorry, I feel for that loss!

Hey thanks. Honestly, it's my own dammed fault. I should have already used at least half of what was lost. I'm definitely brewing tomorrow.