Lots of beer things to do this weekend

As usual, I try to take advantage of the weekends when my older girls are at their mom's to get all of my beer tasks done. 2 weeks ago it was the monster 4 brew weekend, this weekend it's only going to be 2 brews and lot of moving beer around.

I never thought that I would say this, but I actually have too much beer right now. It will be months before I get to drink some of it unless I *gulp* bottle! So that's what I'm doing tomorrow night - I'm bottling the EF, Belgian Pale Ale and the Southern English Brown Ale.

The Old Ale gets racked to a keg for long term storage (I need the 5g carboy that it's in) and the Belgian Dark Strong, Roggenbier, Blonde and Biere de Garde get racked to secondary.

I had planned on doing all of that tomorrow night (assuming that my order with dextrose comes in by tomorrow), but when I type it all out it sure seems like a hell of a lot of work!

Then Saturday afternoon I'm going to brew up a Weizenbock and possibly a Belgian Golden Strong (depends if my order comes in) or maybe something a bit more tame for what I'm calling Beerfest '08. It's basically just a bunch of my buddies coming over to the house to drink all my beer, brew beer, watch stupid movies and make fun of each other - after we get done playing golf in the morning, of course.

Here's the Weizenbock recipe that I'll be using:


BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Klaiberhaus Weizenbock
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: Weizenbock
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 7.33 gal
Estimated OG: 1.085 SG
Estimated Color: 22.6 SRM
Estimated IBU: 17.7 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
8.00 lb Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 47.53 %
4.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 23.77 %
3.00 lb Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 17.83 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 2.97 %
0.50 lb Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 2.97 %
0.50 lb Special Roast (50.0 SRM) Grain 2.97 %
0.33 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 1.96 %
1.50 oz Tettnang [4.50 %] (60 min) Hops 17.7 IBU
1 Pkgs American Hefeweizen Ale (White Labs #WLP32Yeast-Wheat


Mash Schedule: Decoction Mash, Single
Total Grain Weight: 16.83 lb
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Decoction Mash, Single
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
35 min Protein Rest Add 8.42 gal of water at 126.6 F 122.0 F
45 min Saccharification Decoct 3.57 gal of mash and boil it 155.0 F