What I did for beer today

[bracconiere]

smoked Porter went on gas.

sounds way more exciting, and tastier, then my new vittles vault 50lb'r i stuck in the fridge to get ready for kegging tomorrow. it just had a barely brown ale in it....


but the heavy handed, dose of 2016 hops should interesting.....

 

[Knightshade]

Gelatin injection on my 3/14/21 Oktoberfest, 1.068 using W34/70.View attachment 729882

First glance I thought you had built some type of LED display into a corny keg lid…

On topic though, I dropped my day 10 dry hop bag I prepped about 5 days ago with a magnet.

 

[aharri1]

Toasted some coconut flakes to add into secondary for my tropical stout. I'm doing 8oz toasted and 8 oz raw to attempt to get the flavor compounds from both!

 

[pshankstar]

My first year Comet hops are coming through and some are tall enough for a line. Finished that up minutes ago. My 5-6 year old Chinook hops are close to 10 feet tall on some bines.

 

[JAReeves]

My assistant helping me wax the new barrels.

 

[JAReeves]

Transferred the Crabapple Lambic Wheat Wine base onto the crabapples and house sour culture for the 12 Beers of Christmas. It was over 10%, bready, lemony, lightly bitter, like a light barley wine. The room temp sample was…not what I should be having for breakfast!

Making a DIPA, still trying to sort out the efficiencies on the new equipment. Tried Dip-Hopping for the first time, since I have not been happy with my whirlpool results so far. Hoping for a nice, bitter, citrusy beer-11oz. of hops including nugget, chinook, centennial, mosaic, and citra.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Replaced my CO2 manifold with secondary regulator bank. Now I can tap four different beers at four different carbonation levels!

 

[fourfarthing]

Racked 5 gallons of saison onto 6.5 lbs of plums and bottled 3.5 gallons (after fruit losses) of Consecration clone.

And cleaned of course.

 

[BeerAndTele]

Bottled my split batch APA over the last 2 evenings: WLP001 Cal Ale yeast vs. WLP007 Dry English Ale yeast.
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Will look forward to a side-by-side taste test in ~3 weeks.
Cheers.

Finally reporting back as to the results of my split batch: American Pale Ale ... 91% 2-row, 9% crystal 40, Magnum to bitter, Cascade late in the boil and at flameout. No dry hop. Split coming out of the kettle into 2 fermenters: one with WLP001 Cal Ale and one with WLP007 Dry English Ale

I was able to tell them apart but it was more difficult than I expected, particularly if you have an assistant prep the samples for you and you have no idea what's coming. I was sort of expecting 2 very different beers, but that was not the case.

The WLP001 had a slightly more floral aroma ... a little bit easier to detect the cascade. The WLP007 aroma was very pleasant as well, with just a tick less floral.
Taste: the Cascade was accentuated slightly more by the WLP001, but not by as much as I expected. I was expecting the WLP007 to be "fruitier", and I really didn't get that vibe. The bitterness was very similar. The WLP001 may have given a slightly sharper perception of bitterness, but man, not by much. The more I drank, the closer together they became; the first swig was the most revealing.

My neighbor tried them both and thought the WLP007 was "smoother" (his words). Wifey tried them, and though she's not a huge beer girl, she preferred the WLP007, because the WLP001 was "greener."

All that being said, I think I preferred the WLP001, but both were very drinkable. And in the absence of one another it would be harder still; if you gave me just 1 without telling me which one I was trying, I'm not convinced I could successfully tell you which one you gave me. All in all a fun and revealing experiment.

 

[Immocles]

Bottled my first saison brew. Tastes promising, can't wait for it to carb up and get nice and cold. Never (knowingly?) used a diastaticus yeast, so the fermenter is soaking in a nice PBW solution in hopes of not having any issues further down the line on brews. Crazy stuff.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Chilled 12 gal of American Premium lager.

 

[Pkrd]

Kegged my sabro pale ale.

 

[Immocles]

Brew day. Galaxy pale ale using @Dgallo base pale ale recipe. I enjoyed the other two brews with it so much that I figured I may as well stick with something that I know works. If it ain't broke, right? Forgot my whirlfloc this time around though...D'oh.

Now waiting for the sun to get lower so I can go out and water the garden and new trees with my chilling water.

 

[Noob_Brewer]

I cleaned a keg that kicked yesterday and I was pumped up to do it! Why? Because I needed a free keg anyways as I'll be kegging thursday. It will be the first beer Ive kegged in over 2 months.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Cooked up some invert #4. I've got a Ron Pattinson imperial stout in the works.

 

[ba-brewer]

Brewed a galaxy golden ale but also dumped my koln dry yeast kolsch as I could not get past the olive taste. No forward progress.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Bottled my 1845ish. I think it'll turn out really nice. It's got some darker raisiny stone fruit stuff going on from 2% Special B (The 'ish' part of the recipe). Give it a few months to mellow and it'll be perfect for when the evenings start to cool.

 

[BrewZer]

Oxy-cleaned and scrubbed 62 12 oz bottles in prep for tomorrow's bottling of the WITBAG. Later tonight, into the bleach bath they go!

ETA: my bottles sleep with the fishes tonight.

EATA: bottles flushed and ready to go, bottling bucket, transfer hose, and bottling wand sanitizing, and priming sugar boiled and cooled. almost time to bottle.

EAATA: bottles filled. sludge claimed more than I expected, so I only got 53 bottles out of the batch. 4.97 gallons. this batch will have a pronounced orange finish, so next time, I'm using only half an ounce.

 

[grampamark]

Brewed some. A Hazy Ale, sort of a NEIPA Lite.

 

[ba-brewer]

Got another brew in today, Miraculix Best - Classic English Ale.

Check gravity on my galaxy golden ale and about 75% done attenuating in 36hr. I am using Lutra kveik and it seems so weird when the fermentor feels warmer than the ambient temp.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Dumped about 1.5 gal Brittish Golden, pushing on 4.5 months! Time to go! Cleaned the kicked kegs, beer lines and kegerator. Most I've done in a month since my heart attack. Hoping this weekend to FINALLY brew my Doppelbock and Czech Premium even if the wife won't let me drink much of it . Good to be semi back in the brewing world!!!

 

[JAReeves]

View attachment 731956Dumped about 1.5 gal Brittish Golden, pushing on 4.5 months! Time to go! Cleaned the kicked kegs, beer lines and kegerator. Most I've done in a month since my heart attack. Hoping this weekend to FINALLY brew my Doppelbock and Czech Premium even if the wife won't let me drink much of it . Good to be semi back in the brewing world!!!View attachment 731957

Glad you are recovering.

 

[bracconiere]

Most I've done in a month since my heart attack.

Good to be semi back in the brewing world!!!

wasn't quite sure how to react to those statements so close together... but glad it was a temporary suspension from the game!

i've got two full kegs, and two that probably only have 2-3 pours left in them....nothing in the fermentor, and 30-40 minutes, do i brew today or tomorrow?

 

[BrewZer]

i've got two full kegs, and two that probably only have 2-3 pours left in them....nothing in the fermentor, and 30-40 minutes, do i brew today or tomorrow?

Yes.

 

[bracconiere]

Yes.

well i like your open door answer! but it's going to be tomorrow. i have a more fun project making WTF, that i haven't mastered yet (synthizing the esters produced during fermentation, to compliment my drinking. yeah they give me a hang-over, but make drinking so much better! )...so better then boring brew day, which i know will be alcoholic, if not 'award winning'....

 

[balrog]

Looked at my second Lutra Pils attempt, I like bubbles.

 

[hout17]

Brewing the Raging Irish Red Recipe as we speak!

 

[aharri1]

Kegging my tropical stout with zamba hops, toasted coconut, vanilla beans, and cacao nibs.

 

[RCope]

Kegging my latest NEIPA, calling it "Hot Yoga", as in "I was stressed out all the time until I discovered Hot Yoga"

 

[Sammy86]

Bought my ingredients for my next brew and posted the recipe in the recipe section.