What I did for beer today

[hout17]

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

Take care of yourself man get good and healed up then proceed to brew some good beer and take a gander at M31 and ponder life a bit .

 

[JAReeves]

Hit the LHBS for 55# of Maris Otter, some assorted malts, and yeast. Michael Jordan (and others) say you can't get better without practice. I plan on a lot of brewing practice this summer.

Oh and my new bag from @wilserbrewer arrived way earlier than I expected! Well done, mate!

 

[grampamark]

At the city house for a few days. Pulled a gravity sample of the Blonde Ale I brewed a couple of weeks ago. Will bottle on Sunday.

 

[Deadalus]

Teed up my next five brews with an order of hops from Yakima Valley. Started a German Lager yeast for brewing Sunday.

Mostly a hop order with some water and yeast additions but I had 3 lbs of Carahells in there and some brewery line cleaner. Shipping came in at $40+ and I figured take the BLC out maybe it was special cost or too heavy. That did the trick and I got a medium flat rate box.

 

[Bluekat]

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're on the mend. Brewing is great cardiac rehab, just don't over do it.

 

[RCope]

I'll take "What would I never think I'd ever add to beer for $400, Alex?

 

[seanjwalker1]

I'll take "What would I never think I'd ever add to beer for $400, Alex?
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..... Might be ok...kind of a homemade clamato ??

 

[seatazzz]

Up at this early hour to brew up a batch of the house lager. Vacation was absolutely amazing, had a lot of great beers along the way and picked up many more stickers for the ferment fridge. As luck would have it, the day we were in Ennis, MT, there was a beer/wine/spirit festival (very small) going on, that my cousin was working; not a lot of selection but what there was, was quite yummy. Got the "cousin hookup" (as her husband called it) with lots of free tokens for full pints. A great time was had by all, although we could have done without being woken up at 2:30am our first night in Vegas by hotel security yelling FIRE GET OUT!! Was a small one down in the basement but scary nonetheless.

 

[RCope]

..... Might be ok...kind of a homemade clamato ??

Oyster Stout...

 

[seanjwalker1]

Oyster Stout...

Might actually be good. 1st time years ago a friend of mine in San Antonio offered me a beer with tomato juice and clam juice I thought the sun was getting to him. I declined. But years later I tried one and it was actually very tasty. You never know !

 

[Novacor]

Finally got around to putting my brown ale from Big Brew into a keg. The extra time on the yeast seems to have done well for this one, and the clarity is great!

 

[grampamark]

Bottled the Blonde Ale I brewed at the city house on 5/26. Twenty-four bottles; finished at 4% ABV. Should be a pretty good lawnmower beer.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Bottled an AK.

Gotta get brewing; all my fermenters are empty.

 

[BrewMan13]

Over the last few days:
Kicked my foreign extra stout, cleaned the keg and line, tapped the maibock (loving it already), kegged the schwarzbier and shoved it in the back of the kegerator to lager for a bit.

 

[JAReeves]

Doing my first closed transfer, it’s a DIPA, Nugget, Centennial, Chinook in boil, Mosaic and Citra in Dip Hop and Dry Hop. 11oz of hops total. Praying for an amazing flavor this time.

Cleaning a lot of kegs also, but the closed transfer is more exciting!

EDIT: Ok, it got stuck at 3 1/2-4 gallons. Had to open it up to try and force it to keep going and it wasn’t having any of it. Solutions?

 

[seanjwalker1]

Talked my old Army buddy in Atlanta by phone through his 2nd batch ever and his first extract with grains ever! A Doppelbock of my own design. Gonna have him doing all grain soon! Brew on young Padawan !! Yes he has a cold chamber and blow off tube ☺.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Gotta get brewing; all my fermenters are empty.

Collected water. Weighed grain. Milled grain.

I really like my Corona mill. I like milling by hand.

My usual beer is ~1.043 with 4.5-5# of grain.

This beer is an imperial stout, ~1.095. 12.7# of grain.

I do not love my Corona mill.

 

[BrewZer]

Inventoried my beer fridge, and discovered my Another New Year's APA is gone... kaput... no more... an ex-beer.

So I whipped up a cap-key-code list and posted that on the front so I can keep up with my consumption.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Inventoried my beer fridge, and discovered my Another New Year's APA is gone... kaput... no more... an ex-beer.

So I whipped up a cap-key-code list and posted that on the front so I can keep up with my consumption.

Gives you an excuse to brew up some more !! New Years in July

 

[seanjwalker1]

Heating the strike water now for a Czech Premium Lager! My 1st brew since Xmas delayed in may. Hello boysssssss and girlssssss!!!! I'm baaaaaack !

 

[balrog]

Nothing. That’s what I did for beer today.

And yes, it’s a physical withdrawal pain.

 

[ba-brewer]

Baked a parkin and a treacle flapjack, research on a recipes to use up a tin of black treacle(molasses). Thinking a treacle flapjack oatmeal stout and parkin robust spiced porter.

Also kegged my galaxy golden ale.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Yesterday brew day went well though I did miss the OG I was shooting for but still within style guidelines for a Czech pils. And I thought I had 3 packs of Saaz but had 2 Saaz and 1 Herbrucker.... So I guess it will be be a German/Czech Bohemian-ish lager..wort taste good regardless! 24 hours later already down to 52° in the kegerator. Will throw in the lager little yeast beasties tomorrow.

 

[Elric]

Comfirmed FG on my kilted rauchbier was good so kegged it up and will now let it lager for a while (it has a lot of clearing up to do). What's a kilted rauchbier you ask? It's a rauchbier that uses peat smoked mLt instead of the traditional beech or cherry wood! Tasted the fermentation sample and it's pretty interesting!

 

[kmarkstevens]

Baked a parkin and a treacle flapjack, research on a recipes to use up a tin of black treacle(molasses). Thinking a treacle flapjack oatmeal stout and parkin robust spiced porter.

Also kegged my galaxy golden ale.

Hey, I found a small amount, say a .25-.5 cup per 5 gallons, of black treacle aided head retention, produced superior dense bubbles, better mouth feel, but didn't end up affecting the taste (according to my not great palate). So, my suggestion is you try adding this almost token amount of treacle and see if you think it adds anything. Of course, your mileage may vary.

 

[ba-brewer]

Hey, I found a small amount, say a .25-.5 cup per 5 gallons, of black treacle aided head retention, produced superior dense bubbles, better mouth feel, but didn't end up affecting the taste (according to my not great palate). So, my suggestion is you try adding this almost token amount of treacle and see if you think it adds anything. Of course, your mileage may vary.

Thanks for the info. I will be adding oats to both beers so maybe the treacle with counter act any effects the oats might have on head retention. I am hoping to get some molasses flavor but not too much. I have about half pound left and was thinking that might be enough for two 2.5gal batches but by your experience that might not be enough for both if I want some molasses flavor to make it to the finished beers.

As a side note I did not really like the flapjack(could be recipe) but the parkin tasted fine.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Ok so missed my target OG of 1.054 2 days ago for my Czech lager. While fermenter has been cold crashing down to pitch temp, it's been bugging the H out of me..the nerve! . I couldn't abide it , just stuck in my craw. So today high tailed it out to the LHBS( 12 miles away) grabbed a pound of extra light pils dry extract and another oz of Saaz, boiled that in half gallon of distilled for for 60 min, added to fermenter and it brought me up to my OG target of 1.054! All is not lost ! It's gone from lowly lawnmower to Sessionable . Pitched 2 packs S-23 lager and back in the cold hole for 4 weeks.

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Altbier I brewed a couple of weeks ago. Finished at 4.5%. Now I’m brewing a Lawnmower Beer.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Kegged the Altbier I brewed a couple of weeks ago. Finished at 4.5%. Now I’m brewing a Lawnmower Beer. View attachment 732796

Nothing wrong with lawnmower ! I just didn't want my Czech to be lawnmower...its my 1st premium Czech lager. Actually it's my 2nd..i tried one about 7 years ago and it wasn't my proudest brewing moment. About 9% and had to be about 100 IBUs. I snuck to the garage like a thief in the night and ashamedly dumped it all.

 

[grampamark]

Into the fermenter, yeast pitched, brewery cleaned up, 4:30 start to finish. OG was 4 points higher than predicted, volume into the fermenter was about a quart short. That’s pretty much hitting the numbers.