What I did for beer today

[ba-brewer]

Cleaned a couple kegs and filled one back up with a NEIPA.

Got some stuff to try a hard seltzer, plan to use some Meyers lemons from the backyard.

Watched my mini batches chugging along a couple times.

Worked on a recipe and weighed out some grain for a brew tomorrow, a citra/strata golden ale. Actual hops might vary.

 

[Buckeye_Hydro]

As I understand it, not just input pressure matters, but the differential between input and output affects not only flow rate but the rejection efficiency of the membrane, so it will perform better just running the output into a bucket or jug rather than a bladder tank that provides back pressure.

You are correct. Feedwater pressure minus back pressure = NDP (Net Driving Pressure)

Russ

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Blonde Ale I brewed last month and made a new taplist. The tap handles I made a couple of weeks ago covered up the chalkboard paint above the faucets. Not very high tech, but appropriate for the overall ghetto ambiance of my brewing space.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

I taught a friend to brew. We brewed a Hefe Weizen.

 

[ba-brewer]

Kegged a beer to make room for todays brews.

Brewed 10gal of strata/galaxy golden ale. Used some of the yeast from the beer I kegged so expect that half to be ripping in the morning. The other half got some month old US-05 slurry so expecting that to be half a sleep too.

Checked on my mini batches, seems to be already slowing down(low ABV), one has dropped it's krausen.

 

[ba-brewer]

You are correct. Feedwater pressure minus back pressure = NDP (Net Driving Pressure)

Russ

Any suggestions on how to get better throughput during cooler weather?

 

[Dave Sarber]

Brewed an experimental batch of tripel yesterday. From Gordon Strong's book, Brewing Better Beer, this recipe is given as an example of a long 5 step step mash for maximum fermentability and attenuation. Final numbers are supposed to be 6.5 gallons @ 1.080 OG. Must have done something right, my OG came in at 1.102, at 7 gallons.
This beer is also more heavily hopped than "American" tripels, so less of a sugar bomb. Waiting patiently for a taste!

 

[Imhoppy]

Kegged 5 gallons of Dry Irish Stout (extract kit from Northern Brewer). Brewed 4 weeks ago and did not use a secondary as per my typical process. Second time brewing this recipe, too. Sample tasted great. Cheers!!

 

[JAReeves]

Bottled what was left of the Flanders Red/Rodenbach clone. Need space to cold crash my buddies first beer, a Red Rye IPA.

Thank you Biermuncher for the bottle filler design! This was sooooo easy!

 

[ba-brewer]

Watched some bubble races, my month old US-05 had been trailing a few hours behind the fermentor fresh 1318 all day but they are now neck and neck.

My mini extract wlp515 looks to be done after 3day. Sort of glad to see it almost done as the slant had a strong acetone smell and was a bit worried it might of been contaminated. The mini wlp037 batch is still cranking, looks like it might be able chew extract down to nothing too.

Did an experiment using my RIMS and IC to heat up my tap water to my RO system. RIMS was set to 90F and the input to the RO was about 80 to 82(up from 58F), the RO output was 75F. I was getting pretty close to the spec of 2gal per hours. the TDS was a bit higher at 10PPM down from 224 (normally closer to 6 or 7). The water I collected yesterday with just the cold tap water(58F)was much slower but had a lower TDS of 4.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Checked on the girls this morning, they're doing fine.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Yup, mine started fermenting late last night. Building a wood crate for 750ml bottles.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

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Yup, mine started fermenting late last night. Building a wood crate for 750ml bottles.

Either you're not married or you have a wife as wonderful as mine.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Either you're not married or you have a wife as wonderful as mine.

Yup, divorced. Master of the castle.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Yo buddy...

 

[Robert65]

Blew a keg and tapped a new one. The old keg was exceptionally polite, and bowed out by delivering precisely one full, perfect pint, and blew gas just as I was putting the last dollop of head on top.

 

[JAReeves]

Cleaned, a lot, and set up a dedicated brew shelf for all of the gadgetry, new and old.

I over primed a keg, so I have been releasing pressure on it all day. Trying to get it down to 2.5, but have no idea where it started. It’s way over 12PSI@38F, that’s for sure. It still won’t take any CO2 from the tank and all beer looks like tan meringue-nuttin’ but foam.

 

[ba-brewer]

I over primed a keg, so I have been releasing pressure on it all day. Trying to get it down to 2.5, but have no idea where it started. It’s way over 12PSI@38F, that’s for sure. It still won’t take any CO2 from the tank and all beer looks like tan meringue-nuttin’ but foam.

If it is not a aromatic beer your can try this.
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Connect the 12psi gas to the liquid out post while relieving pressure with the PRV in bursts. Stop when you start spitting too much foam out of PRV. Allow to rest a 10 or 15min and do it again. After 3 or 4 times allow to rest a little and give it a try and see if the pour is better. If not do it a few more times and try again.

As you bubble CO2 up thru the beer it knock CO2 out solution, or the foam creating protein molecule get destroyed. Either way you get a cleaner pour much faster than just relieving pressure and allowing to stabilize.

 

[Punx Clever]

Conducting a forced diacetyl test on a Märzen before cold crashing.

 

[bobeer]

I kegged a pale ale I made with sa04 and with centennial, cascade and simcoe. The wife and I are doing a dry January so it'll be ready for a 12 am Feb 1 tapping. I think I'm going to brew an IPA this weekend as well.

 

[Dade0]

Picked up about 3 lb of various hops I won in an auction from a LHBS that went out of business. Also got ~25 grain bins for the many variety of specialty malt I have, for a steal.

 

[ba-brewer]

Yesterday- Made a 1gal batch of LeMooch(Meyers lemon hooch). Not really beer but it uses beer yeast.

Today- Checked on fermenters, Canned 4gal of starter wort, got a starter of wlp029 going to make a kolsch in a few days.

 

[brewbama]

Cleaned my pump and brew kettle.

 

[Robert65]

Started cooling a keg (which I finally did get to spund a last weekend) for lagering. Dumped (harvested sounds better) the yeast sitting in the fermentor, now cleaning the fermentor. Hope to get the yeast into a fresh brew this weekend.


EDIT Also sanitized/purged and sealed up fermentor, and cleaned and calibrated pH meter. Productive afternoon with minimal hands on time required!

 

[seatazzz]

Wrote the recipe for the Citra IPA I will do this Sunday, after going to LHBS on Saturday for more grain, and the grocery store for more mesh produce bags for hop additions; the muslin ones just don't keep enough goo out of the BK when using pellets, and my hop basket gets clogged too fast. Kegged the Mosaic Smash I brewed last week, gonna force carb that baby to a fare-thee-well this afternoon and tap it later tonight. All I've had on tap the last week is porter, and although it's a good beer I'm gettin darn tired of it. Need some hops on my palate.

 

[JAReeves]

Wrote the recipe for the Citra IPA I will do this Sunday, after going to LHBS on Saturday for more grain, and the grocery store for more mesh produce bags for hop additions; the muslin ones just don't keep enough goo out of the BK when using pellets, and my hop basket gets clogged too fast. Kegged the Mosaic Smash I brewed last week, gonna force carb that baby to a fare-thee-well this afternoon and tap it later tonight. All I've had on tap the last week is porter, and although it's a good beer I'm gettin darn tired of it. Need some hops on my palate.

I hear that! It’s been nothing but stout at home for a week.

 

[seatazzz]

I hear that! It’s been nothing but stout at home for a week.

Yep, that's what I get for letting the pipeline get too low! Bought a 12-pack of Founder's Solid Gold lager at the store (never had it before and I've never seen it in our local stores) to bridge the gap; it's not bad but cheap at $10.99. And I had to ask an employee for them, but he found three 3-packs of the mesh produce bags in the back and I got all of them. Even the gal at the register was surprised, apparently they fly off the shelves when they have them out. Gonna be a good brew weekend once I get my grain home!

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Cleaned the brewery from top to bottom.

 

[khannon]

Cleaned the brewery from top to bottom.View attachment 661118

in best Vader voice "Impressive"

 

[ESBrewer]

Chemipro Oxi does good job at removing the labels. I'm about to bottle the New Year's Day ESB. The yeast for this batch came from the bottle in the top left corner.