What I did for beer today

[kmarkstevens]

tested the Mild that I spunded in the 2.5 gallon keg. Only partially carbonated and tastes sweet, so prolly has not yet fully fermented the priming sugar. Could be the garage is too cold, so I brought it inside to warm up to about 70F.

I kegged my 5 gallon Anchor Steam clone. The gas intake won't connect and has been sticky for a while.

Question: if I let all the air out of the intake valve, unscrew the intake assembly and replace, it should not make a big ol' mess, correct? Or am I screwed?

 

[Brewbuzzard]

tested the Mild that I spunded in the 2.5 gallon keg. Only partially carbonated and tastes sweet, so prolly has not yet fully fermented the priming sugar. Could be the garage is too cold, so I brought it inside to warm up to about 70F.

I kegged my 5 gallon Anchor Steam clone. The gas intake won't connect and has been sticky for a while.

Question: if I let all the air out of the intake valve, unscrew the intake assembly and replace, it should not make a big ol' mess, correct? Or am I screwed?

First question, did you prime or force carbonate? Now, if you let the the gas off very slowly via the pressure relief valve there shouldn't be much foaming. Then you should be able to replace the gas valve and pressurize the keg. Hope this helps

 

[brewbama]

Kegged an Amber Ale

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Heading out to LHBS for grain and yeast in 3, 2, 1... I’m outta here.

 

[seatazzz]

Warm Ferment, using the wide range lager yeasts at or close to ale temps.

Still bubbling away this morning, hoping to keg it this weekend to finish out lagering in the kegerator. Smells delicious.

 

[ba-brewer]

Ok, what is WF lager?

Should of linked this the first time, there is a lot of information in this thread.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/warm-fermented-lager-thread.592169/

I usually ferment cold for lagers, but have done it a few times. The last lager I did was a bit of an experiment, American 2row instead of pilsner and hopped with liberty. I fermented half with wlp029 and the other half with S-189 fermented at 67F.

 

[aharri1]

Lol. Got me on that one!

I am definitely an all whole leaf guy. Not sure I'd like smoked ribs in an IPA. [emoji12]

 

[kmarkstevens]

First question, did you prime or force carbonate? Now, if you let the the gas off very slowly via the pressure relief valve there shouldn't be much foaming. Then you should be able to replace the gas valve and pressurize the keg. Hope this helps

I primed with a handful of sugar cubes as the FG was probably 4 points above target. If that results in over carbonation, the spunding valve should take care of it.

Appreciate you validating slowly let the gas out via the pressure release valve, and then replace the valve and it should not make a horrible mess.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Crushed juniper berries and boiling them with some homegrown crystal for not wedding piwo braggot I’m just going to use extract for the small batch experiment.

 

[seatazzz]

Should of linked this the first time, there is a lot of information in this thread.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/warm-fermented-lager-thread.592169/

I usually ferment cold for lagers, but have done it a few times. The last lager I did was a bit of an experiment, American 2row instead of pilsner and hopped with liberty. I fermented half with wlp029 and the other half with S-189 fermented at 67F.

I've done them both ways, and really can't tell the difference; except the cold-fermented ones tend to clear out better, dunno why. Last few have been done with all two-row, and I like the flavor I get from it; this one was 90/10 pilsner and two row, with Saaz for bittering and flavor, with some Crystal added at the end for a bit of fruitiness which I like in my lagers. A few batches back I had a WF one go grain to glass in 8 days; tasted great on initial tap, and got moderately better with some age on it. Who says lagers need three weeks at the minimum.....

 

[Buckeye_Hydro]

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

Sure. Three options come to mind:
1. Warm the feedwater. You can mix your hot and cold water, or rig up a heat exchanger.
2. You can increase the pressure with a booster pump, or in some cases you can increase pressure reaching the RO by improving the method you used to tap into your homes plumbing, or in some cases you can increase the diameter of your feedwater tube.
3. Install a higher capacity RO membrane. 24, 36, 50, 75, and 100 gallon per day membranes all fit in the same size housing, will all purify the water similarly, and are all spec'ed at 50 psi. If you jump up to a 150 or 200 gpd membrane you'll want 65+ psi. Don't forget that if you change membrane capacity you'll also want a new $4 flow restrictor.

Russ

 

[TheEagleRising]

Ordered everything to brew a Single Hop Session NEIPA. Get to break in my new kegerator!

 

[Robert65]

Spunded Sunday's Dunkel.

 

[Robert65]

Draught line cleaning, made up a fresh 5 gallon bucket of Star San, got a CO2 cylinder refilled at LHBS and picked up a little red O2 cylinder at Ace Hardware, and ran 10 gallons of RO. Productive couple of days. No, really, I've done non-beer stuff, too!

 

[brewbama]

I cleaned my pump from yesterday’s brewday.

 

[Immocles]

Where did you get the Maris Otter LME?

Would like to hear how your bitters turn out with the MO extract.

I was thinking about start doing 1gal batches of bitters using extract but was going to shoot for some more balanced and malty to use to check out my banked yeast slants. Was planning to keep it simple so I could tell if I am getting drift of contamination.

Tested out this batch as I type.
While I may be using the bitter style loosely, I’m not noticing much difference from the MO LME vs my batches with regular DME with steeping to achieve a closer MO taste. I might actually prefer the non MO extract version. Maybe I just prefer a dash of brown malt, which I left out. Still a very solid beer, but nothing special. Still better than my all grain attempt. Woof.

 

[Deadalus]

Refilled both my CO2 cylinders.

 

[danielthemaniel]

I recently made a saison that I used light toast American oak chips soaked in gin with juniper berries, lavender and chamomile. Smells like a bouquet of flowers and is really good. Just in case you wanted an idea!

Dreaming up recipes with juniper berries.

 

[Punx Clever]

Put together some bottles for competition season.

A. Light Lager and Baltic Porter

 

[bracconiere]

scrubbed my boil kettle, and mash tun...from yesterdays brew...put them away...

 

[Pkrd]

Kegged my Chinnok IPA and my Pacific Jade Blonde.

 

[gbbeer]

I recently made a saison that I used light toast American oak chips soaked in gin with juniper berries, lavender and chamomile. Smells like a bouquet of flowers and is really good. Just in case you wanted an idea!

Very interested in this. I bottled my first saison during the week and was very happy with a little early sampling. I'll be ordering more ingredients today for another batch that I plan to age in an oak barrel. What was your process for the juniper berries, lavender and chamomile? When did you add them into the picture?

 

[seatazzz]

Going to keg my RatDeath later today, after my husband, mother, and I move my Dad to his new digs. He's going from a memory care facility (he has Alzheimers) to a group home that will be scads better for him. Less stress for my mom, and the lady that runs it with her husband is an RN so he'll get better care. Also the place he's in now doesn't take Medicaid and the group home does, at much less cost. I would go into a super-long rant about how this state screws over spouses when their SO has to go on Medicaid, both financially and emotionally, but I'll leave that for the debate forum, at some future date. Had to clean out my SUV so I can move furniture, amazing how much loose grain was back there...oops.

 

[seatazzz]

Ordered everything to brew a Single Hop Session NEIPA. Get to break in my new kegerator!View attachment 664382

I've got a fridge very similar to that, how did you run the beer lines? Obviously the taps are on the freezer side, did you just drill holes through the middle? Would be interested in doing something similar with mine.

 

[Robert65]

Going to keg my RatDeath later today, after my husband, mother, and I move my Dad to his new digs. He's going from a memory care facility (he has Alzheimers) to a group home that will be scads better for him. Less stress for my mom, and the lady that runs it with her husband is an RN so he'll get better care. Also the place he's in now doesn't take Medicaid and the group home does, at much less cost. I would go into a super-long rant about how this state screws over spouses when their SO has to go on Medicaid, both financially and emotionally, but I'll leave that for the debate forum, at some future date. Had to clean out my SUV so I can move furniture, amazing how much loose grain was back there...oops.

I had to see my Mom through Alzheimer's and Dad through Parkinson's. There just aren't enough words in the language to rant adequately about how hard it is on families. Sounds like you at least have some good facilities and help available. And my sympathy.

Now, stop wasting good grain in the back of the SUV, it'll just attract mice, and you can never, ever get the smell of mouse pee out of a vehicle! (Trust me.)

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Going to keg my RatDeath later today, after my husband, mother, and I move my Dad to his new digs. He's going from a memory care facility (he has Alzheimers) to a group home that will be scads better for him. Less stress for my mom, and the lady that runs it with her husband is an RN so he'll get better care. Also the place he's in now doesn't take Medicaid and the group home does, at much less cost. I would go into a super-long rant about how this state screws over spouses when their SO has to go on Medicaid, both financially and emotionally, but I'll leave that for the debate forum, at some future date. Had to clean out my SUV so I can move furniture, amazing how much loose grain was back there...oops.

Heart goes out to your family. As other's said, Alzheimer's is aweful. I have 2 of 3 known genes to aid development...thanks grandma. My plan is to die of liver disease first...

 

[seatazzz]

Heart goes out to your family. As other's said, Alzheimer's is aweful. I have 2 of 3 known genes to aid development...thanks grandma. My plan is to die of liver disease first...

We get enough B vitamins from our homebrew to help mitigate liver disease...just make lighter ABV beers! And thanks.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

We get enough B vitamins from our homebrew to help mitigate liver disease...

Damn...time for plan B. Buying a motorcycle.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

@seatazzz you're in my thoughts. My Mom died first, so she didn’t see my Father’s decline she would have definitely made things more difficult than they were. Glad you found a good living situation for your Dad. There’s never a dull moment. Be well.

 

[seatazzz]

@seatazzz you're in my thoughts. My Mom died first, so she didn’t see my Father’s decline she would have definitely made things more difficult than they were. Glad you found a good living situation for your Dad. There’s never a dull moment. Be well.

Thank you my dear. Love reading your posts. The love and support I get from this forum mean a lot to me; I'll probably never meet most of you face to face, but we share a passion that brings us together.