What I did for beer today

[grampamark]

Boxed up 18 bottles of Spiced Dunkel Weizenbock for the 12 BOC beer exchange. These are the last 3 and I had a few left so I’m drinking one.

 

[Imhoppy]

Kegged 5 gallons of Kolsch, an extract kit from Northern Brewer. 28 days in primary and crystal clear beer - about 4.5% ABV. First taste of room-temperature left-over uncarbonated beer were awesome. Nice and crisp with the German Tradition and Hersbrucker hops coming through for a smooth and refreshing taste. To heck with carbonation and chilling so maybe I should drink it all gone as-is, lol. But I'm going to resist the urge....and wait it out.

 

[grampamark]

Kegged a Wheat APA that I brewed about 3 weeks ago. Centennial, Cascade and Citra hops. I called it CCC Wheat.

 

[catdaddy66]

Perused places to purchase presents for pals that brew... Mills, grains, etc.

Drank a couple lagers.

 

[day_trippr]

Spent some time in the workshop this afternoon modding my boil kettle.
Thread coming, but here's a teaser...

Cheers!

[edit] fwiw, thread is here...

 

[DBhomebrew]

Prepped 5.5G of water and hand-cranked 13.25 pounds of MO for tomorrow's brewing.

Biggest OG and volume to date. Eking out the most from a 5G kettle.

Barleywine for 2021 holiday gifts.

 

[JAReeves]

Yesterday took a box of homemade beer, wine, and cider to a funeral.

"Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more." Proverbs 31:6-7

 

[DBhomebrew]

Eking out the most from a 5G kettle.

Mash...

Sparge added, creeping up on boil, getting nervous...

Stable boil, no boilover...

Phew!

 

[ba-brewer]

Mash...
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Sparge added, creeping up on boil, getting nervous...
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Stable boil, no boilover...
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Phew!

I ain't got that kind of patients(no more).
edit: or attention span

 

[danimal92sport]

Kegged my first beer! A Mosaic dry hopped saison. Carbonating and chilling now, wow kegging is fun!!!

Also pulled a sample of a raspberry sour that has been on the fruit and some oak for 2 weeks. Awesome clarity and the color is neon in person. And it’s going to be tasty in a month or so...

Dan

 

[ESBrewer]

Adjusting the manual waterbath to higher (diacetyl rest) temperature as the fermentation is slowing down.

 

[day_trippr]

Tweaked my BK Hopstopper V2 mod, washed two carboys and two kegs, then started a calibration run on my RO system controller and poured myself a glass of my Galaxy neipa...

Cheers!

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

transferred a lagering lager to a serving keg. Transferring from a corny keg to a Sanke - not something you see everyday. Thought @bracconiere might enjoy trying to figure this one out

 

[bracconiere]

there's three tubes? lol i gotta admit, that looks really weird to me!

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

there's three tubes? lol i gotta admit, that looks really weird to me!

Just try to figure all this out after you've had a homebrew or two.

 

[Bramling Cross]

I made a batch of Anchor Steam today. All went well.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Brewed my last (probably) batch for 2020, and planned/scheduled all my brews for 2021.

I may have a sickness.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Slanting Urkel

 

[JAReeves]

Put together the must for a Red Wine Blend (Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvèdre), moved the Scottish Export to a keg (FG picture below), and made my first lager.

The lager came in with way more potential alcohol than I expected, so much for a session lager! I hopped it at 60, 15, WP 190F, HS 150F, and plan to dry hop it as well-All El Dorado hops. Theoretically it'll be about 35 IBU and 7% ABV. First time I made a yeast starter, as well, though the stir plate doesn't work very well. Pitched the yeast at 59F and plan to keep it at 50F for two weeks or so.

 

[mullet6577]

In FL for the Dolphins/Chiefs game, there's a Total Wine close, it's like a candy store for drunks but almost too many choices. Had to get the Saison 13 because Megadeth, the rest sounded good

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Brewed my last (probably) batch for 2020, and planned/scheduled all my brews for 2021.

I may have a sickness.

Oh! And I shipped off my milk stout for the Chicago Winterbrew competition, to get some feedback!

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

In FL for the Dolphins/Chiefs game, there's a Total Wine close, it's like a candy store for drunks but almost too many choices. Had to get the Saison 13 because Megadeth, the rest sounded good
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South Florida Publix grocery stores are doing these bad boys as BOGO.

 

[Mike8212]

Just got my new glycol chiller set up. Cold crashing my WC IPA.

 

[seatazzz]

Just turned the controller down on the ferment fridge from 65.5 to 45, to start crashing/lagering the two WF lagers I've got in there. Came down to 1.010 from 1.055 in just 7 days; pipeline is relatively full so I can afford to let these lager at least a week. Taking it easy today since we got 3/4 cord of firewood delivered yesterday, stacking it just about did us both in.

 

[porterguy]

Made an amber with Kveik Lutra. Planned on top-cropping the yeast, but most of it had already dropped out after 28 hours. Guess I'll save some of the slurry for next batch and dry some of it for future use. I decided making some kveik-based brews is my best bet to get the pipeline back up to where I want it, and have more beer options available to choose from.

 

[Sammy86]

Kegged up 10 gallons split batch...5 gallons got 34/70, 5 gallons got Koln Kölsch Ale yeast. Now laggering for minimum 4 weeks.

 

[day_trippr]

Got everything staged for tomorrow's WCIPA brew, then poured a beer...then another...and another...

Cheers! (Woof. Dinner better be soon! )

 

[JAReeves]

Added yeast to wine must. Checked on lager, and it is bubbling at 50F. Yesterday, traded some home-brew for oysters and yuzu fruit with one of my neighbors, so today zested the yuzu and got it into vodka to make a tincture for a future fermentation. Dried out spent grain for bread.

Went to Smart&Final to buy ice for the cooling system, found out they're closing that store, so bought a bunch of adjuncts at 25% off (agave, etc.). That didn't suck.

Doing college financial aid paperwork for one of the kids. Not beer-related, but boy am I going to need one or three afterwards .

 

[kmarkstevens]

Kegged the Machine House mild v15 and saved a ton of WLP013 London ESB yeast off the bottom of the 3 gallon fast fermenter conical. The fast fermenter conical has become my go to for re-using yeast. Two canning jars with about 3 oz yeast each, and 3 centrifugal tubes with at least 50ml each. This is also a control as simultaneously also did a stir plate with about 25% of the WLP pack. Was lazy with the stir plate output and only filled two canning jars with about 3oz each. Will see if there is a noticeable difference. I'll prolly keep the stir plate results for making next generations after using up what came out of the conical. I'm pretty much convinced that using the conical for a 1030-1040 OG brew is a very efficient way to harvest yeast for future batches.

Brewed 5 gallons of a simple DME + carabohemia 1040 Czech pilsner. 34/70 as my go to lager yeast and Tettnang as the go to nobel hop. This will lager in the garage for a few weeks.

Now doing v17 of the Machine House Mild clone. I'm getting close to a winner recipe. Will post when I'm satisfied. I've been doing half batches in the fast fermenter and rotating thru yeast to fill up the yeast bank. Maybe by v20 I'll be at something y'all can feedback on.

 

[day_trippr]

We be mashin' a wcipa this morning...

Cheers!