What I did for beer today

[JAReeves]

Finished the collar, the next step is to drill a hole in the back so the CO2 can be kept at room temp. Tap handles on the to do list also, but that is a project for another day.

 

[Dave Sarber]

I've been cold crashing a tripel for about a week, trying to clear it up, not happening, will bottle it later today.

 

[mullet6577]

Dumped a couple ounces of cascade and amarillo into a wheat that's been in the fermenter for a couple weeks. Should be going to a keg this weekend.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Ummm, pic.

 

[davidabcd]

Did my version of temperature control starting this past Friday. I took advantage of the 54°F-56°F basement for two days, then the 60°F furnace/hot water tank room for two days and now upstairs in the 70°F office for the next 17 days.
It's 3 packs of T-58 and I wanted to see the effects of keeping it in the lower range at the beginning. If there is a noticeable and significant improvement in the 11% Belgian from this, I will think about temp control that doesn't require a tour of my home.

 

[brewbama]

Brewed a British Golden Ale

 

[grampamark]

Connected the Inkbird 308 that was delivered yesterday to my antique Hotpoint fridge. Yes, a paint job is in it's future.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Packaged the bourbon barrel aged stout

 

[Robert65]

Spunded a batch of export strength Helles. Now trying to kick a keg of same with the football game so I can clean keg and draught line in some spare time tomorrow morning.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Bottled a batch of tripel today. Used 26 bombers which wasn't quite enough. Had some 12 ouncers clean and ready to go, so used 6 of those.
Normally, I toss bottles with embossed names, but...

How about a New Belgium tripel bottle, with REAL tripel in it!

 

[6Tap]

I added gelatin to help clear my ipa beer while it’s cold crashing.
Plan to keg it Friday or Sat.

 

[Imhoppy]

I inquisitively glanced at my precious fermenter full of Caribou Slobber at the end of day 6 since the yeast pitch. It sat there ever so quietly between the now occasional burps of gas while awaiting its future.

If only it knew what I was going to do with it later.... [emoji481]

 

[Dave Sarber]

I inquisitively glanced at my precious fermenter full of Caribou Slobber at the end of day 6 since the yeast pitch. It sat there ever so quietly between the now occasional burps of gas while awaiting its future.

If only it knew what I was going to do with it later.... [emoji481]

What you do with your slobber is entirely up to you. But remember, nearby thought police may be offended!

 

[aharri1]

6bbl batch at work with 15oz 15 min hops and 60oz whirlpool for our house IPA

 

[Dave Sarber]

Ordered a bag of Dingemans Belgian pilsner. Accumulating supplies for an Allagash tripel clone.

 

[brewbama]

Picked up a #55 bag of 2-row from the local health food store. They have a few supplies but the key is they’re a BSG retailer so they can order anything in the catalog.

 

[Robert65]

Picked up a #55 bag of 2-row from the local health food store. They have a few supplies but the key is they’re a BSG retailer so they can order anything in the catalog.

That's one thing I love about my LHBS. Local pickup of anything any distributor carries, no extra shipping.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Ordered a bag of Belgian pilsner this morning from Northern Brewer, got a shipping notification about 2 hours later. I was impressed.

 

[ba-brewer]

Looks like a big day for grain purchases today, picked up a 55# bag of great western 2Row.​

cleaned fermentors and dumped a bunch of jars of old yeast.

yesterday:
Kegged a 5gal batch of Czech pilsner, a 2gal batch of bitters fermented with WLP022 and a 1gal batch of bitters fermented with WY3655. ​

 

[Robert65]

Cleaned keg kicked last night, cleaned draught line, did all that pesky non beer stuff, replaced ball valve on lauter tun, tapped fresh keg. Ahh, now that's more like it.

 

[kmarkstevens]

I spent most of the week trying out beer in Vietnam during a business trip. The local beer is all uninspiring light lager in the US mode. Tried a couple of microbrews that were better but nothing notable.

That said, bigger places offer some nice European beers Steiger (Slovakia), Budvar (Czech), Dinkelacker (Ger), etc. Some of it on tap like this Steiger 3 liter serving container with a cooling tube in the middle filled with ice. I had never even heard of Steiger before, but it was quite nice. I hadn't had the Budvar dark before, and it was fine but my palate prefers Urquel.

Vietnamese food/beer hall with the Steiger serving container:

 

[seatazzz]

Ordered some more Nottingham yeast on Amazon today; the batch I've been using for 4 generations needs to be buried at sea. I had another fresh packet but donated it to a friend for his latest batch. Also sitting here after a long workday sipping on my NB blonde that is, to me, truly spectacular. Strongly tempted to brew another batch of it on Sunday, but ferment fridge is taken up with WF lager that is lagering at 45 for a week, so can't. Darn it.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Pitched yeast after a viability check on a kviek strain (it had been shipped and became rather warm) into a steinbrew wort share.

 

[JAReeves]

Yesterday hit up the LHBS for the parts to get my CO2 bottle out of the keezer. Installed a 4-way splitter inside and now can push CO2 into 4 kegs at once.

Now I need to brew some more beer to have on tap. That is a good problem to have, I believe.

 

[kmarkstevens]

Last night I did a really fast DME with soaking grains and Sorachi Ace hops. Kind of a throwaway batch. Let it cool overnight and then split batch into 2 fermenters that hopefully have been cleaned of the pichia apotheca yeast. Dang, that stuff is difficult to get rid off.

Pitched one with Opshaug Kviek strain and one with Windsor. About 2 gallons each. Will know soon enough if pichia remains, and if it does these fermenters are going in the trash.

Also, not sure what the Sorachi Ace tastes like in homebrew. I've drunk far more than my fair share of Sapporo when living in Japan, so I've had Sorachi Ace before. That said, Japanese lagers are not hop forward, so no real impression on the Sorachi Ace.

I'm gearing up when it gets a bit colder to
a) make a second batch of sake, and
b) do the moto and moromi stages, then pitch a nice beer wort hopped with Sorachi and see what comes out.

 

[kmarkstevens]

duplicate

 

[BrewMan13]

Saturday I judged in my first every competition - interesting experience. None of the ones I had were great, though 1 medalled. More excited for getting a gold for my first ever Belgian strong dark ale with a 39.
Moving soon, so kegged a couple of the aging beers yesterday for easier transport.

 

[aharri1]

Kegged my celebration clone. I used whole cone hops and mine is a good bit higher in ibus because I overdid the ratio lol, but taste almost identical!

 

[JAReeves]

Last chance to get a brew in before Thanksgiving to share with our guests this year. This one will be a pale ale using my home grown Shaddock and Old Mission hops. Oven-toasted 1 1/2# of the 2-row and wheat malts.

Also getting to drink the last brew, my red rye.

 

[aharri1]

Finally installed 1/2" valves on my fermenters! Goodbye siphons!!!