What I did for beer today

[catdaddy66]

I plan on drinking at this craft beer event today! [emoji482]

https://www.rocklin.ca.us/placercountyrocksatthequarry

Sounds like fun...

I will need to bottle my Amber rye ale tonight because the garden takes most of my daylight hours. Have to plan my next brew around a very busy week!

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

 

[jiMithing83]

Vacuum sealed 3 lbs of hops (1 lb each of citra, crystal, and sterling) in 4 oz packs. I should have started bulk ordering hops a long time ago, way cheaper and not too much work, only took 30 minutes.

 

[501irishred]

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What strain of yeast needs to be redacted?

 

[helterscelter]

Changed out all the lines on my keezer to help balance the system. Added a stout faucet with beer gas line. Added a nitro cold Brew faucet (second stout faucet) hooked to a nitro infuser and dedicated nitrogen line. Now I just need to make some cold Brew and brew a stout! Woot!

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Brewed 14.5 gal of Wee Heavy.

 

[501irishred]

Added a nitro cold Brew faucet (second stout faucet) hooked to a nitro infuser and dedicated nitrogen line. Now I just need to make some cold Brew and brew a stout! Woot!

That is a serious investment for some nitro coffee! Would love to hear how your infuser works for you. I’ve charged cold brew in the past (direct in keg) with verifying levels of success, but was always too cheap to pick up an infuser. Your setup looks great!

 

[seatazzz]

Waiting for the man to leave to play golf, so I can do a boiloff check run on the new sight glass without him whining about me wasting propane if I'm not brewing.

*edit* And to justify it, just found some empty distilled water jugs that I'll save the boiled water in for washing yeast...genius!

 

[WesBrew]

Paid $43 for Beer festival. Had some great samples from 25 breweries for the better part of 4 hours.

 

[helterscelter]

That is a serious investment for some nitro coffee! Would love to hear how your infuser works for you. I’ve charged cold brew in the past (direct in keg) with verifying levels of success, but was always too cheap to pick up an infuser. Your setup looks great!

Ya. I did the math. I should be able to recoup the costs in 6 months if I can keep swmbo out of Starbucks. Lol.

 

[brewbama]

Got a couple of food grade buckets and gamma lids from bLowes to store 50# grain in.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Got the itch and since it soon will be hot weather I put it an order from the Yeast Bay while the getting is good.

1x Northeastern Abbey - hopefully house abbey/belgian yeast
https://www.theyeastbay.com/brewers-yeast-products/northeastern-abbey

1x Brett Brux - you had me at "sweet tarts"
https://www.theyeastbay.com/wild-ye...anomyces-single-strain-series-isolate-tyb-207

1x Lacto Blend - why not try to keep a house lacto eh?
https://www.theyeastbay.com/wild-yeast-and-bacteria-products/lactobacillus-blend

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

My Colonna capper/corker broke can’t get parts (after a short search) so I ordered the super Agata from AIH which was 15% off and I’m hoping to find a used floor corker... should be set for life after that.

 

[BikerMatt]

Toasted 200g of juniper pieces. I can tell you the garage smells pretty frikkin awesome at moment, have a wide variety of different aromas wafting around including a surprisingly strong vanilla. This will be a killer brew if I get the fermentables right.

 

[501irishred]

Toasted 200g of juniper pieces. I can tell you the garage smells pretty frikkin awesome at moment, have a wide variety of different aromas wafting around including a surprisingly strong vanilla. This will be a killer brew if I get the fermentables right.

That sounds amazing! What style will you be going for? Only one I’m familiar with that calls out juniper is a Finnish Sahti, and that only uses green branches/berries with the mash. Toasting the wood sound real interesting, at least for a garage potpourri!

 

[BikerMatt]

Tell U the truth got no idea Was supposed to order specialty grains and hops tonight but kinda forgot and now too tired to think & ordered tomorrow they`ll likely not make it here for the weekend... Probly some sort of a heavy or sth, my brews usually don`t follow the style guidelines all that strictly anyway

BTW Props for knowing about sahti, I live at the center of the region that makes it, not a fan though, usually super strong, F:s you up twice first at night and the second time the next morning...

 

[grampamark]

My kegs are empty. Put two fermenters in the fridge to cold crash, a Mosaic APA and a Citra Blonde Ale. Both gravity samples tasted really good.

 

[501irishred]

BTW Props for knowing about sahti, I live at the center of the region that makes it, not a fan though, usually super strong, F:s you up twice first at night and the second time the next morning...

Spent many a night wondering the streets of Oulu, and enjoyed every minute.... except maybe the mornings after bar hopping in the summer when it’s still daylight at 3:00am and you realize you have meetings starting In a couple hours!
I have no problem with Sahti, just keep the Salmiakki away from me and we’re golden.

 

[seatazzz]

Just got home from work and finally tapped the Mosaic/Southern Passion IPA. Not terribly happy with it, as it got dry-hopped mostly cold because reasons and it's got a tiny bit of autolysed flavor; nose is great, but flavor could use some help.

 

[ESBrewer]

Fining with isinglass paste for the first time. Let's see what happens...

 

[ESBrewer]

Fining with isinglass paste for the first time. Let's see what happens...

Good heavens, these bladders (+adjunct) act fast & effectively...

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Attended monthly club meeting and won this puppy in the raffle.

 

[aharri1]

Checked gravity on my IPL after 3 days of dry hopping at 58. Taste great already and used my homegrown triple pearl and comet hops with it! After some lagering and carbonation this should be crushable at 5.8%

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Harvested 8 oz of spruce tips.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Making a run to the LHBS for ingredients for a dark saison to be brewed in the next week or two. Tonight I will be bottling my Sour Pineapple Shake ale.

 

[govner1]

Moved my Marzen from secondary to kegs via CO2 transfer for cold crash, carbing, lagering until late August.
Cleaned up fermenters and two kegs.

 

[BikerMatt]

Done more unpleasant things after work on a friday than this... Flame on when the wifey gets off work at 2100 hours.

 

[Hellpop664]

Grated orange peels for a porter I'm brewing tomorrow.

 

[501irishred]

Flame on when the wifey gets off work at 2100 hours.

What is the object in bucket? Water filter?

 

[BikerMatt]

Lol it's an upside down corona mill with an extended hopper, a chimney joint went in the original one just by pressing and haven't moved. We don't need water filters here, Finland has the purest tap water in the world AND my town sits on a thin strip of land, made of gravel crushed by the ice age, between two large lakes so I'm essentially living above a huge water filter.

Btw hopefully the last time I used that particular mill, upgrading to a roller mill at july and likely to not brew before that (well maybe once...)