Brewing Activities (2021)

Making some invert sugar I plan to use in a bitter tomorrow

 

Report back on the strawberries. I’ve been meaning to try that route in a saison.

 

- Brewing the 2nd iteration of a gf American Brown Ale. First one came out great. I'm just removing the chocolate malt because it was a overkill. I should be able to retain some chocolate notes from the other malts.

- Dry hopping the Nectaron/Citra NEIPA.

- Moving my CO2 tank outside of the fridge and setting up my new 4 way manifold. Thanks Santa!

 

Brewing a slightly scaled up version of my Black is Beautiful stout recipe for a club barrel project. Target OG: 1.109.

 

Side note: Do not recommend doing 20# of grain with BIAB, without a pulley. My arms...

 

On the other hand, fun to hit a 1.098 preboil.

 

Awesome let me know.

 

I’ve been meaning to do this. Are you gonna use grommets, a shank, caulk, or just drill a hole and push the gas line through?

I like the cleaner look of grommets or a shank, but have been procrastinating on figuring out which to get. I also like the ease of just drilling a hole and pushing it through.

 

I didn't want to mess with drilling and possibly messing up this reliable (and free) fridge. I used some heavy duty adhesive. Also, just ran the line through the lining in the door. Doesn't need to be pretty, just has to work.

 

100+ batches of beer later, and I'm finally brewing my first lager. Decided on a Pilsner. 95% German pils, 5% carahell. 35-40 IBU with Czech Saaz, and am going to try out Imperial's L17 Harvest, as I've heard good things. Plus I love Augustiner beer. I'm pumped!

My thing for the past few years has been 11-gal split batches, so the other half of this batch is going to get US-05, fermented in the low 60s. It'll be interesting to compare a lager vs an ale fermented at lower temps

 

Not really brewing per se... but I finished up the keezer cart to finally get this thing raised up and on casters. Next step will be to drill through the back and connect a manifold to free up some more room in the keezer itself.



Also the new adapter arrived for my Lukr faucet

 

Nice....I'd bet the clan over at the Home Bar forum would like this

 

mad part of my Homebrew resolution I am taking notes and working on my English bitter recipe.

 

You're running a bag with the basket for your Anvil? I find that to get the efficiency I want, I need to crush my grains pretty fine. Is this why you also use the bag? I get lots of small grain into the boil if I don't.

 

I do the same thing on a mash and boil. I like to crush really fine for efficiency and I don’t like changing my mill settings when I use my 15 gallon outdoor set up.

 

I just use the bag because the SS bazooka screen gets clogged with hops and grain proteins if I don’t. I’m still working on efficiency, I feel like if I use 10# or less grain it’s great with recirculating while mashing. If it’s >10# I’m better off not recirculating or mashing long. I haven’t figured it out yet lol

 

@Yungcoolship very cool pic.

 

Very nice! I've gotta start a whole new sticker collection on my brand new keezer. It's going to take a lot of various brewery visits to get to this level though

 

Looks really cool @Yungcoolship! My wife is vehemently anti-sticker, but once we build a garage and my setup moves out there I hope to get a visual record like that going.

I'm currently... waiting. We did a big remodel over the holiday season and I ended up kicking all three kegs. I've got a Mexican hot chocolate stout carbonating, and a NEIPA, a Rye IPA, and another stout (inspired by Phish food ice cream) fermenting. In about a week the NEIPA will be ready to go into the keg and I'll have a bucket freed up to brew a kolsch. I'm gonna have a lot of heavy hitters on deck, gonna need to lighten it up!