What I did for beer today

[catdaddy66]

I plan on drinking at this craft beer event today! [emoji482]

https://www.rocklin.ca.us/placercountyrocksatthequarry

Sounds like fun...

I will need to bottle my Amber rye ale tonight because the garden takes most of my daylight hours. Have to plan my next brew around a very busy week!

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

 

[jiMithing83]

Vacuum sealed 3 lbs of hops (1 lb each of citra, crystal, and sterling) in 4 oz packs. I should have started bulk ordering hops a long time ago, way cheaper and not too much work, only took 30 minutes.

 

[501irishred]

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What strain of yeast needs to be redacted?

 

[helterscelter]

Changed out all the lines on my keezer to help balance the system. Added a stout faucet with beer gas line. Added a nitro cold Brew faucet (second stout faucet) hooked to a nitro infuser and dedicated nitrogen line. Now I just need to make some cold Brew and brew a stout! Woot!

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Brewed 14.5 gal of Wee Heavy.

 

[501irishred]

Added a nitro cold Brew faucet (second stout faucet) hooked to a nitro infuser and dedicated nitrogen line. Now I just need to make some cold Brew and brew a stout! Woot!

That is a serious investment for some nitro coffee! Would love to hear how your infuser works for you. I’ve charged cold brew in the past (direct in keg) with verifying levels of success, but was always too cheap to pick up an infuser. Your setup looks great!

 

[seatazzz]

Waiting for the man to leave to play golf, so I can do a boiloff check run on the new sight glass without him whining about me wasting propane if I'm not brewing.

*edit* And to justify it, just found some empty distilled water jugs that I'll save the boiled water in for washing yeast...genius!

 

[WesBrew]

Paid $43 for Beer festival. Had some great samples from 25 breweries for the better part of 4 hours.

 

[helterscelter]

That is a serious investment for some nitro coffee! Would love to hear how your infuser works for you. I’ve charged cold brew in the past (direct in keg) with verifying levels of success, but was always too cheap to pick up an infuser. Your setup looks great!

Ya. I did the math. I should be able to recoup the costs in 6 months if I can keep swmbo out of Starbucks. Lol.

 

[brewbama]

Got a couple of food grade buckets and gamma lids from bLowes to store 50# grain in.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Got the itch and since it soon will be hot weather I put it an order from the Yeast Bay while the getting is good.

1x Northeastern Abbey - hopefully house abbey/belgian yeast
https://www.theyeastbay.com/brewers-yeast-products/northeastern-abbey

1x Brett Brux - you had me at "sweet tarts"
https://www.theyeastbay.com/wild-ye...anomyces-single-strain-series-isolate-tyb-207

1x Lacto Blend - why not try to keep a house lacto eh?
https://www.theyeastbay.com/wild-yeast-and-bacteria-products/lactobacillus-blend

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

My Colonna capper/corker broke can’t get parts (after a short search) so I ordered the super Agata from AIH which was 15% off and I’m hoping to find a used floor corker... should be set for life after that.

 

[BikerMatt]

Toasted 200g of juniper pieces. I can tell you the garage smells pretty frikkin awesome at moment, have a wide variety of different aromas wafting around including a surprisingly strong vanilla. This will be a killer brew if I get the fermentables right.

 

[501irishred]

Toasted 200g of juniper pieces. I can tell you the garage smells pretty frikkin awesome at moment, have a wide variety of different aromas wafting around including a surprisingly strong vanilla. This will be a killer brew if I get the fermentables right.

That sounds amazing! What style will you be going for? Only one I’m familiar with that calls out juniper is a Finnish Sahti, and that only uses green branches/berries with the mash. Toasting the wood sound real interesting, at least for a garage potpourri!

 

[BikerMatt]

Tell U the truth got no idea Was supposed to order specialty grains and hops tonight but kinda forgot and now too tired to think & ordered tomorrow they`ll likely not make it here for the weekend... Probly some sort of a heavy or sth, my brews usually don`t follow the style guidelines all that strictly anyway

BTW Props for knowing about sahti, I live at the center of the region that makes it, not a fan though, usually super strong, F:s you up twice first at night and the second time the next morning...

 

[grampamark]

My kegs are empty. Put two fermenters in the fridge to cold crash, a Mosaic APA and a Citra Blonde Ale. Both gravity samples tasted really good.

 

[501irishred]

BTW Props for knowing about sahti, I live at the center of the region that makes it, not a fan though, usually super strong, F:s you up twice first at night and the second time the next morning...

Spent many a night wondering the streets of Oulu, and enjoyed every minute.... except maybe the mornings after bar hopping in the summer when it’s still daylight at 3:00am and you realize you have meetings starting In a couple hours!
I have no problem with Sahti, just keep the Salmiakki away from me and we’re golden.

 

[seatazzz]

Just got home from work and finally tapped the Mosaic/Southern Passion IPA. Not terribly happy with it, as it got dry-hopped mostly cold because reasons and it's got a tiny bit of autolysed flavor; nose is great, but flavor could use some help.

 

[ESBrewer]

Fining with isinglass paste for the first time. Let's see what happens...

 

[ESBrewer]

Fining with isinglass paste for the first time. Let's see what happens...

Good heavens, these bladders (+adjunct) act fast & effectively...

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Attended monthly club meeting and won this puppy in the raffle.

 

[aharri1]

Checked gravity on my IPL after 3 days of dry hopping at 58. Taste great already and used my homegrown triple pearl and comet hops with it! After some lagering and carbonation this should be crushable at 5.8%

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Harvested 8 oz of spruce tips.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Making a run to the LHBS for ingredients for a dark saison to be brewed in the next week or two. Tonight I will be bottling my Sour Pineapple Shake ale.

 

[govner1]

Moved my Marzen from secondary to kegs via CO2 transfer for cold crash, carbing, lagering until late August.
Cleaned up fermenters and two kegs.

 

[BikerMatt]

Done more unpleasant things after work on a friday than this... Flame on when the wifey gets off work at 2100 hours.

 

[Hellpop664]

Grated orange peels for a porter I'm brewing tomorrow.

 

[501irishred]

Flame on when the wifey gets off work at 2100 hours.

What is the object in bucket? Water filter?

 

[BikerMatt]

Lol it's an upside down corona mill with an extended hopper, a chimney joint went in the original one just by pressing and haven't moved. We don't need water filters here, Finland has the purest tap water in the world AND my town sits on a thin strip of land, made of gravel crushed by the ice age, between two large lakes so I'm essentially living above a huge water filter.

Btw hopefully the last time I used that particular mill, upgrading to a roller mill at july and likely to not brew before that (well maybe once...)

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Blonde Ale and Mosaic APA I brewed a couple weeks ago, cleaned my beer lines and a couple of kegs.

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

Cleaned my CF5

 

[seatazzz]

Yesterday between jobs braved nasty southbound traffic to hit up the LHBS for the pilsner I needed for today's brew. Totally forgot that my friend Jon is having his 1st anniversary sale today and I won't be able to be there; however, as one of his favored customers, I got to pick my freebies yesterday (a hat, sticker, and promotional chapstick) as well as a nice little discount on the grain. Anyone in Western Washington needs to hit up Jon's Homebrew & Wine Supply in Puyallup today for some great deals! (Yes shameless plug, but he's the one who really got me going in this crazy obsession I have!)

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

Home (brew) Depot. I have a disease and the cure is MORE BUCKETS. Got two 50 pound bags of grain, needed storage.

 

[seanjwalker1]

What strain of yeast needs to be redacted?

[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] LMAO! EVERYTHING is redacted these days in our modern world of your eyes don't really see what you thought you saw and your ears lied to you!!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Brewed 14.5 gal of Wee Heavy.View attachment 626458 View attachment 626459 View attachment 626460 View attachment 626461 View attachment 626462

Now that's a little taste of Heaven!!

 

[itsnotrequired]

deep cleaned the boil kettle for the first time in, what, a year and a half? it was very stained, assumed it was unsalvagable. hour and a half of circulating 160 degree pbw and damn if that thing doesn't look brand new.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Back in December I adopted LOB and do closed transfers. That poses problems for making NEIPA or dry hopped pale ales.

Then had an epiphany, i decided to use my French Coffee Press.

I read about this long ago but never did it before and before going LOB.

https://beerandbrewing.com/use...o-enhance-flavors-in-your-beer

This is what I did yesterday.

1) Measured out a 1-liter trifecta using Sodium Metabisulfate, Asorbic Acid and Brewtan-B.
2) Dropped 20mg, 20mg, 40mg into a liter of post boiled water
3) Then poured it on an oz of Citra cryo in my coffee press.
4) Gently stirred and let it steep 10 minutes.
5) Then slowly pressed the hops to separate the particulate hop tea.
6) Poured it in a sanitized 2-liter (2L) bottle.
7) Using my carbonating cap and put 10psi on it.
8) Next, I inverted it to use the CO2 pressure to force it into my closed and purged keg. Using a gray gas connect on the 2L bottle and a black disconnect on liquid out. Both connected with a 3ft 3/16" transfer line. Popping off the black disconnect just before the 2L ran empty.
9) I had to vent my keg afterwards.
10) Then did my closed transfer for my pale ale and spunded.

The 2L was very clean, no particles got into the keg from what I could tell.

Don't know how it's gonna taste. It smelled damn good.

FWIW - I use my fermenter to purge my keg. Fermenter gas discharges to the keg's liquid out. My keg vents to a growler out the gas disconnect.

At filling time I swap keg lines using the 1/4" female flare swivels. Keg gas in to fermenter gas out. Keg liquid out to a fermenter ball valve fitted with a 1/4" male flare.

It's the easiest transfer yet. This was the first time I had the male flare on the ball valve.

Pictures of the flare fitting and my El Cheapo Menards Spund valve. It vents anything over 20psi right now. Then rechecks as you would expect a regulator to do. It's easy to adjust too.

 

[aharri1]

Fertilized my hop plants and shared beer with neighbors!!

 

[501irishred]

FWIW - I use my fermenter to purge my keg. Fermenter gas discharges to the keg's liquid out. My keg vents to a growler out the gas disconnect.

As for LODO, my hats off to those that are disciplined enough to stick to it, but I will be leaving that to others for the foreseeable future. Using the primary fermentation to purge the keg it’s destined to occupy, is however BRILLIANT, and will be implemented here immediately!! Thanks for sharing!