What are you doing with homebrew today?

[Beerbelly]

Just brewed an Amarillo single hop IPA today, and the hydrometer taste test was delicious.

 

[Sandy Feet]

I got your name......"Lone Star's Plaid"

Very nice!
I actually had a Liquid Schwartz where I was tonight Damn tasty beer too.

 

[Tim Bulin]

Bottled some grape wine with my Dad.

 

[Herm brews]

This afternoon I went to lhbs and picked up a 2.5 gallon ball lock Corney keg, which will act as my serving keg. After I dry hop my latest IPA, it will get served from this new keg. I also picked up a second picnic tap, so now I will be able to serve from 2 kegs. A couple gallons of cider may be ready to soak up some CO2 in my other keg.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Kegged my Schwarzbier

 

[Josh Hughes]

Cleaned up my fermenter and got about a gallon of slurry which should give me a good solid liter of yeast next brew.

 

[Herm brews]

Picked up a Torpedo keg (1.6 gallon capacity, ball lock) to dispense hard cider. While at lhbs, picked up grains to brew Vienna Garage Lager, a project for some time in the next week.

 

[Zambi]

I'll need to have a look at my Maris Otter potential disaster and see if it is ready for kegging.
It will be about the first time that I test FG and taste before kegging...

 

[Steve Ruch]

Milled the grains for an Irish stout tomorrow.

 

[Zambi]

I'll need to have a look at my Maris Otter potential disaster and see if it is ready for kegging.
It will be about the first time that I test FG and taste before kegging...

It looks like beer, smells like beer
Gonna be a low ABV one at 2.8%

 

[Josh Hughes]

It looks like beer, smells like beer
Gonna be a low ABV one at 2.8%

Nice table beer maybe.

 

[Zambi]

Nice table beer maybe.

I hope so
Still at a loss as to how this happened

 

[Herm brews]

I transferred my dry hopped IPA into my new 2.5 gallon keg, pressurized and purged several times and sitting in the cool garage. Next up are 2 batches of cider from 2 different sources, but with wildly different results. The store bought jug, fermented with part of the remnants of an open pack of S-04, is sitting at 8.2 Brix (~1.021), tastes semi-sweet and very much like apples. The juice bought from an orchard, also fermented from that same pack of S-04 is at 3.6 Brix (~0.992), dry with some sulfur notes, but much less flavorful. I think I will blend the two, using all of the orchard juice and whatever the balance is to fill my other new 1.5 gallon keg.

 

[Brew Cat]

Well today I'm cleaning. Brewed late yesterday. Bohemian pilsner

 

[Ward Chillington]

I hope so
Still at a loss as to how this happened

I remember talking to a brewery employee who had been there for about 7 years and I asked him after 7 years what was the difference between him and the guys he called "the brewers"? He said that the difference was that they knew what to do when something went wrong.....

Attagirl Zambi! You are a brewer!

 

[Herm brews]

I cut plywood to cover the bottom of the garage fridge, and got the beer and cider off the suddenly warmer garage floor (last week we had freezing fog all day, today it is nearly 60F and sunny). Cider is in Torpedo, Best IPA on right. For the time being, I am willing to work with the system I have, which includes 2 picnic taps. In a few days, I will switch the gas to the beer, and enjoy some when it is ready.

 

[Brew Cat]

That works