What I did for beer today

[501irishred]

Yep, already added a ten pack to subscribe and save. I probably brew one 2.5g batch a month. Maybe toss a one gallon brew in once in awhile. It’ll be fun to play around with. I’m pretty excited about it haha. It does make me want to invest in a tank and a 2-3g keg though...

maybe Christmas will be kind

Yep, that’s how it starts......

 

[seatazzz]

Made a run to LHBS to exchange co2 tank and buy adjuncts for next weekend's group brewday. Gonna do Edwort's Porter recipe, first dark beer I've done in almost a year. Also decided I need to brew a fast WF lager tomorrow to pump up the pipeline. Call me crazy but I'm gonna get this one grain to keg in less than 7 days, as I can only fit one fermenter in the current ferment fridge and I'll need it clear for next weekend.

 

[kmarkstevens]

I am in the middle of brewing 2.5 gallons (half batch) of Lee's Best Mild circa 1952.

Banked the yeast recultured from Machine House Brewery in Seattle. Their mild is fantastic.

Spunding 5 gallons of AK

Also spunding in my new black friday 2.5 gallon keg, a hack of the Machine House Dark mild. Had enough left over to bottle a 6 pack of 12 ounce bottles. Will see how the 2.5 gallon keg works out. I do a fair amount of 2.5 gallon batches in Mr. Beer fermenters

@Immocles You are getting sucked into the obsession. When I switched to kegging, I thought I only needed 1 keg. Now I have 2 5 gallons and one 1.5 gallon kegs. And I'm no where close to most of the people on this website.......

 

[Immocles]

@Immocles You are getting sucked into the obsession. When I switched to kegging, I thought I only needed 1 keg. Now I have 2 5 gallons and one 1.5 gallon kegs. And I'm no where close to most of the people on this website.......

Yep, that’s how it starts......

I know! Luckily I am such a small quantity that it's pretty difficult for me to go overboard ( I think, anyway...). But in all honesty, when I got a basement fridge, it was measured to make sure of such possible additions. So the thought has been bouncing around for awhile

 

[Dave Sarber]

Mashing an RIS in the MonsterMash. 22 pounds of grain and 9 gallons of strike water barely get it to half full. Just replaced the thermometer on this bad boy, and it's no good. Kept adding boiling water with no temp change, 2nd thermometer on this one.

 

[JAReeves]

Last night I introduced homebrewing to one of my coworkers, we made a Red Rye IPA.

Sold and shipped out some of my hop rhizomes.

Had to taste the progress of all of the kegs either in the keezer or aging and waiting their turn. Not a bad day at all.

 

[JAReeves]

Took a pale ale, red Flanders sour ale, pale sour ale, barley wine, and spiced winter ale to the church Christmas potluck tonight.

They didn’t drink it all at dinner, but I have lots of promises from folks that they’ll bring me the empties back in January.

for refills.

 

[Dog House Brew]

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Mashing an RIS in the MonsterMash. 22 pounds of grain and 9 gallons of strike water barely get it to half full. Just replaced the thermometer on this bad boy, and it's no good. Kept adding boiling water with no temp change, 2nd thermometer on this one.

Thermapen, always reliable. Looks about like my 30g Coleman. I’ve never maxed it. Nice [emoji1417]

 

[Dave Sarber]

Thermapen, always reliable. Looks about like my 30g Coleman. I’ve never maxed it. Nice [emoji1417]

Yeah, I just looked it up. It's a 120 quart Igloo.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Transferring my Marzen

 

[JAReeves]

View attachment 657681 Transferring my Marzen

This pic is an example of a closed transfer? Could you recommend a good guide for how to do this? It's on my list of "Things to Learn about Homebrewing."

 

[Brewbuzzard]

This pic is an example of a closed transfer? Could you recommend a good guide for how to do this? It's on my list of "Things to Learn about Homebrewing."

https://byo.com/article/transferring-beer-techniques/

This link has several procedures but at the bottom is the one for carny kegs. It gives the basics. I like to add findings to the fermenter and let it settle for a few days at 32f or as close as you can get. I then purge a clean sanitized keg with CO2 and pressurize both kegs at about 5 psi. With the CO2 connected to the fermenter I use a picnic tap to empty the first yeasty runnings then connect the two beer out posts together using the short transfer hose with black fittings and release the pressure on the receiving keg and let it transfer. When it gets to the end it will blow more yeast so be ready to remove the black connector from the receiving keg. I then force carbonate. Tip: also purge the short transfer hose with CO2.

 

[JAReeves]

https://byo.com/article/transferring-beer-techniques/

This link has several procedures but at the bottom is the one for carny kegs. It gives the basics. I like to add findings to the fermenter and let it settle for a few days at 32f or as close as you can get. I then purge a clean sanitized keg with CO2 and pressurize both kegs at about 5 psi. With the CO2 connected to the fermenter I use a picnic tap to empty the first yeasty runnings then connect the two beer out posts together using the short transfer hose with black fittings and release the pressure on the receiving keg and let it transfer. When it gets to the end it will blow more yeast so be ready to remove the black connector from the receiving keg. I then force carbonate. Tip: also purge the short transfer hose with CO2.

thank you!

 

[brewbama]

Cleaned the Pump from yesterday’s brew day.

 

[brewbama]

Could you recommend a good guide for how to do this? "

This my process:

Close transfer instructions

1. Fill the keg with no foam sanitizer by using a bottling bucket with a spigot. Run the hose from the spigot to the out post using a black disconnect. Ensure the keg is tilted so the gas disconnect is the highest point. Attach a spare gas QD. Open the spigot until sanitizer comes out the gas QD. The keg is now full of sanitizer.

2. Use the same hose you filled the keg with but close the spigot, detach it from the bottling bucket spigot, and place the lose end in the bottling bucket. Attach 2-3 psi from a CO2 tank to the gas in post. Once CO2 begins to bubble in the now full bucket of sanitizer disconnect the black QD. Disconnect the gas in QD from the keg.

3. Turn the keg upside down by turning it towards the gas in post with the gas in post at the lowest point (slightly tilted). Using a spare gas in grey QD, install the QD to allow residual sanitizer to escape. (Shortened gas in dip tube helps with getting all the residual out) Do not allow all the CO2 to escape.

4. Using the same hose you used to fill and drain the keg, attach the black QD onto the liquid out post and while gas is escaping quickly attach it to the spigot of your fermenter. Tighten hose clamp. You just purged the line with CO2.

5. Attach a hose to the spare grey QD and install it on the gas in post of your purged keg. As CO2 is escaping attach it to the top of your fermenter. You just purged the line with CO2 and created a pretty darn close oxygen free closed loop.

6. Open drain on the fermenter, have a beer. Wait until beer comes out the gas in line. I like to lay my keg on its side with the gas in post high for this. You now have a full keg of beer that displaced the CO2 in the keg by pushing it into the fermenter.

7. Once full, with keg upright and level, apply a small amount of pressure to the keg and a tap. Drain a bit of beer until you no longer hear CO2 bubbling in beer. You just created CO2 filled headspace.

Hope this helps.

 

[JAReeves]

This my process:

Close transfer instructions

1. Fill the keg with no foam sanitizer by using a bottling bucket with a spigot. Run the hose from the spigot to the out post using a black disconnect. Ensure the keg is tilted so the gas disconnect is the highest point. Attach a spare gas QD. Open the spigot until sanitizer comes out the gas QD. The keg is now full of sanitizer.

2. Use the same hose you filled the keg with but close the spigot, detach it from the bottling bucket spigot, and place the lose end in the bottling bucket. Attach 2-3 psi from a CO2 tank to the gas in post. Once CO2 begins to bubble in the now full bucket of sanitizer disconnect the black QD. Disconnect the gas in QD from the keg.

3. Turn the keg upside down by turning it towards the gas in post with the gas in post at the lowest point (slightly tilted). Using a spare gas in grey QD, install the QD to allow residual sanitizer to escape. (Shortened gas in dip tube helps with getting all the residual out) Do not allow all the CO2 to escape.

4. Using the same hose you used to fill and drain the keg, attach the black QD onto the liquid out post and while gas is escaping quickly attach it to the spigot of your fermenter. Tighten hose clamp. You just purged the line with CO2.

5. Attach a hose to the spare grey QD and install it on the gas in post of your purged keg. As CO2 is escaping attach it to the top of your fermenter. You just purged the line with CO2 and created a pretty darn close oxygen free closed loop.

6. Open drain on the fermenter, have a beer. Wait until beer comes out the gas in line. I like to lay my keg on its side with the gas in post high for this. You now have a full keg of beer that displaced the CO2 in the keg by pushing it into the fermenter.

7. Once full, with keg upright and level, apply a small amount of pressure to the keg and a tap. Drain a bit of beer until you no longer hear CO2 bubbling in beer. You just created CO2 filled headspace.

Hope this helps.

thank you!

 

[JAReeves]

Transferred the Red Rye to a keg, put the Stout on gas, and poured 2G of apple and 3G of pear onto the Red Rye yeast cake (for SWMBO).

 

[Dave Sarber]

Checked SG on the 4 batches in progress, a Saison, a Scotch ale, a quad, and an RIS. Ordered specialty malts, hops and yeasts for planned brews.

 

[grampamark]

Made some new tap handles. Now I have to come up with a new tap list.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

There's a tap handle thread here that's pretty awesome. A member made and shipped me a couple Huskers handles.

Made some new tap handles. Now I have to come up with a new tap list.

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[seatazzz]

Broke my grain mill. Shaft sheared off right at the roller, can't fix. Looking for a replacement roller but will probably have to break down and just get a new mill. I has a sad.

 

[govner1]

It’s been a busy week- brewed a 6g AG batch for my Raspberry whiskey barrel porter, kegged my Juniper Rye Bock, cleaned fermenters and transfer equipment, cleaned three kegs.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Checked the carbonation level of my Marzen. Almost there.

 

[aharri1]

Transferred to the keg and carbed up my chocolate covered coconut stout made with hornindal kveik, toasted coconut flakes, cacao nibs, and vanilla beans.

 

[brewbama]

Injected gelatin finings in a Golden Ale:

2/3 c water in glass measuring cup
1 tsp gelatin
Heated to 150*F in 15 sec microwave pulses
Poured heated gelatin mixture into a sanitized plastic bottle
Squeeze bottle to remove air
Cap with carbonator cap
Inflate bottle with low pressure CO2
Pull keg PRV to depressurize keg
Attach jumper to bottle
Invert bottle
Attach jumper to gas in post
Detach when gelatin solution is nearly drained
Purge keg headspace with CO2

 

[Robert65]

Injected gelatin finings in a Golden Ale:

2/3 c water in glass measuring cup
1 tsp gelatin
Heated to 150*F in 15 sec microwave pulses
Poured heated gelatin mixture into a sanitized plastic bottle
Squeeze bottle to remove air
Cap with carbonator cap
Inflate bottle with low pressure CO2
Pull keg PRV to depressurize keg
Attach jumper to bottle
Invert bottle
Attach jumper to gas in post
Detach when gelatin solution is nearly drained
Purge keg headspace with CO2

If you're trying to limit oxygen ingress (seems your procedure is conscious of this) have you considered a few specks of sulfite in the fining solution? How do you think your process works as is? Cheers and Merry Christmas!

(I must admit when I fined, I tried what I suggest but can't say it really staved off the oxygen monster... maybe you'd fare better.)

 

[Punjom]

Kegged 15 gallons of cream ale.

 

[Punjom]

Brewed 18 gallons of Belgian Wit

 

[Saunassa]

Brewed up a gallon golden light dme and used 1 ounce of Ariana hops in it so I can see what they taste like.

 

[aharri1]

Pulled a sample of my chocolate covered coconut stout and added an extra vanilla bean to the keg. Perfect now!