What I did for beer today

[bracconiere]

It's cheap and it won't hurt to try it.

lol, it'll take me couple months to save up $10....

 

[Jaurez]

Bottling day for my British brown ale. It's come out quite well! I had a taste and it's already pretty drinkable.

 

[seanjwalker1]

lol, it'll take me couple months to save up $10....

. Well it's like $2.40 at most places depending, like Lowe's, Wal-Mart, ECT.

 

[Scottyward]

got my beer engine finished. mini fridge below with 2gallon keg at 54 degrees. low volume of CO2. Came out as I planned. Bourbon Barrel Stout now being served.

 

[Scottyward]

Transferred Scotch Ale to barrel for final aging.

 

[RCope]

@Scotty Ward Your setup is amazing. I'm just surprised you used "toasted" pine to finish up the cabinets! ;-) Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

2gallon keg

so you make sure you'll never run out of glasses not beer?

 

[T Murph]

I can't find Lindeman's Kriek Lambic anywhere between the Florida Panhandle and Birmingham. Ordered a case of 12 and they finally arrived just in time to watch college football. Made my day and that's what I did for beer today.

 

[balrog]

Today I did the unthinkable and "retired" 3 kegs.
Having too many promotes lazy cleaning and some have idiosyncrasies, up with which I am tired of putting.
I really only "need" 9 (Apfelwein, Root Beer, 2 in keezer, 2 waiting to go in keezer, 1 to ferment in, and at most 1 or 2 waiting to be cleaned).
I have 17.

Just explain to me why I feel the white hot need to save all posts, dip tubes and lids before tossing the carcasses.

 

[seanjwalker1]

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got my beer engine finished. mini fridge below with 2gallon keg at 54 degrees. low volume of CO2. Came out as I planned. Bourbon Barrel Stout now being served.

Beam me up Scotty !!!!! I'll have a Wee Large bit O' Stout for medicinal purposes

 

[BrewZer]

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.

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That's a party in a box right there!

Meanwhile, I sampled test bottle 2 of the Galaxy SMaSHer. Carbed nicely, small head but good retention, which surprises me becuz there's naught in there but Breiss 2-row and the hops.

Very citrusy/grapefruity finish -- refreshing, light (in body and color), moderate in alcohol (6.4%), and warms up nicely without getting impolite. Looks like a good summer ale for a warm afternoon over the grill.

 

[kmarkstevens]

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got my beer engine finished. mini fridge below with 2gallon keg at 54 degrees. low volume of CO2. Came out as I planned. Bourbon Barrel Stout now being served.

That looks awesome! Is that a real beer engine or some kind of work around? I want to do a workaround as my thanksgiving or xmas project this year, so please ping me if you don't mind about your set up

 

[bracconiere]

well i put my barley sprouts in the oven, brew day tomorrow....my house smells like barley grass right now! but that's why they need to be kilned....

 

[FrCorySticha]

This evening, I put the dry hop addition into what I'm going to call my Comedy of Errors Black IPA, the first beer I've brewed in several years.

 

[grampamark]

Swapped out the 2 quart blowoff container I used yesterday when I pitched a starter made from some US-05 slurry into a Robust Porter for a 5 quart container. I’ll probably have to switch again in the morning.

 

[ba-brewer]

Double brew day for me today. I did a 2.5gal batch of best bitter full volume no sparge then added more grain to the mashtun and did my normal fast fly sparge for a 5gal batch of golden ale. Not sure it saved much time or grain, maybe a little of each. This was the first time doing it and did not messing anything up so might try it again.

The Golden ale is sort of experiment to see if I can get any orange flavors from Voss. I only did a bittering hop addition at 60min with magnum and going to ferment it hot with only 2 Teaspoons of slurry.

 

[bracconiere]

Double brew day for me today. I did a 2.5gal batch of best bitter full volume no sparge then added more grain to the mashtun and did my normal fast fly sparge for a 5gal batch of golden ale. Not sure it saved much time or grain, maybe a little of each. This was the first time doing it and did not messing anything up so might try it again.

The Golden ale is sort of experiment to see if I can get any orange flavors from Voss. I only did a bittering hop addition at 60min with magnum and going to ferment it hot with only 2 Teaspoons of slurry.

sounds interesting, because i have no idea what you just said you did? lol, so you did a no sparge and a second batch without cleaning the mash tun?

 

[ba-brewer]

sounds interesting, because i have no idea what you just said you did? lol, so you did a no sparge and a second batch without cleaning the mash tun?

seems like you got it. Yes

Was looking to speed up the process to get two brews done. Normally I do a fly sparge which takes about 40mins to drain(maybe 20 or 25min for a half size batch) which is sort of fast for fly sparging. A full volume sparge leaves some sugar behind but can drain really fast. Adding more grain on top of the first batch in the mashtun reclaimed the normally lost sugar of a full volume no sparge.

 

[Scottyward]

@Scotty Ward Your setup is amazing. I'm just surprised you used "toasted" pine to finish up the cabinets! ;-) Cheers!

Good point..the name “Toasted Pine”, just not as sexy.

 

[Scottyward]

That looks awesome! Is that a real beer engine or some kind of work around? I want to do a workaround as my thanksgiving or xmas project this year, so please ping me if you don't mind about your set up

The pump is made by Harry Mason UK, so the real deal. Beer is kept at 54 degrees in a mini fridge in cabinet below. 1.75 gal keg with low CO2 volume to keep fresh. The key is a check valve underneath that keeps beer or air from going back in keg.

 

[seatazzz]

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got my beer engine finished. mini fridge below with 2gallon keg at 54 degrees. low volume of CO2. Came out as I planned. Bourbon Barrel Stout now being served.

Bracc beat me to it, but are you SURE you have enough glasses???? That is one beautiful setup!

 

[seatazzz]

Just explain to me why I feel the white hot need to save all posts, dip tubes and lids before tossing the carcasses.

Because those things bought by themselves are spensive; also when you REALLY need one you have none to hand (or that might just be me).

Speaking of which, anyone else have a "junk" drawer where all your small odds & ends from equipment, kegs, what have you, goes to gather dust? Yep, thought so.

 

[Beer Viking]

Sourced all of the ingridients for my first all grain batch. I just have one more thing in the mail, then I'll be ordering my malt, hops and yeast! There is no way I would have been able to get this far without this forum.

 

[T Murph]

Lol, @seatazz your question takes on a whole new issue for me. I've been storing bits and pieces for many years. I have two huge storage tubs with taps, quick connects, gauges, various bar items and such. Not to mention the two tool boxes with current use hardware items. My house just sold where my brewery and equipment are kept. I'm building a new smaller house and I am now task with the choir of determining what to keep and what I can let go. My new home build will have a dedicated brewery/tap room. But the bulk of the two tubs need to go. Sometimes we just have to let it go. Oh yeah, and the old tool box from back when I bottled, it even has a counter flow bottle filler, pin lock QCs, corny keg O rings etc, etc. I have a lot of things to get rid of.

 

[balrog]

Because those things bought by themselves are spensive; also when you REALLY need one you have none to hand (or that might just be me).

Speaking of which, anyone else have a "junk" drawer where all your small odds & ends from equipment, kegs, what have you, goes to gather dust? Yep, thought so.

"A" junk drawer?
Just one?

PSHAW!

 

[bracconiere]

well......i used the dryer with the lint screen taken out to deculm my malt today. made it easy and the malt is the cleanest i've ever seen homemalt. but i think i lost around a pound of malt. next time i do it, i'll only do it for 10 minutes, instead of 30. see if i don't lose as much.


got my strike water heating, and looking forward to trying my 9 quart HLT, for a 10 gallon batch, lol i also have a neat new sparge diffuser, custom built by @Jaybird

still needs some tweaking, but looking forward to seeing it in action!

 

[balrog]

i used the dryer with the lint screen taken out to deculm my malt today. made it easy and the malt is the cleanest i've ever seen homemalt. but i think i lost around a pound of malt

I would worry that the pound of missing malt, along with those nefariously sneaky single missing socks, would now be roasting and toasting each time the dryer is used in the future.

 

[bracconiere]

I would worry that the pound of missing malt, along with those nefariously sneaky single missing socks, would now be roasting and toasting each time the dryer is used in the future.

yeah i was thinking about it also.. thinking about the fire extinguisher.....maybe a used 120v dryer? have to look into it, dedicated just for deculming....

 

[ba-brewer]

Today I did the unthinkable and "retired" 3 kegs.

Just explain to me why I feel the white hot need to save all posts, dip tubes and lids before tossing the carcasses.

So you plan to toss the actual kegs? If you left them in tact seem like you could easily find someone to take them off your hands if they are serviceable.

 

[Wigglebutts Brewery]

Rocky Mountain homebrew competition: pickups, delivery and sorting. Shout out to Foam on the Range club members spending Sunday pulling together. Longest shipping to Denver is Georgia and Maine!!!