What are you doing with homebrew today?

I refer to mine as "Droughtfest", to celebrate the drying of the grass, not as much time and effort put into mowing and having more time to... well...
drink beer.

I was going to keg my 2nd round of Czech amber earlier, but, only have one 5 gallon keg and I have ~6.5-7 gallons of beer. No way I'm wasting a gallon plus of good beer. So I've been cleaning and sanitizing my empties since getting back from the gym.
 
Long overdue, cleaned, sanitized, and purged 2 kegs to ight. Now have 5.5 kegs ready for some delicious liquid!
 
Also threw the spunding valve on the Strong Bitter, set it to 10 PSI, budding slowly as it is early. I didn't mention it yesterday, but the 2 points over on PBG, turned into 4 points over on OG coming out of the kettle. Per the calculator on the other BF software, I added 1.5 liters to the kettle early during transfer. After fermentation I will fill my 11 liter keg first for the garage fridge, and put the rest in a regular keg for the basement. Asking myself why I wouldn't do this as a matter of course, and I think I know the answer!
 
Proof of fermentation...
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Craigerrr said:
Also threw the spunding valve on the Strong Bitter, set it to 10 PSI, budding slowly as it is early. I didn't mention it yesterday, but the 2 points over on PBG, turned into 4 points over on OG coming out of the kettle. Per the calculator on the other BF software, I added 1.5 liters to the kettle early during transfer. After fermentation I will fill my 11 liter keg first for the garage fridge, and put the rest in a regular keg for the basement. Asking myself why I wouldn't do this as a matter of course, and I think I know the answer!
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I have been tempted to do the same. Sometimes I'll brew 8 gal and split it amongst 2 corny kegs. I may get some 3 gallon (11 L) kegs someday if I can find a really good deal.
 
BarbarianBrewer said:
I have been tempted to do the same. Sometimes I'll brew 8 gal and split it amongst 2 corny kegs. I may get some 3 gallon (11 L) kegs someday if I can find a really good deal.
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Even if I fill the 11L and only put 14 or 15 in a 19L it seems to make sense to me, stay tuned. This would never have crossed my mind if I was still mashing in the Brewzilla...
 
No picture, nothing exciting, picked up hops and malts needed for Don's Heffe, a few other malts I was low on or out of, and a pound of Simcoe. They ended up not having the WB-06, so I will order that shipped from OBK when the time comes.
 
Busy day today, brewing Shady Bohemian, washing bottles and replacing the rest of the lines on my glycol chiller with heavier duty silicone.

May also clean out the keezer, haven't used it in a while and I'm going to need it for lagering.
 
English Pale/Strong Bitter krausen had dropped by Thursday, warmed it to 22C for a couple days, at FG today, andded some pressure and set the fermenter to 10C, will check on it late tomorrow, probably add a bit more pressure and set it to 1C, then leave it for a few more days.
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