What I did for beer today

[Amadeo38]

Thanks! I watched the awards ceremony on Facebook [emoji16]

Ah, didn’t realize they we’re doing that. I opted out of attending due to the steep price (comparatively, to our Hogtown awards dinner). Only took home a 3rd place for Stone Fruit (cherry) Mead, although there were 21 entries in that category so it feels slightly less shameful.

 

[aharri1]

Transferred a juicy comet and centennial IPA to the keg and brewed a session IPA also today!

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

I originally planned to judge on Friday and Saturday as well as attend the dinner but no way could I justify the cost. I drove up from Pembroke Pines to Gainesville for the Hogtown event, which was a lot of fun. I had an IPA that received a 41 but no medal - tough competition [emoji4]

Ah, didn’t realize they we’re doing that. I opted out of attending due to the steep price (comparatively, to our Hogtown awards dinner). Only took home a 3rd place for Stone Fruit (cherry) Mead, although there were 21 entries in that category so it feels slightly less shameful.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Ah, didn’t realize they we’re doing that. I opted out of attending due to the steep price (comparatively, to our Hogtown awards dinner). Only took home a 3rd place for Stone Fruit (cherry) Mead, although there were 21 entries in that category so it feels slightly less shameful.

Third place is better than no place.

 

[brewbama]

Cleaned a keg that kicked a cpl days ago, trimmed the gas in dip tube, filled it with sanitizer. Ready to purge it with CO2, and close transfer a Czech Pils to go into the lager fridge this evening.

 

[pshankstar]

Shipped out some side trades today with @LoneTreeFarms @TheEagleRising and @HopsNTails. Please be kind FedEx. Fingers crossed.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Cleaned and sanitized 6 kegs and some beer lines and cleaned a 5L flask. And I haven't had a beer all day. I gotta work on that...

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Shipped entries to Best Florida Beer competition.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Had 5L of Saison left in a flask so I pitched a sour blend and let it finish. Just bottled a 12 pack to carbonate.

 

[OnePlate]

Bottled a lightly hopped wheat ale made with Sterling hops and Tormodgarden kveik. The sample I tasted was great! Harvested a lot of really clean yeast for drying!

Pitched 1/16th tsp of thick Voss kveik slurry into a 1L starter for pitching into another beer tomorrow + banking/drying the extra. I love smelling the orange and spice aroma from the starter every time I walk through the kitchen where it's spinning away.

 

[Dave Sarber]

It's early, sanitizing and setting up to bottle about 6 gallons of "way heavy" Scotch ale.

 

[BikerMatt]

Cleaned up the garage workshop table which had about a foot thick layer of crap and miscellaneous tools accumulated over time, did a little bottle counting and cand up short so need to order more. Today gotta lift one fermentor on the table so it can settle til the weekend before racking into a bottling bucket and forth into bottles.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

BikerMatt, what bike do you ride?

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Hooked up my new Kegland 3-tap Kegerator with EVABarrier tubing.
As soon as my Flow Control Ball Dock QDs arrive today I'll be in business!

 

[BikerMatt]

BikerMatt, what bike do you ride?

Well I'm actually at the very moment bikeLESS Matt Up until recently my latest bike was a 2004 Benelli Tornado 900 but due to RSI damage to my left wrist, a company to run and two little kids I swapped it to a more family friendly Alfa Romeo GT JTDM earlier this summer. Plans are to get a 690 KTM Duke 4 at some point but not in a hurry with that.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Just bottled 32 bombers of the infamous Black Cap Way Heavy Scotch Ale.
When I checked gravity this morning, it was at 13.65 %
Now I gotta go do cleanup!

 

[seanjwalker1]

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Just bottled 32 bombers of the infamous Black Cap Way Heavy Scotch Ale.
When I checked gravity this morning, it was at 13.65 %
Now I gotta go do cleanup!

SWEET!

 

[Dave Sarber]

SWEET!

Well, I mopped off the counter, boxed the bombers, and rinsed the fermenter and bottling stuff. Got 3 quarts of WLP028 yeast slurry. Then it was time for a nap.
Now I'm drinking a bottle of experimental cranberry tripel, and I'm thinking I'm done with cleanup for the day!

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Hooked up my new Kegland 3-tap Kegerator with EVABarrier tubing.
As soon as my Flow Control Ball Dock QDs arrive today I'll be in business!
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Last night hooked it up with the flow control ball locks and EVA Barrier tubing on the gas side too using stainless gas ball lock QDs too.
Man, the stainless QDs are SOOOOO much nicer than the classic plastic that so oftern sticks and fights you going on or off.
Stainless is definitely the way to go.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Well I'm actually at the very moment bikeLESS Matt Up until recently my latest bike was a 2004 Benelli Tornado 900 but due to RSI damage to my left wrist, a company to run and two little kids I swapped it to a more family friendly Alfa Romeo GT JTDM earlier this summer. Plans are to get a 690 KTM Duke 4 at some point but not in a hurry with that.

I rode a HD Super Glide until a GMC SUV pulled out in front of me. 40 MPH in to an immovable object will ruin an otherwise good ride. So I built a backyard brewery and hung up my leathers. I still miss it though.

 

[JAReeves]

Looks like breakfast!

Lol, not quite yet it doesn't.

 

[JAReeves]

Yesterday, I bought (used) 2 5G Corny Kegs, an empty CO2 bottle and a regulator. I am about to cross the line into kegging.

Already started pricing out a chest freezer to turn into a kegerator. This hobby, er, obsession, just keeps going further down the rabbit hole.

 

[Dave Sarber]

An older tripel from the "beer archive".

 

[ba-brewer]

Been going thru the full ferment chamber blues, just looking at the airlock waiting for things to finish so I can brew again. Kegged my 10gal split batch and my mini batch of bitter today nothing left to watch.

Empty fermentor jitters already starting to set in, going to work on what to brew next. I over bought fresh hops last fall and still have quite of bit left so thinking something hoppy. Last couple days it was close to 100F, hoping the weatherman's forecast for low 70s this weekend is accurate.

 

[seatazzz]

Ok silly but what I did for beer today...was get sick. It's either the flu or the mother of all colds; achy, hacky dry cough, head feels like it's about to explode, , mid-grade fever, and just general fatigue. Why is that something I did for beer today? Original intention for tonight was to keg the Northern Brewer Blonde that's been crashing since Sunday, now it will have to sit for a while longer, which won't hurt it, and might make it better. I don't think I could move that damn carboy more than 6 inches one way or another. Oh well. Beer is mostly water, right? and I need to hydrate, right? So if I'm sipping on a lower ABV lager I'm pretty much doing myself some good, right??? Yes I know alcohol ain't the best thing when you're sick, but it makes me feel better. Snort hack cough groan. I HATE being sick. First time in about 5 years I've fallen victim to the circulating crud.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Just remember alcohol kills germs.
What I did for beer was send off some contest entries. I think tomorrow I will visit my LHBS to get some grains. And brew this weekend.

 

[BikerMatt]

Ok silly but what I did for beer today...was get sick. It's either the flu or the mother of all colds; achy, hacky dry cough, head feels like it's about to explode, , mid-grade fever, and just general fatigue. Why is that something I did for beer today? Original intention for tonight was to keg the Northern Brewer Blonde that's been crashing since Sunday, now it will have to sit for a while longer, which won't hurt it, and might make it better. I don't think I could move that damn carboy more than 6 inches one way or another. Oh well. Beer is mostly water, right? and I need to hydrate, right? So if I'm sipping on a lower ABV lager I'm pretty much doing myself some good, right??? Yes I know alcohol ain't the best thing when you're sick, but it makes me feel better. Snort hack cough groan. I HATE being sick. First time in about 5 years I've fallen victim to the circulating crud.

With two boys ages 3 and 6 germs are like Pokemon to me, gotta catch em all... No fever but feeling like a wet rag with stuff coming up the throat that could patch a tubeless tire. Apparently affecting the train of thought as well as late last night was in the garage, wrestled the fermenter bucket about to be bottled out from behind all the others, onto a bench, onto a table, onto a bench on the table to get it high enough, wheezing took a step back and a swig off a beer can, took a better look at the label, wrong damn bucket! So today after work gotta get it back down and heave the right one onto the pedestal so it can settle for a couple hours before bottling...

 

[OnePlate]

Accidentally dropped an unclean binder clip into my wort during a hop stand at ~160 degrees. I have no idea why I hadn't cleaned/sanitized it. The beer should be fine, I hope.

The beer in question is a wheat ale using a lot of Mighty Axe's 'Julius' variety of Cascade hops and Voss kveik pitched at 95F. I'm excited by this one. Tried doing a two-step mash for the first time so that was fun!

 

[balrog]

Accidentally dropped an unclean binder clip into my wort during a hop stand at ~160 degrees. I have no idea why I hadn't cleaned/sanitized it. The beer should be fine, I hope.

The beer in question is a wheat ale using a lot of Mighty Axe's 'Julius' variety of Cascade hops and Voss kveik pitched at 95F. I'm excited by this one. Tried doing a two-step mash for the first time so that was fun!

Are you hoping to combine the purported Julius orange flavor with the purported Kviek orange flavor?
I am interested in the outcome.

 

[davidabcd]

Just moving fermenters around to proper temperature zones in the house. I have a Dragonmead Final Absolution clone still fermenting after five days. I started it low 64-66F and now it's at 68-70F. Bringing up a couple of old ales from the basement to get them at a higher temp for a bit. Boring stuff.