So who's brewing this weekend?

Making first bock today. About to mash out.

Love the electric brewery. Sitting here in the basement playing toys with my 3 year old while the mash does its thing.

Brewed 5 gallons of a Red

I am hoping to. Depends on what gets done today and tomorrow and the will of the wife.

Joining a brewing - friend is working on a recipe for an old ale with ingredients consistent with colonial America. Not sure what that entails - but knowing him, it will probably be done very well and come out very good.

Busy all weekend, but will be brewing a red IPA with Calypso, Mosaic, Huell Melon and El Dorado on Monday, for a small competition in 3 weeks. First batch of it came out outstanding.

Today's brew is 10 gallons of Rye Mild.
Split into 5 gallon batches, one on ESB 1968, the other on London Ale III.

Brewing a grapefruit IPA. I was thinking about doing a double brew day and starting a batch of Bier Muncher's Centennial Blonde too, but had to nix that idea. Maybe tomorrow...

Pale ale. Falconers Flight and citra. With inspiration..

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love me sum Falconers Flight. Just finished a keg. Besides Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, that is a good bridge beer to get non craft beer drinkers into the real deal!

We just kicked the Boston Lager clone keg, tapped the Flat Tire Crone (AG) and it will not last long! YUM, so gotta get the next brew going tomorrow. Cream Ale for summer sipping.

Brewing an American Honey Brown Ale tomorrow with my three sons, who are coming over for a brew day! Gotta go patriotic for the holiday!

John

Brewing my "Harpie" apricot blonde. First all grain brew, been brewing for ~3 years.

I am using hops and yeast to compliment the apricot instead of letting the fruit carry the flavor alone. Usually use a generic blonde base and add the purée.

I am almost done brewing a cayenne wheat ale.

Well here's a new one*I brewed today. It's a new line(?) of beer recipes from Midwest Supplies called*A Beer. Simply Beer. This one was a Pale Ale*5G Extract w/Steeping grains recipe. I bought the Pale Ale, Brown Ale, and IPA recipes.

Brewing outdoors for the first time this week. Peated Scottish 80.

Just mashed in my blonde ale, first time AG and first time using my cart. So far so good.

It is hot, even in my garage.

20 gal of apex predator!

Brewed 10 gallons of an Amarillo pale ale and will be brewing a low ABV bitter this coming weekend

Brewing 5 gallons of Dead Ringer IPA as I type this! Love impromptu brew days! It's kinda like Christmas! Not to mention while brewing a new guy who moved to the neighborhood was out walking his dog, stopped to look, turns out he's a brewer as well! Neighborhood brew club coming soon!

Brewing a 5-gallon Munich Dunkel, but with an Ale yeast... We'll see the results!

Brew day went as perfect as one could hope.

First AG, no stuck sparge, hit temps on the head. OG was right on the money.

First time using my plate chiller as well, like it a lot. I recirculated ice water through it as to not waste water. I then used the water for cleanup.

Racked my Fluffernutter Sammie Stout onto a gallon of water boiled for 10 minutes with 13 oz additional JIF Peanut Butter Powder, cooled, and 2 vanilla beans soaked in a little Everclear. May need more vanilla...maybe extract at bottling? Looks good, though...lots of peanut flavor and aroma "in your face" right now.

Fluffernutter... Love it.

I'm starting my weekend early today by brewing a Belgian Dubbel!

Brwing a Kolsch on Sunday. Have Upland's Sour Fest Saturday.

Going to attempt my third AG on Saturday - a Mosaic SMaSH. Got the idea from our local brewpub (Wet Head Brewery in Auburn, shameless plug I know, but Billy Jack is the BEST). He's got one on tap that is pure ambrosia. Also he gave me some solid pointers on how to improve my efficiency. Can't wait!!

Making my first lager, a Marzen. My brother and I are doing 11 gal and splitting it in half. We plan to pitch two different yeasts, s-189 and wlp810.

Cannot wait!

I'm going to give this Apex Predator clone a try this Saturday (scaled up to 5 gallons).
http://www.brewunited.com/view_recipe.php?recipeid=32

NB Chinook Ale all grain kit Sunday. My first all grain attempt in 30 years... hope I remember it all!

MaryB said:

NB Chinook Ale all grain kit Sunday. My first all grain attempt in 30 years... hope I remember it all!

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That's great, good luck!

John

Brewing up yoopers oatmeal stout Saturday morning.

Brewing an APA/IPA tomorrow… Prepped the grains last night (measured out) and will mill them tonight and get all my equipment ready.

Recipe is like 79% 2-row, 8% vienna, 10% white wheat and like 3% crystal 20. Using something like 0.8oz of carafa III for color only at mash out to raise SRM by a few points.

Will be using Columbus, Chinook, Mosaic and Citra for the hopping. No hop stand this time around, just a late addition (5min left in boil). My last few IPA’s have been turbid and never clear, even with US-05 or S-04, which I believe is due to the hop stands I have been doing… So trying this one without!

Pitching 1056 and will ferment at 64F. Made a 1.5L starter for it and currently cold crashing that.

Using my most aggressive water profile to date for this one… Have not gone beyond 300ppm sulfates yet on previous IPA’s, but doing 350 this time (Cl is at like 26, so big SO4:Cl ratio!). Previous IPA was 300/26 or so.

Target specs are 5.8% ABV and 55 IBU.

Following this APA I have back to back lagers ready to go (Dunkel and Festbier)

MaryB said:

NB Chinook Ale all grain kit Sunday. My first all grain attempt in 30 years... hope I remember it all!

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You'll do fine! Had a Chinook smash from Station 26 that was delicious. Your in for a treat if anything similar.

Brewing an ale version of an amber lager my wife is fond of. It turns out great using Saflager w-34/70 and tomorrow is an experiment to see how different it will taste using US-05.

Wife has been asking me to brew a beer she likes. Looks like it's gonna be a Hoegaarden this weekend.

Hoping to brew tomorrow. I want to use up some malts & hops, so based on what I have I'm thinking a White IPA. And maybe a saison

Bottling a hoppy Belgian pale ale
And brewing a rye American pale with Galaxy,citra and hull melon fermented with Brett Trois

A proper Oktoberfest lager.

12ltr of saison, hopped with Archer, late addition of Hibiscus,fermented with Wallonian Farmhouse.
4 litres taken out before the boil to be soured with L.Plantarum and re-added post souring.

No bacteria to be hurt by boiling in this batch

Was brewing an APA yesterday with organic pilsner, vienna and melanoid.. Bittered with galena, aroma from citra and rakau. BRY-97 as the yeastie. Oh, was also my 25th batch!