What I did for beer today

[Tobor_8thMan]

Pedaled my bicycle over 50 miles in the past 2 days. Yesterday was 68F with no wind. Today was 78F with steady winds from the NE. I'll take the 68F and no wind during any bicycle ride.

Do believe I've earned a few homebrews.

 

[bracconiere]

Pedaled my bicycle over 50 miles in the past 2 days. Yesterday was 68F with no wind. Today was 78F with steady winds from the NE. I'll take the 68F and no wind during any bicycle ride.

Do believe I've earned a few homebrews.

i'd say at 298 calories at 12 mph...and divided into 50 miles would be 4 hours, so you can drink 7.76 beers!

 

[seatazzz]

Knitted another few inches of the neck cowl I'm working on..in an attempt to slow down on the smoking. Most nights I sit out here and smoke waaaay too much while cruising HBT and youtube. At least now I'm keeping my hands occupied. Can still sip on the homebrew though. Tomorrow going to keg the Mosaic/Idaho 7 IPA because pipeline is getting low. And drop the dry hop in the Georgetown Bodhi clone, which I should have done tonight, but now I'm too tired.

 

[Tom R]

Brewed 6.5 gals of Munich helles today. It was my first step mash using direct heat and a false bottom. I was concerned about scorching because the MLT has a thin bottom, but it turned out to be a non-issue.

This worked so well that I might just put the RIMS purchase on hold for a while.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

i'd say at 298 calories at 12 mph...and divided into 50 miles would be 4 hours, so you can drink 7.76 beers!

Perhaps, I've earned more than 7.76 beers since my average speed between the 2 days was 13.3 mph. Highest speed was 29.1 mph.

 

[deuc224]

Yet Another 1318 Starter. Decided to do a slow-but-steady direct O2 injection on the stir plate just for grins...

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Gotta get a brush burn in before I can use this starter, but it's better to have it ready and waiting an extra day or two than need it and not have it.
Hopefully the weather cooperates...

Cheers!

What stir plate is that? Looking to get another one very soon.

 

[day_trippr]

That's one of two I built years ago, though it's been revised since I took the pictures below, when I replaced the power supplies with a model that had a higher max voltage (and also has a voltmeter)...

Cheers!

 

[BrewZer]

Bottled 5 gallons of Yoopers Oatmeal Stout.

Brewed 6.5 gals of Munich helles today.

Did you add that to the total in this thread?

As for me, it wasn't today, but late last night in honor of National Beer Day -- sampled the AG BIAB Against the Grain APA we bottled last Friday.

It's not ready. But... Assistent Braufraulein likes the taste already, so I'll call that a win.

 

[jcav]

The wife and I are in the middle of the mash on a Belgian Dubbel. So cool that she wanted to brew with me today! I am a very lucky man! Have a great weekend everyone!

John

 

[JAReeves]

Yesterday finished moving the new and used equipment around. I finally know what I have and what will be for sale. That means I can finally brew sometime this week.

As a reward for my clean up efforts, pulled out the wine thief and did a tasting of all the ciders and sours with my sister. We need to bottle this week, too!

 

[deuc224]

That's one of two I built years ago, though it's been revised since I took the pictures below, when I replaced the power supplies with a model that had a higher max voltage (and also has a voltmeter)...

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Cheers!

Is there any way to get a parts list, this is probably the only one I would actually try and build. I love the case too.

 

[deuc224]

Did a little experiment and transferred the freshly boiled wort into the fermenter and let the glycol chiller cool it to pitching temp(65F). Dont know if ill do it again but it really didnt take much more time than using a my CFC with summer water to cool it. Chiller did run a tad longer trying to cool it but I dont really run it hard most of the time.

 

[Novacor]

Doing a "cold crash" with my Anvil cooling setup. I don't think that I can get down into the low 30s with just ice water, but I can experiment with how much effort it takes to keep the fermenter at 50* for lagers.

 

[catdaddy66]

Grew some us-05 yeast... In some stout flavored wort.

 

[balrog]

Lutra Kveik pilsner, 80F ferment trial #00001

 

[seatazzz]

In another round of the "You ordered such and such from AMZN, I'm gonna order THIS" game, ordered a full pound bag of Whirlfloc and another yarn-related purchase. LHBS hasn't had Whirlfloc in quite a while, and price finally came down online. Also ran slap out of irish moss. Half the time I forget to add the moss, but for some reason I never forget Whirlfloc when I have it on hand. A whole pound will last a long time.

 

[balrog]

...or so you would *think*

 

[ba-brewer]

Brewed a Marzen the day before last, guess that makes it an April.

Brewed a Northern Discovery Golden ale today. Also kegged my split batch of Best Bitter.

 

[day_trippr]

Had four kicked kegs in the keezer to swap out and then clean. Done x4.
Then got everything staged for a brew day tomorrow. Going to do a second 10g batch of my SN Fantastic Haze clone which has been well received by extended family.

Time for a beer!

 

[seatazzz]

Finally tasted/tested the prison hooch/hard root beer base I made 2 weeks ago. Not happy. Only came down to 1.023 from the high 50's, and tastes....tangy. Instead of dumping the $10 bottle of extract into it and hoping for the best, dumped the first one and starting another. Have yeast nutrient now, and a fresh packet of notty, and sugar is super cheap. Waiting on the boil now, and thanking Ninkasi that tonight is one of the husband's bowling nights...so I don't get the inevitable "what the hell are you brewing now???". I do complain about him, but he's been my rock for over 20 years now and really loves what I do. Even if he doesn't always understand it.

 

[JAReeves]

Did a hop inventory and realized I can brew my NZ Pale Ale using some orphans (Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, and Kohatu). In a couple of days, they will no longer be alone but mingling in barley juice and bringing joy to the world.

 

[BrewZer]

It was either cut the grass or clean up and rearrange the storage bins in the garage to claim just a bit more space for my brew gear. Since it never got dry enough to mow, I managed to shuffle my junk enough to find another half-bin of square footage. Now all my bottles are in one place and up off the floor where they were just inches from disaster every time I parked the van... and all my flasks are basking together, the beerware is grouped, my bottling stuff is corralled, and my main burner and BIAB brewpot are stacked together, just waiting for me to take a trip to the LHBS for grains, yeasties and hops.

 

[day_trippr]

It's getting late, but I just found out there's an opportunity to do an extra brew day this week, so I'm spinning up some more 1318!

 

[Pkrd]

Kegged my home grown hops pale ale tonight. Tasting pretty good.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Earlier this week I made a wlp005 starter for a strong bitter brew this weekend, and after that a lighter, hopefully nutty northern brown will be brewed. Then I will have 2 varieties of bitter and a Brown ale as my summer ale supply.
Today I did a science! Well not really but I like to tell myself that,I measured exacly what 1L in my brew kettle translates to in cm and vice versa, so I can hopefully determine what my actual grain absorption rate is and get a somewhat reliable amount of sparge water in Beersmith without having to guesstimate how much to subtract to get where I want.

 

[day_trippr]

Is there any way to get a parts list, this is probably the only one I would actually try and build. I love the case too.

Just saw this. I built them years ago, but I'll see what I can come up with for a parts list. Might be a day or two...

Cheers!

 

[Brewer dad]

Pitched a lacto starter into a wort I started Monday

 

[danimal92sport]

Put a 3 week old sour on 8lb of peaches and 2lb of dried apricots. Also added 0.5oz of Hallertau Blanc for a bit of fruit nose and to stop the souring. The sample out of primary tasted...different from the last 3 sours I’ve made and NOT in a good way. Though I can’t always trust my post-COVID nose and taste with tart things...damn!

Dan

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw....

This is an excel spreadsheet with the parts and links to smile.amazon.com, just because. If one is more patient most of this stuff can probably be obtained from eBay for lower costs - especially the case (I guarantee I did not pay $20 for mine!)

Anyway, here are a couple of pics of the guts...

I did not include the LED assembly in the parts list as it's redundant given the power supply has an LED screen. My original build used a chopper module that had no display. And note a wall wart is plugged into this thing - I use scavenged 19VDC laptop bricks, but anything that can put out at least 12VDC at around an amp will work - though, preferentially, go with a higher voltage as the adjustable supply will drop around a half volt minimum.

Cheers!

 

[kmarkstevens]

Kegged my home grown hops pale ale tonight. Tasting pretty good.

Threw me off until I saw your location. My hops are just now sending up bull shoots.

What kind of hops are you growing?