What I did for beer today

[grampamark]

@grampamark Do you really grow grains, and more importantly do you malt and sell some?

I’m a grain and pulse crop farmer in north central Montana. We do grow malting barley sometimes; our mix of crops is determined by market demand, price, and how well a crop fits in our particular rotation. We do not malt any of our production. Everything we grow is for sale; it’s not a hobby.

 

[SirHC_]

3/15, cancelled church so I mashed 10g cream ale. Had some stalled and over sweet corn wine in the basement so I used a gallon of that at the very end of the boil to pasteurize and kill the wine yeast without boiling off all the alcohol. Half of the batch got boiled Sunday
3/16 Pitched with US05 on Monday (I do mostly no chill)
3/17 The second half got boiled yesterday after kettle souring for a couple days. Added 1/4 lb each of C120 and black malt to steep for a KY common. Also got 1g corn wine. I'm hoping the corn wine makes up in the flavor for the smaller portion of flaked corn I used this time.
3/18 Today I will pitch the yeast into the common.
All the while drinking beer!

 

[Dave Sarber]

Weather not conducive to brewing today, so I bottled instead.
This is an experimental BDSA. 16% ABV, so I added CBC-1 for priming. This has been in a bourbon cask the last few weeks, but still tastes a little hot.

 

[Punx Clever]

Bottled up a 13.25% Wee Heavy brewed as part of my club's barrel project. Aged 4 months in a fresh Buffalo Trace Single Malt barrel.

46 Scottsmen On Parade!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

RIS action... pushing 12% hopefully. Local pils. Locals are hurting. Layoffs already.

 

[Novacor]

Ordered some ingredients for curbside pickup at my LHBS. I've always used bottled water when I brew, and now it's just about impossible to find in the stores, so I added one of these to my cart:

 

[BikerMatt]

Long time no see. My inspiration seems to hyperfocus in one thing at a time and been deep into rebuilding a street ATV lately, that is currently awaiting parts so over the last say, two weeks:

-washed all 200+ bottles
-bottled a batch of apple-pear-ginger hard cider that`s been in the fermenter forever
-bottled a batch of "Otter`s Promise" ale that`s been sitting in the fermenter forever
-Brewed a batch of British bitter style something (basically kicked up the recipe while brewing LOL)
-Washed all brewing gear for a second ad hoc brew session tomorrow, gonna be another brit ale as I got otter, golden promise, EKG and challenger as the base with some crystals to choose from to spice it up

^ You know, it`s funny you only appreciate the fact of having tap water clean enough to drink and brew with as is when you get reminded not all do...

 

[kmarkstevens]

RIS action... pushing 12% hopefully. Local pils. Locals are hurting. Layoffs already.View attachment 671677

Everyone, support your LHBS as much as you can during these times. On line ordering has it's place in the ecosystem, but it would be shame if the local HBS doesn't weather these times.

@grampamark I hope I didn't come across as being flip. I grew in in Northern California farm country, and have an inkling as to how hard it is. That said, there seems to be a growing trend of farms malting their own for sale. "Shaniko" grains from Oregon being one. Basic Brewing Radio did a podcast on Brewing for Distilling with the Wyoming Malting Company (partway down the page) that I found fascinating.

 

[grampamark]

@kmarkstevens, no worries. Our farm is pretty far off the beaten path to start a specialty venture like craft malting. When the potential customer base within, say, a 200 mile radius, would number no more than a few dozen it’s just not realistic.

 

[Pkrd]

One of my workers is getting hitched tomorrow (the happy couple have less than 100 friends coming so thats OK to do here in NZ this weekend).

Got my much neglected portable kegerator out and decanted a couple of kegs for the reception.

 

[Novacor]

Had both of my CO2 tanks filled this morning. Now I'm all set for any upcoming lockdown.

 

[Robert65]

Went to the copy shop and made a fresh supply of my brew sheet. Because my sheet is actually a sheet. Of paper. I know, heads of millennials and engineers exploding.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Went to the copy shop and made a fresh supply of my brew sheet. Because my sheet is actually a sheet. Of paper. I know, heads of millennials and engineers exploding. View attachment 671904

That's an A size sheet. You need at least a B.

 

[Novacor]

Attached my brand new regulator to my freshly filled CO2 tank and had significant leakage through the threads on the tank. A trip to Home Depot today for some yellow Teflon tape has me up and running again.

 

[orionol73]

Found out a mouse found my grains inside of a plastic tub...thinking I didn’t fully close the lid last time I was in there

 

[Dave Sarber]

Supported my LHBS. They didn't have the bottles I wanted, so I bought a bunch of stuff that wasn't really needed, but nice to have in my stockpile.

 

[_BullDog_]

Drank some beer and decided to brew tomorrow

 

[BrewMan13]

Dryhopped my NE PA/session IPA thing the other day. Cold crash tonight and keg tomorrow.

 

[Robert65]

Decided NOT to brew tomorrow. Coming to grips with the fact I've got NO routine for a while, so no need to keep to my regular weekend brew schedule . I can brew any day. Tomorrow I think I'll nap.

 

[seatazzz]

Ran up to LHBS to spend the $50 I won on a scratch ticket the other day; that and some ready cash got me 55lbs of pilsner and an exchange on the 5lb co2 tank to have as backup in case the zombies show up at my house and drain my 20lb tank. Also for bottling, although with competition postponed/possibly cancelled got no reason for bottling. Later I milled the grain for the Amber Lager I'll brew tomorrow; 10lbs pilsner, 1lb home crystal, and a scant handful of home-roasted dark stuff that could be roasted, could be chocolate, could be blackprinz, I don't know; it's just very dark and roasty, and adds some nice color and a bit of roasty flavor that I like. I don't need to be exact on my SRM, I just want to brew something tasty.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Kegged some and bottle primed some beer made form a wort share. Hull Mellon and Belma hops nice aroma.

 

[kmarkstevens]

Attached my brand new regulator to my freshly filled CO2 tank and had significant leakage through the threads on the tank. A trip to Home Depot today for some yellow Teflon tape has me up and running again.

I had to replace the gas connector yesterday. Guess who's tank is now zero? I gotta get me some of that Teflon tape and trade in the CO2 bottle.

 

[Staticsouls]

Picked up 55lbs of 2 row and 55 lbs of belg pills, and two different yeast strains, came home put the grain in gamma sealed buckets and made a starter with some of the extra grain. Mashed the all grain starter in my smoker since my oven doesn't fo that low. Worked great!

 

[govner1]

Brewed a 6g AG batch of a Wheat IPA using Columbus & Citra.
I also ordered ingredients for two more brews from a local HBS for pickup next week.
If I’m stuck at home I might as well brew!

 

[Elric]

Staticsouls, does your oven have a keep warm feature? I ask as on mine the lowest i can set it for baking is 175, but if i choose the keep warm feature instead i can set it as low as 140. Might be a useful tip for others that run into the same issue. I used the oven for my mash yesterday and was happy with the results.

 

[Dave Sarber]

After my LHBS road trip yesterday, made 25 gallons of RO water. One of the items I picked up at the LHBS was 4 ounces of Neo-1 hops, never seen them for sale before. They are supposed to have a "bright lemon" flavor. Want to try to work these into a tripel or pale ale recipe. Cogitating. Smoking a butt and drinking evil black coffee. The grain mill is already set up. Carpe diem!

 

[Moose_MI]

Brewing 10g of Chocolate Milk Stout...going to add Cherry extract to 5G and Hazzlenut to 5G

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

Gonna slam a wheat beer together real quick

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Keg some bottle prime some, the rest of the wort share different hops and different yeast.

 

[aharri1]

Brewing a helles style lager with Oslo kveik

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Staticsouls, does your oven have a keep warm feature? I ask as on mine the lowest i can set it for baking is 175, but if i choose the keep warm feature instead i can set it as low as 140. Might be a useful tip for others that run into the same issue. I used the oven for my mash yesterday and was happy with the results.

Cool beans! I didn't even know I had that feature. Thanka

 

[Brewbuzzard]

I transferred 10 gal of Kolsch off the cold break

 

[Saunassa]

Bottled up my blonde or is it a pale ale?Not sure what defines one from the other.
Either way, the Hornindal played well and my wife gave it her seal of approval.

 

[gbbeer]

Bottled my coffee chocolate milk stout. Ordered supplies from my LHBS for two future batches:
1. Milkshake IPA
2. Whiskey barrel aged chocolate stout

 

[kmarkstevens]

Yesterday I started the hot mash experiment (mashed at 185F), let it cool overnight, and today pitched Windsor yeast.

 

[ba-brewer]

Yesterday Brew a batch of galaxy/strata golden ale, fermenting half with 1318 and the other half with wlp029. Wlp029 was about a month old slurry and is taking it sweet time getting a going. Contemplating top cropping the 1318 if wlp029 is not going by the morning.

Did some moving of beers from one keg to another to make room for a strong bitter that needed kegging, kegged the bitter.

Primed the last couple beers I kegged to save a little CO2.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Got the kolsch down to 60 oxygenated and pitched the yeast.

 

[seatazzz]

Brewed an Amber lager this morning, now patiently waiting for the yeast to start showing some action. They're thinking about it, just not going crazy yet. Moved my latest Citra/Sabro IPA to the garage floor to finish dry hopping; weather is getting a bit warmer so it's fine out of the ferment fridge. Ordered some Saaz & CTZ hops to get the inventory back where it needs to be. YVH is only shipping on Tuesdays and Fridays now but they should get here by the weekend when I'll brew up another Czech Premium to replace the one I drank the heck out of the last two weeks.

 

[bracconiere]

it's 1am, so technically yesterday i brewed beer.....i know not exicting, but i keep my fermenter next to my taps... and probably am going to stay up all night, so look forward to the first bubble, when i pour a drink...

 

[BrewMan13]

Kicked the schwarzbier, cleaned the line, kegged and tapped my NEIPA. Did this one a little different using 1056 since it's what I already had. Got great attenuation; gravity sample tasted decent not amazing, but we'll see it it fares once it's fully carbed.