What are you doing with homebrew today?

[Sunfire96]

I got all excited lol. Here is the transfer View attachment 22504

Agreed you are forgiven but I really wanted to know how long it took!

 

[jmcnamara]

Forgot

You just have to brew it again right?

 

[Zambi]

I finally got to bottling my Saison.
Not the best of brew days.
Thought I would use the bottling wand instead of my auto siphon.
So got the thing cleaned, pipe clean. About to attach to speidel spigot.
It's a different diameter
OK, I know I got another bigger) piece of pipe. Clean it. Attach, try to bottle. Doesnt want to run. Too much trub.
Clean it all out. Assemble again in the hope that I have reached clean beer. But no.
OK. Grab auto siphon, clean, start bottling. But nothing
Try again. Nothing.
Take it out. Try with water. Nothing. Maybe no proper seal?
Take it apart and I put one piece in the wrong way around. Try again with water.
Succes
Spray the thing with starsan and finally I'm bottling.
Then capping.
Freaking capper gets stuck on a bottle and I can't get it off (I got one of those red hand cappers)
Eventually manage and get a crate bottled.
I decided that was a sign, and didn't start a mash, but poured apple juice on the trub. 9 litres on the go

 

[Josh Hughes]

You just have to brew it again right?

You are correct sir

 

[west1m]

I finally got to bottling my Saison.
Not the best of brew days.
Thought I would use the bottling wand instead of my auto siphon.
So got the thing cleaned, pipe clean. About to attach to speidel spigot.
It's a different diameter
OK, I know I got another bigger) piece of pipe. Clean it. Attach, try to bottle. Doesnt want to run. Too much trub.
Clean it all out. Assemble again in the hope that I have reached clean beer. But no.
OK. Grab auto siphon, clean, start bottling. But nothing
Try again. Nothing.
Take it out. Try with water. Nothing. Maybe no proper seal?
Take it apart and I put one piece in the wrong way around. Try again with water.
Succes
Spray the thing with starsan and finally I'm bottling.
Then capping.
Freaking capper gets stuck on a bottle and I can't get it off (I got one of those red hand cappers)
Eventually manage and get a crate bottled.
I decided that was a sign, and didn't start a mash, but poured apple juice on the trub. 9 litres on the go

Fun day! Hope you had a cold one to celebrate.

 

[GFHomebrew]

I finally got to bottling my Saison.
Not the best of brew days.
Thought I would use the bottling wand instead of my auto siphon.
So got the thing cleaned, pipe clean. About to attach to speidel spigot.
It's a different diameter
OK, I know I got another bigger) piece of pipe. Clean it. Attach, try to bottle. Doesnt want to run. Too much trub.
Clean it all out. Assemble again in the hope that I have reached clean beer. But no.
OK. Grab auto siphon, clean, start bottling. But nothing
Try again. Nothing.
Take it out. Try with water. Nothing. Maybe no proper seal?
Take it apart and I put one piece in the wrong way around. Try again with water.
Succes
Spray the thing with starsan and finally I'm bottling.
Then capping.
Freaking capper gets stuck on a bottle and I can't get it off (I got one of those red hand cappers)
Eventually manage and get a crate bottled.
I decided that was a sign, and didn't start a mash, but poured apple juice on the trub. 9 litres on the go

Sometimes you just gotta walk away

 

[GFHomebrew]

Putting the bucket cleaner to work cleaning kegs and soon beer lines.

Contemplating doing a lager brew to fill the kegmenter until I get malts for Q4 brew mightnt clean the kegmenter hmmm thoughts anyone?

 

[GFHomebrew]

I decided to brew of course Munich lager take 2 exactly same except with pilsner malt

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1297191/munich-lager

 

[Sunfire96]

I decided to brew of course Munich lager take 2 exactly same except with pilsner malt View attachment 22529
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1297191/munich-lager

Never seen wheat malt as a late mash addition, sounds interesting. What does that do?

 

[GFHomebrew]

Never seen wheat malt as a late mash addition, sounds interesting. What does that do?

That's eclipse wheat it's around 500L so just for colour not so much the roast.

 

[Sunfire96]

That's eclipse wheat it's around 500L so just for colour not so much the roast.

Makes sense, I didn't look at the lovibond

 

[GFHomebrew]

Makes sense, I didn't look at the lovibond

I was tossing up weather to add it this brew but I like the colour of the other one.
A way to darken it without adding lets say caramunich which would probably suit The style bit I don't want it too malty the roast will keep it dry I feel on the finish.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Put the spunding valve on for the brown ale. Was at 1.015 this morning. Will carb itself

 

[Sunfire96]

It's that time of year...just mashed in this pumpkin brew

 

[RoadRoach]

Just not too sure about pumpkin flavored beer. Not knocking it, but something tells me it just isn't for me. Judging from the ingredients, looks like you've done this before.

 

[RoadRoach]

As stated in the DIY thread, I made up 3 new high temp silicone hoses with QD's and installed the ball valve and QD's on the pump as well. Tested the pump. VERY quiet pump. Needs to be mounted on something (and add an On/Off switch) because the heavy stainless fittings want to make it tip forward. A little concerned that the silicone lines will collapse on suction side when it starts moving hot liquid. If so, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Still have one 3m length of hose left over. Will probably make one long hose, or two 1.5m hoses. Can't think of anything I'll need a 3m hose for. 1m was plenty long to connect kettle to pump and pump back to kettle.

Onward to making a spray head for sparging ......

 

[RoadRoach]

Put the spunding valve on for the brown ale. Was at 1.015 this morning. Will carb itself

Nice when Mother Nature takes care of a few things for ya, yes?

 

[GFHomebrew]

As stated in the DIY thread, I made up 3 new high temp silicone hoses with QD's and installed the ball valve and QD's on the pump as well. Tested the pump. VERY quiet pump. Needs to be mounted on something (and add an On/Off switch) because the heavy stainless fittings want to make it tip forward. A little concerned that the silicone lines will collapse on suction side when it starts moving hot liquid. If so, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Still have one 3m length of hose left over. Will probably make one long hose, or two 1.5m hoses. Can't think of anything I'll need a 3m hose for. 1m was plenty long to connect kettle to pump and pump back to kettle.

Onward to making a spray head for sparging ......

I use a long line for transferring from kettle straight into fermenter nothing wrong with too much length.

 

[RoadRoach]

Oatmeal Stout on for brewing right now. Mash-In started. Recirculating wort through the grain during mash REALLY cleans up the wort. I'm impressed and didn't know what I was missing out on. Gonna still be a bit of a cobbled up sparge, but much better than ever before thanks to being able to recirculate and filter out some of the solids that I always have so much fun with in the boil. Mash got a little cool (155) at one point, but better than scorching it. Got a pencil sized stream of wort pouring back to the top of the grain bed. Gonna drain the kettle to a bucket to hold the wort until 1st sparge is done. If I need more volume for boil, I'll just sparge again. Pretty much more like stepped mashing, I reckon, recirculating all three steps. Something I've never been able to do before.

First wort sample is pretty much BLACK and tastes like a cup of coffee sweetened with malt and a hint of chocolate. Yum! I won't put the cacao nibs in until about 10-20 minutes before flame-out. I'm pretty stoked about how this is gonna turn out.

 

[RoadRoach]

Kettle fired for boil, pump/hoses flushed/sanitized for transfer to fermenter after partial chill. I'll drop the temp as quickly as possible below 100F (~30C) then stuff it in the freezer to finish cooling to pitch temp. Should be able to pitch sometime tonight. Starter looks and smells wonderful, so luckily I didn't lose the WLP-004 to heat. Probably wanna get a gravity sample from that before I pitch, or from the batch after I pitch. No clue how the starter is gonna affect OG otherwise. Just need to remember to leave room for the extra 2L of liquid when I top off the fermenter.

 

[RoadRoach]

Boiling ...

Only thing left to add is the Whirlfloc and cacao nibs. Just noticed these are apparently coated with yacon to sweeten them a little. Wonder what that's gonna do? Anybody know if yacon is fermentable?