What are you doing with homebrew today?

I guess I’m gonna be looking for a new LHBS. The closest seems to be in Montgomery but doesn’t seem to have a website or much advertising. Makes me wonder if it’s in someone’s garage. Wouldn’t want to drive that far only to find limited availability of supplies. Huntsville would be next closest, but that’s two hours up the road and I don’t go north (through Birmingham) unless it’s dire need/circumstance. The amount of stupidity on I65 in Birmingham never ceases to amaze me. Seems there are very few LHBS stores in the area. Gotta be the challenge of dealing with the lopsided competition with the mail order and online shopping as well as the costs of keeping inventory (taxable). My goto LHBS closed his doors forever and now I gotta buy stuff from Amazon or one of the big suppliers. He’s a couple years younger than me ( meaning he’s at retirement age), and was usually complaining about the inventory taxes and competition issues when I was shopping with him, but he had a huge selection of recipes that I looked through for inspiration. Gonna miss that hometown touch of shopping local and seeing the inventory before I hand over the money.
 
RoadRoach said:
I guess I’m gonna be looking for a new LHBS. The closest seems to be in Montgomery but doesn’t seem to have a website or much advertising. Makes me wonder if it’s in someone’s garage. Wouldn’t want to drive that far only to find limited availability of supplies. Huntsville would be next closest, but that’s two hours up the road and I don’t go north (through Birmingham) unless it’s dire need/circumstance. The amount of stupidity on I65 in Birmingham never ceases to amaze me. Seems there are very few LHBS stores in the area. Gotta be the challenge of dealing with the lopsided competition with the mail order and online shopping as well as the costs of keeping inventory (taxable). My goto LHBS closed his doors forever and now I gotta buy stuff from Amazon or one of the big suppliers. He’s a couple years younger than me ( meaning he’s at retirement age), and was usually complaining about the inventory taxes and competition issues when I was shopping with him, but he had a huge selection of recipes that I looked through for inspiration. Gonna miss that hometown touch of shopping local and seeing the inventory before I hand over the money.
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The same happened to me at the beginning of the year. There's one about an hour from me but the drive there is a pain and they close early. There's another about 30 minutes away but I am not crazy about it. I am doing my next order online today from a store that is in my state but is 3 hours away.
 
Cleaned my fermzilla. Saved the slurry. Sample of the beer (German pils) was quite tasty. Had a half pint on top of yeast.
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Zambi said:
Nothing today, but tomorrow should finally see me brewing again.
Unless something comes up again
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Me too. Lowes just get restocked on propane. I set-up almost everything just now. I think I am going to prep some chili tonight so I only have to plug in a crock pot in the morning and actually relax for a bit.
 
Kegged a Marzen today, about 2 months too late. :p
I’m now well stocked and it will be close to another month before I’ll be brewing again. But next up is Q3. I need to get that Stout ready for Thanksgiving.

This ended up at 6%. I’ll give it 2 or 3 weeks cold before I get on with it.

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Transferred both Belgian ales to condition in the kegs. Tastes really good, my friend said hers smelt the best but mine tasted better. FG=1.002, abv 6.7%. Same grain bill but different Saison yeasts.
 

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Today I cleaned out my Corny keg, and without even checking for FG, transferred to it an American Wheat Ale brewed back in late June. The beer looked, smelled and tasted just as it should. We’ll see how it carbs up in a few days. Meanwhile, I am starting to think of my next batch, likely to be a dry hopped West Coast IPA.
 
Herm brews said:
Today I cleaned out my Corny keg, and without even checking for FG, transferred to it an American Wheat Ale brewed back in late June. The beer looked, smelled and tasted just as it should. We’ll see how it carbs up in a few days. Meanwhile, I am starting to think of my next batch, likely to be a dry hopped West Coast IPA.
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This American Wheat was in the fermenter for 4 months then? Interesting.
 
Herm brews said:
Yes it was. And from what I could discern from the small sample I collected, the extended time in fermenter did no harm.
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Good to know. Thanks for the reply.
 
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