What are you doing with homebrew today?

[Box of Rocks]

Cold crashing. Moved Light Yardwork to the serving keg from fermenter last night after a night of cold crashing seven days into fermentation. Will continue crashing for a while to let settle further and lager. Hit 1.007 vs expected 1.011 FG, which made up for four points lower on OG. Sample tastes very promising.

 

[Sunfire96]

Added the spunding valve to the amber lager last night, but forgot to put the PRV back in the keg...oops woke up to 0 psi and was very confused lol

 

[Megary]

Toasting some coconut for a Coconut Porter. Smells great!

 

[Bulin's Milker Bucket Brews]

Washed a keg and a fermenter(bottled the IPA and kegged Shady Bohemian Friday), rinsed about 2 cases of bottles(again) and left them to soak the labels off.

 

[Zambi]

Bought apple juice to make more cider

 

[GFHomebrew]

Yeast is pitched wort is transferred into fleshly cleaned fermenter.
23c it's at so I put the stc to hold it there.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Transfering Q2 Syla strength
Gravity Transfer couldn't be arsed pushing it...

 

[Josh Hughes]

Odd, gravity stayed at 1.030 since this morning. Also no extra gas to push the psi higher on my spunding valve. Mash temps were good. Fermentation started great.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Odd, gravity stayed at 1.030 since this morning. Also no extra gas to push the psi higher on my spunding valve. Mash temps were good. Fermentation started great.

Unless it's a dodgey tilt reading?

 

[Josh Hughes]

Unless it's a dodgey tilt reading?

I thought that. Also possible I actually got the spunding valve at a perfect 15 psi but I doubt it. It’s a lager so I don’t expect the krausen to be super active

 

[GFHomebrew]

I thought that. Also possible I actually got the spunding valve at a perfect 15 psi but I doubt it. It’s a lager so I don’t expect the krausen to be super active

Wait n see I suppose

 

[WesBrew]

Rouse the yeast ?

 

[Over The Cliff Brewing]

I'm boiling a Vienna SMaSH right now. I'm using Bru-1 hops. Gonna do no chill tonight.

 

[Josh Hughes]

What would cause this? Yeast was active and the starter was a huge pitch right after high Krausen.

Rouse the yeast ?

I did about 5 hours ago. Working a softball game. I’ll hopefully see a change when I get home.

Spunding valve was whistling when I got home and this morning still at it. Gravity also moving. I think it got too cold.

 

[AHarper]

I'm boiling a Vienna SMaSH right now. I'm using Bru-1 hops. Gonna do no chill tonight.

Bru-1 hops are great... pineapple and peach... mmmm

 

[WesBrew]

*moved comment

 

[Sunfire96]

Chilling and carbing the amber lager, and moved the spunding valve to the kolsch. Should have cold beer very soon!

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

Bru-1 hops are great... pineapple and peach... mmmm

I hope so because three brews down the road I'm going to add Bru-1 to a Kveik SMaSH (Maris Otter & El Dorado) I brewed last summer. I hope to accentuate the pineapple aroma that I get from El Dorado & WLP521. I should probably change the name to Kveik SMaDOH (Single Malt and DOuble Hop)?

Edited to correct typo.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Moving along. Gravity is at 1.015 now and still whistling away. I expect it to hit 1.012-1.010. Spunding valve comes off tomorrow morning. Sitting at 18 psi. Should give me what I want by the end carbonation wise.

 

[Zambi]

Drinking a glass of Voss cider. Only made 4 bottles.
Was disappointed in the first one and thought it had to be the lower temperatures we have been having.
But now I don't think so. It just needed longer in the fridge. And I actually know that. And still.....

Also checked on my saison.
It's definitely been fermenting as the refractometer reading is much lower than initially.
After correction, I should be sitting at an FG of 1.002!
But it wasn't the best of samples, so won't be bottling yet. Just wanted to onow if it was actually fermenting.

One thing: it is sitting on a boatload of hops. Should I angle the fermenter a couple days before bottling to get them away from the spigot? Or syphoning to bottling bucket (which I am not keen on)?