I need to brew, dammit!

Even my wife knows... I *need* to freakin' brew! I'm burned out at work, I've just been feeling dragged down and worn out, and I'm blaming the empty fermenters!

Weather looks like it's going to be decent; actually, Friday looks gorgeous, maybe I'll take a personal day (I work enough on the weekends anyway). I'm thinking about basically squeezing three beers in.

Before the summer is out, I'd like to re-brew the spiced American wheat, using grains of paradise and some sweet orange peel. I'm thinking, though, about also FINALLY doing the Berliner Weiss. Just had some of the DFH Festina Peche, which my wife likes and I'm kind of intrigued by.

I'm thinking about collecting about nine gallons of wort and using that for both beers. Boiling for ten minutes, pulling off three gallons, cool that, and put it in the 3-gallon carboy with some lactobacillus and US-05. Let it ferment out for a while, then add either some peach puree or some of that peach "nectar" that you can buy in the juice isle (just peach juice and a little sugar, I think).

Finish boiling the rest of the wort, with the spices and orange peel, for another fifty minutes (adding them in the last five minutes).

Also, I want to re-do a smoked porter. I've got tons of malts kicking around, five or six pounds of rauchmalt, some chocolate malt and roasted barley and Maris Otter and various crystal malts. Probably do that beer a bit on the big side; maybe even almost in the vein of a smoked Russian Imperial Stout, or a smoked Robust Porter. Something big and thick and chewy and smokey and roasty and a little sweet. Winter beer.

I pretty desperately need to get an APA going again, too. It's frustrating the hell out of me, I have about a dozen beers I want to brew, all the ingredients to brew them, and no time. ARRRRGH!