Black Friday Brew Day

[mrcoldone]

I'll be brewing. As long as my order to brewmasterswarehouse gets here. I hope, I hope, I hope. Either Edwort's porter I've heard so much about or a mint chocolate stout for the holidays.

yum! Mint chocolate stout. Well, I was gonna brew a nut brown but if I could get an easy recipe for that, things might change. Ive only made three batches, which were all kits, but I would love to make that if you had an easy recipe. Maybe an all extract with some steeping grains.

 

[mrcoldone]

By the way, I just looked on that site. Do you just add mint to the chocolate stout? Thats something I definitely wanna do on black Friday!!

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

I've started a personal tradition of brewing dark beers on black friday. It started with an oatmeal stout a couple years ago. This year I'm going to do a Yule Gruit. I haven't finished the grain bill yet, but it's going to be dark and have heather, sweet gale, and mugwort for bittering and flavoring. I'm planning this one to be drinkable by Yule '10.

 

[winstonofbeer]

Gonna brew today, Next week is a no go for brewing.
swmbo b-day and black friday is part of what she considers part of her b-day and x-mas presents. SO, I will be shoppin and drivin to see family 110 miles away.

 

[Jenks829]

I am brewing a Red Ale and splitting the batch in half. One half will get Wyeast 1056 the other Wyeast 1084 (Irish Ale)

Had I thought about the "Black" in black friday, I would have planned a Black IPA that I've been thinking about

 

[ceannt]

You couldn't get me to go shopping on Black Friday if you pointed a gun at my head...
I'll be brewing an AltBier. Plenty of time on my hands for a decoction mash.

 

[Brew-boy]

I am sending the wife out on black Friday and I will be brewing a Biere de Garde.

 

[northernlad]

I found out I don't have to work Thursday-Sunday, so it looks like I will be brewing a Stout on Friday!

 

[MBasile]

I'll be working as a valet at the mall. It'll be hell but I should be able to afford quite a bit of equipment from tips.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

Got started abouu 45 minutes ago.... Carafa III smells awesome, alot like a chocolate coffee?? Mashing grains and heating sparge water right now. I uppped my grain bill slightly, to used 15 lbs of 2 row instead of 14. No reason really other than 2row comes in 5 lb bags.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

Missed my OG a bit, 1.080 vs 1.085...eh....its still beer right?

Black beers look awesome in a carboy.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

Just a few hours later, she is bubbling away in the primary. Krausen starting to show up.

Heres a pic....

 

[Revvy]

Is that a demijohn you are fermenting in? THat's cool.

I wish I had a digital camera. I just came back from meeting Firebrewer, Mustangj, and Terrapinchef at Dragonmede.

I just checked on my 3 gallon better bottle of the chocolate mole porter fermentation, and it is one of the strangest looking multi layered looking fermeters. There's only half of a thin krausen on the top (it's only been 6 hours), with a couple of peaks, and there are multiple layers where stuff (probably oils from the chocolate) is settling out about mid way down, along with what looks like hopscum, and there a layer of trub on the bottom already.

And all with nary a blip on the airlock.

Hey I just realized we both brewer black beers. That should be the annual theme of black friday brewing. Maybe next year I'll brew my schwartzbier.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

Is that a demijohn you are fermenting in? THat's cool.

I wish I had a digital camera. I just came back from meeting Firebrewer, Mustangj, and Terrapinchef at Dragonmede.

I just checked on my 3 gallon better bottle of the chocolate mole porter fermentation, and it is one of the strangest looking multi layered looking fermeters. There's only half of a thin krausen on the top (it's only been 6 hours), with a couple of peaks, and there are multiple layers where stuff (probably oils from the chocolate) is settling out about mid way down, along with what looks like hopscum, and there a layer of trub on the bottom already.

And all with nary a blip on the airlock.

Hey I just realized we both brewer black beers. That should be the annual theme of black friday brewing. Maybe next year I'll brew my schwartzbier.

LOL, whats a demijohn? Guy I got that from was a chemist?

I've got a touch of trub on the bottom of this brew as well.

I liked the idea of brewing a black beer on black friday. The brewer at the LHBS thought it was a good idea as well. He was kinda sad he didnt brew a black beer today.

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

I liked the idea of brewing a black beer on black friday. The brewer at the LHBS thought it was a good idea as well. He was kinda sad he didnt brew a black beer today.

This is my third year in a row brewing a black beer on black Friday. I've created a tradition for myself. Today's black beer was a gruit based loosely on an oatmeal stout. I agree that black beers look cool in the carboy!

 

[Dubcut]

By coincidence I brewed a Saison! Was gonna do it yesterday but starter wasn't quite ready. God I love a good saison, not too many good commercial ones though imho.

 

[northernlad]

Just finished my first Oatmeal Stout.
Bottled the rest of my Apfelwein.

 

[AtlasBrew]

Racking the ESB and 6 Grain to the secondaries and drinking Troegs Troeganator on Saturday. Had to work Black Friday...10 hour day which wasn't too bad actually.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

After a week in the primary, this beer is down to a 1.040.

Into the secondary it goes with 2 oz of cascade leaf.

Hydrometer sample tasted good. Sweet toasty coffee notes.

Oddly enough , not alot of hops Hmm.....????

 

[NTOLERANCE]

Also, this brew nearly blew the mini blow off tube off. Fermentation was vigorus to say the least. Odd that it only dropped from 1.080 to 1.040. We shall see what the secondary brings.

 

[permo]

I missed this one. I brewed up what I am calling a malty, sweeter version of ESB. ..honey nut ESB

5 pounds german pilsen malt
5 pound belgium pilsen malt
1 pound belgium aromatic
1 pound honey malt
.5 oz cascade 1st wort
.5 oz EKG 1st wort

.5 oz cascade at 15 minutes
.5 oz EKG at 5 minutes



1oz cascade dry hop for a week
S-04 yeast cake

Mash at 154 for 60 minutes
efficiency was around 80% on this one!! not bad for a crappy cooler

OG = 1.0625
FG - 1.019


tasted a sample yesterday when I racked from primary to secondary to dry hop...ohhh so nice... the honey malt and aromatic dominate the flavor with a sweet, malty nuttiness....I am considering brewing a less hoppy version of this as kind of a nut blonde ale....or light nut brown?

 

[NTOLERANCE]

I've got to say, this is the best Stout I have brewed or tasted. Chocolately, Coffee notes, the brown head is creamy and sweet almost like hot chocolate foam. You can see it in this pic, but this beer is red, very dark red. I will get a pic of it in the hydrometer tube. Its really not all that bitter.

14lbs of 2 row
1 lb of CarafaIII
1 lb of Crystal 60L

2oz Chinook @ 60
.5oz of Simicoe @ 30
.5oz of Amarillo @ 30
.5oz of Simicoe @ 15
.5oz of Amarillo @ 15
.5oz of Simicoe @ 5
.5oz of Amarillo @ 5

Wyeast 1056

Fermentation stalled at 1.040...I waited a bit longer, tried some different temps, but it wouldnt budge. SO into the keg it went. Heads a bit low in the pic, but trust me onthe pour, its stellar.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

Heres a better pic with fresh head....
If you look at the bottom of the glass and the left edge, you can see the deep red color.