What I did for beer today

[NewJersey]

Yesterday, moved the Azacca SMaSH to a keg and dry hop. Taster was delicious, should come in about 4.5%. The last 2-5 gallons I brewed had nasty infections, and after cleaning everything, I think I can ID it as having been in the fermenter somewhere (thank you to everyone who helped me Find the Bug!); learning to take apart and clean ball valves was a good thing.

Also brewed a Hop Leftovers APA to drop onto the freed-up yeast cake. It was humming along like a machine gun in 15 minutes! For bittering: Comet, Galena, Saaz; For flavor: Mt. Hood, Willamette; For aroma: Azacca, El Dorado, Huell Melon, Sterling. I'm hoping for another unicorn, but I'll take a pegasus.

I've never had any luck using more than 3 or maybe 4 different hops max.
Hope it turns out well.

I dry hopped my golden promise/rye west coast ipa today. Love being able to do o2 free dry hops. Gonna do another in 3 days.

 

[HutBrew]

After 36 hours of (not so) patiently staring at an air lock, waiting for us-05 to bubble, I finally have some action.
Needless to say I took many obligatory sniffs.

 

[BrewZer]

Injected gelatin into a 3 gal keg of 0.8% cold-mash "beer".View attachment 719266

Do you have to wait three weeks before the next injection?

 

[BrewZer]

Pulled my office keg out of the refrigerator at work to check on things. Got tired of those 16 gram cartridges and leaky cheap regulators. My "real beer CO2 regulator" with a 74 gram cartridge is still working great after 2 months in the 'fridge!View attachment 719287

SpaceX will put that into orbit for you pretty cheap...

 

[Tom R]

Do you have to wait three weeks before the next injection?

Nope, I used the J&J gelatine, it's the one-shot version.

 

[kmarkstevens]

Got my hands on WLP006 vault strain. Here I am, on one hand trying to thin out my yeast herd, on the other picking up new strains.

Using it for a Wells Bombardier clone tonight.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Yeasterday I went to my "local" LHBS(bout 20 minutes on the highway, homebrew stores are not that common here...) and got 10kg of maris otter, 1kg brown malt, 1kg of UK chocolate malt, they had appearantly stopped carrying Crystal150 so I have to look on the webz for that, oxygen scavenging caps and a pack each of wlp005 and MJ m42.
The m42 is for an oatmeal stout and the 005 for my ESB that I have to rebrew soon since my latest batch of it is drying out.
Tonight I'm gonna make a 2L starter on wlp007 for a british strong ale me and my dad are gonna brew on sunday, am gonna try some of the invert #3 i cooked awhile ago in it. And try the oxygen scavenging caps since I plan on storing this one about 3 months before I even start trying them.

 

[ba-brewer]

Got my hands on WLP006 vault strain. Here I am, on one hand trying to thin out my yeast herd, on the other picking up new strains.

Using it for a Wells Bombardier clone tonight.

WlP006 is one of the vault strains I really like, decent attenuation and nice mix of ester and diacetyl. I have a 1gal batch of best bitter fermenting with it now.

I got behind on slant cycling and was over 13months since I used wlp006, I thought it was a goner. The new slants I made looked like streaked plates, just isolated colonies instead of filled in areas.

I am in the same boat I used to have 26 strains and got it down to 20, I think something like 10 or 12 might be more manageable.

 

[aharri1]

Transferred my saison to the keg onto some sugar water. I'm trying carb conditioning in the keg for the first time. Figured it would work well for this style. Shooting for 3.8 vol.

 

[BrewZer]

Unpacked and assembled a new Hullwrecker grain mill so I can custom grind for BIAB...

 

[day_trippr]

Lessee...got my first Moderna vaccination , filled two kegs, cleaned two carboys, measured out grains for tomorrow morning's grind and salts for the kettles and loaded the brew rig with RO water for a single malt wcipa brew. Using up a bag of organic two row base malt from Hadley, MA ("Valley Malts").
Will decide to either gap the mill tighter or just double-crush the malt as this "organic" stuff while flavorful runs smaller than every other base malt I use...

Cheers! ( "First Homebrew World Problems" )

 

[kmarkstevens]

Transferred my saison to the keg onto some sugar water. I'm trying carb conditioning in the keg for the first time. Figured it would work well for this style. Shooting for 3.8 vol.

In my experience with just try sugar water in the keg.
1. pull on the vent to see if air is escaping (natural carbonation). Should be substantial build up
2. remember that when the temperature drops, the carbonation (gas in solution) also drops
3. There are ~4-8 pints that are really good
4. It may be over carbonated to start with. You can vent the keg or put up with overly foamy beer
5. Once the natural carbonation drops, then turn on the gas to 10-15 psi depending on preference
A spunding valve may help to dial it all in, but just dumping in sugar works reasonably well.

This evening, I
- kegged 5 gallons Old Laxey Brewing: Bosun Bitter Clone with WLP006. Have about a gallon left and will bottle that tomorrow
- Kegged 5 gallons Irish Dry Oat Stout, and bottled 2 liter bottles for an Irish friend. I used Darkness yeast on this baby.
- Kegged 2.5 gallons of Tony's 1979 Boddington with Notty and bottled 2 liter bottles

 

[Immocles]

Finally brewed my Vienna lager. It’s my personal favorite and was originally going to lead off lagering season, but I kept pushing it back a brew. Hoping to get one more lager (dunkel or schwarzbier) in before switching back to ales.

 

[Elric]

Did a gravity reading on my irish stout this aft. Either still needs some time or it stalled out. Will give it some more time and check again. Taste of the sample was right on though, so even if it stays where it is I will be more than happy with it.

 

[grampamark]

Finally got some chalkboard pens. The chalkboard paint on the side of my kegerator isn’t really textured enough for regular chalk. I repainted the area above the faucets to make it a little taller and then installed the chalkboard tap handles my daughter had given me for Father’s Day last year. My tap list is a lot more legible now. I have an Altbier that will be kegged this weekend and a Cream Ale that will be kegged next week.

 

[seatazzz]

Finally got some chalkboard pens. The chalkboard paint on the side of my kegerator isn’t really textured enough for regular chalk. I repainted the area above the faucets to make it a little taller and then installed the chalkboard tap handles my daughter had given me for Father’s Day last year. My tap list is a lot more legible now. I have an Altbier that will be kegged this weekend and a Cream Ale that will be kegged next week.View attachment 721068

Looks good! Chalk pens are the shiznit, write on anything and just wipe off. I've had some issues with some of the darker colors on my chalkboard paint, but some Mr Clean and it comes right off.

 

[seatazzz]

Brewing up another WF lager this morning with more light Munich than last time, for the heck of it. Also finally ordered 8gb of RAM to replace the 4gb currently in the brewery laptop; should have done it years ago. Hopefully it will let me run more programs without crashing. This model laptop (about 6 years old) has a max capacity of 8gb or I would have ordered 16, mama needs a new laptop sometime this year.

 

[NewJersey]

Second dry hop for my most recent west coast IPA. 1.25oz chinook and 2.5oz centennial.
I could easily fit 5oz
I'm glad I just used the 1.5" tc port and didn't blow money using the 4"!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Went to the LHBS to rustle up the grains and ingredients for a 5 gallon Czech premium lager. 1st time I was in the supply store since Sept. Didn't recognize the owner and his helpers their hair had grown so long! Thought the store had been bought out by metal headbangers ! 1st week they opened their tap room back up but I'm not ready for that kind of crowd yet. Drink mine at home alone. This is the only time in history you can be a solitary drinker and not be chastised!!!

 

[JAReeves]

Walked to the LHBS to swap a CO2 tank, pick up some yeasts (Dry English Ale, S-05, and Napoleon), and get some Carapils. I have been reading "The New IPA: Scientific Guide to Hop Aroma and Flavor" by Scott Janish, and so I am going to experiment with adding under modified malt to accentuate some of the hop flavors in my PA's and IPA's.

 

[Novacor]

Got my Tilt set up in the pale ale I brewed this afternoon. This thing is pretty sweet, although I'm worried that being able to check on my beer while I'm at work is going to be detrimental to my productivity..

 

[PberBob]

Enjoying a well-earned HB Belgian Golden after brewing up first NEIPA with Citra/Centennial/Sabro.

Making my move from Murky to Hazy

 

[Beermeister32]

Cracked open the first bottle of Batch 105 Bavarian Pilsner. I used as much LODO process as I could muster. This one used WLP833 Bock yeast. Pilsners are a hard brew to make right, this one turned out excellent!

 

[Bramling Cross]

It was a busy weekend. Kegged a bitter, brewed and pitched a mild onto the bitter's cake, then risked life, limb, and insurance rates by driving into Northern VA to make a LHBS run.

 

[seatazzz]

Cleaned a keg this morning, with the intention of filling it with American Strong that's ready to keg...then had to go in to work for a couple hours, got home, and said to heck with that, it can sit for another week. Trying valiantly to kill the last lager keg so there's room in the kegerator for aforesaid Strong. Oh look, youtube.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottle primed a fat tire clone... not sure how close I got, but it tastes pretty good anyway.

 

[BrewMan13]

Yesterday was all about mead: got to assist with 2 batches in a row at my local meadery, then bottled mine. Not impressed with mine at this point. Pretty sure I'm picking up 2 distinct flaws already. We'll see what age does to it.

 

[VikeMan]

Kegged a Dark Mild. Here's the end of xfer racking sample.

 

[dolanrolan]

Kegged a stout (delicious) and brewed up a Brut IPA (hopefully)

 

[BeerAndTele]

Kegged a Dark Mild. Here's the end of xfer racking sample.

Nice pint glass, VikeMan. I grew up on TPA (back when it was called The Home of Rock & Roll). In fact, I'm old enough to remember when they were located at 104.1, before WNNK came along. Jammin' Jeff Kauffman, Hawaiian Chris James, Kim Rodkey, Joanna London. Those were the days.
Cheers.