So who's brewing this weekend?

Milkshake IPA. My grain bill includes plenty of flakes oats and it got lactose, dextrose, and green apple purée at 15 left in the boil. Lots of dry hopping and vanilla beans during fermentation.

Never considered mashing with a Sous vide.
Brilliant idea.

Brewed a Cream Ale

Brewing Sunday, just a batch of my "house" ale all my friends love and drink to much of!

As long as my being salts and hops come tomorrow via FedEx... Doing a 5 gal batch of an IPA

Hoping to get an apricot wheat ale for my daughter tomorrow. Prepping everything today for that task, in between the holiday and normal errands as well as a baseball game this evening.

One busy weekend for sure!

catdaddy66 said:

Hoping to get an apricot wheat ale for my daughter tomorrow.

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Boy that sounds good. Mind sharing the recipe and how you introducing the apricot? Thanks!

Doing a gin/lime Gose and Porter.

Pineapple coconut cream ale today, fingers crossed.

Lawson sip of sunshine and cream of 3 crops this weekend....

Ramping up to mash out on a KOLSCH (there, I said it )...



Done and done!



Cheers!

Drinking saison, brewing a cerveza for summer/guests/wife

I brewed a Belgian Patersbier today on the back lanai. Great day and such a light beer with flavor so we will see how it turns out....

John

I brewed the centennial blonde by biermuncher today and hoping to brew the blueberry summer ale tomorrow.

Just got home from the LHBS. Mother's Day gift to myself was a quick $100 trip to the casino, wasn't expecting much. Walked out with $600+!!! Made my friend Jon Sleight VERY happy by spending some of it in his store. Bought a full bag of two row, some starsan, adjuncts for the APA I'm brewing tomorrow, and finally bit the bullet and bought myself a plate chiller. Also hit up Home Depot for connectors and a new trash can to keep my grain in. Really looking forward to tomorrow's brew day!

Mother's Day brew will be our Flat Tire Crone, this time we are going to Science! Finally got our water reports, so no more guessing. The FTC is a recipe that is supposed to be the "original" version of Fat Tire, much more tasty than today's version. It's a nice amber, looking forward to seeing the difference with Chemistry In Action.

And the pit master is going to smoke some baby back ribs.

And pretty sure my kids will call...

Not technically this weekend but I’m off tomorrow and will be trying my first all grain batch. I got a Brewers Edge Mash and Boil and am doing a Hefeweizen. I’m not sure how it will turn out but it should be fun.

PianoMan said:

Boy that sounds good. Mind sharing the recipe and how you introducing the apricot? Thanks!

Doing a gin/lime Gose and Porter.

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Glad to! It's a simple grain bill...

5# 2-row
3# wheat
2# flaked wheat

Mash at 150°-152° for an hour

1oz Willamette (5.1aa) at 60 min
1oz Kazbek (4.1aa) at 5 min
Total IBU of 29

Fermented at 65° for 14 days with wlp001

Add apricots (4-5#) after primary is nearly complete (10-14 days).

I pureed and froze the fruit before thawing and adding to beer.

I did this last year with cherry puree. It was very good so I was asked to do it again.

catdaddy66 said:

Glad to! It's a simple grain bill...

5# 2-row
3# wheat
2# flaked wheat

Mash at 150°-152° for an hour

1oz Willamette (5.1aa) at 60 min
1oz Kazbek (4.1aa) at 5 min
Total IBU of 29

Fermented at 65° for 14 days with wlp001

Add apricots (4-5#) after primary is nearly complete (10-14 days).

I pureed and froze the fruit before thawing and adding to beer.

I did this last year with cherry puree. It was very good so I was asked to do it again.

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Thank you!

Finally got to the Porter...my 1st No Boil Attempt.

just finished brewing a blueberry summer ale.
That feel when you are not sure if your propane tank will make it through the boil....

Brewed an English Summer Ale today (or so I'm calling it). I'm experimenting with some homemade invert #2 to get colour and flavor instead of using crystal malt.

Brewing my first lager for my wife, because she wants “something like pilsner urquell.”

Don’t have a specific fridge for keeping the fermentation cool bit I’ve rigged a circulating water system in a modified cooler. If it works it will open the door for more money on beer supplies...always nice when wifey supports my habits. Wish me luck!

Citra Cerveza @bigdaddybrew Good stuff.

Forgot to post from my brew session last Friday, a double decocted doppelbock. Took a brief break away from stirring my first decoction to take this pic.

Not sure if I will brew tjis comming weekend but definitly bottling saturday. 23L into 330ml bottles. The last time i bottled was over 9 months ago before i got kegs and I did 750ml bottles so the quantity of bottles to fill will be new to me. 6 dozen brand new reusable beer bottles so decent thickness etc sitting and waiting. I think the smaller bottles make sense for a 9.5%+ beer though.
I started the beer cold crashing this evening so two and a bit days till bottling so should be about right.

If I can convince myself I can bottle and do an all grain brew at the same time without screwing either up I might brew a porter. Could always bottle saturday and brew sunday but I have other fun projects to do.

Sparkncode said:

If I can convince myself I can bottle and do an all grain brew at the same time without screwing either up I might brew a porter. Could always bottle saturday and brew sunday but I have other fun projects to do.

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I have bottled on brewday a handful of times. It is another labor intensive activity but finishing both just makes you feel accomplished. You will be tired but in a good way.

My advice is to sanitize/clean bottles the night before.

Will be brewing a Rye IPA for my daughter's birthday party next month. Each daughter gets a beer named after her and brewed annually for of-age party goers to enjoy in their honor. This will be my 7th batch of this particular beer which means I have an almost 7 year old. Blows my mind every time I think of it.

Scotty B said:

Brewing my first lager for my wife, because she wants “something like pilsner urquell.”

Don’t have a specific fridge for keeping the fermentation cool bit I’ve rigged a circulating water system in a modified cooler. If it works it will open the door for more money on beer supplies...always nice when wifey supports my habits. Wish me luck!

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Good luck! And keep it simple; simple is good for a beer like this.
I haven't tried a lager yet,not because I can't keep the fermentation cool enough -- only have to do that for a few days -- but because I don't have any way of lagering it after fermentation and before bottling. (does lagering in the bottles work?)

z-bob said:

Good luck! And keep it simple; simple is good for a beer like this.
I haven't tried a lager yet,not because I can't keep the fermentation cool enough -- only have to do that for a few days -- but because I don't have any way of lagering it after fermentation and before bottling. (does lagering in the bottles work?)

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I would guess no ... lagering in the bottles isn't going to work. That said, this is why we do this ... maybe I'll take a portion out, bottle them early, and see what happens. This is an ongoing experiment. I still haven't done the batch yet though, I forgot it was my son's birthday coming up so I ended up spending my weekend putting toys together.

Brewing 10 gallons of a NEIPA and 1 gal. SMaSH tomorrow. Splitting the NEIPA into two 5 gal. batches, one will will be a DDH Citra-Galaxy and the other will be a mango milkshake IPA. The SMaSH will be chit malt-citra hops NEIPA, probably also DDH with more citra

Brewing a 1 gallon batch of Raspberry Golden Ale and moving my Grapefruit IPA to secondary this weekend. Can't wait! [emoji481]

Have stuff on hand to brew the following:

Cream Ale
Blonde Ale
Oatmeal Stout
IPA
ESB

Aiming to do one Saturday, and one Monday. We'll see if that actually happens.

Spinning up some ranched english ale yeasts for a "Zombie Dust Meets NEIPA" brew on Saturday...



Cheers!

I want to but am running out of bottles so I may sit this one out. My son turns 22 on 6-19, so if he wants a party I will probably brew a batch for he and his posse.

I really, really want to brew though.

Trying the same Deshcutes Fresh Squeezed IPA again, this time aiming to get close to the target OG (target: 1.069, actual: 1.050). If you don't get it right, try again, right?

My first bottling session since getting kegs 9 months ago. My 9.5% Belgium Tripel.
This time i had got dome fast racks and a stainless bottling wand.

I will definitly get some more fastracks as its easier to sanitise a batch of bottles before filling than alternating between. The tasks for each bottle.

The stainless bottling wand is nice but i will shorten the connecting hose.

Now a wait to find out if I have any bottle bombs as I'm carbonating higher than normal beer.

Brewing a 10 gallon batch of APA today. My HB Version #4.

Bottling a Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA. Through in a token 14 grams of my homegrown Centennial hops, first of the season. I live in College Station, TX, early growing season. Waiting for the Chinook, Cascade, Columbus, and Willamette.

Brewing a Belgian wit with blood orange zest, coriander, and black pepper.

Did my first ever NEIPA this morning and hoping it turns out as hazy, juicy and delicious as I expect. We shall see, but all looks good so far....