Cheers everybody 🍻 enjoying a bottle of Skull Splitter https://untp.beer/q0gOJ A classic styled Wee Heavy 👍🏻

#beer @beersofmastodon

Drinking some Hive Saison. Wild fermented with a yeast culture grown up from honey, comb, and even a few unfortunate worker bees from my hive.

#Beer #WildYeast #Saison #HomeBrewing

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A tulip glass full of yellow beer with foam stacked up above the rim stands next to a 750ml green bottle bearing a bit of masking tape with the word 'hive' written on it

In the "this is ridiculous" category, I had to buy some replacement hops for a goof in procedure I did on my beer brewing kit. It was cheaper to buy a giant box of hops than a couple of packets due to shipping. I clearly miscalculated exactly the amount of hops that were on the "Black Friday/clearance" specials at the nearby hops provider. 😳 #beer #alcohol

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Giant box of hop pellets

Time for a beer during this brew day. Palatki wild yeast saison.

#CurrentlyDrinking #Beer #HoneBrewing #Saison

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A green 750ml heavy bottle of beer stands next to a goblet glass full of said beer, about four fingers of head on the beer. Misc brewing instruments and other BS can be seen in the background

It's been way too long since I brewed a tree beer. Leyland Cypress boughs are in the strike. I'm brewing a saison and a kveik pale ale with this.

#HomeBrewing #TreeBeer #Beer

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Bright green Leyland Cypress boughs are mostly submerged in water inside a brewing kettle

the most recent post from @larsga deals with the 3 ways that humans have turned the starch from grain into sugar for producing alcoholic beverages. Pretty interesting stuff and worth some more research.

https://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/439.html

#Beer #Malting #Fermentation #Sake

Drinking a gruit I made with homegrown mugwort and alecost. It has a nice herbal flavor that's hard to describe, alecost is pretty unique, sorta mint and sorta cinnamon but not actually either of those things.

#HomeBrewing #Gruit #Beer

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A glass of copper colored beer with a thick head of foam on top stands next to a brown bottle with a masking tape label with the word 'Gruit' written on it. String that formerly held the cork in the bottle hangs down from around the bottle's neck

@llewelly @ZahmbieND @Lats Aha!

(except this uses bread... suspect there's a different way to do this directly with the schlup at the bottom of beer brewing tanks)

Sainsbury: Make-your-own ‘Marmite’

https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/mains/make-your-own-marmite

#marmite #beer #recipe

@ZahmbieND @Lats oh wow! I was joking, but you can!

Brooklyn BrewShop: How to Dry Spent Grain

"...t’s no secret that food waste is a big problem in our world and the beer making process is no exception. Grain is a byproduct of brewing and once used it’s called “spent grain”. Many breweries cart their spent grain off to local farms for feed so it doesn’t go to waste. However, many of us making beer at home don’t raise chickens or share a yard with Old MacDonald, meaning we tend to throw away our spent grain for lack of another use. This is why we began experimenting with ways to make the grain a more useable ingredient in our kitchens, developing over 50 recipes that utilize what would otherwise be a wasted byproduct. .."

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/blogs/themash/how-to-dry-spent-grain

#ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #homebrewing #beer #grain #alcohol

I'm drinking my home rewed Honey Tripel. I used honey from my bee hive instead of candi sugar and also fermented it with a wild yeast culture I got out of some honey from a neighbor's hive 12 years ago.

#HomeBrewing #Beer #CurrentlyDrinking #Tripel

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A bottle with a partially peeled off label stands next to a glass full of clear yellow beer on a drip tray. There's about three fingers of head on the beer

Ha! That's about what my experimental second extraction was, I think. (well... lots of foam in the way of my metering, but it's close to that).

#beer #nonalcoholic #homebrew #alcohol

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1.005 specific gravity

Hmm, this guy actually did the same kind of thing. (rediscovering "small beer" LOL).

Making Non Alcoholic Beer That’s Actually GOOD!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPL-42-B5bA

#beer #homebrew #alcohol #nonalcoholic

Beer is happening. Also, remarkably, the attempt at a "small beer", using the same grain for another batch also is fermenting. Should be almost a nonalcoholic beer, based on how little sugar is in there. #beer #IPA #homebrewing #alcohol

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Beer brewing and bubbling in a fridge

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Frothy bubbling in another gallon container

Lesson of the day: brewing 1 gallon of all grain beer at a time is a foolish/extravagant use of time, per volume. (folks here have told me... 5 gallons.. because brewing 5 gallons takes the same time as 1 gallon). Making from extract is a much, much smaller investment in time.

#homebrew #alcohol #beer

Trying to sample and test my raspberry sour…I did rack on top of some more raspberry puree and seeing white specs on top.

Any #brewers experience such a thing dealing with sours? Is it safe?

Was planning in packing and serve at XMAS exchange this weekend.

#homebrewing #beer

Attempted small beer batch. Specific gravity says this may not generate much alcohol at all... may have to add sugar or honey if it does not ferment at all, later. Beer soda at half a percent alcohol maybe? Lol. #beer #alcohol #homebrew

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Safely yeast

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Shaken and capped

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Specific gravity reading

And into brew fridge with blowout tube. I need to bottle all that mead in there. #homebrew #brewing #beer #alcohol

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Bottle in fridge

Funneled into first gallon. Had to add water. Apparently too much boiling. #beer #homebrew #brewing #alcohol

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Half Gallon wort in glass bottle

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Full gallon after dilution

Because I still had grain, decided to make a "small beer" second batch... sacrificed some of the hops. Probably need to buy more for the "dry hopping" step later. No idea if this will work. Heated up 5 quarts of water to 170F and attempted to run twice through the existing grains, this extracts more sugar. Boiling that now, too. #homebrew #brew #alcohol #beer

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Filtering more water through grain

Measured specific gravity. But this was undiluted wort. No idea what I am doing LOL. Had to add water, boiled off too much. #homebrew #beer #alcohol

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Specific gravity

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More specific gravity reading

Hops went in earlier, only 2/5. After boiling a heck of a lot of straining. This was labor intensive and slow. The strainer was too small. The 5 gallon batch next time will definitely need that mash tun... this "lauter tun" method would be impossible with 5 gallons. Must have spent an hour on this. #homebrew #beer #alcohol

A ton of boiling. I guess you can't do anything else on a brew day! #beer #homebrew #alcohol

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Cloudy liquid boiling

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More cloudy liquid boiling

In the meantime... pull out a radio and see if the HF bands are open. Occasionally check mash temp. #hamradio #alcohol #beer #homebrew

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Old Kenwood TS 520 on a back patio table

Now, start cooking the grains. The instructions say to bring water to 160F and then mix grains, then cook for an hour between 144F (63C) and 152F (68C). This pot is way too big lol. Using the FLIR. #flir #beer #alcohol

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Big pot with tiny amount of water

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Flir reading

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Pot with grains

Next, sanitize everything! Using Star-San since I have that (lol also from a follower here who gave me some wine brewing stuff). Instead of rhe packet in the kit. I also decided to be extra careful and sanitized the outside of the yeast packet and the hops packets. All the wine recipes mention doing this. #alcohol #homebrew #beer

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Stuff floating on a container of sanitizer

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Many things that have been sanitized and are air drying

Need to fix the wort chiller first. Last time the hose flew off and scattered stuff everywhere, including into the wort... that batch failed. Adding pipe clamps as reinforcement. Bought this from @jasonemiller so another Fediverse friend #homebrew #alcohol #beer

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Wort chiller made of copper

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Connection to wort chiller... so little corrosion there. Only a pinch connector

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New pipe clamp added and tightened on chiller tube

Today's Thanksgiving project... trying to brew all grain beer from a (free!) kit off Craigslist. Also a pot from @armerpunkt ! New England IPA from Brooklyn Brewshop.

#alcohol #beer #homebrew

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Contents of a beer making kit in a table, big turkey frying pot on a burner.

Beer brewing pot from the Fediverse! Also a burner (not shown). Thanks! #alcohol #beer #homebrew

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Giant pot

Mentioned my homebrewing project on the morning ham radio net, and surfaced two more homebrew people... may borrow some equipment from one of them for the 5 gallon dry irish stout. #hamradio #homebrewing #alcohol #beer

Is it sufficient to hashtag posts involving or mentioning alcohol, or is a CW necessary? (recovering alcoholics have mentioned to me it's helpful to flag these, hoping the hashtag is enough). I know with Mastodon you can set up many keywords and never see any posts mentioning alcohol, and would like to respect folks efforts there without making the posts impossible to see.

#homebrewing #homebrew #alcohol #beer #wine #mead

Northern Brewer emailed back this morning, and the roasted oats are in the main batch of grain already mixed. So, I can definitely do this if I can figure out the equipment, or if I brew less than the 5 gallons.

#homebrewing #alcohol #beer

#Random

Hmm, okay, will make New England IPA as a warmup to a whole grain stout. (Free kit! Free beer! Free learning something new!). Let's see if homebrewing beer attempt #3 works. (#1 was great, #2 was a stinky failure). Then will advance to #4, which is an increased level of technique.

(Now, I just need people to consume my beer, LOL... I can't drink that much beer, really.)

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/pages/instructions-new-england-ipa

#homebrew #homebrewing #beer

Aha! I can bottle my wine. Now, to figure out how to really clean tubing after usage. Also have an IPA beer kit. This is an easier kit than my all grain project, maybe I should also make this. (1 gallon, too, small kit). #homebrew #beer #alcohol

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Tubing

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Full unused beer kit

Hopefully, my project for Thursday (we are offsetting Thanksgiving due to my son's work schedule). Assuming I don't have to clean up the house/etc. Hopefully will result in actusl beer, lol. A wiser person would find a homebrewer to watch first, lol. I hope I have enough equipment for this... #homebrewing #beer

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Dry Irish Stout kit

I think sadder than the #enshittification of digital services, is when it happens to physical products.

My city had a quite good #beer brewery, that was sold to the Heineken group, and both quality and variety of products suffered a lot.

Random homebrewing (beer) question now that it is a normal hour in the US. Has anyone here ever tried brewing multiple batches of beer from a single batch of grain (which apparently was traditionally done)? Historically, you had the good beer (first brew), the okay beer (second brew), and "small beer" (basically a replacement for water, because water was not safe). Kind of sounds like a neat thing to try. #beer #homebrew

Hmm, why did no one tell me about the existence of "small beer" before? (beer brewed from already spent grains). i.e. you brew your first beer, then a second... maybe even a third brewing, each with increasingly less alcohol! #beer #homebrew

Granddad's Kernza Saison has finally cleared (now that there's like 8 bottles left). Now it tastes great and looks great too.

#HomeBrewing #Saison #WildYeast #Beer

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A glass of saison stands next to an empty brown bottle

One week ago I started a Red ale. 1lb Caramel Malt 40L, .25lbs Carapils Malt, 4.8 lbs golden DME, 3.2 lbs amber DME, 3 oz Saaz hops, and Nottingham ale yeast.

Partial boil with less than 3 gallons of water with 3 lbs of DME, rest of the DME added for 5 minutes at the end. Half hops for most of it, other half for 5 minutes. 4 quart blocks of ice added and topped up with water. Yeast s p r i n k l e d . . . ;)

8 gallons fermenting in the 30 liter Speidel.

#homebrewing #beer

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Beer wort boiling with a bag of hops floating around, a rack on top of the pot to hold a thermometer probe cable and a drippy spoon or whatever else was dripping at various times.

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The fermenter filled up past the 8 gallon / 30 liter mark and the hydrometer showing an OG, original gravity, reading about 1.048. There are foamy swirls in the wort.

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The temperature of the wort showing as 69.8F on a digital probe thermometer which is 21C.

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The empty packet of Nottingham High Performance Ale Yeast shown after it was sprinkled. It has a reputation for being very active and fermenting fast and causing lots of fun!

It's #beer o'clock. Cheers everybody 🍻 enjoying a bottle of Plum Barleywine https://untp.beer/0BbyQ

Nice and warming on a snowy winter's evening.

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