What are you doing with homebrew today?

Finished bottling & cleaning.
Cider 1 (on M47, 6 litre) is not nice. I think the temps have been too high for the yeast. Got a sherry/port like flavour. Not harsh, but not nice.
If I would have tasted before bottling, I would have thrown it. But it's only 6 x 1 ltr pet bottle, so didn't take that much time

Cider 2 (on M29, 9 litre) seems fine. Bit acidic, but that is normal for cider

Beer (pilsner malt on M47)
I think I taste something a little bit similar to cider 1, but minimal. Bottled anyway. 20 bottles.

Now we wait.

All fermenters are now free. All trub got discarded...
 
I've got (another) cunning plan
I've cleaned my 12 volt fridge that I used as a big cool box.
It's cooled down a bit so I want to see if the battery I got is good enough to run it. That's going to happen tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed.
Currently freezing my cool elements (those blue packs for cooler boxes) and in general trying to get as much stuff cold as possible. That goes into the 12 volt to help cooling.

Now if this all works, I can free up my small 220 V fridge....
And use my inkbird controller.
The fermenters (one at the time) will just fit, if I use a blow off tube instead of air lock.
Wish me luck :confused:
 
Herm brews said:
You could try dosing each bottle prior to filling, that’s what like to do. In my case, 24 bottles get primed, then each is filled directly from fermenter and capped/crimped. My system works for me, at least it does when I’m in stride.
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I first planned to dose first but, decided against it because I don't have enough table space. I always start with bottles inverted on a bottle tree. Plus I envisioned reaching for an empty bottle, bumping it instead, and having broken beer bottles smashed on the floor. Once they've been filled, they are much more stable.
 
Herm brews said:
How did you handle the dry hop? Did you like what you bottled?
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I dry hopped on day 14. Left at 66°F for 4 days, followed by a 3 day cold crash. The sample was a little maltier and less hoppy then I thought it should be. Could be due to initial mash temp too high, which left more unfermentable sugars. But the sample definitely tasted good.
 
Warming up my too cold fermentation, now that's a hoppy beer lol

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CelticTwilight said:
Sounds like a good strategy to me. I just use a fermenter bin kept in a kitchen cupboard then transfer in same room so I aren't much help regarding the temperature side of your question. But I do have to lift out the fermenter on to my worktop which can be a little tricky when it is full to 5 gallons so I have learned to at least do this first. Then when I have finished faffing around preparing and/or being distracted it has had maybe a couple of hours to re-settle just in case I disturbed the sediment, which, has happened.
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Same problems I was having before I switched to a conical fermenter. That didn't eliminate sediment, but sure knocked a big dent in it. Adding Vorlauf mashing/sparging technique helped more than the conical fermenter did. Extract batches don't have quite as much sediment, either, but it's a lot harder to control color. Not a problem in a stout or dark beer, but a blonde or cream ale will typically suffer.

The more I brew, the more I learn.
 
Ozarks Mountain Brew said:
Warming up my too cold fermentation, now that's a hoppy beer lol

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Yep, looks like I'm gonna have to do something similar. My Speckled Hen is sitting at 59.8F this morning. S-04 yeast ideal range is 64.4F to 78.8F, so I'm a bit on the cool side. Gotta get some heat in that chamber, somehow. Temps right around 30F last night, and the shed is not climate controlled, so it isn't likely to warm back up very well. Yeast is still active (just brewed on Friday) and bubbling. Not much sediment in the collector at all, really. Got a REALLY clean batch this time. What little cloudiness there was came from the hops. Hoping the S-04 cleans that up nicely.

So, gonna go figure out how to make the little forced air heater I made work in the fridgadeezer. Not much room in there with the FF 7.9.
 
Trialben said:
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Got my saw in hand and climbing out on a limb here.

In your transfer photo, you have the 'transferrer" vessel wrapped with towels/blankets, but not the "transferee" vessel (the keg). How come? Just a convenience thing?

I've already started sawing, but hopefully on the right side (with the tree on my left).
 
RoadRoach said:
Got my saw in hand and climbing out on a limb here.

In your transfer photo, you have the 'transferrer" vessel wrapped with towels/blankets, but not the "transferee" vessel (the keg). How come? Just a convenience thing?

I've already started sawing, but hopefully on the right side (with the tree on my left).
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Yeah the blanket is to keep the light out of the fermenter.
it's a clear plastic bubble fermenter.
Don't want no light struck beer and it insulates it a little As well.
The keg doesn't matter also I'm priming the keg like a big beer bottle.
 
MaxStout said:
I do those from time to time. Gather up leftover grains, see how the puzzle pieces fit into something. I call it "Leftoverture."

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I saw Kansas in concert once. I wasn’t a big fan of their music so I really thought I was going to be disappointed, but man they were awesome live.
 
MaxStout said:
I do those from time to time. Gather up leftover grains, see how the puzzle pieces fit into something. I call it "Leftoverture."

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I went to the Leftoverture tour concert at the UofA. I was a fan already, and certainly was not disappointed. This is perhaps their best LP. This is from the era of music when everyone was trying to do what the Who did with Tommy, or Queen with Night at the Opera. Everybody and his cat were trying to produce rock operas because FM radio leaned toward album play, not just song play. I do miss AOR radio stations.
 
RoadRoach said:
I went to the Leftoverture tour concert at the UofA. I was a fan already, and certainly was not disappointed. This is perhaps their best LP. This is from the era of music when everyone was trying to do what the Who did with Tommy, or Queen with Night at the Opera. Everybody and his cat were trying to produce rock operas because FM radio leaned toward album play, not just song play. I do miss AOR radio stations.
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We kind of have to roll with the punches (or the changes if you are an REO fan). Radio sucks now. That is the way it is, but I do have a couple of great Spotify playlists that are bigger than most FM formats:)
 
Sandy Feet said:
We kind of have to roll with the punches (or the changes if you are an REO fan). Radio sucks now. That is the way it is, but I do have a couple of great Spotify playlists that are bigger than most FM formats:)
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Agree. In an era of streaming audio and mp3s, and news/weather/sports on smartphones, radio is kind of irrelevant.

I love those old 70s prog-rock bands. Saw Kansas, opening for Rush in 1976. It was Rush's 2112 tour. RIP Neil Peart.

Back to beer...anyone try the Rush beers that came out a few years ago? I seem to recall hearing they would be distributed only in Canada.
 
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