What I did for beer today

[seatazzz]

Just finished bottling off the last three entries of the five I'm taking to the LHBS for a comp tomorrow. Now I've set myself to tasting the three I still have on tap, and criticizing as far as my soon to be tipsy brain will allow. It IS Friday, after all! Of course dumba** me decided to start with the strongest one; look for me later tonight on the Drunken Mumbling and Random Thoughts thread!

 

[DBhomebrew]

Stopped in at the LHBS to pick up the pack of Imperial Bartleby he ordered for me. He's been curbside up until August. It's nice to walk in, smell the grain in the air, and shop. He's got his customary kegerator of shop brew going again. German pilsner, hard cider, and a weissbier. All very nice.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Packaged up a few bottles of my Screaming Eagle Belgian Pale Ale to send off to the Belgian Draft Horse competition.

 

[seatazzz]

Got bottles labelled and boxed up, ready to turn in later this morning. I use chalk pens to mark the bottle caps before applying the labels (some have been in bottles for a month) and very nearly mislabelled my IPA (I named it Sabrotooth) with Stout labels. Yes they look very different in the bottles but in my haste to get done I didn't even look. Caught the mistake when I opened the fridge to grab the next set of three to be labelled and saw the actual Stout bottles in the back of the fridge. Hoping to get a couple of medals, but mostly looking forward to the scoresheets. Most beers I've ever entered in a comp, with five going in, the limit. Oldest is the Imperial Stout brewed back in January, and the youngest are the IPA and the lager at just two weeks. Going over the entry forms now to make sure they're right, damn I'm excited about this!

 

[camonick]

Set my fermentation fridge to begin cold crashing my first attempt at a NEIPA. Hope to keg tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully it’s not an oxidized mess when I’m done.

 

[Novacor]

Kegged my Lutra Oktoberfest. The sample was super clean and clear, this one should be a real winner once it's cold and carbed.

 

[fourfarthing]

Stared

 

[Bramling Cross]

Since I ran out of Barke Pils last weekend, I once again locked horns with the greedy gendarmerie and mouth-breathing drivers of Northern Virginia on a daring mission to acquire another 55lb sack from MyLHBS in Seven Corners, Va. The NOVA drivers did not disappoint, the gendarmerie was oddly absent today, and MyLHBS was as helpful and friendly as always. It's a good shop staffed by good people. They're worth the mortal peril to body and wallet that accompanies any suicide mission into NOVA.

 

[HoppyHaze]

Added a secondary regulator, dialed in the fan, and a rearrangement to the keezer. Now we have seltzer water and an fresh squished IPA on tap. Im sure this is similar to what kings felt like. Fermentation, bubbles, and beer does it get any better.

 

[Bramling Cross]

fresh squished IPA on tap

Courtesy of Mr. seanjwalker1, I purchased that kit during last Spring's buy three IPA kits for a cheap price sale. Any advice? I gather it's a clone of something that I've never had before, much less heard of.

If you have any advice, I'm all ears. I'm thinking US-05, but I also have BRY97 and Notty in the fridge. I also have a working pitch of Verdant in my ale fermenter atm.

 

[HoppyHaze]

Courtesy of Mr. seanjwalker1, I purchased that kit during last Spring's buy three IPA kits for a cheap price sale. Any advice? I gather it's a clone of something that I've never had before, much less heard of.

If you have any advice, I'm all ears.

Great Kit, I believe its Deschutes fresh squeezed IPA clone. Tastes pretty close to it. I didn't make any adjustments to it and it turned out great. I did 2.5 weeks primary then dry hopped 6 days and it turned out great. I used US-05 without issue

 

[Bramling Cross]

Oh, it's a Deschutes beer? Fantastic! As an Oregon refugee on the East Coast for the past twenty years, that's great news! Deschutes is one of the things that I really miss about Oregon. You've just slotted that kit into the two hole on my batting order.

Thank you.

 

[csantoni]

Kegged 3 gallons of Oktoberfest.

Also filled up the digiboil for tomorrow's brew day and set it to 166F. I love waking up to hot strike water.

 

[ba-brewer]

Yesterday kegged my Best Bitter, yeast never dropped until I moved the fermentor. Also Dry hopped my IPA and made a starter and slants for WLP059 for an upcoming brew.

Today brewed a german pilsner, did a extra long mash as I needed run some errands and got slightly higher efficiency than usually for my troubles. Temp drifted lower too so expecting a higher attenuation too.

Still need to step up my wlp059 later.

 

[bracconiere]

i brewed a 99.5% base malt beer with 2ozs chocolate malt, in a 10 gallon batch...the color is pretty! i got so much cheap old hops on hand i just said f'it, added what i had in one bag for 60 of belma, added probably 6ozs of bravo for 10...got my mashtun and kettle clean, and put away.....need to get the odds and ends clean still...all in all, a good day!


i guess this is a what i still have to do for beer post!

 

[camonick]

Kegged my NEIPA this afternoon. Looks and tastes great. Pretty pleased with my first try. Finished at 6.6% ABV

 

[bracconiere]

just for anyone else that brews on the stove...that's after a batch and, if you take the thingy's that keep it only half crack out, it pops out quick, and you can just hose it down.....goes from that to this!

if i would have known that trick sooner, i probably wouldn't be the perma baked on crud! thinking about buying a new top from ebay to find out! just for anyone else's knowledge!

 

[pshankstar]

Added my home roasted cold brewed coffee to my stout today and placed the keg in the kegerator.

 

[KYBLUE]

Upgraded the kegerator from three to four tap with faucet springs. Liking the four inch tower.


Also installed an inline regulator for each tap.

 

[csantoni]

Was going to head to costco to try to find one of those Paulaner Oktoberfest special editions when the wife mentioned she had a $50 BevMo gift card from work that she wasn't going to use. Didn't get the special edition but did get some future recipe inspiration.

 

[user 298779]

Packaged up a few bottles of my Screaming Eagle Belgian Pale Ale to send off to the Belgian Draft Horse competition.

If the Screaming Eagle Belgian Pale Ale is in tribute to the 101st PIR I’m diggin‘ it Looking forward to finishing my journey that covers their entire path in WW II.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

If the Screaming Eagle Belgian Pale Ale is in tribute to the 101st PIR I’m diggin‘ it Looking forward to finishing my journey that covers their entire path in WW II.

NUTS!

(translation: Yes, it's a hat-tip to the 101st, particularly the Siege of Bastogne.)

 

[csantoni]

NUTS!

(translation: Yes, it's a hat-tip to the 101st, particularly the Siege of Bastogne.)

My favorite pre-credits epilogue card from a TV show/movie is the one at the end of the Bastogne episode of Band of Brothers that talks about how Patton "rescued" them. "No member of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued."

 

[user 298779]

“Nuts”...that is SUCH a legend! Ever tried a Belgian Patersbier recipe? I planned twice to make one but never have.

 

[user 298779]

My favorite pre-credits epilogue card from a TV show/movie is the one at the end of the Bastogne episode of Band of Brothers that talks about how Patton "rescued" them. "No member of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued."

Probably not good thread for discussing this, but I laugh every time I think of that. The bastards of Bastogne achieved what just couldn’t be thought possible. Gonna “start a conversation“ instead of posting more.

 

[JAReeves]

Well it was yesterday, but football opened at 10am PST, and so did my Centennial Blonde on tap! At some point I walked the mom-in-law through a router reset to fix her internet and passed a growler off to some neighbors who brought extra guests from New Mexico by for a tap tasting, and I apparently made pot roast that everyone loved.

IDK, I was seriously in my cups! And dad’s team, the Steelers won, so extra beers for that as well. A good time was had by all!

 

[seatazzz]

Stopped at Wallyworld for a couple of things, and bought two big plastic cereal containers that should do well to hold my adjunct grains. If it works I'll get more next week and have a nice row of them on my shelf. Currently they live in sealed plastic bags in my two-row container (a big trash can that's never been used for anything other than two-row) so hoping to up my storage game.

 

[Tyler B]

I received almost 60 lbs (27kg) of grains and about a pound of hops. I didn't think this would be possible due to covid restrictions and lockdowns where I live, but I'll be damned if it didn't show up today. I'm set for at least a few planned brews... A double NEIPA, a RIS, a fruited sour. So excited!

 

[aharri1]

Attempted my first double decoction this past Saturday on my Oktoberfest. I didn't have a problem with pulling grains/boiling them, but was around 8 to 9° under my target temp at both steps and had to add water. I'm guessing I need to lower my water to grist ratio from 1:5:1 to 1.25:1 so there's less heat loss from water. Everything still went well and hit my numbers, it just took a little longer!

 

[govner1]

Kegged my Cascade PA using CO2 transfer, cleaned fermentors