What I did for beer today

[Bramling Cross]

I made a mid-mash change of mind for beer today.

The plan was to make a cream ale with Nottingham, a yeast I haven't used in a very, very long time. I was also kegging a Czech lager, so with all that nice slurry ready to go, it made sense to switch gears to a domestic adjunct lager. Fortunately, my cream ale grist is nothing more than a cut-and-paste of my mid-sized domestic adjunct lager, so it was a piece of cake--just change up the hops.

It's been 25 years, Nottingham. You can wait a while longer.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Bottled 51 bottles of my Scottish 70/- which is now a Scottish 80/- and pitched a starter of WY 1099 into my English Brown(ish).

I'm jealous!

It'll be another two months before UK beer season starts for me. I'm really looking forward to some browns and porters. Yum.

Fifty-one bottles....hmmm. How's the arm feeling?

 

[Konstantianus]

I'm jealous!

It'll be another two months before UK beer season starts for me. I'm really looking forward to some browns and porters. Yum.

Fifty-one bottles....hmmm. How's the arm feeling?

I can't wait two more months to start my dark beers, I'm ready for fall NOW! The cranking down on the caps gets a little old after a while but the worst part is watching the bottles fill up. I eventually get lax and have a sticky overflow. I'm too cheap to invest in kegging so bottling it is for me. The 10G batches will be REALLY fun to cap lol.

 

[BrewMan13]

Kegged the marzen to continue to lager for another ~6 weeks. Gravity sample was exactly what I was going for; can't wait for the final product! Also prepped for brewing tomorrow.

 

[Bramling Cross]

I can't wait two more months to start my dark beers, I'm ready for fall NOW!

I hear you, I've enjoyed as much summer as I can stand.

 

[gbbeer]

Put the new Anvil fermenter to use yesterday with a NEIPA that will be generously dry hopped with Citra and Mosaic.

Today has been even better. My gf surprised me with a trip to a local hop farm. I loaded up on fresh Cascade and Chinook. We hand picked them right from the bine. Brewing an IPA as we speak that will soon be continually hopped with Cascade in about 25 minutes.

I may bottle an apple cinnamon hard cider a little earlier than planned. Wouldn't mind freeing up a fermenter for another new batch to use the rest of the Cascade and Chinook while they're fresh. Originally planned to let it ferment a few weeks before secondary with fresh blueberries. Might cut out the secondary.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Put smoked wheat sourdough berliner weisse into secondary with andean mora fruit.

 

[JAReeves]

Yeast and bacteria cultures are showing signs of life!
Far left: a buckwheat & chili saison that now also includes several random bacterial cultures
Mid left: Mostly Ommegang Sour dregs, but now with some Petrus and Stone cultures
Mid right: Saison yeasts from Allagash and Dupont
Far right: Belgian yeasts from Allagash, Westphal (?), and Trader Joe's.

 

[BrewMan13]

Prepped for brewing tomorrow; doing the NEIPA I put off.

 

[davidabcd]

Washed up 40 Grolsch bottles. Pretty easy. Only four of those bast*ards required a bottle brush. Still need to get that number to zero.

 

[Immocles]

Bottled a pale ale. Used Kveik so the quick turnaround seems unnaturally. Underwhelmed with the flavor as it stands, but I'm banking on that improving as it conditions a bit.

CLEANED. The basement needed a good sweeping and vacuuming. Its a nice feeling when all the gear is cleaned up and waiting to dry to be put away.

 

[Sheehan]

Brewed a 5 gallon batch of wheat ale. It will be split into two batches and flavored with blueberry and apricot.

 

[JAReeves]

As prep for the upcoming school year, I bottled and gave to my co-teachers a case of Blonde Ale. Everyone's ready for Monday.

 

[ba-brewer]

Did not do any brewing in July, but started harvesting hops mid-july. Normally I do a wet hopped ale when I have a bunch ready to harvest but did not do one this year. Some of those beers have had a slight watermelon flavor but I never knew which hops was doing it. It appears that watermelon flavor is coming from my columbus hops, as I picked it up while making plugs for freezing.

Brewed a batch of extract golden ale a couple days ago, fermenting it with Voss kveik. Today after 2.5days at 90F looks to be at final gravity or close as bubbles are greatly decreasing.

 

[seatazzz]

Dropped the dry hop (3.4oz, all I had left) in my Mosaic IPA done on Loki; taster was very good, Loki didn't throw as much pineapple in this one as it did in the Citra/Sabro it did last. Put my American Strong back on tap after letting it slow carb for a week, could still use some more carbonation but it's tasty. And finally put the Lemon Drop Blonde in the kegerator to chill; it only came down to 1.020 in the fermenter on S33, so since I needed that fermenter last week I went ahead and kegged it, in a keg that had Loki yeast dregs in it; left it in the warm garage all week, pulling the PRV a few times. Letting it chill until tomorrow then will give it a taste. It tasted fine on kegging, although sweet, and I'm hoping it dried out a bit. If it turned out well I might use lemon drop again in a WF lager I have planned for tomorrow, with some Citra for bittering.

 

[Jonakr]

Well, this weekend: kegged 5 gallons of Cran-Raspberry cider, 5 gallons of a Fuggle Amber Ale, started 5 gallons of Ginger Cider, and brewed 5 gallons of Chinook Amber Ale.

That, and I had to fix two beer lines in my kegerator. For some reason, neither wanted to work with my Fuggle Ale, but they are now.

 

[Immocles]

Beer run!

really just wanted a couple sixers of local Oktoberfest. Wife doesn’t even drink and went rogue with convincing me to grab a few more things.

 

[mullet6577]

Out of town beer run in Huntsville

 

[brewbama]

Turned the 24 hr burst carb down to serving pressure

 

[JAReeves]

Put the stout on carb lid at 30PSI, will turn down the gas tomorrow and see where it's at. Hoping tomorrow is a brew day, but it should at least be moving day for several fermentations. Maybe even a dessert wine-making day so that I can get it aged before Christmas.

 

[Elric]

Kicked my IPA and brewed an ESB. Am sad to see the IPA go, but looking forward to Tasting how the ESB turns out. First time using my new fermzilla all rounder.

 

[seatazzz]

Ended up brewing yesterday to avoid today' predicted 97 degrees. Did a version of no-chill; ran the hot wort into one of my old fermenting buckets (HDPE2, it's safe) and stuck it in the ferment fridge to cool off. Just got down to 68, so pitched the yeast. Hoping this method works as I'm getting the stinkeye from the husband lately about the water bills, and the neighbors have made some noises about how much I waste on a brewday. I do re-use as much as I can for cleaning but still a good portion goes down the street drain from the chiller hose.

Also tapped the Lemondrop blonde; getting a slight hint of phenolics from it, or it might be the hops, dunno since I've never used them. Not a dumper, but not entirely what I was going for; so this keg is relegated to the will-drink-when-everything-else-is-gone space.

 

[Cellar_Dweller]

Am working intermittently on wiring my Auber controller for my eBIAB setup. That's been going on all weekend. Also mounting my water setup (two outputs--through a filter, and a bypass) to my steel brew table.

Trying like mad to get this system going by end of September so I can do a ton of brewing through the fall and winter.

 

[aharri1]

Brewing my second version of an IPA I call danky meteoroids ! Used hops from my comet plant along with centennial and cascade. Switched yeast from London ale III to imperial a34 julius and doing a big whirlpool addition this time because I finally installed a whirlpool arm! Dry hopping on day 3 and 7 with 3 oz each and 6 in whirlpool

 

[JAReeves]

Ended up brewing yesterday to avoid today' predicted 97 degrees. Did a version of no-chill; ran the hot wort into one of my old fermenting buckets (HDPE2, it's safe) and stuck it in the ferment fridge to cool off. Just got down to 68, so pitched the yeast. Hoping this method works as I'm getting the stinkeye from the husband lately about the water bills, and the neighbors have made some noises about how much I waste on a brewday. I do re-use as much as I can for cleaning but still a good portion goes down the street drain from the chiller hose.

Also tapped the Lemondrop blonde; getting a slight hint of phenolics from it, or it might be the hops, dunno since I've never used them. Not a dumper, but not entirely what I was going for; so this keg is relegated to the will-drink-when-everything-else-is-gone space.

FWIW I run my cooling outflow into my rain barrels and save the water for later (like now when it's super-dry in Los Angeles).

 

[Joshua Hughes]

As prep for the upcoming school year, I bottled and gave to my co-teachers a case of Blonde Ale. Everyone's ready for Monday.

We are virtual till November. Start that stuff right after Labor Day.

Today I brewed a Pale Ale. Took a Sierra Nevada recipe as a start but added a touch of wheat and a touch of Munich.

 

[RCope]

Brewed my first sour...wort looks and smells funny when there are no hops ;-). Co-pitched Imperial Flagship (like 4th generation) with 2 Swanson's l. plantarum capsules. Will add 6lbs of blueberries once the initial fermentation slows. Going for a hop tea for some bittering and dry hopping with mosaic cryo. We'll see...

 

[Mtrhdltd]

Today I watched an airlock bubble. Yesterday I brewed my first 10 gallon batch in the newly made keggle. Also did the first wort transfer from garage brewing to basement fermenting via hose. Im glad I didn't have to carry 11.5 gallons down the stairs!

 

[davidabcd]

Just bottled a tripel in the higher ABV range. Smells how it's supposed to. I got 36, 16oz'ers. I'm going to tweak the five gallons next time to get 40 bottles per session.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Pitched Weihenstephaner dregs I had spun up into the Dunkels Weissbier.