Early Morning Brews

[comrock12]

This can't really be considered early morning brewing at this point, but I finished prepping my starter at 12:30 this morning, and was busy getting set up for brew day at 6am. Temps just passed into the 20s so it's time to crank these burners up!

 

[NathPowe]

About to mash in an Ordinary Bitter. Trying the no-sparge method with it. Movin quite slow this morning - the Nelson Suavin/Pacific Jade pale ale was tasting really good last night...

Need coffee.

 

[Oceantendency]

4:45am got my water going, doughed in about 15 min ago. Biggest all grain batch, going for a Quad calling it Monk Tophula Quad and coffee is brewing and wife and kids sleeping, I sure do love early morning brews

 

[Glynn]

It's 630 am and the strike waters on

 

[krackin]

It is starting to snow a little here now with low expectations of accumulations. I should do bottling but I'll wait just in case I get called out for winter highway treatment. It would really bite to get started and then get called.

 

[brokebucket]

Mashed in a brown ale at 6:45. Who's brewing???

 

[beersk]

I got started around 7am this morning. Doing a hochkurz step mash on a pilsner. Jammin' tunes, drinking coffee, and brewing on a Saturday morning. Righteous! There might be beer before noon.

 

[krackin]

No brewing for me today or tomorrow. I expect to be plowing my 16 mile route starting sometime tonight and tomorrow so I did bottling and brewed a batch yesterday and was all done early afternoon. Today is a day getting more wood worked up and errands a little later.

 

[NathPowe]

Mashed in a stout at 7:45 this morning. Nice smooth brew session - all cleaned up by noon, pitched some 05 at 12:30. Time for some lunch and a beer.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Water set, grains crushed....hopefully go to rockets will be responding...4.3.2.1....launch at 4:45 a.m.

 

[reuliss]

Mashed in a brown ale at 6:45. Who's brewing???

mind posting your recipe? I've been fiddling with a Brown.

 

[ColdToes]

If all goes well, mash-in my first A.G. batch around 5 a.m. tomorrow morning.

 

[NathPowe]

<off topic>

mind posting your recipe? I've been fiddling with a Brown.

I follow this thread and saw your post. Thought I'd share this recipe for my recent brown ale in case you're interested. The keg kicked last weekend. I really enjoyed this beer. It's definitely an American Brown, and leans toward the hoppier side of things. Pretty simple and very tasty.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/winterlude-american-brown-ale-446456/

Cheers.

</off topic>

 

[brokebucket]

Just so nobody thinks I was a ******, I pm'd rueliss a link to the recipe I used. Below is the recipe:

American Brown Ale Type: All Grain
Date: 12/13/2013 Batch Size (fermenter): 6.08 galBrewer: CK1
Boil Size: 8.26 gal
Boil Time: 60 min- BIAB End of Boil Volume 6.84 gal
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 % Mash Efficiency 75.8 %
Fermentation: Ale, Single Stage
Ingredients
11 lbsPale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM)
8.0 ozCaramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM)
8.0 ozChocolate Malt (450.0 SRM)
4.0 ozCaramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)
4.0 ozVictory Malt (25.0 SRM)
1.25 ozWillamette [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min
0.25 ozAmarillo Gold [9.00 %]Boil 60.0 min
1.00 ozAmarillo Gold [9.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min
1.75 ozAmarillo Gold [9.00 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 minHop
Beer Profile Est Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.053 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013

Disclaimer: this is pretty much based off BCS dirty water brown ale recipe...except I took some poetic license....like using british malts and bittering with Willamette (because I had it). Also, I used a quarter ounce of Amarillo to bitter because the recipe called for 2.75 oz and I had to buy 3, and that stuff is pricey!

 

[jglazer]

I am also a morning brewer. Some chill music and a latte get the morning started rriigghhttttt

 

[beersk]

That recipe looks tasty, brokebucket. I have some amarillo in the freezer, would love to brew this, but I'm sad to read that others are saying amarillo is really grassy this year. I think I still need to brew as normal with it and see for myself.

 

[brick]

I started my long holiday "staycation" by heating strike water at 0700 this morning. That got me done cleaning up from a trouble-free AG batch by noon, giving me the rest of the afternoon to run errands, work out, roast coffee, and now sit here reading HBT. I never used to be a morning person but now I really dig waking up before dawn.

 

[JonM]

Strike water is almost at temp, so I'm checking in. Started at 4:30 and it's a brisk 26F outside. Perfect for brewing a lager.

 

[uphillbrewer]

10 gallons of west coast pale ale today. Strike water heating, 40 degrees warmer today than last Saturday! Won't have to get the ice out of the hose for the chiller today!

 

[kharper6]

My brew days typically go as follows :

5am wake up, shot from aeropress, half of a bagel, big glass of water

gym (upper body day, good luck squatting until you want to die then standing in your kitchen for 4 hours brewing).

Brew from 7-1pm

Take a nap because you've been drinking all morning

Wake up around 4pm, start the day over

 

[reuliss]

I'm at it myself. Actually mild temps in Md suburbs outside of D.C.

 

[kharper6]

I'm at it myself. Actually mild temps in Md suburbs outside of D.C.

You ready for that 70 degree high tomorrow?

Crazy weather over here lately.

 

[BikerBrewer]

Just finished bottling a honey ale and got all my stuff together to brew an APA first thing tomorrow morning. Much nicer doing it early before everyone gets up and in the way.

 

[beersk]

Mashed in a little bit ago on an IPA that will be hopped with simcoe and amarillo. Hoping the amarillo isn't as grassy as people are saying it is this year. Got started around 7:30 today. All I had to do was get up and turn on the stove to heat up the strike water. Nice.

 

[K5MOW]

Brewed an American Brown Ale yesterday about 7:00 Am. Was done by noon. I love brewing early in the morning.

Roger

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

Early morning is the way to go. I've only started one all grain batch after 5am and I'll never do it again...

This Saturday I had my mash started by 3:00am, and had it boiled and (almost) chilled in time to leave at 10 to take my wife to The Hobbit.

 

[reuliss]

Couldn't sleep, is I fired up the HLT. Cold out there!

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

Couldn't sleep, is I fired up the HLT. Cold out there!

Great minds think alike. Checking gravity on a cherry bock, hard root beer, and heating mash water while I figure out what I can brew with what I have while spending my Gift Certificates online while I try and figure what I need over what I think I need lol

 

[Oginme]

Mashed in for a Munich Dunkel at 4:45

 

[Oceantendency]

Mashed in my Caramel Dunkel late due to bad valve on my propane, thankfully I had a back up, mashed at 5:10