So who's brewing this weekend?

[dchmela]

I brewed for the first time in my new house yesterday, so I spent most of the brew day making sure all of my equipment made it over in the move! Brewed a nice pale ale with some experimental hops that a local brewery gave me. Feels good to get the first one out of the way,

 

[seatazzz]

And yes it was the strike volume (got 3 gallons first runnings at 1.070), but then I went and oversparged the poor thing. Got two kettles going, one with 3 gallons and the keggle with 7.5, to get down to a respectable preboil/prehop of 8g at 1.055. Dammit. I should know better.

 

[imnotcassie]

Not brewing .... bottling 2 cases of APA and 2 of a Milk Stout.

Note to self: time for a couple of kegs.

 

[6Tap]

I’m brewing a Stout today. 2nd attempt.
Made some tweakes
to the grain bill and I am going to try Imperial Darkness Yeast for the 1st time. If the batch ferments fast enough I plan to enter this one in a Homebrew competition. Fingers crossed.

 

[Phildo253]

Brewed a NEIPA yesterday. Mash went great. Boil was horrible. Somehow turned off my timer, so I had to guesstimate my timing based on boil-off rate. Then both my pump and my backup pump failed. Had to rebuild them really quick, then missed my 180 degree hopstand, which ended up being a 160 degree hop stand. Then overfilled carboy and ended up having to dump some out to allow for krausen and dryhopping. And the flys were ridiculous. Worst case, I made some beer. We will see.

 

[imnotcassie]

I’m brewing a Stout today. 2nd attempt.
Made some tweakes
to the grain bill and I am going to try Imperial Darkness Yeast for the 1st time. If the batch ferments fast enough I plan to enter this one in a Homebrew competition. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed for fast fermentaion!

 

[6Tap]

Both.
Fast fermentation and good tasting beer that has potential for gold ribbon.
Brew competition bottles are due by Jan 16th.
If the Stout is not ready I will still be entering an IPA (West Coast,
not east coast!). [emoji482]

 

[shoengine]

I decided around noon to brew today. It's nice that with 30 minutes notice I can brew a batch of beer.

 

[connell89]

I brewed a winter warmer last week.

 

[imnotcassie]

Both.
Fast fermentation and good tasting beer that has potential for gold ribbon.
Brew competition bottles are due by Jan 16th.
If the Stout is not ready I will still be entering an IPA (West Coast,
not east coast!). [emoji482]

Got something against us East Coasters? Hum-huh? [emoji846]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Preparing for brew day tomorrow. I haven’t mashed since 10/17.... this beer ain’t gonna make itself!

 

[BarleyStanding]

Taking a shot of that Dragonmead Tripel that Hurricane posted a while back. Halfway through the mash. Also kegging a Galaxy British Golden to pass the time.

 

[6Tap]

Got something against us East Coasters? Hum-huh? [emoji846]

Hummm just not hazy fan.

U have any Homebrew that might change my mind?

 

[imnotcassie]

Hummm just not hazy fan.

U have any Homebrew that might change my mind?

I'm only 3 batches in, I dont think I'll be changing minds yet.

 

[6Tap]

Just +\- 18 batches for
Me + a life time of “professional drinking”.
It’s all good!

 

[imnotcassie]

I'll do NEIPA next and let you know how it comes out.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I was sick all this weekend so this Sunday I will have to brew my Margarita Gose, it'll be a mixed fermentation beer using the "Reverse Kettle Sour" technique from MTF instead of the run-of-the-mill kettle sour, and pointers from Rph Guy.

Aiming to submit for a comp if it doesn't suck that bad.

 

[GnenieGone]

then missed my 180 degree hopstand, which ended up being a 160 degree hop stand.

That's a GOOD thing! [emoji3] Bring it below 150 for extra juiciness.

 

[06scout]

Enjoyed a warm January and brewed a Milk Stout

 

[tgolanos]

Impromtu Hefeweizen today. Just about to start the mash.

 

[treacheroustexan]

Doing a real style bender this weekend. Ready? 100% Red X malt, Australian Vic secret hops and kolsch yeast. No idea how it will end up but I’m excited for it.

 

[orionol73]

hopefully brewing a golden ale with some Brewer's Gold this weekend

 

[catdaddy66]

I have my cream ale recipe ready for the weekend. Using up some older low alpha hops (Kazbek, 4.1aa) which I really liked in a prior saison.

The next one I will do will be a saison but I will need to free up my primary, currently occupied by my barleywine. I may end up transferring that to my carboy for another 4-6 weeks to bulk age.

 

[ABI Brewery]

Got some leftover grains, doing a SMaSH with 12 lbs. of Golden Promise, citra hops and US-05, should turn out good, anyone have ideas on a hop schedule, I have plenty of hops for whatever

 

[T-Boy]

Rum Barrel Porter.

 

[tegman]

Brewing a Golden Promise / El Dorado smash on Sunday.

 

[seatazzz]

Will brew up a batch of Czech lager on Saturday with grain that I milled myself for the first time. And will use my just-learned knowledge of strike/sparge volume (that I knew before, but "forgot") to get the gravity/efficiency where it needs to be. Will mill the grain when I get home from work tomorrow night then go to bed and try to sleep, knowing I have an epic brewday the next day.

 

[brewcat]

Hoping to do an Amber. Need to get some yeast refreshed and have ingredients to use up.

 

[brewcat]

Will brew up a batch of Czech lager on Saturday with grain that I milled myself for the first time. And will use my just-learned knowledge of strike/sparge volume (that I knew before, but "forgot") to get the gravity/efficiency where it needs to be. Will mill the grain when I get home from work tomorrow night then go to bed and try to sleep, knowing I have an epic brewday the next day.

Sparge volume doesn't matter. Just heat up more (6 gallons for 5 gallon batch). At least then you won't be short. Assuming a fly sparge...

 

[6Tap]

I’m thinking of brewing a Blonde Ale this Sunday.

 

[Cavpilot2000]

Planning a Rauchbock this weekend.
60% Barke Munich
30% Rauchmalt
8% Caramunich II
2% Carafa II
WLP 830

 

[seatazzz]

Sparge volume doesn't matter. Just heat up more (6 gallons for 5 gallon batch). At least then you won't be short. Assuming a fly sparge...

I batch sparge, not brave enough yet to fly. But I will make sure I have enough to do a second sparge if needed.

 

[dwhetz]

We are! Brewing a Belgian Blonde! Second batch...our first one was a NEIPA, has about a week til bottling...seems right on point so far.

 

[Blazinlow86]

Doing a generic light american lager this weekend. Go ahead boo me off the field lol. Cheers

 

[6Tap]

Brew on peeps Brew on!!

 

[treacheroustexan]

Doing a generic light american lager this weekend. Go ahead boo me off the field lol. Cheers

Nothing wrong with that at all. Cheers!

 

[Tom13a]

New member here, but I’ve been brewing for 2 years, mostly just in the winters. Doing a BIAB making a ESB clone today. It’s mashing as we speak

 

[George Schuster]

Cream ale just went into the fermenter. Getting ready for NHC 2019 and California State Fair!
German pils in the other fermenter.

 

[treacheroustexan]

Cream ale just went into the fermenter. Getting ready for NHC 2019 and California State Fair!
German pils in the other fermenter.

Thanks for the NHC reminder! Entry registration should be coming up right? I need to stop falling behind on these things.

 

[GnenieGone]

All dme no heat Hefeweisen and an AG 90min boil Stout. Extreme brewing styles.