What I did for beer today

[govner1]

Pitched a 3L starter into my 6g batch of Märzen. Swapped two kegs in my kegerator & cleaned two empties. Also cleaned my two flasks.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Pick up some Wheat DME and bottle caps.

 

[histo320]

Made a starter for a Cream Ale and convinced my wife I need another keg by way of her having try my Maris Otter Amarillo SMaSH.

 

[aharri1]

I checked the carbonation on my blueberry sour ale. I am really digging this. I might make more sours now!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I checked the carbonation on my blueberry sour ale. I am really digging this. I might make more sours now!View attachment 622682

How'd you do the Blueberries?

 

[aharri1]

How'd you do the Blueberries?

Since they are in season I went by the local farm and picked some. I used 2 pounds and added water until slightly covered and boiled for 10 minutes then mashed them and let cool to room temp. I added them to the primary fermentation after 5 days and let the beer set for about 15 days in primary.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Since they are in season I went by the local farm and picked some. I used 2 pounds and added water until slightly covered and boiled for 10 minutes then mashed them and let cool to room temp. I added them to the primary fermentation after 5 days and let the beer set for about 15 days in primary.

What was your batch size? About ready to add blueberries to my sour. Just curious. Mine will be about 6gal.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Guess I should post something. Sat the corner posts for my brew pub. It'll be small and humble but be nice to have my own spot.

 

[aharri1]

What was your batch size? About ready to add blueberries to my sour. Just curious. Mine will be about 6gal.

Mine was 5.5. Adding in primary will add around a .5% abv increase also

 

[aharri1]

Guess I should post something. Sat the corner posts for my brew pub. It'll be small and humble but be nice to have my own spot.
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I want to do an outdoor bar at some point to that sounds awesome

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I want to do an outdoor bar at some point to that sounds awesome

Needed another place for the chest freezers/Keggorators. Wife will be happy to have her kitchen back when I'm brewing...and I can blast music! [emoji3]

 

[aharri1]

Needed another place for the chest freezers/Keggorators. Wife will be happy to have her kitchen back when I'm brewing...and I can blast music! [emoji3]

Sounds like a well-thought-out plan!

 

[seatazzz]

Tasted the Bell's Two Hearted clone that got dry hopped last weekend...and sad to say I am not impressed. Aroma is very floral, so is flavor, but also a bit too bitter and even a bit too harsh for my hop-loving palate. I do love me some Centennial hops, but this one better improve with carbonation or it's getting relegated to the back of the kegerator. Kegging is planned for this weekend to free up a carboy for a commission batch for a friend. Before anyone asks, yes the hops were fresh, and clone recipe (from Brewers Friend) was followed to the T.

 

[Blazinlow86]

Tasted the Bell's Two Hearted clone that got dry hopped last weekend...and sad to say I am not impressed. Aroma is very floral, so is flavor, but also a bit too bitter and even a bit too harsh for my hop-loving palate. I do love me some Centennial hops, but this one better improve with carbonation or it's getting relegated to the back of the kegerator. Kegging is planned for this weekend to free up a carboy for a commission batch for a friend. Before anyone asks, yes the hops were fresh, and clone recipe (from Brewers Friend) was followed to the T.

What's your chilling process. As far as I remembered most two hearted clones use alot of late addition hops and if your not chilling immediately or adjusting for that you can end up with MUCH higher bitterness then expected. Cheers

 

[seatazzz]

What's your chilling process. As far as I remembered most two hearted clones use alot of late addition hops and if your not chilling immediately or adjusting for that you can end up with MUCH higher bitterness then expected. Cheers

I use a plate chiller and get down to at least 65 before pitching, and also have a ferment fridge with a temp controller. Hoping carbonation helps it along.

 

[brewbama]

Kegged a Czech Pils (closed xfer) and harvested the Urkel yeast (swirled remaining beer and drained into sanitized quart jars). Then cleaned the fermenter.

 

[cochised]

Brewed an extract APA and dry hopped a mosaic pale

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Finally moved my growing yeast bank into a mini fridge and out of the main fridge.

 

[jiMithing83]

Brewed an APA and put it on the yeast cake from a wheat ale. 4 hours later it has a 3" krausen.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brew pub continues. Decided to put the piano in there so reinforcement needed. Done for the day.

 

[501irishred]

Since they are in season I went by the local farm and picked some.

Where in the world (I suppose I mean that literally) do you live? All this talk of fresh blueberries and multiple hop harvests, have me chomping at the bit for summer (here)!

 

[aharri1]

Where in the world (I suppose I mean that literally) do you live? All this talk of fresh blueberries and multiple hop harvests, have me chomping at the bit for summer (here)!

Central Florida

 

[Murphys_Law]

Kegged my new version of “House Ale” - sample was pretty good! And mashed a 3G batch of Berliner which is sitting on the heat pad as I type.

 

[Blazinlow86]

I use a plate chiller and get down to at least 65 before pitching, and also have a ferment fridge with a temp controller. Hoping carbonation helps it along.

Its specifically the amount of time it takes you to get from flameout to 170ish or below that makes the big difference. if your 60 min timer goes off and you turn of the flame and say for example go make dinner to allow things to settle out and you come back a hour later all your late flavor hops are now just more bittering hops which can cause 0/5/10 min additions to be 10/15/20 or even 30/35/40 depending how long the delay was. It can most definitely make your beers all come out considerably more bitter and it gets worst the more late additions you have. Most software defaults to **immediately*" chilling your wort. I think alot of brewers completely overlook this. if chilling immediately is not a option for your process/setup you can adjust your software to compensate (at least in bs3)

 

[brewcat]

Started yeast for Irish Red, kegged Amber, tapped Bitter.

 

[histo320]

Brewed a Cream Ale loosely based on a Spotted Cow clone. Never used Saaz hops before, but the hydro sample was pretty good.

 

[helterscelter]

Kicked a keg of my first cream ale! Damn glad I have another to replace it.

 

[seatazzz]

Its specifically the amount of time it takes you to get from flameout to 170ish or below that makes the big difference. if your 60 min timer goes off and you turn of the flame and say for example go make dinner to allow things to settle out and you come back a hour later all your late flavor hops are now just more bittering hops which can cause 0/5/10 min additions to be 10/15/20 or even 30/35/40 depending how long the delay was. It can most definitely make your beers all come out considerably more bitter and it gets worst the more late additions you have. Most software defaults to **immediately*" chilling your wort. I think alot of brewers completely overlook this. if chilling immediately is not a option for your process/setup you can adjust your software to compensate (at least in bs3)

Nope, that's not it either. As soon as the flame is out, if I'm not doing a whirlpool, the chiller gets started up; I set it up about 30 minutes to end of boil. Even if I do a hopstand/whirlpool, there's only 10 minutes of that before the hose gets turned on. With our ground water, chilling is done in about 10 minutes.

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

amarillo smells so good

 

[BrewMan13]

Got a yeast starter going yesterday for brewing tomorrow. It's a bit old, so giving it more time than usual to propagate. Later I'll grind grains and get the rest of the stuff ready for brewing tomorrow. Weather looks like it will cooperate

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Made a starter for an esb im brewing this week. Also cleaned 3 kegs and did a trub dump on my rye pale ale.

 

[Beerwildered]

I got to hang out at Voyageur Brewing in Grand Marais, Minnesota

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Cleaning some rust off a used grain mill’s rollers that I bought, and putting stuff away...

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brew pub ready for framing. Have to wait for another long weekend tho...10days from now.

 

[mullet6577]

Kegged an amarillo pale that was in the fermenter a lot longer than it should have been. Used Voss Kveik, was done in about 3 days, didn't have time to keg it until today.....5 weeks later

 

[aharri1]

Finally entered my 1st contest ever and got 3rd place in the International lager category for my Czech style black lager!

 

[HopsNTails]

Finally entered my 1st contest ever and got 3rd place in the International lager category for my Czech style black lager!View attachment 623137

Congrats man!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Finally entered my 1st contest ever and got 3rd place in the International lager category for my Czech style black lager!View attachment 623137

Congrats man! Care to get onvolved in the Fellowship of the Home Brew trade thread? We'd love to try your medal winner!

 

[aharri1]

Congrats man!

Thanks!

 

[aharri1]

Congrats!

Thanks!