What I did for beer today

[JAReeves]

Contractor called and said they are building the driveway tomorrow-not in August. Dug up and moved my Cascade, Eroica, and Centennial hops. Not sure if they are going to survive the move, as I planned it for a month from now when they would have a lot more going for them. Oh well.

On the plus side, the cat box that we call a dust bowl/parking space will be less attractive to the neighborhood animals.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Making a starter with TYB Northeast Abbey for a Belgian Blonde getting whipped up Saturday.

 

[bluedaisy0627]

Added the strawberries and vanilla to Kate.

 

[seatazzz]

you still eat food? lol

I just snorted beer out my nose. Yeah the husband insists that I eat something once in a while....and yes I have beer with dinner!

 

[seatazzz]

Just added the gelatin to both lager fermenters, and now we wait. Hoping to brew this weekend, and can't unless these are ready to keg; I can hear the grain in the bins chanting 'use us, use us, we want to be beer'....or that might be the beer in my glass talking.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Still cultivating a big batch of Hornindal kveik.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Drink a beer with my nephew at St Nick's Brewery in DuQuion, Illinois. Go Salukis!

 

[BrewMan13]

Got everything ready for brewing tomorrow. Also kegged my NEIPA; this was a crowd favorite last year, hoping it comes out the same.

 

[aharri1]

Made a giant starter from my harvested lager yeast for my 10% doppelbock I'm brewing Sunday. Collecting 1L, then pitching the rest!

 

[seatazzz]

Opened the ferment fridge about 20 times to gloat and giggle over the lagers currently clearing like no-mans-bidness. And this late at night, sipping on some Mosaic IPA that wasn't great 14 days in, but now over a month old is tasting pretty darn good. Had planned on brewing tomorrow but totally forgot that we signed up to bowl a charity tournament for an old family friend, so now have to do it Sunday. Have to...that's funny right there, that is. NEED to, now there's some truth in there.

 

[Dave Sarber]

How many of those IPA's have you had?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Registered for a couple competitions. Will be cleaning a keg that kicked and will be racking mead to secondary with fruit.

 

[histo320]

Dry hopped a Falconers Flight Pale and increased fermenter temp up to 70F. Also attached Mylar balloon for cold crash.

Using Wyeast 1332 and had going for 16 days at 62F and still had some Krausen bit at 1.012. Sample was pretty good, very balanced.

 

[Novacor]

Scored 2 free kegs from a local coffee company. They've been used for cold brew, but the company upgraded their setup and has no use for them any more.

 

[CJ-3]

Brewing up a light summer ale.

AHS Zaragozas Chalice

Never made it before but I figured why not?

 

[HockeyBoy29]

Kegged up a kettle-soured Florida-Weisse and a SMaSH Pale Ale; brewed a 1.073 OG Brown Ale and racked it onto the SMaSH yeast cake, and the airlock is already singing along!

 

[aharri1]

Watched my crazy doppelbock starter take off

 

[Dave Sarber]

Cold crashing a cranberry Saison, washing and bottling 3 strains of yeast, and starting a starter of OYL20 Belgian ale for a quadrupel I'm cooking up tomorrow.

 

[OnePlate]

I bottled my kolsch today. Holy mother of god is it good! I can't wait until it's carbonated!

 

[seatazzz]

How many of those IPA's have you had?

The first one, and the last one. Debatable on when that "last" one is...

 

[seatazzz]

Kegged up one of the lagers this morning, and just milled the grain for tomorrow's brewday. Was originally planning on a Mosaic/Galaxy IPA, but changed my mind; instead will brew up a warm-fermented version of the lager that got kegged today, with the exact grain bill, hops, mash temp, yeast, etc., as a fun exbeeriment to see which one I like best.

To share a funny (to me) story as well; I've also got a Czech lager that's ready to keg, that I planned for weeks and was oh so careful in brewing. It's meh at best, has a bit of a cidery twang that I am not happy with. The one that got kegged this morning was done on a pure whim, and I pushed it perhaps too fast (brewed on 7/7). It outclasses the Czech by a long mile. Just goes to show you can never tell what might happen with brewing!

 

[Brewbuzzard]

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[CJ-3]

Cleaning 2 cases of empties I got from the local bar

 

[Dave Sarber]

Brewed up a 5 gal batch of quadrupel, bottled 2 cases of my experimental cranberry Saison (tastes better than I expected)! Next, a short nap, then massive cleanup drive!

 

[grampamark]

Brewing some right now!

 

[JAReeves]

When I put 1# of Mandarina Bavaria in a bag to age for lambic, SWMBO was worried it smelled like contraband. Now all I hear is that my shoes stink.

I guess that means that the hops are on their way to being exactly what I need, lol.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Are you aging them in your shoes?

 

[govner1]

Transferred my Vienna Lager from secondary to kegs using CO2 closed transfer. Put in lager chamber to cold crash before carbing and lagering.
Cleaned carboys and transfer equipment.

 

[BrewMan13]

Kicked the amber IPA, and cleaned to keg and tapline it was on.

 

[Pkrd]

Installed Fermentrack on a raspberry pi. Now I wait for my iSpindle bits to arrive.