What I did for beer today

[jcav]

Took a gravity sample of my Vienna Lager. Time to start lowering the temp a few degrees per day and then get down to lagering temps for a long nap.

John

 

[ba-brewer]

That makes me miss the old hop plug format. I really liked those! They were a nice compromise between T90s and whole leaf.

I never used plugged hops so dont know how these compare. These pretty much flake back into hops cones with a little prodding. The pressure does seem to bring some of the oils outs and help hold them together.

This is the setup, They need to sit under pressure for a while(over night) to stay compressed. I Think that was 1oz of cones. That is about all that will fit in the tube with just a little finger pressure.

 

[day_trippr]

That is cool!
But my last homegrown hop harvest (years ago now) totaled 12 pounds of dried cones.
Plugging looks like it would be a daunting task

Cheers!

 

[ba-brewer]

Not sure what I would do with 12lbs, in my best year I think I got 3 pounds or so and that was too much for me. I keep the trellis shorter now which limits the harvest and I try to use as much as I can in a couple massive wet hop beers so no processing. I probable do about a pound worth of plugs spread out over a month or so.

I think some people do a bigger tube which would make it a little faster. Not sure how they get the hops back out as it takes some force to get the 1oz plugs out.

 

[Immocles]

Brewing an Irish red and catching up on Archer.

 

[BrewZer]

Drew a FG sample from the Munich In Tents marzen in the fermenter. 1.015, so it's pretty much down to bottling strength, but I'm going to let it sit in the fermenter another week or two before banishing the bottles to the garage for a long winter's nap.

Tastes malty up front with a clean finish. Assistent Braumeister says it will go good with food; that sounds like oktoberfest bier to me!

 

[aharri1]

Brewing a hazy with ebbegarden Kveik, cascade, azacca, medusa, and idaho 7. Double dry hopping with the same! Juice bomb time!

 

[JAReeves]

Drank beer, as the brew that was planned lost its place at the top of the list to the broken furniture that needed immediate repair. Oh well, there's always next weekend.

 

[day_trippr]

Brewed my 11th batch of my Julius recipe and gave my recently-acquired Hopstopper-2 its toughest test to date: 10 ounces of free swimming pellets. It worked great - could not be happier - really kept the hops and a good chunk of cold break in the kettle...

Cheers!

 

[Novacor]

Filtered some tap water and filled my brew kettle with strike water. Tomorrow morning I'll start heating as I pour my first cup of coffee.

 

[Elric]

Busy day! kegged a best bitter, brewed an imperial stout, brewing a citra pale ale (first double brew day), dunkel was getting low so I suffered through a few pints and transferred the rest to a pop bottle so I could clean out the keg to co2 purge it with the fermentation gas from the pale ale.

 

[seatazzz]

Already have laundry and a good fire started, in a few I'll pull the stout out of the ferment fridge to settle before kegging. Then the Holiday Ale that's currently in the kegerator comes out for some extended aging time in the garage. It's good, but in 5 years of brewing I've never been able to age anything beyond a month or two; going to leave this one until next winter since I have plenty of usable kegs. Was originally going to bottle it off the keg, but that's too much work.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottle primed a small batch of Belgian dark strong.

 

[ba-brewer]

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Bottle primed a small batch of Belgian dark strong.

Nice to see others doing smaller batches. Sure makes bottling less of a chore.

 

[grampamark]

Pulled FG samples from the two batches I have in the ferment fridge

Weissbier

Golden Ale

The Hefe is at 5%, the Golden at 5.5%. I’ll let both warm up a bit over the next few days and keg this weekend.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Cleaned the taps and beer lines, behind as I should have done this right after Christmas, freaking tap handles were stuck!!...bad bad brewer!!!..bad!. Luckily beer was still solid, no infection. Winter/Covid hibernation laziness almost got me !

 

[aharri1]

Dropped 4 oz of hops in this hazy I'm doing during the middle of fermentation!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Dropped 4 oz of hops in this hazy I'm doing during the middle of fermentation! View attachment 715881

4oz! Wow. I'd be puking!

 

[zacster]

6 gallons from a 5.5 gallon batch. I added the entire starter.

My BIAB sparge setup. A pot lid, a cookie sheet, a metal bowl under the sheet, in my equipment storage bin. The smaller pot is my reserve sparge water, the rest of the wort is in the Blichmann. I used the sous vide to heat the sparge water since the stove had this on it up until that point:

 

[JAReeves]

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6 gallons from a 5.5 gallon batch. I added the entire starter.


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My BIAB sparge setup. A pot lid, a cookie sheet, a metal bowl under the sheet, in my equipment storage bin. The smaller pot is my reserve sparge water, the rest of the wort is in the Blichmann. I used the sous vide to heat the sparge water since the stove had this on it up until that point:
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Wow! Not to be forward, I mean we don't really know each other, but you may want a blow-off tube on that one. It's a little tight, in the headspace department.

 

[Sunfire96]

Bottled an ESB and racked an Irish Red on top of the yeast

 

[mullet6577]

Bottled an ESB and racked an Irish Red on top of the yeast
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Are you in or around Pittsburgh? I have the same glass from The Church that my parents brought back when they were up there visiting family years ago

 

[Elric]

Sat around the fermenter sniffing the funes from a citra pale ale. God I love the smell of that hop.

 

[aharri1]

4oz! Wow. I'd be puking!

Lol. It's my first time making a hazy so I figured I'd go all out like the big boys apparently do hehe

 

[zacster]

Wow! Not to be forward, I mean we don't really know each other, but you may want a blow-off tube on that one. It's a little tight, in the headspace department.

I was actually thinking I would draw off some of the trub at the bottom to make room.

 

[BrewMan13]

Checked the gravity of my mead since I was seeing zero activity in the airlock or krausen and it had been about a week. Luckily it IS fermenting, but you wouldn't know by looking at it. Hit it with the last nutrient addition and oxygen, and going to let it ride for now.

 

[Sunfire96]

Are you in or around Pittsburgh? I have the same glass from The Church that my parents brought back when they were up there visiting family years ago

Lived there for a few months in 2014

 

[catdaddy66]

I dry hopped my APA with an oz each of warrior, green bullet and mosaic... Used stainless steel mesh globes for the first time to see if it beats the mesh bags.

 

[Imhoppy]

Cleaned and sanitized keg (Obi Ron Wheat) that emptied last night. Replaced right side tap beer line, first time since new almost 7 years ago. Now both taps have new 10 foot beer lines (serving kegs @ 42F and 12 psi). Tapped 5 gallon keg of Grapefruit Radler. Will be having a refreshing pint along with my fresh-baked pumpernickle spent-grain bread once it cools down from being pulled from the oven. Life is good!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Sat around the fermenter sniffing the funes from a citra pale ale. God I love the smell of that hop.

Lol Welcome to Airlock Sniffers Anonymous !!!