What I did for beer today

[seatazzz]

Brewing up a Manny's clone today, and have finally had it with the old mash tun; just not holding heat well enough. I'm too lazy to run a heat exchanger, so after a quick online search found that our local Home Depot has the 10g igloo coolers back in stock. I'll take my false bottom with me to make sure it fits (if it doesn't, I guess mama is getting a new angle grinder too); the only issue I can see is the sparge arm. Current mash tun (16g extract barrel) has one built into the lid, made of PEX pipe with several holes drilled into it; hoping I can incorporate it into the new one. Never so excited when I know I've got macgyvering in my near future! Work? I was supposed to go in today? Oh darn, sorry, I'm not feeling well. Har!!! I'm salary so no overtime to miss out on anyway. Can't wait!!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Brewing up a Manny's clone today, and have finally had it with the old mash tun; just not holding heat well enough. I'm too lazy to run a heat exchanger, so after a quick online search found that our local Home Depot has the 10g igloo coolers back in stock. I'll take my false bottom with me to make sure it fits (if it doesn't, I guess mama is getting a new angle grinder too); the only issue I can see is the sparge arm. Current mash tun (16g extract barrel) has one built into the lid, made of PEX pipe with several holes drilled into it; hoping I can incorporate it into the new one. Never so excited when I know I've got macgyvering in my near future! Work? I was supposed to go in today? Oh darn, sorry, I'm not feeling well. Har!!! I'm salary so no overtime to miss out on anyway. Can't wait!!

Be more secretive with employment post! Never know who in your corporate chain of command might be a HBT member! Good luck on your build! I bought my 10 gallon igloo 7 years ago over $100 and unlit my own 5 gal igloo last year and for about $35 all together. Caught the igloo cooler on sale at Lowe's and got my false bottom low cost at Wally-World. Pays to search around and compare prices and do it yourself. Save at least 50% of beer supply sold mash tun.

 

[seatazzz]

Be more secretive with employment post! Never know who in your corporate chain of command might be a HBT member! Good luck on your build! I bought my 10 gallon igloo 7 years ago over $100 and unlit my own 5 gal igloo last year and for about $35 all together. Caught the igloo cooler on sale at Lowe's and got my false bottom low cost at Wally-World. Pays to search around and compare prices and do it yourself. Save at least 50% of beer supply sold mash tun.

I'm good there, my real name isn't in my profile and nobody at work even makes wine, let alone beer! Going in was more of a voluntary thing anyway to catch up.

Giving the new tun a test run this morning with a simple Kolsch-kinda-ale. Also going to use Lallemand Kveik to ferment it, since the ferment fridge is occupied and it's warm enough in the house to start using it again.

*edit Forgot to mention that I stopped at the LHBS in my quest for a 10g cooler (had to go to Puyallup for it, nowhere around here had them, HD lies like a rug), he had the Lowes 10g cooler setup with false bottom and hoses for $150. If I hadn't found one for $50 that I built myself I was seriously considering just saying the heck with it and buying it, now I'm glad I didn't.

 

[Beermeister32]

Going to go dump batch 108. This was the 1912 Oly clone I was working on, brewed 2/13/21.

Something caused this batch to get totally cloudy. It’s been lagering 3 months now, with gelatin, and has very little flavor. I’m thinking maybe the starch from the 2 lbs of rice didn’t fully convert. Dunno.

Will be dumping on the lawn this afternoon!

 

[JAReeves]

Planned out a Hibiscus Wheat Saison, shooting for about 4% for SWMBO. Using Tettnanger to up the peppery spice to complement the Hibiscus tart and Wheat for a bread flavor in the middle. Looking at the A/C unit and the cooler and trying to decide if I want to spend Father's Day tearing apart machinery for the Glycol Chiller build, or just save it for tomorrow. Read Brewing Industry Guide's new issue cover-to-cover!

 

[balrog]

Father's Day.
Washed 2 kegs.

I know how to live.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Took a gravity sample of my 1914 Courage Imperial. Tastes good, but sweet. 1.099 down to 1.036 in seven days at 60°. ~85% of the way to my hoped for FG.

Swapped the blow-off for an airlock. Added the dry-hops in the process.

Weighed out the grist for the next brew. A 1.043 best bitter. 85/5/10 Optic/C65/invert. Pub and EKG.

ETA: Also prepped a package for shipping to my Pop. This will be the first of my beer that he'll taste.

Irish Dry Stout
Irish Extra Stout
Wee Heavy
Wee Heavy Graf
Strong Bitter
Old Ale
English Barleywine (to be enjoyed in just a week or two when I call to give news of his new grandson)

 

[ba-brewer]

Kegged my best bitter yesterday. Today did a Helles, split it in half and fermenting half warm and the other half cold.

 

[DBhomebrew]

ETA: Also prepped a package for shipping to my Pop. This will be the first of my beer that he'll taste.

Irish Dry Stout
Irish Extra Stout
Wee Heavy
Wee Heavy Graf
Strong Bitter
Old Ale
English Barleywine (to be enjoyed in just a week or two when I call to give news of his new grandson)

Shipped it.

Clerk at UPS Store: "What's in the box?"

Me: "Food."

Toddler at my feet: "Beer for Grandpa."

Clerk with raised eyebrow: "Is it packed well?"

 

[bracconiere]

Shipped it.

Clerk at UPS Store: "What's in the box?"

Me: "Food."

Toddler at my feet: "Beer for Grandpa."

Clerk with raised eyebrow: "Is it packed well?"

i just got mine, in plastic bottles....intact...i have no idea why they had tamper proof caps though! i plan on shipping them back full again, with tamper broken evident seals, lol....

 

[balrog]

Today, I'm getting ready to make more @Yooper pale ale. One of my favorites. But COVID has my pipeline all in a kerfuffle so my Aug2020 WY1450 needs a little 0.5L "Please wake up, Denny" starter.

 

[JAReeves]

Bought a copy each of Conn & Beechum's Experimental Homebrewing and Schramm's Compleat Meadmaker. It's the 2nd copy of Schramm's book, the first went to my sister who is looking at a meadery as her retirement plan. I'm also steadily knocking items of the Teacher's Summer To-Do List (the things we can't do when teaching) so that I can brew another batch!

Fixed a door, several locks, the dryer, the central heat & A/C, played with the kids; the stuff that doesn't normally happen for teachers Sept.-June .

 

[Knightshade]

Threw some S-04 into a keg that has apple juice and brown sugar in it. Yeah..I know it ain't beer...but my wife likes cider and it will needs to sit and age anyways. Once it starts fermenting, I'm going to use the co2 to purge a couple kegs to transfer some beer that is conditioning. One is sitting on a cage of mangoes, the other rum soaked raisins.

 

[seanjwalker1]

I'm an admitted Airlock Sniffer. Been a week since putting the Czech Premium in the kegerator to cold ferment. Thought I'd get a sniff fix. No bubbles of course most of the co2 trapped in the cold beer. So figured I'd swirl it a bit to get some off gassing...BIG MISTAKE! The rotten egg sulfer smell almost knocked me to my knees! 1st time using Saf S-23...whooooo!!! Never got that with 34/70 though I know it's possible. If that don't cure a airlock Sniff addict I don't know what will!!!

 

[Mr. Vern]

After 20 months I finally got ALL of the burnt sugars off of our "brand new" stovetop. Win.

A watched flask never boils but take your eyes off that bugger for 1 second....

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Hazy Ale I brewed a couple of weeks ago. I put this recipe together after having an Odell hazy and thinking it was a pretty good summer/lawnmower beer; low gravity and a lot of late hops. Next time I’ll cut the bittering hops (Centennial) in half. The sample out of the keg tasted more like a WCIPA; not a bad thing but not what I was aiming for.

 

[Knightshade]

Be more secretive with employment post! Never know who in your corporate chain of command might be a HBT member!

+1000 on this. My ex-boss is a home brewer and I pass his house on my most common route out of the neighborhood. I doubt that he is on here, but I have no real way of knowing. My current boss is also a home brewer (oddly enough), but he hasn't brewed in a couple of years and lives fairly far away from me. Haven't picked up where his preferred LHBS is though...hmm..

 

[DBhomebrew]

Shipped it.

Clerk at UPS Store: "What's in the box?"

Me: "Food."

Toddler at my feet: "Beer for Grandpa."

Clerk with raised eyebrow: "Is it packed well?"

Delivered and chilling in Pop's fridge!

 

[JAReeves]

Decided to finish cleaning the lemon tree of lemons. Low acid at this point, very concentrated juice. So I am asking the community for help in what I can do with the bounty: 6# of lemon zest (in the freezer) and 2 1/2 gallons of juice (in the fridge). Rather than burden this thread, here is where I posted my question.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/when-life-gives-you-lemons.693471/
Peace,

Reevesie

 

[seanjwalker1]

Decided to finish cleaning the lemon tree of lemons. Low acid at this point, very concentrated juice. So I am asking the community for help in what I can do with the bounty: 6# of lemon zest (in the freezer) and 2 1/2 gallons of juice (in the fridge). Rather than burden this thread, here is where I posted my question.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/when-life-gives-you-lemons.693471/
Peace,

Reevesie

While I've never used real fruit in my beer (I've kicked the idea around a time or 2) you could probably make a killer summer Shandy wheat beer or a hard lemonade. I've really thought of using real lemons in a wheat beer or even a dark bock. I add sweet lemonade to 80% of my beers anyway! Habit I picked up in Schweinfurt Germany decades ago. Sounds crazy I know and I thought the same thing as a 19 year old soldier. I was like Germans are crazy! Who on God's Earth puts lemon in their beer?!? I tried it...been hooked ever since. It's basically just a Shandy which I been drinking since 1984 that didn't catch on over here till decades later. Just a thought . I'm sure you will find good use for your lemon gold mine.

 

[Beermeister32]

So I am asking the community for help in what I can do with the bounty: 6# of lemon zest (in the freezer) and 2 1/2 gallons of juice (in the fridge).

Gal at work has a lemon tree. She juices the lemons and puts the juice in gallon ziplock bags in the freezer. She makes lemon chicken with the juice throughout the year.

 

[seatazzz]

No brewing for me for at least 2 weeks; two in the ferment fridge currently crashing, and the Kveik Kolsch ready to keg today. Haven't touched it since I brewed it, it was done with primary after ONE day but I've let it sit because busy. Can't wait to see how it turned out.

 

[seatazzz]

No brewing for me for at least 2 weeks; two in the ferment fridge currently crashing, and the Kveik Kolsch ready to keg today. Haven't touched it since I brewed it, it was done with primary after ONE day but I've let it sit because busy. Can't wait to see how it turned out.

Got damn, I just tested this guy and it came down to 1.008, lowest I've ever hit. And if I did the math right, efficiency is at 76% which is one hell of an improvement on my usual 60-65%. I got 5.6%ABV out of 10 POUNDS of grain, wow. Yay new mash tun!! Also this ale promises to be pretty good; pre-kegging sample tastes great, no fruity esters that I thought I would get with dry Kveik fermented about 85-90, just a nice crisp ale. Success!!

 

[balrog]

...pre-kegging sample tastes great, no fruity esters that I thought I would get with dry Kveik fermented about 85-90

Which Kveik?

 

[balrog]

Made Session Hoppy Pale #8, no boil, Lallemand Voss Kveik at half pitch rate, in top draw keg ferment at 95F.

 

[seatazzz]

Which Kveik?

Lallemand Dry Kveik. First time trying it, very very impressed, 10/10 will use again and again. PItched at 100, maybe got down to 85 (doubt that it's been HAWT), and finished clean. No esters, just a nice ale. I don't know what the exact ferment temp was because it was out in my garage wrapped in a blanket & towel, in a milk crate where it's hard to see the fermometer.

 

[seatazzz]

Maybe not exactly FOR beer, but it's related to beer, so...was rinsing a keg for my Kveik Kolsch this morning at the kitchen sink, and the cold water faucet decided it didn't want to turn off. Futzed with it for over an hour before realizing it was toast. Hie us off to HD for a new faucet, got one of the spiffy new-fangled drop-down sprayer ones. 4 hours later it's installed and pretty. Installation was easy, it was getting the old one out that took forever. Had to use the drill to get one of the stupid plastic basin nuts off and lots of Blast to loosen up old metal nuts.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Picked up my new sack of grain from the LHBS group order. I had ordered Simpsons Golden Promise, but someone made a mistake and I received Simpsons Best Pale Ale. I'm sure it'll be delicious, but I am a little bummed. At my speed, it's 4-5 months worth of mistake. Still a quality malt, it'll be great.

 

[balrog]

Lallemand Dry Kveik. First time trying it, very very impressed, 10/10 will use again and again. PItched at 100, maybe got down to 85 (doubt that it's been HAWT), and finished clean. No esters, just a nice ale. I don't know what the exact ferment temp was because it was out in my garage wrapped in a blanket & towel, in a milk crate where it's hard to see the fermometer.

no orange?!!

Maybe not exactly FOR beer, but it's related to beer, so...was rinsing a keg for my Kveik Kolsch this morning at the kitchen sink, and the cold water faucet decided it didn't want to turn off. Futzed with it for over an hour before realizing it was toast. Hie us off to HD for a new faucet, got one of the spiffy new-fangled drop-down sprayer ones. 4 hours later it's installed and pretty. Installation was easy, it was getting the old one out that took forever. Had to use the drill to get one of the stupid plastic basin nuts off and lots of Blast to loosen up old metal nuts.

I.
Hate.
Plumbing.

 

[seatazzz]

No orange, no citrus, no fruity, just beer, yes unbelievable.

I too HATE PLUMBING. I'd much rather work on cars.