What I did for beer today

[mullet6577]

Considered brewing something this weekend but plans tomorrow, and some game to watch and meats to smoke on Sunday so checked the forecast for next weekend....maybe not

 

[NewJersey]

Spent some more time trying to convince my wife why I need a Ss Brewtech Brew Bucket.

I have the opposite conditions. I tell my wife I wanna sell the $1k thing I bought a couple years ago and buy a $2k thing that will pretty much do the same thing. She sorta shrugged and said, "yeah go for it. If you'll like it more, buy it"

 

[ba-brewer]

I have the opposite conditions. I tell my wife I wanna sell the $1k thing I bought a couple years ago and buy a $2k thing that will pretty much do the same thing. She sorta shrugged and said, "yeah go for it. If you'll like it more, buy it"

That is how I convince myself at times. I look at what I could I sell if for only need to justify the difference. Did that for my mill then started using the saving on grain to buy other stuff at half price.

 

[Sunfire96]

That last photo makes my thumb hurt.

Here's a 100mL starter I'm just getting going from frozen WY1272.
I'll step it up twice more, then pitch into 5 gal.
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Haha it's leftover nail polish, thank goodness. Been a while since I smashed my thumb that badly

 

[grampamark]

Just finished kegging the 4 gallons of Golden Ale I brewed last month. The kegerator is full so I just hit it with 50 psi and put it in my cold storage room where, this time of year, the temp is just over 40° F.

 

[Edward's Beer Cellar]

Snowed in, frozen Saturday - too cold now and for the next week or two to tap maple trees, so I'm in the cellar brewing. Nice mellow porter tonight

 

[BrewZer]

While I did make the case for the merits of stainless steel, the price tag is still going to be the biggest challenge to overcome. She did like when I pointed out that I could upgrade and get the cooling coils and make more of the lagers that she likes, but again that doubles the price tag.

Selling point: Stimulus check in the mail!

Meanwhile, cracked open one of the Munich In Tents I bottled last Saturday to see how it's coming. Great flavor, but hardly any carbonation yet. I guess this and the ANY APA will need extended aging in the bottle to get up to the pressure I like.

 

[ba-brewer]

Brewed another small batch today, 2gal of English porter. Dont drink too much dark beers so a couple gallons will last a while. Smelled really good in the kettle, look forward to seeing how it turns out.

 

[Iowa Home Brewer]

Cooked up another batch of Cream Ale and have it bubbling away. Now the wait....oh the wait

 

[ba-brewer]

This is going to not be helpful but I too am in the Seattle area. I've been to the Skagit valley or driven thru there dozens of times but haven't tried the malt. Skagit Valley is more famous for their tulips. My HBS doesn't carry this, but the HBS in Kenmore had some the last time I visited about 2 years ago. I'm actually just chiming in to say I recently discovered Steinbart's and think they are pretty awesome.

I believe we have made reverse migrations, thought I seen that you are originally from California and moved to Washington State. I did not grow up there but was born there and that was the last place I lived before moving to California. Had only planned to be here for a few years then go back but after almost 40years it does not look to be happening. I have never been to the skagit river but know of the area, seen their ad in a beer magazine a while back. The Pilot malt seem interesting in that it has a more active Beta amylase and can produce drier beers at higher temp. The Cope pilsner I want to try for the low protein levels.

Haven't tried Skagit yet, it's a bit pricey. Jon at Jon's Homebrew in Puyallup carries them and has used them, says they're great. One of these days I'll buy a bag when I'm flush. Went with the MrBrew magnetic pump; ran for over 30 minutes last night with boiling water and not one hiccup. I'm very happy with it.

I was thinking the skagit malt might be more reasonably priced closer to the source, but maybe they are more geared to selling into the breweries than the home brewers. Still good to know it seems to be a worthwhile malt to try for a beer or two. We have a local malter near me but the price is even higher than imported malt for Europe so I have only did a few beers just to try it.

Looks to be a decent pump. I have been thinking about adding a second pump to my setup for recycling/moving the sparging water and as backup incase of emergencies. Could not really justify the cost for another march type pump, but that pumps seem more reasonable.

 

[kmarkstevens]

haha, grew up in a little **** farm town called colusa, high school in Folsom (when it was a prison town and not the wealthy suburb it is today), UC Davis. Then flew the coop for mega cities in Asia for 20+ years before moving to the Seattle Area.

There is a craft maltster near Davis (Willows?) but i haven't tried their stuff.

I have tried some of the Shaniko malts from Western Oregon. Good but honestly, need to revisit to see if they make a real difference. I was planning to visit actually (it's on the way to Bend ORegon), but that road trip was interrupted by covid.

 

[BrewMan13]

Turned a slab of wood (sourced from an old barn at my grandfathers) into a mash paddle. Pretty crude since I don't have a lot of tools, but it should get the job done.

 

[Jhedrick83]

Did a lot for beer today. Ordered a chest freezer to use for part of my fermentation chamber set up. More wire shelves and storage bins for the garage for my gear, a new Fermonster, and an Anvil oxygenation wand. Drank some home brew too. So, Beer did pay me back. Excited to really step my game up a bit.

 

[kmarkstevens]

I brewed up this evening

1. 5 gallon Czech hack (5# Munich, 5# Vienna, 1/2# Carabohemia, 34/70)
2. 4 gallon cyser with 5# Costco honey, 2 gallons Costco Apple juice, a big pitch of nottingham, and then will add in a big can of sour cherries when the fermentation drops down
3. Half batch of Tony's Pre-1970's Boddington
4. made a batch of rye crackers whilst juggling the above.
5. cleaned 2 kegs
6. put the 5 gallon Boddington's 1939 into the warmer bathroom for the yeast to do any clean up

 

[Tom R]

I made 3 gals of cold-mash NA beer for a friend. Still working on the recipe. It's nothing like real beer, but he says he likes it. It has little body and tastes kinda grainy, but it is beer-like.

It's my first batch underletting the mash. By happy coincidence, the mill base that I made to fit my bucket also is a "good-enough" fit on my MLT, so I just milled directly into it.

Normally I wouldn't mill in the brewery, but very little dust escaped. I think I'll make this my SOP.

Not much dust gets out. Even less if the plastic shields were extended into the opening.

 

[JAReeves]

So Saturday's SMaSH, Maris Otter and Comet, went into the bucket with a lot of harvested yeast. Sadly, it appears that I had been holding onto the culture for too long and by the time the game was over on Sunday, no activity at all. Took a chance and opened the fermenter to check on it and it smelled like raw wort.

Sprinkled a pack of S-05 on it and the garage smelled yeasty this morning. Always have a back-up plan.

 

[danimal92sport]

Found this mess this morning, which did shoot some yeast on the wall before I could get a blowoff rigged up. I’m tired of this with most of my ales. This is 1318 in a 1.056 SG ipa at about 38hrs in.

Dan

edit; NVM, can see the yeast on the wall in the pic, so it did that overnight.

 

[Sunfire96]

Pitched fresh S04 slurry into a 1.050 IPA yesterday, woke up to this gift

 

[BrewZer]

Found this mess this morning, which did shoot some yeast on the wall before I could get a blowoff rigged up. I’m tired of this with most of my ales. This is 1318 in a 1.056 SG ipa at about 38hrs in.

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edit; NVM, can see the yeast on the wall in the pic, so it did that overnight.

Pitched fresh S04 slurry into a 1.050 IPA yesterday, woke up to this gift
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Note to self: install blow-off tube right after pitching and keep it in place until kreusen subsides.

 

[KeizerBrewr]

Pitched fresh S04 slurry into a 1.050 IPA yesterday, woke up to this gift
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That's what my fermenter looked like a couple weeks ago with my BGSA after 12 hours. I love my OK(OverKill) blow off tube, use it for the first two or three days until the krausen subsides as well.

 

[BrewZer]

I brewed up this evening

1. 5 gallon Czech hack (5# Munich, 5# Vienna, 1/2# Carabohemia, 34/70)
2. 4 gallon cyser with 5# Costco honey, 2 gallons Costco Apple juice, a big pitch of nottingham, and then will add in a big can of sour cherries when the fermentation drops down
3. Half batch of Tony's Pre-1970's Boddington
4. made a batch of rye crackers whilst juggling the above.
5. cleaned 2 kegs
6. put the 5 gallon Boddington's 1939 into the warmer bathroom for the yeast to do any clean up

Don't forget to add those new BEER batches to the 2021 Brew Total thread!

 

[catdaddy66]

Hope to measure out the grain bill and grind it for my cream of three crops... Other than that I have a lot of cleaning

 

[zacster]

Pitched fresh S04 slurry into a 1.050 IPA yesterday, woke up to this gift
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A few pages ago in this thread I posted a pic of my brew in my carboy an hour or two after I pitched and was warned that this would happen. I got a blowoff tube into it before it did.

 

[Novacor]

I'm out of shape and the beer belly is getting harder to ignore. Decided to make some better food choices and I downloaded an app to help me get into a workout routine. Finished today's workout and this ad comes up.

 

[kmarkstevens]

That is a sign from the gods that should not be ignored!

I have 8# of red malt barley and need to brew something tomorrow. Suggestions?

 

[catdaddy66]

That is a sign from the gods that should not be ignored!

I have 8# of red malt barley and need to brew something tomorrow. Suggestions?

An Irish red of course

 

[seatazzz]

Dropped the dry hop on my Citra/Mosaic IPA last night, this morning turned it down to 64 to keep the heat lamp from going crazy. Sipping on some yummy breakfast stout tonight while I wait for dinner to cook, and watching the increasingly panicky weatherpeople try to tell us how much snow we will/will not get this weekend. Seems like every two years the PNW gets hit with a major snowstorm in February, and this weekend is it. Husband said a while ago I hope you're not brewing this weekend, I gotta cover the outside water spigot, and I said well yes I am, and I know how to put the damn cover on so I'll replace it when I'm done. Snowday brewday on Saturday!

 

[bracconiere]

Snowday brewday on Saturday!

when i bitched that my hose was frozen, and couldn't cool my wort. they told me to chill it in the snow? maybe that will actually work for you, lol....

 

[brewgar]

Seatazzz, I do believe that you are the most dedicated brewer on this forum. My hat is off to you. Thank you very much for sharing you experiences here.

Dropped the dry hop on my Citra/Mosaic IPA last night, this morning turned it down to 64 to keep the heat lamp from going crazy. Sipping on some yummy breakfast stout tonight while I wait for dinner to cook, and watching the increasingly panicky weatherpeople try to tell us how much snow we will/will not get this weekend. Seems like every two years the PNW gets hit with a major snowstorm in February, and this weekend is it. Husband said a while ago I hope you're not brewing this weekend, I gotta cover the outside water spigot, and I said well yes I am, and I know how to put the damn cover on so I'll replace it when I'm done. Snowday brewday on Saturday!

 

[JAReeves]

Our "short" meeting turned into a 2 1/2 hour Zoom, so moving the PA to a keg and dry hopping it is out for today. There's always tomorrow to do something for beer; as for today, beer is doing for me quite nicely.