What are you doing with homebrew today?

[GFHomebrew]

Hard to project an average, really. Our weather this time of year is all over the map. Today started out around 55F, and right now, it's pretty close to 40F. It got colder when the clouds dissipated, like it normally does. Two days from now, it may drop to freezing and stay there, or, it might warm back up to 75F and get stormy. The storms that hit Kentucky the other day were at the northern end of the same front that hit us. We got thunder/lightning, and a buttload of rain, but only a few sticks knocked down by wind. Temperature the day before was nearly 80F, which is when we know we're gonna get some bad weather. Warm air comes up from the Gulf coast, and cool air from Canada comes in off the jet stream. The warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico rises through the cold air, and makes twisters and lots of nasty weather. Your winter is a little milder than here. Ours is slightly cooler than South Australia's winter, probably 10 degrees C or so cooler than yours, but is too erratic to try to ferment outside.

Yeah that's where your heat belt comes in to play my man set that with stc to sustain a set point .

 

[RoadRoach]

Yeah that's where your heat belt comes in to play my man set that with stc to sustain a set point .

Honestly, that's exactly where I was going to try to get with the keezer, a stable cool temperature so I could balance heat/chill to control the ferment temperature better. No way to control that with our crazy weather because if anything, it gets too warm too often in the winter here. We don't see our coldest temps until mid-late January up to about mid-March. 80F is going to be too hot and turn the beer into swill. I'm thinking I don't want to be moving that fermenter around while the yeasties are busy either.

 

[Josh Hughes]

@Trialben how does s189 compare to 34/70?

 

[GFHomebrew]

@Trialben how does s189 compare to 34/70?

I've not tried this current batch but will give a run down once I'm sipping it.
Last time I used it in a pislner urkel style decoction beer about a year or more ago I remember that going down well.

I'll do most my summer lager with it if this first batch goes well
All I can say is it's hooking in on the fermentation @15.5c I'll run the next batch lower I think as it's really ripping in or was when I left home this morning.
Oh and that's a single packet pitched into 1.056 wort I did an overnight Real wort starter 2lt and pitched the lot it was forming krausen 12hours post pitch and ripping in as you saw 24hrs.

 

[Sunfire96]

@Josh Hughes according to Fermentis the S189 is slightly fruitier? At least I think that's what this chart is conveying lol

And this side by side comparison doesn't show a lot of differences

 

[Josh Hughes]

I’ll have to try it at some point

 

[GFHomebrew]

@Josh Hughes according to Fermentis the S189 is slightly fruitier? At least I think that's what this chart is conveying lol
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And this side by side comparison doesn't show a lot of differences
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Thanks sunfire.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

I bottled my "New Glarus Spotted Cow" clone today. A little cloudy (not unexpected) but flavor was great. Just a little sweet now so after a little conditioning it should be fantastic!

Being on-call during peak shipping season meant my plan of also bottling "NOT JAs' Irish Red" today remained just a plan. It's probably better this way because this way I can cold-crash it before bottling.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Kegged “This Bitter’s in Shambles” No fear about oxidation as I worried. This has a nice malty taste but still dry in the finish. The Fuggles mixed with Golding were a nice touch. Bit of earthiness but a touch some floral something. I used more roast than intended but glad I did. I’ll let this sit a few weeks, I didn’t sound so got to pay for co2 lol

 

[Herm brews]

Monitoring this big fermentation. Belgian ale yeast pitched Monday afternoon chewing through a 1.067 wort of Belgian Dubbel. Looks like there is just enough head space.

 

[Zambi]

I'm desperately trying not to drink a homebrew
I made a real small batch and I need to keep some for comparison with batch 2.
That one is conditioning at the moment.

 

[GFHomebrew]

I'm desperately trying not to drink a homebrew
I made a real small batch and I need to keep some for comparison with batch 2.
That one is conditioning at the moment.

Stay strong Zambezi it'll be worth it right?

 

[Herm brews]

My biggest krausen ever on Belgian Dubbel pitched on Monday afternoon. I wonder how long before this thick matt settles out. It’s still bubbling a few times per minute.

 

[Donoroto]

Nice! Don't worry, it's mostly air.

 

[Herm brews]

Nice! Don't worry, it's mostly air.

Mostly carbon dioxide, I’d reckon. That krausen crept up to the bottom of threaded lid, so I avoided the dreaded blowout by about an inch. I’m just surprised that there is still foam from the 3-gallon mark down to the surface of the beer.

 

[Megary]

Brewed a Porter today. (Surprise surprise.). But, I decided to make some pretzel bites with the spent grains.

2 cups worth, set on a rack to dry. I didn’t dry them long enough though.

End product. Taste is pretty nice, outside is as it should be. Middle is not as firm as I’d like. Could have been the dampness of the grains threw the recipe off, or it just could have been a poor recipe. But a bit of cheese or mustard and I’m not complaining.

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[WesBrew]

got more parts saturday. Put a T in the gas line to run to the gas block on the conical fermenter to carbonate beer in it. did a pressure check at 4psi. there no liquid in it. Even with all the valves its holding pressure
for an hour.

 

[Ward Chillington]

I'm desperately trying not to drink a homebrew
I made a real small batch and I need to keep some for comparison with batch 2.
That one is conditioning at the moment.

Drink it! You'll make more!

 

[Zambi]

I brewed a small batch, sort of something red

 

[Zambi]

Just bottled my voss cider, on old beer trub.
Also my first time capping bottles