What I did for beer today

[Andrew Hodgson]

Bottled up my Hi Nelson Saison, 60 bottles total, not too bad.

 

[jiMithing83]

Sour Stout? A new category? Hummm...or maybe secondary with your favorite fruit to sweeten it up a bit? I'm not one for sours, but interested to know how it turns out! Keep the faith!

There's a brewery near me that did a really good sour stout aged on a bunch of different stone fruit. It worked well.

 

[troypolla]

Received a free fridge from a co-worker who has a few rental properties. Apparently the tenants told him it wasn't cooling properly. After some extensive cleaning and elbow grease and some bug removal it was ready to be plugged in. Works like a champ and even better is the cost ($0). Extra Fridge or Fermentation chamber all the way.

 

[pshankstar]

Picked up this crowler to share with a good friend who loves beer just as much as we do! The next time he’s near by, we will crack open this bad boy and enjoy it! This brewery has been on his list to stop at and I figured why not bring some back for him to enjoy before he can make the next trip.

 

[deleted]

Built my keezer....

Got my first all grain under my belt with my recently acquired equipment...

Installed ball valve and thermostat on my kettle and combined two chillers to make a double wort chiller with prechiller.... kind of hard to see in pictures.... learned my lesson on adding ice too soon to the bucket as one of them froze and I had to pull the coils out and thaw it....

Recovering still from the weekend...

 

[cochised]

Busy man

 

[seanjwalker1]

Received my 5 gallon Phat Tyre Amber ale all grain kit from Northern Brewer [emoji16]. But it has to wait, gonna do a Honey Amber this weekend with supplies from LHBS.

 

[catdaddy66]

Received my 5 gallon Phat Tyre Amber ale all grain kit from Northern Brewer [emoji16]. But it has to wait, gonna do a Honey Amber this weekend with supplies from LHBS.

Two Ambers? How are you ever going to manage two strippers?? It'll be a catfight every night! Lol

 

[seanjwalker1]

Two Ambers? How are you ever going to manage two strippers?? It'll be a catfight every night! Lol

Lol! [emoji1]. 3 gallons of Honey Amber, 5 of plain Amber. 3 Gallons a tad sweet how I like my brew..malty, sweet and strong. Thought about making the 5 gallon Phat Tyre honey too...don't know yet...

 

[Master]

Home sick from work (food poisoning, so I can't fly for 3-4 days)

Took a sample of my Hefewizen.. 1.045 to 1.012 in three days. At 62F, that's one helluva fast ferment. WLP300, it's always this quick.

I'll let it sit for another day or two and then keg it.

Spent the afternoon cleaning the garage/brewery up, since tomorrow is trash day.. Been hoarding random wood scraps and other crap leftover from construction projects, and decided to clean house.

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Today i kegged another batch of Rye Pale Ale. Cleaned the fermenter and 3 kegs. And brewed a batch of strawberry milkshake ipa. Cleaning the grainfather now.

 

[jcav]

Cold crashing the Irish Red that's in my fermenter. Gonna keg on Saturday!

John

 

[brewcat]

Hopefully isolated the CO2 leak.

 

[SirHC_]

Botted the Irish red and ky common w citra.
Brewing a fresh squished (fresh squeezed clone from Nb) to occupy the irish ale 1084 yeast cake until I get around to my wee heavy,80/-,60/- parti gyle in warmer weather

 

[rjdutch]

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

When I get home from work I am going to buy coffee beans of some variety, will add 4-6oz to my white stout to "dry bean" until packaging Saturday morning along with a cocoa/vanilla vodka tincture. Going for subtle coffee note, nothing overpowering.

 

[aharri1]

Watered my hop plants. Looks like the comet one is producing some cones that might be ready! I am brewing on Sunday. I guess I could pick the ripe ones and use them fresh, but still need to get a vacuum sealer to get ready to start storing them once more blooms come.

 

[seatazzz]

Got bottles soaking in oxyclean to have ready for tomorrow morning when I bottle my Cascade Cup entries (American Brown and International Lager), also turned the controller down to 46 on my latest WF lager; will sit there while WE ARE IN MAUI next week (NO I am not excited for this vacation, no not at all). And pulled the PRV on my Brut IPA that I'm tempted to send in as well; will have to rock n shake tonight to get it fully carbed but not sure yet if I'm going to enter it.

Damn proud of myself this year; last year's entry was a very poorly done Pliny clone that I should not have entered. The ones I have this year are much better, probably not winners, but will get decent scores. And with the WF lager ready to keg when we get home, plenty in the pipeline until I will absolutely have to brew the following weekend.

 

[Master]

Kegged my Hefewizen.. Went to bottle the remnants.

@#($&(@#ing capper broke.

 

[jaymosbeershack]

I pureed 8 pounds of strawberries. Pulled out the first dry hops from the strawberry milkshake, and added the strawberries.

 

[seatazzz]

Bottles ready to go, entries paid, labels printed for entries. And BMBF soaking in sanitizer ready to go. And just pulled a small snifter of the lager I haven't touched in 2 weeks (brewed 1/16) to make sure it's still good....oh yeah. Crystal clear and delicious. Too lazy to take a pic, but it's the clearest lager I've had come out of my brewery. Also the first one that I made with malt I milled myself. Must say I'm happy with it, don't give a cr*p what the judges are going to say (probably a bit sweet but it's got a dry finish), it's MINE and it's good.

 

[Immocles]

Hauled 5 gallons of an extract Irish red ale, and my first two gallons of all grain ales (1G us05 yeast, 1G kolsch) to the basement to drop temps. Bottling most of it tomorrow evening or Monday afternoon, but leaving the one gallon to sit on the kolsch yeast a few more weeks.

 

[Novacor]

Got a new mill for my birthday last week, so today my wife and I broke it in by crushing 16lbs of grain using the hand crank. Not terrible, but time to start looking for a drill to power it.

 

[seatazzz]

Got a new mill for my birthday last week, so today my wife and I broke it in by crushing 16lbs of grain using the hand crank. Not terrible, but time to start looking for a drill to power it.

I got a nice Ryobi corded drill at HD for less than $40 for my mill. I've got a cordless but the battery just can't take it. I hand cranked my first batch and said never again. I've got mine set up with a big hose clamp holding the trigger right where I need it, and plugged into a surge protector so I can turn it on and off with the switch. Now I just need to build a stand for it....

 

[catdaddy66]

Got my wlp090 starter off and growing. Gonna clean my mashtun and soak bottles for tomorrow. Both brewing and bottling.

 

[tgolanos]

Brewed an Irish Red and made bread from the spent grains.

 

[6Tap]

Wait ..... buffering now.....

 

[three_bags_full]

Bought a 1/4HP pump to build a keg and carboy washer.

 

[seatazzz]

Up at the crack of stupid to get last things done before heading to the airport, so decided to take a sample of the Brut-kinda IPA that's carbing. Very nice, hops are very forward and has a great flavor. Looking forward to tapping it when we get home Friday night.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Yesterday bottled a batch of white stout and a one gallon batch of lime hard seltzer. Stout came in pretty much exactly where I wanted (OG 1.059 FG 1.020). I’m going to be patient but it is going to be hard not to sample one in under a week just to see how the coffee/chocolate/ vanilla is melding together.