What are you doing with homebrew today?

Zambezi Special said:
I'm wondering about fridge space as well and don't have the luxury of keeping my beer at the required temperature, except inside the fridge.
Next brew I want to re-pitch on trub of current one.
So I bottle & leave slurry in fermenter and place back in fermentation fridge.
New brew gets made and wort cooled down as much as possible. But it needs to cool down further, but no space to put the whole pot in the fridge, 'cause the fermenter with slurry lives there.
I can do an overnight outside chill in the hope the temp goes down to 20-22 oC (68-72 F) and transfer wort to fermenter.

Or maybe (I haven't done this before) I can try get the slurry somehow out of the fermenter into a sanitised bottle and it can go in the fridge together with the cooling down pot? Or in the 4 oC (40 F) fridge for a little while?
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Yup try and get the slurry out into a jar.
Maybe a funnel will make it easier?
 
Tidying my crap up after getting the tree and box of Christmas trimmings out, I found a digital camera. I'll treat this as some kind of gift from Santa. Unfortunately it is just a mini sized one and must have come as a freebie with some magazine subscription. Dated 2008:eek: Hoping it is an omen that it waited until I joined BF. Not even attempted to install the driver on my laptop yet as been too busy and I am a bit of a Luddite with anything I.T. so it can drag out the hours. But soon as I get the time will have a bash and see what happens. It would be lovely to share some pics as I have had some good results lately.

The Norfolk Nog looks virtually ready at 1.014. If it holds at that tomorrow then I'll keg this one as I have all but run out of bottles. 1.013 and it will be a Christmas Eve job. Tastes great, definitely a variant of Porter kit labelled Dark Ale by Woodfordes.
 
I'm in search of pilsner as a Xmas present but can't find a decent example...in fact only one! Wtf classic styles?
 
Sampling Frank Castanza’s Original Festivus Ale and Pereboom’s Chocolate Milk Stout. The Festivus has lots of Citrus, with the blend of oranges, lemon and lime coming through as grapefruit, lol. No hints of cinnamon. Needs more carbonation, but shaping up nicely.
Pereboom’s Stout came out well, and poured with a creamy head from the stout spout (first time using it). A taste of vanilla but not overwhelming. Very fresh still with a bit of alcohol bite that I expect to smooth out in a month or so.
Both set up on my three tap tower, which is new for me - bought for a song a while ago and finally got it all hooked up. My “rock box” is taking on a life of its own . . .
 
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Well it was yesterday... Solstice party around some firepits went well and the Solstice pale ale was a hit. One small problem was that the beer line kept freezing. I insulated the keg and co2. So I got a bucket of hot water to keep the beer line in and that worked until the liquid post on the keg froze. Took it inside and thawed that and served from pitcher. A truly frosty event.
 
Evidently testing the capacity of my modified DigiBoil 65l and the hopper in my Crankandstien. Hopper I built holds 15lbs comfortably, 16 if you're very careful. I'm guessing, that counting for temperature induced volume swings, around 13 gallons will keep it out of the steam condenser(built into the side of the kettle just below the top).

Currently heating strike water for a 10 gallon batch of Shore Leave Cali Common, ordered Munich and Red Active malt yesterday(along with the parts to convert from 3 vessel to 2 vessel system).

Ward Chillington said:
I'm in search of pilsner as a Xmas present but can't find a decent example...in fact only one! Wtf classic styles?
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Got an Aldi nearby? They have VERY good German Pils. Wernesgrüner is one of my favorites.
 
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Was thinking about bottling today so I crashed the Frankenbeer III yesterday down to 5C.

Last night, at 8:30 PM, it was nearly 60F and raining. This morning, it's 15F and the ground is quite crunchy with ice oozing up out of the soil. Gotta love winter in Alabama. Did you leave your back door open again @Craigerrr ? I'm just glad I have heat on the fermenter this morning. Otherwise I'd have a 70+ pound 'beer-cicle'

If I'm getting what I think for Christmas, I may be smarter to put off bottling a few more days. I'll let you guys know.
 
Sunfire96 said:
Got everything I need to brew a dark lager on Christmas morning! I need to transfer the golden ale, I think I'll add some more Citra in the keg
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Brewing mine on New Year’s Day if the Munich gets here in time, right now it’s just me and Frank in the basement brewing Shore Leave
 
Crushed the efficiecy on the Shore Leave(83%). Decided to keep 'er movin'(those that know, know) and mashed in an ordinary bitter(cluster hopped). Have noticed a definite bump in efficiecy since going to the 3 roller mill. Wondering how upgrading to DigiMash with a dedicated HLT for a modified fly sparge will affect it. Find out in January I guess.
 
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