Who's brewing on Black Friday?

[NTOLERANCE]

I just mentioned on INTOLERENCE's black friday thread that next year we should all brew black beers on black friday.

Hmmm......maybe a HBT Black Friday recipe?

 

[phrogpilot73]

Brewed up an Oyster Stout and made doggie crack beer biscuits.

 

[smizak]

Brewed up an Oyster Stout and made doggie crack beer biscuits.

I made the biscuits for the first time tonight too! He freakin loves them!

 

[phrogpilot73]

I made the biscuits for the first time tonight too! He freakin loves them!

I'm certain that our dog knows exactly what I've been doing. They're drying in the oven as we speak - and she's camped out in the kitchen STARING at the closed oven door...

 

[TXCrash]

I had the brewday from hell yesterday. Posted on the PNW group brew thread but thought I"d share it here too...

Ok. Brewday went as follows:
6:23 am: Pre boiling water - hope to mash in at 7
7:07 am: Mashing in in a few - water at 175, beersmith says 170
7:40 am - Missed mash temp (didn't account for grain temp) 145 rather than 154 start Steam infusion to compensate (new this brew)
8:00 am Overshot temp - 160*F Stir like madman to bring down to 154
8:05 am - down to temp. Start preboil of sparge water.

Then I stopped taking notes because stuff REALLY started going down hill...

*I had a hell of a stuck sparge

*The copper elbow setup for siphoning sparge water out of the kettle fell off. I had to get it out and reatatch it - without burning myself.

Didn't get to the hop addition till 12:00

Boil went fine

Hops clogged up the input - knocked the elbow off when trying to fix. Clogged the CFC, undershot volume (happened to have preboiled water which I brought back to boil), kept on loosing things I needed. By the time I cleaned up it was 6.

Nothing huge - just a bunch of little crap that all went wrong at once. Wort tastes great though!

Once the boil was started I decided to oversparge the grain for starters (not thinking about the fact that this bill made for a DARK wort). Ended up with quite a few pints of 1.040 wort.

Pictures:
Pre strike grain

Ghetto fab SIM setup. Uses sparge manifold to inject steam. Worked great. Had the pressure cooker ($10 at goodwill years ago). Valve salvaged from a junk espresso machine. Eventually there'll be a more permanent handle than a hose clamp.

Picture makes the mash paddle I made of maple yesterday look much better made than it is...

Lots of pressure canned starter wort

Major problem: too many new variables in one brewday.

*Manifold was used with slits up, usually I use it with slits down.
*Hadn't ever used a pump on brewday
*Hadn't ever used the CFC on brewday
*Elbows (the ones that fell off) were cleaned up by yours truely - surely loosening fit
*Biggest beer (sg) I've ever done, though I've done larger bills - just 10 gal, not 5 gal batches
*New mill (monster mill) - had been using carona
*Conditioned malt

I guess I was begging for it...

 

[fivehoursfree]

I did two batches, both AHS kits. Piloncillo Porter and Bav. Dunkelweizen. EVerything went ok, except the burner I used wouldn't get the wort boiling. Hopefully it got close enough.