What I did for beer today

[Bramling Cross]

something i'd want to try now! lol

I think it'll be a winner. The first runnings were eye-opening and got me thinking about a US adjunct dopplebock...

Anyway, it's a simple enough beer. It's just the Panther Piss adjunct package (3lbs of 6-row, 2lbs corn, 1lb of rice) plus a 3:2 ratio of Vienna to Munich to hit 1.055, 4oz of Midnight wheat for color and a hint of roast. Boil 90, Clusters at 60, 20 and 10, big Hallertau addition at 0.

It was one of those beers that's great out of the MT and gets better out of the BK. It's going to be great.

 

[camonick]

I found a competition I wanted to enter so I bottled the requested number of bottles for each style I intended to submit, only to realize, as I was going through the registration process, the competition is for females only. I put 2+2 together after I gave the name of the contest a little more thought and the very low number of paid entries for it since it’s only a couple weeks away. “Queen of Beers” should have been my first clue. It was right there in the rules… I just glossed over it. It does say “female identified”, so there’s that.
Oh well, I guess I’ve got some bottled beer ready if I find myself going to a BYOB function sometime soon.
Ladies, there’s still time if you hurry if you want to enter.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Just play the Mangina card

 

[seanjwalker1]

I think it'll be a winner. The first runnings were eye-opening and got me thinking about a US adjunct dopplebock...

Anyway, it's a simple enough beer. It's just the Panther Piss adjunct package (3lbs of 6-row, 2lbs corn, 1lb of rice) plus a 3:2 ratio of Vienna to Munich to hit 1.055, 4oz of Midnight wheat for color and a hint of roast. Boil 90, Clusters at 60, 20 and 10, big Hallertau addition at 0.

It was one of those beers that's great out of the MT and gets better out of the BK. It's going to be great.

Now I'll be the first to admit, I'm no know all beer god from the realm of BeerVana..but I just can't wrap my head around how you could possibly brew a doppelbock from adjuncts...???I'm sure it's possible and I'm not doubting your 37 chambers brewing mastery Oh great and terrible clown face from....something scary...

 

[seanjwalker1]

I found a competition I wanted to enter so I bottled the requested number of bottles for each style I intended to submit, only to realize, as I was going through the registration process, the competition is for females only. I put 2+2 together after I gave the name of the contest a little more thought and the very low number of paid entries for it since it’s only a couple weeks away. “Queen of Beers” should have been my first clue. It was right there in the rules… I just glossed over it. It does say “female identified”, so there’s that.
Oh well, I guess I’ve got some bottled beer ready if I find myself going to a BYOB function sometime soon.
Ladies, there’s still time if you hurry if you want to enter.

throw on some lipstick, put on a Halloween wig and label it Camonickaa.....??

 

[Immocles]

Pretty well fully moved into the new house. Haven’t brewed since August but having a friend install a spigot in the corner on an existing water line and I’m set. That should happen on Friday but I’m hoping to do a stovetop batch that morning to get my homebrew flowing. But the room is mostly set up!

Sidenote, I’m slowly switching to kegging and while putting some recently delivered parts away, I heard some crows outside. I tossed some unsalted peanuts out and managed to coax a few in. My wife LOVES crows so I’m excited about luring them in. Wonder if they’ll eat spent grain, hmm.

 

[Tom R]

Nice brew space!
I'll bet that with exterior walls that thick, you have serious insulation for the MN climate.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Now I'll be the first to admit, I'm no know all beer god from the realm of BeerVana..but I just can't wrap my head around how you could possibly brew a doppelbock from adjuncts...???I'm sure it's possible and I'm not doubting your 37 chambers brewing mastery Oh great and terrible clown face from....something scary...

My Panther Piss series of beers was sparked by gaining access to some translations of mid-19th Century brewing logs from the Midwest (a time when a German language newspaper had the highest circulation of any in the area). Prior to this, I had always assumed that corn and rice were used as cost-saving adjuncts. These records, however, indicated that the German brewers in the Midwest were, instead, trying to come to terms with domestic 6-row malt and make a clear lager beer by using the German tradition of adjunct brewing to tame the high protein levels of 6-row malt. Fascinating stuff!

Anyway, the whole thing fascinated me and opened up the concept of devising an adjunct package that I could plug into more modern styles, just as the 19th Century German brewers in the Midwest had done. The result was really, really good beer.

 

[Immocles]

Nice brew space!
I'll bet that with exterior walls that thick, you have serious insulation for the MN climate.

Yeah it’s an olllld house but very well insulated actually. Drafty with some big windows but just to the right of my kettle is a door leading to an unheated screened in porch and it’s crazy how well the brew room stays warm. I went to this from a completely unheated basement. I’ll miss being able to lager super easily on the winters, but I have a plan for that.

 

[kmarkstevens]

Got some needed supplies in from Midwest Supplies.

Been a cleaning and bottling day. sampled and dumped about 10 liter swing top bottles of beers that don't age well or leftover experiment. Kegged a Tony's Pre 1970's boddingtons and dry hopped with a significant amount of EKG. Bottled 12 liters of a blueberry cyser. First try at taking 5 pounds of Costco frozen blueberries, running them through the juicer, toss it all in the cyser at about 1010, ferment dry, filter all the crud though my mash and boil as a sterile mixing bucket. Had prolly half a gallon leftover in the mash and boil, so poured 6 gallons of bourbon barrel porter in on top of that, and then bottled about 25 liters worth of bourbon barrel porter with a hint o blueberry.

Replacement part came in for my 3 gallon fast ferment conical. This is a great yeast harvesting device if you're into such rabbit holes like I am. will make a manchester inspired AK 3 gallon batch pitched on top of the harvested Tony"s Pre 1970's boddy above to make use of the Manchester yeast. And in a few days will have a big ol honking pitch of Manchester yeast ready to for something else

Cleaning my 30L and 20L speidel carboys for the 6 gallon Malbec Wine Kit that I ordered for the first time. Will start that tonight in the 30L, and then secondary in the 20L.

I also have 6 gallons of a czech hack (munich, vienna, carabohemia, melanoidum and tettnanger with34/70) lagering away

BTW, FYI to those you that like English heritage malts, Northern Brewer and Midwest supplies both recently started carrying Chevalier malt. I've got some on the way and it's going straight into a SMASH quickly followed by the Machine House Clone.

At the end of this, I will have a full pipeline, a couple of kegs and at least two carboy's free to keep the pipeline full.

 

[BrewZer]

I myself just finished scraping the labels off of 3 bottles-that-formerly-held some Mad Elf seasonal.

They REALLY wanted those labels to stay on the bottles!

 

[Bill9000]

Added cinnamon sticks, vanilla, and spiced rum to my oatmeal stout that I'm bottling next weekend for Christmas Eve.

 

[ba-brewer]

Moved my wlp030 slants to the fridge. Brewed a Best Bitter with the wlp030 yeast I built up before thanksgiving. I used the wheeler courage best bitter recipe, 1oz of black patent malt in a 3gal batch really came out quite dark.

edit: added a pic, it also had 4oz of carastan, looks darker in a wider glass

 

[DBhomebrew]

Back on Thursday, amongst all the rest going on in the kitchen, I prepared a shaken-not-stirred starter with a tsp of slurry in a pint of fresh wort. Shake, shake, shake, set it in the closet.

It reached high krausen too early, by Saturday evening it had fallen. On Sunday, brew day, the surface was clear.

Pitching at high krausen is ideal. I've pitched early, I've now pitched late. Now I know, err on a later pitch.

Pitched the whole pint of starter into 4gal of 1.065 wort yesterday evening. Woke up to churning beer and an inch of creamy, yeasty krausen.

 

[jcfontario]

Cut back the passion fruit vine and collected 10 gallons of fruit. Not looking forward to processing it all, but I am looking forward to whatever we ferment it into.

Mash it up with some mango and use it a secondary for a mango-PF IPA?

I am extremely jealous as passionfriut is one of my favorite fruits. Up here in Canada, they are prohibitively expensive. Something like $2 per fruit, if you can even find them.

 

[Pkrd]

I legged my riwaka simcoe pale ale last night. While in the kegerator I swapped in a keg of Sabro that had been festering in the garage for 5 months. Should have burped it first as it shot foam everywhere when I opened the tap. Ugh.

 

[bracconiere]

Moved my wlp030 slants to the fridge. Brewed a Best Bitter with the wlp030 yeast I built up before thanksgiving. I used the wheeler courage best bitter recipe, 1oz of black patent malt in a 3gal batch really came out quite dark.
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edit: added a pic, it also had 4oz of carastan, looks darker in a wider glass

i think more people then just me think, you have got to have the prettiest test cylinder ever!

 

[ba-brewer]

Just trying to keep up with

i think more people then just me think, you have got to have the prettiest test cylinder ever!

Thanks but I think that honor belongs to @grampamark or some of the others that post clear post ferment pics.

This is tube #4, two easy to clean ones with removable bases would leak, #3 turned frosty. I wonder which is going to break first the tube or the hydrometer. I am guessing the hydro first from bouncing off the bottom.
edit: It came from Williams homebrewing, does not need much to fill it.

 

[bracconiere]

Just trying to keep up with

Thanks but I think that honor belongs to @grampamark or some of the others that post clear post ferment pics.

This is tube #4, two easy to clean ones with removable bases would leak, #3 turned frosty. I wonder which is going to break first the tube or the hydrometer. I am guessing the hydro first from bouncing off the bottom.
edit: It came from Williams homebrewing, does not need much to fill it.

i hope i never have to post a pic of mine! i know if i ever posted a pic of my two, the rage train would tell me to clean up! (but i use mine for all kinds of things that don't dissolve in soapy water! and the PBW soak i gave them sure didn't help! now i know why they say don't use PBW on glass!)

 

[ba-brewer]

i hope i never have to post a pic of mine! i know if i ever posted a pic of my two, the rage train would tell me to clean up! (but i use mine for all kinds of things that don't dissolve in soapy water! and the PBW soak i gave them sure didn't help! now i know why they say don't use PBW on glass!)

I did not know PBW was not good on glass, I dont use that but do use oxiclean and it seems to work fine for bottles. Only issues I have noticed is if I use too much it leave a residue that is takes extra rinses to get off.

 

[bracconiere]

i've tried scrubbing these, soaking them in all kinds of slovents....PBW just don't come off glass....

your jar is like a sexy super model, mine are like a fat redneck named bubba.....

 

[hout17]

I did not know PBW was not good on glass, I dont use that but do use oxiclean and it seems to work fine for bottles. Only issues I have noticed is if I use too much it leave a residue that is takes extra rinses to get off.

Yeah, this is my experience too; I use pbw on a glass carboy I have and glass bottles and have no issues.

 

[bracconiere]

BTW if anyone has any ideas on how to get those clean, i'm all ears!

 

[bracconiere]

Yeah, this is my experience too; I use pbw on a glass carboy I have and glass bottles and have no issues.

i don't know, maybe i'll try pbw again...maybe it's just because i was trying to wash a sink load of dirty dishes in a storage tote.....figured f it, why not use pbw.....

i think i'll fill them up with some hot water and toss in a tsp of pbw, but i'm not holding out hope!

 

[hout17]

i don't know, maybe i'll try pbw again...maybe it's just because i was trying to wash a sink load of dirty dishes in a storage tote.....figured f it, why not use pbw.....

i think i'll fill them up with some hot water and toss in a tsp of pbw, but i'm not holding out hope!

Yeah, I don't have any advice to give but it would be just as you said some pbw and warm water and let it soak then run a brush through it. If it's something like beer stone then you may need another approach.

I soak dirty beer bottles in pbw/water then use a bottle brush and it works Everytime if they are that dirty but rarely are.

My carboy I put on my kegwasher and have water mixed with pbw jetting in to the carboy and it cleans it great after fermentation with no brushing.

 

[JAReeves]

BTW if anyone has any ideas on how to get those clean, i'm all ears!

 

[Noob_Brewer]

Kegged a NEIPA. Due to a more lengthy fermentation time than expected I couldn’t leg before thanksgiving so dry hopped it at 52-53 last Monday/Tuesday and let it ride at 52 until Saturday when I returned from thanksgiving to cold crash to 38. Don’t think there’s any adverse effects for letting it sit on hops a few days longer than normal for me. Happy with this one. Columbus/Galaxy combo with cosmic punch yeast. - 7.9% abv. Galaxy always seems to really brighten these beers up.

 

[BeerAndTele]

Moved my wlp030 slants to the fridge. Brewed a Best Bitter with the wlp030 yeast I built up before thanksgiving. I used the wheeler courage best bitter recipe, 1oz of black patent malt in a 3gal batch really came out quite dark.
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edit: added a pic, it also had 4oz of carastan, looks darker in a wider glass

That‘s some clear wort!

 

[ba-brewer]

That‘s some clear wort!

I like to use trub free wort so I let my wort sit for awhile(45 to 60min, maybe more) before transferring to the fermentor. Whirfloc and a quick chill before that.

 

[GPNewBrew]

I bought another SS Brewbucket, 7 gal, Brewmaster edition. Got it on sale at MoreBeer (probably available elsewhere), and glad to add it to my collection. I have a collection of fermenters, including other SS equipment, Fermonsters, and Speidels, and these Brewbuckets are the best in my book!