What are you doing with homebrew today?

[Sandy Feet]

Brewing my first all-grain Irish Red for St. Paddy's Day this evening. Simple recipe mostly stolen from Brewing Classic Styles: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1543167/irish-red-ale

Excited to try this one in March!

That looks good. Had to look at the yeast choice before I got too excited, and that is a great pick That stuff makes a wonderful Porter too.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

Looking closer at your picture. Looks like you are venting in some liquid, star san maybe. What I do is stick the spunding valve on the keg. Set it lower than the transfer pressure and seal the keg at the same time. Saves a little CO2 anyway

When filling kegs (with Starsan or beer) I use the overflow method. Fill through the liquid-out and vent through the gas-in port. As soon as I see liquid coming out the gas post, I disconnect it from the keg. (The liquid in the bucket is Starsan that overflowed when I pumped it out of the keg earlier).

@Brew Cat, how does your method save CO2? The way I understand it you would need to either keep the CO2 attached (as I do) or pressurize the fermentor so that you have enough pressure in the fermenter to finish the transfer before fermentor pressure drops below keg pressure, which would stop the transfer.

I've also seen a process where you have beer flowing from fermenter to keg through a liquid-to-liquid jumper and gas flowing from the keg back to the fermenter through a gas-to-gas jumper I have been thinking about this method too.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Going to get stuff ready to brew tomorrow. Irish stout time. Will be a scorching 23 f tomorrow. School already canceled since the snow from last night froze on roads that can’t be cleaned. And we’ll get an inch tonight. Weather was in the teens over night and will be in the teens tonight as well. I’ll bundle up and brew tomorrow after noon

 

[Josh Hughes]

Grain crushed.

 

[Sandy Feet]

Going to get stuff ready to brew tomorrow. Irish stout time. Will be a scorching 23 f tomorrow. School already canceled since the snow from last night froze on roads that can’t be cleaned. And we’ll get an inch tonight. Weather was in the teens over night and will be in the teens tonight as well. I’ll bundle up and brew tomorrow after noon

Braver than I am LOL.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Braver than I am LOL.

Beer must be brewed!

 

[west1m]

I brewed my American Amber Ale Monday . It was in the minus teens F. I had to wash everything in the basement into a five gallon bucket then run outside and dump the crud over the deck into the yard and run back in the house.

 

[Brew Cat]

When filling kegs (with Starsan or beer) I use the overflow method. Fill through the liquid-out and vent through the gas-in port. As soon as I see liquid coming out the gas post, I disconnect it from the keg. (The liquid in the bucket is Starsan that overflowed when I pumped it out of the keg earlier).

@Brew Cat, how does your method save CO2? The way I understand it you would need to either keep the CO2 attached (as I do) or pressurize the fermentor so that you have enough pressure in the fermenter to finish the transfer before fermentor pressure drops below keg pressure, which would stop the transfer.

I've also seen a process where you have beer flowing from fermenter to keg through a liquid-to-liquid jumper and gas flowing from the keg back to the fermenter through a gas-to-gas jumper I have been thinking about this method too.

I don't think it saves much but I'll set the spunding valve at 10Psi and push at 15psi. Maybe it doesn't save any except the amount you use to seal the keg. I see your point about overfilling the keg, My batches are usually less than my keg volume but I can see the benefit of your way.

 

[Sandy Feet]

Beer must be brewed!

Do they make the Blichmann nuclear powered burner for a day like that? I have a Hellfire. I'm not sure about that even all the way up at 110K BTUs that bad boy would brew in those temps. At least you have a natural wort chiller
Make sure you check the propane levels.

 

[Megary]

I brewed my American Amber Ale Monday . It was in the minus teens F. I had to wash everything in the basement into a five gallon bucket then run outside and dump the crud over the deck into the yard and run back in the house.

Keep us posted.
I have your Q1 AAA beer in my queue. Unfortunately, I have 2 beers that I need to make first because I already bought the liquid yeast for them. My version of NB American Amber Ale will likely be brewed in mid-April.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Brew day postponed. I’ll brew Saturday before the Zoom.

 

[Brew Cat]

Well washed and rebuilt 2 kegs. Then kegged my Oyster Stout and started the cold crash of my ESB with home roasted malt. Packed away and Inventoried some grains. And did some tasting. Full day

 

[Josh Hughes]

Brew day clean up complete. Under 5 hours in the day.

 

[Over The Cliff Brewing]

Geared up to brew tomorrow.