What I did for beer today

[brewbama]

Kegged my Shiner Bock homage.

 

[Rudeoso]

Received a new false bottom for my MT and ingredients for my next brew

 

[bracconiere]

took time off and didn't clean my BK.....

 

[OldDogBrewing]

Sampled some endeavour hops for a brew day in a couple days, on the nose it felt slightly herbal, fruity, mango an mandarin mainly but then I made a hop tea for 15 minutes and it tasted like chewing grass

So maybe it's not worth adding them, at least not at the 15 minutes mark, maybe at whirlpool it can work, I need to test it

 

[JAReeves]

Had to table today's brew session in favor of moving beers around and cleaning. Added Apricot Wine Base to the Saison. Dry-Hopped and kegged the DIPA. Hopefully I won't run out of time today, but I want to add some fresh ginger and honey to the Xmas Beer, Honey-Ginger IPA.

 

[grampamark]

Brewed a Bohemian Pilsner at the city house. 2.5 gal BIAB. Pretty uneventful brewday.

 

[BrewMan13]

Cleaned a keg, and did an inventory of my hops. Only need a couple more varieties to be set for next year.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Checked the gravity and tasted the stein brew. This is a high gravity beer it’s 12.5 % ABV and still a little sweet

 

[day_trippr]

Filled the kettles with brewing liquor, measured out grains for the morning milling, and staged everything for tomorrow's brew day.
Gonna do 10 gallons of a near 'nuff Juicy Bits clone...

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

i burst carb a couple cold crashed kegs at 50f. definatly a HELL of a lot easier to get them to take the 1.5oz's! i was hoping to brag and have them pouring by now, i did it at noon, but still need to settle. is there a calc for that?

 

[day_trippr]

A rather leisure start to the brew day, I just doughed in...

On the up side, no time for politics

Mash out time!

Onwards!

Mid-boil! So far smooth if uber slow going...

Pitched, gassed, and hooked up. Ready to rock!

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

On the up side, no time for politics

no, i'm brewing also! i find a 5 gallon bucket lid fits in my 10 gallon cooler almost perfect for my fly/batch/"biab"squeeze attempt at 97% effec! the things that actually matter!

 

[Immocles]

Bottled brown ale. Tastes pretty spot on to what I was looking for. I was slightly leery since I had bought a siphonless bmb from a friend who got super excited about brewing, but quit after a few extract kits. He's not known for his cleanliness so I took extra extra care to clean it thoroughly (especially after seeing the gunk in the spigot, ewwww), but seemed to have fermented just fine.

Sadly, all my fermenters are currently empty (besides a gallon of apricot vanilla mead thats stashed away, somewhere). Hopefully I can fix that in a couple weeks...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled fruit cake ale for 12 BOC.

 

[GreenEnvy22]

I kegged my maple oatmeal stout. I reserved 2L of it, and filled a 2L oak mini-barrel that I just drained of whisky. Will let this sit in there for a couple of weeks and then keg in my mini 5L keg, compare to the non-barreled.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Cleaned fermentor, cleaned bottles.

 

[ba-brewer]

Cleaned a keg and filled it back up with IPA. Received some 2020 hops so the freezer is full again.

 

[kmarkstevens]

Kegged my Shiner Bock homage.

Mind sharing your Shiner recipe?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Ordered some plastic crates to replace the cardboard crates my bottles came in. Some of the cardboard is looking a little shady, and I think I'd cry if the bottom just dropped out of one while I was carrying it.

 

[Tony Boel]

Hi everyone,
I'm the new member and I am curious, which bottle filler device do you use now?

 

[JAReeves]

Hi everyone,
I'm the new member and I am curious, which bottle filler device do you use now?

If you are bottling from kegs, then look for the Biermuncher Bottle Filler, there should be at least one thread on it. I was gifted a Blichmann Beer Gun, but I haven't got around to figuring it out yet, so I'm still using the "My Junk is Ugly" method.

 

[McLovin1]

Ordered some plastic crates to replace the cardboard crates my bottles came in. Some of the cardboard is looking a little shady, and I think I'd cry if the bottom just dropped out of one while I was carrying it.

Do you mind sharing which ones you went with? I have been looking for an alternate bottle storage option for a while now. Thanks in advance!

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Do you mind sharing which ones you went with? I have been looking for an alternate bottle storage option for a while now. Thanks in advance!

I ordered these. By my calculations, they should fit somewhere between 40-44 standard-size bottles.

 

[McLovin1]

I ordered these. By my calculations, they should fit somewhere between 40-44 standard-size bottles.

Great! Thanks.

 

[seatazzz]

Installed new co2 regulator on a new 20lb tank. Last tank (less than 2 months old) went pffft on me yesterday. 99.999999% positive it was the regulator; a while back the tank fell over and it must have been damaged, tried to repair it with lots of elbow grease and tape but just wouldn't hold. New one is under test now; if it holds I'll keg off the current WF lager that's been crashing a few days. Pipeline is getting low. And.....have decided to keg this year's Holiday Ale that I was supposed to bottle. Why, you ask? I'm effing lazy, that's why. I'll bottle some off the keg and store them away, but cleaning that many bottles (not to mention filling them, capping them, labelling them) is just beyond me right now. After all, that's why I switched to kegging in the first place anyway. And there's still time before Xmas to brew another one, right? RIGHT?????

 

[Elric]

opened a 55lb bag of malt and split it between two 6 gallon buckets, then grabbed what I needed for the Dunkel I plan to brew tomorrow and milled it as well as drew the water for the brew.

 

[beermanpete]

Installed new co2 regulator on a new 20lb tank. Last tank (less than 2 months old) went pffft on me yesterday. 99.999999% positive it was the regulator; a while back the tank fell over and it must have been damaged, tried to repair it with lots of elbow grease and tape but just wouldn't hold. New one is under test now; if it holds I'll keg off the current WF lager that's been crashing a few days. Pipeline is getting low. And.....have decided to keg this year's Holiday Ale that I was supposed to bottle. Why, you ask? I'm effing lazy, that's why. I'll bottle some off the keg and store them away, but cleaning that many bottles (not to mention filling them, capping them, labelling them) is just beyond me right now. After all, that's why I switched to kegging in the first place anyway. And there's still time before Xmas to brew another one, right? RIGHT?????

Right!!

 

[ba-brewer]

Picked up a sack of grain and some smaller amounts. Filled to the gills with gain and hops so I need to get brewing.

 

[JAReeves]

Today was supposed to be Brewday, but 50 mph winds and lots of rain decided to postpone it. Sorry AHA.

 

[TheEagleRising]

Brewing a coffee stout, Every Stout Counts