So who's brewing this weekend?

I brewed an IPA using Columbus, Cascade, and Centennial. In other news, I cranked out an 80% brewhouse efficiency for the first time! I’m usually much lower than that.

Leapsandbounds said:

View attachment 596255 I brewed an IPA using Columbus, Cascade, and Centennial. In other news, I cranked out an 80% brewhouse efficiency for the first time! I’m usually much lower than that.

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Do you just drop your hops in or do you use muslin bags?
If you go straight in, what is your process for filtering?

Attempting my first lager Saturday with a Munich Dunkel and the quick lager method

Being a lazy POS the last month has cost me, by Sunday I will do a lambic and I think I will try to squeeze in a Mosaic IPA, the well is running dry.

smurfjuice said:

Weef is gone to the Carolinas till Monday. scotch ale Saturday and going to sneak a stout in Sunday. wish me luck …

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I pulled it off … yay me …

MT's AZ Ale Haus said:

Do you just drop your hops in or do you use muslin bags?
If you go straight in, what is your process for filtering?

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I just drop them in. When I pour the wort into the fermenter I do my best to keep most of the hop sludge out (it usually settles at the bottom).

MT's AZ Ale Haus said:

Do you just drop your hops in or do you use muslin bags?
If you go straight in, what is your process for filtering?

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This is easy and cheap to build and works great to keep hop debris out of the fermenter. It is linked here below and HBT has a link or two on it.

https://byo.com/project/build-a-hop-spider-projects/

Tomorrow morning I'm going to brew up another batch of what I'm now calling the 'house' lager. Straight two row, with crystal & chinook hops for bittering and crystal for flavor/aroma. The last one is divine, and I want to keep it in the pipeline. Also going to keg up one of the two 5g batches of dark lager I've got going in order to pitch on the yeast cake; yes, maybe stupid, but this yeast has not done me wrong yet in 6 generations. No esters, no off flavors, just darn good tasty beer. The dark is essentially done with primary and can finish lagering in the keg. There's enough in kegs right now to drink so I can keep this one in the fermenter for 2 weeks. Getting cold up here in the great PNW, so will ferment this one a bit colder at 56-58 and see what happens.

In the process of brewing Denny’s rye IPA. Since I’m a captive audience to brewing, I’m smoking 6 pounds of cheese.

Brewing Jamil Z's Hoppiness is an IPA. LHBS out of Simcoe so using Mosaic for the aroma hops.

Did a repeat of a Kolsch that was a hit here. All went well...



Cheers!

Today I brewed a modification of the Bell's Two Hearted Clone. Added some Vic Secret, Amarillo and Citra hops because they were in the freezer.

@smirfjuice, I place a paint filter bag in a second sanitized kettle and pour the wort into it and use my stirring spoon to squeeze the juice out of it and then pour the wort, less the hops and some trub, into my fermenter. I put the paint bag in the hot wort to sanitize it.

Brewing a XXIPA today.
Started brewing later than planned since our water heater broke this morning so 4 hours later and a few trips to Home Depot a new water heater was up and running and I then started brewing. So far so good! Cheers

Surprise brew day! Was supposed to work at the brewery today but the boss has to cover at his job, and I can't run the system by myself...so since I don't have an IPA on tap right now (horrors!) decided to fit in a quick brew. 12lbs two row, 1lb crystal 40, are in the tun right now. Going to bitter with some Chinook, and do late additions with a mix of Chinook, Crystal, and Amarillo. Tried a true hopstand at 180 yesterday for the first time, will do it again today. No room in the ferment fridge with a lager going at 54, so this one will ferment in the house in a swamp cooler for the first time in ages. Late start but can watch NFL Red zone on the laptop out here and be done in time for the Hawks game at 1:25. Happy Sunday!

Brewing a California Common, drinking a HB Weizenbock.

Running the wort chiller on my Traditional Smoked Porter.

Going to be an interesting batch, I had 2/3-3/4 Gallon of a 12-14% Barley Wine that had only been fermenting for 1 week that I needed some space for...so, I am putting the Porter on top of the Barley Wine and its yeast in order to see what happens.

WTH, it'll be beer, right?

Wild ale #2 ("flanders red" style with captured yeast) in the books for today. In about a year I can see how it turned out...

Tomorrow, a red ale. During the weekend, an ESB.

Brewing a Maple Pecan Brown Ale on Monday of next week.

Raspberry vanilla cream ale. Last of my Christmas gift six-pack beers.

Abrayton said:

Raspberry vanilla cream ale. Last of my Christmas gift six-pack beers.

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Damn! Can we be friends? You're making me look bad, I'm only giving 2 xmas beers hahaha.

Me! Brewed a 2.5 gallon batch of oatmeal stout.

Worked hard at the brewery today turning out a Coffee Brown and an Oatmeal Stout, helping to teach the boss' daughter about brewing...got enough done to earn a day off tomorrow to brew up another batch of WF lager at home with some Tettnanger hops to come close to a "traditional" lager. Although I'm enjoying some wheat IPA right now that might just preclude me getting up in time to brew.....

Leapsandbounds said:

View attachment 598317 View attachment 598316 Me! Brewed a 2.5 gallon batch of oatmeal stout.

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How do you avoid trub. Doesn’t look like there’s any in there at all.

Not this weekend, but Monday morning I'll be doing 10 gallons of a session IPA that I've been working on the recipe for. Aiming for a similar flavor to Founders All day IPA. With my own twist on it of course.

Ever since I switched to all grain, all I want to do is brew all the time. I got two more kegs to fill, so this oughta do it. [emoji106][emoji51]

AZCoolerBrewer said:

How do you avoid trub. Doesn’t look like there’s any in there at all.

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It’s in there, it just hadn’t settled out yet. When I dump the kettle into the fermenter I really only avoid the hops at the very bottom.

Galaxy/Idaho 7 IPA.

Decided to go with a pilsner malt. No reason. got a bag and want to see what it has to offer in lighter ales. Also found out that my WLP400 was dead (was going to do Belgian) so used my Omega DIPA

8.71 lb pilsner
2.49 lb red wheat
0.5 lb flaked oats
.25 lb carapils (getting rid of it)
1 oz acid malt.

20 Min protein rest for pils and oats.
90 min boil

0.5 oz magnum @ 60
1 oz cascade, Idaho 7 and 1 oz orange zest @ 5
1 oz galaxy @ 2

whirlpool (170F for 10 min)
1 oz each galaxy, idaho 7, mosaic

Should be lighter on the IBU and fairly refreshing. Tired of palate fatigue. I want a hoppy drinker.

Pre-boil gravity sample.......

Just wrapped up 5 gallons of what has become my house brown, amd now I need a pint of the current batch of said brown.

It feels like this Sunday will be the last day for a few weeks I will be able to do a brew-day. I could brew a Galaxy SMaSH to compare to my Mosaic SMaSH, or maybe something a little more seasonal. I am not sure, to the recipe section!

Black Friday I'm trying out a Black Rye I made out on the fly, Saturday a go to Amber Ale. Sunday - drinking.

Brewing a Blood orange Pale Ale as we speak

10 lb Maris Otter
.75 lb Victory
.75 lb Munich
.2 lb wheat malt

.75 oz Horizon 60 min
.5 oz Cascade 10 min
.5 oz centennial 10 min
.5 oz Cascade 0 min
.5 oz centennial 0 min

white labs 005

Planning to brew an IPA with Citra and Mosaic this Sunday (after everyone goes back home!). Looking forward to a light, hoppy beer, as all I have in the Cupboard Under the Stairs is Red Rye, Stout, and a Porter that isn't ready yet.

I've got a porter grain bill on deck for Saturday. Probably split it and put half on chili's and leave the other half unadulterated.

JAReeves said:

Planning to brew an IPA with Citra and Mosaic this Sunday (after everyone goes back home!). Looking forward to a light, hoppy beer, as all I have in the Cupboard Under the Stairs is Red Rye, Stout, and a Porter that isn't ready yet.

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Those hops play nicely together. Kegging a DIPA with the same combo tomorrow.

Third SMaSH beer in a row coming up this weekend, Golden Promise and EKG. I'll call it a golden ale and it should be ready in time for the summer i'm hoping we have. I should really change things up and brew something that's not a SMaSH but this is turning out to be interesting.

Finally getting around to brewing the holiday ale I should have done 3 weeks ago. 12lbs two row, 2lbs special b, and 1lb crystal 40 are giving a great color if a disappointing SG of 1.045 (I have GOT to figure out this damn efficiency issue). 1 gallon on the induction burner in the house boiling down for a reduction, and spices ground up to add at 15 minutes (cloves, allspice, and a big dollop of pumpkin pie spice). Going to make a "spice bottle" of same with Cap'n Morgans to add after 7 days as well. Smells awesome in the brewery right now.

Today I brewed a Belgian Blonde Ale. I used abbey malt in the grain bill as I really like the flavor it gives, especially with the WY3787 Trappist High Gravity yeast. Smooth brew day, hit all my numbers and it was 78 degrees on the back lanai! Great way to cap a holiday weekend!

John

Made a batch of lager: 20# pils, 1 oz N brewer FW, 1 oz Amarillo last 20 min boil, 1 oz Willamette leaf post boil. 11 gallons in fermentor, Safelager S 189, SG 1.059.