What I did for beer today

[OnePlate]

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

Yup! The wort had some definite bitter OJ notes so we'll see what happens.

 

[TheEagleRising]

I shipped my trade to @TBC and @CTownBrewer

 

[ShepFL]

Bought grains for 3 brewing sessions this weekend. Red, IPA and Honey Cream Ale. Tacos and fresh IPA tonight.

 

[Toby Karnes]

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.

Had to get rid of bottles awhile back. Enough for 6 full sets. Now I regret it. Oktoberfest and Peach fruit stand to be bottled today, wife's Milk Stout and a Wee Heavy on deck and a pumpkin and a dunkel on deck. Gonna be a busy few weekends before the beach trip. Habaneros are ready but what to do...

 

[Immocles]

basement fridge purchased!

 

[davidabcd]

My wife and I bought four milk crates that hold fourteen Grolsch bottles each. The idea is to replace some crappy crates and add to the number needed to hold 239 bottles. I'm still short on crates but getting there. I should never have compromised and bought some of the warped garbage from Home Depot.

 

[Dave Sarber]

^^^^

Home made. Most of the crates I've seen for sale are cheap, stapled POS's.

This is my bomber size crate.

 

[davidabcd]

Home made. Most of the crates I've seen for sale are cheap, stapled POS's

You're not kidding. I look at those wooden crates and they're laughable, I shun them.
Your work is beautiful but I don't have the skill/patience to produce that. We--my wife and I--opted for the Container Store where they produce better-than-decent milk crates for $8.

 

[Dave Sarber]

You're not kidding. I look at those wooden crates and they're laughable, I shun them.
Your work is beautiful but I don't have the skill/patience to produce that. We--my wife and I--opted for the Container Store where they produce better-than-decent milk crates for $8.

Well, they take a while to make, the corners are dovetailed, and I put internal dividers in so the bottles won't rattle, then finish with polyurethane for any possible leakage. The one in the pic is unfinished. The way I look at it, they are built to last. Here is a pic of some finished ones...

 

[BrewMan13]

Busy day: brewed a pumpkin ale, kegged a porter and imperial stout. The porter went on draught, the stout is going to age. Bottled a few of the porters for competition.

 

[camonick]

Tried a little DIY glass painting and put my logo on some shaker glasses. We’ll see how durable it is next.

 

[kmarkstevens]

Bottled a split yeast batch of floor malted Maris Otter Ordinary Bitter with fresh East Seattle Goldings (these are American goldings but, hey, I live in East Seattle), as well as some English EKG. Yeast was Adnans (tastes infected and had some nasty looking floaties), Premium Bitter and Whitbread. 4 liters of each.

 

[seatazzz]

Fever is finally down, just got a bit of a cough and weak as a kitten. Hope to recover enough later today to finally get the Blonde kegged; will be interesting to see what effect an extended (1 week) cold crash had on it. Hardest part is getting the carboy out of the ferment fridge; it's in my big 7.5g glass, heavy as all get out, and the milk crate it's in doesn't offer much in the way of places to hold on to. I'll get it done, dammit.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Brew on!
I recently did an extended cold crash on a Scotch ale (10 days) and noticed no ill effects. In fact, the hydrometer sample was pretty tasty.
Any chance of getting an able body to help lift it out?
Hope you get to feeling better soon!

 

[501irishred]

Added service ports on my beer fridge/fermentation chamber to start looking for a leak...... grrrr

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Brewing up a quick hefe for fest in 2weeks.

 

[JAReeves]

Yesterday did all of the roof work before it starts to get wet here in Los Angeles (we always need water...): patch where I think a leak is, sweep out the gutters, and most important of all-put the eyebolts in the eaves for next year's hop crop to climb to the roof!

 

[Immocles]

Before and after.

Azacca blonde wheat (75%2 row/25% wheat) on the left, ciders on the right, couple cider experiments in the center.

now to clean...

 

[davidabcd]

Before and after.

I saw your colored stickers. I'm using small, round stickers that fit on top of the Grolsch bottles but big enough to write a letter denoting which beer (I'll have six kinds in about three weeks). I'm assuming they'll be just sticky enough to reach a glass but come off easily afterward.
Cheers.

 

[Immocles]

Stickers were my wife's idea. It works well. I put a sticker on the corresponding page of my brew log to keep track, and update a sheet that hangs near the beer for guests to know what they're getting into. She's the artist, I keep trying to talk her into designing actual labels, but so far hasn't had the time. I have a few grolsch bottles as well, but they're mostly for kombucha or apfelwein.

 

[aharri1]

Cleaned and disassembled 2 kegs and transferred my voss kveik session IPA to one then cleaned my fermenter.

 

[BrewMan13]

Was disappointed with the carbonation level on one of the test bottles of the doppelbock, so added a measured amount of additional priming sugar to the remaining bottles (I was being conservative in the first place, so not entirely surprising). Holy smokes, the foaming started immediately, had to cap in a hurry. Just hope I didn't mess these up...

 

[Down_Home]

Was disappointed with the carbonation level on one of the test bottles of the doppelbock, so added a measured amount of additional priming sugar to the remaining bottles (I was being conservative in the first place, so not entirely surprising). Holy smokes, the foaming started immediately, had to cap in a hurry. Just hope I didn't mess these up...

How long did you let it carb up in the bottles and at what temperature? Maybe it just didn't sit long enough (speaking from experience here). I'm always impatient to get the first one cracked...

 

[Immocles]

Wife is working and I'm not scheduled for a shift until Thursday, so I got bored and brewed my first hefeweizen. It's an extract kit with wyeast 3068 that my wife bought for me about a month ago. Hefeweizens are one of my absolute favorite beers, so I'm a bit surprised that its taken me as many brews as it has to make one.

I can't be trusted on my own during a rainy, rainy day.

 

[aharri1]

Installed this guy on one of my kegs that I put a brew in that I used whole leaf hops to boil with and dry hop with that kept getting clogged. These things are awesome!!

 

[BrewMan13]

How long did you let it carb up in the bottles and at what temperature? Maybe it just didn't sit long enough (speaking from experience here). I'm always impatient to get the first one cracked...

It was a month at 68. I only bottled 4 (2 for competition, and 2 to check leading up to said competition) but I re-yeasted with CBC-1 yeast (since it had been lagering for a long time) and added specific amount of priming sugar for each bottle. I'm a kegger these days, and wasn't sure whether to go by the highest or lowest temp when calculating carb level, so I went the conservative route and went by the coldest. Since the carbonation level was disappointing, I added the amount that would bring me to the warmest. But like I said, I had gushers so I have no idea what I'll end up with. Still have one test bottle anyway.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Yesterday I pitched yeast for my hefe, today I’m sniffing the airlock. Heavenly.

 

[Immocles]

Yesterday I pitched yeast for my hefe, today I’m sniffing the airlock. Heavenly.

same! I was just in the basement bringing up laundry and couldn’t restrain myself from stopping to admire

 

[davidabcd]

Stickers were my wife's idea.

My wife came up with the idea as well. I was thinking about using colored rubber bands that fit on the flip-top neck but the stickers won out. I just labeled about 80 bottles or so. Working fine. I have a label for the shelf with the code. "Q1" is batch 1 of 2 of the quadrupel and so on.

 

[davidabcd]

Put three batches of beer in the basement to condition/age. Bottling two batches within the next day or two.