It's Saturday Brewday - Watchya Makin?

[Ostomo517]

Midnight Maple Wheat. A clone beer I kinda tinkered with and added midnight wheat

 

[ApothecaryBrewing]

Brewed a French Farmhouse Ale today and bottled some delicious Winter Ale brewed with cherries, vanilla and cinnamon.

 

[pabloj13]

Kona Longboard lager clone. First lager! Bottled a Columbus IPA yesterday.

 

[okcnyyfan]

Brewday got postponed until Sunday. Brewing the Brewer's Best Holiday Ale.

 

[RagingBull]

Chocolate Porter

 

[brnooewb]

My first solo brew and second ever brew. I'm doing an Autumn Amber Ale kit I got with my living social deal from Midwest. Just waiting now to get my temp low enough to pitch my yeast. The next thing I buy is definitely going to be a wort chiller.

 

[Enoch52]

Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Brown Ale on Monday, once my grains come in.

 

[Brew-Jay]

Oak barrel bourbon porter. We basically took the Northern Brewer recipe and added some more flavor and aroma hops. What can I say? My brewin' buddies and I loves us some hops.

 

[bobot]

I've brewed this beer. I'd leave it alone, it's a great beer.

Hey, thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I was surprised to see only 3 oz. of hops in an ipa recipe, but upon further review, 1 oz. is reserved for dry hopping.
I definitely wont mess with the recipe, this is my first dry hop.

 

[UtahNate]

Hoping I can get my brew finished before the storm (and winds) move in today. Nothing is worse than trying to boil 6.5 gallons of wort in 40-50 MPH winds.

EDIT: Obviously that isn't true. My propane burner sucks... First world problems...

 

[Ogri]

So I brewed a yeast starter for tomorrow's ESB. I also kegged an ESB, and finished a keg of ESB.
Did I happen to mention that I like ESB's?

-a.

You and me both

Just did my first AG, BIAB, 2.5 gallon, batch to ferment in one of my old Mr. Beer LBKs, yesterday and was shooting for a, sort of, ESB. A little higher gravity but using 2.25 kg Maris Otter, 250 g crystal 70, 125 g of chocolate wheat and 250 g of brown sugar. Nugget (12 g) for bittering, Kent golding and Fuggles (10 g each @ 15 min, 8 g each @ 5 min).

Hit my post boil OG (1.068) absolutely perfectly, surprised the sh!t out of myself, and just hoping my mash temps weren't too high. Sample was definitely promising so even if I get a high proportion of unfermentable sugars it'll just be a low ABV, but quite nicely balanced, beer.

 

[NewkyBrown]

nope... made it up all by myself.

i'm doing some experimenting. i'm making a series of one gallon batches using mostly the same ingredients, and adjusting the grains and amounts to be appropriate to the style.

Last week was a porter, so it was basically this + some black patent.
Next week an amber ale, so this - chocolate, and adjusting the crystal malt to 80L or maybe 90L.
Then the pale ale, which is this, minus the chocolate.

in each case, adjust the hop treatments, and amounts, to hit approximately the style guidelines, and stay fairly "middle of the road".

i'm trying to get my baseline "American Brown's" worked out, so i can then add/subtract, etc., and know what to expect.

Once I get these done, i will either shift to "british brown" or "yellow" or some other logical, related groups.

Great ideas there thanks. What about the yeast?How do you adjust the amount? Can you buy smaller pouches/viles?

 

[dadshomebrewing]

Great ideas there thanks. What about the yeast?How do you adjust the amount? Can you buy smaller pouches/viles?

i buy white labs yeast, and the vials are screw top, so they are closeable. i also figured out the net weight of the content by weighing a full vial, an empty vial, and taking the diff.

i can get precision within a gram of the amount of yeast, and then i round UP to the nearest gram, to be sure i have enough.

 

[twalstrom]

Brewed - Whisky Barrel Stout

Bottled - 3 Philosophers Clone (All Grain)

 

[pabloj13]

Bottled - 3 Philosophers Clone (All Grain)

Which recipe did you use? How did it turn out?

 

[NewkyBrown]

i buy white labs yeast, and the vials are screw top, so they are closeable. i also figured out the net weight of the content by weighing a full vial, an empty vial, and taking the diff.

i can get precision within a gram of the amount of yeast, and then i round UP to the nearest gram, to be sure i have enough.

Great. Thanks I'll give that a go.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

for what it's worth, i can save you a little math. the net weight of the product is 39 grams in a vial of white labs yeast. so 3.9 grams is one tenth of a vial, and mrmalty.com is going to give you your yeast calculation in tenths. just multiply.

 

[neosapien]

Post Road IPA. 6 oz of centennial and cascade in 11 pounds of grain. And a whole lot of bottling chores.

 

[twalstrom]

Which recipe did you use? How did it turn out?

Tastes pretty good, obviously not carbonated yet. I actually had it in the secondary for a year. LOL I can dig up the recipe and post it.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

Amber Ale this weekend for me, i think.

That is, if I get to brew. I may have to work.

 

[mgortel]

Nut Brown Ale

Gotta love brew day!

 

[gcdowd]

Falconer's Flight IPA

 

[unionrdr]

A partial mash version of my Sunset Gold APA. Got the .5oz of NZ super alpha bittering hop in about 11 minutes ago. Def has an herbal,lemony smell with a touch of lime that tones it. The fresh grain wort & the SA hop smells absolutely divine. Wow!:rockin: I wish we had smellovision so you folks could get a wiff of this house right now. My man cave is in the front & opposite side of the 1st level & it smells omfg...

 

[JohnnyH]

India Black Ale. While finishing up my last batch of bourbon barrel porter. Doing it while the roommate is gone cause she hates the smell. Blasphemy

 

[dadshomebrewing]

India Black Ale. While finishing up my last batch of bourbon barrel porter. Doing it while the roommate is gone cause she hates the smell. Blasphemy

swmbo doesn't like the scent of grains steeping, either.

some people just don't get it

 

[rklinck]

Made my first partial mash brew today -- a pale ale. Pretty happy with the result; my OG came within .003 of expected, which isn't too bad.

 

[KayaBrew]

My house APA. Hopped with all Perle this time.

 

[moski]

Gonna be starting an American Hefe based on the NB recipe as soon as my girls go to bed. Both thought the mash smelled great, wife took a powder when the hops went in. Too flowery she said.

 

[UtahNate]

Jamil's AG amber ale recipe...

Decided to try something a bit different and mash the night before. Hit my temps and expected gravities. Boiled this morning and got it cooled to pitching temps just as the snow started to fall. The pre-storm cold and wind has me pondering whether I'm going to be brewing much this winter. Being cold makes me ...

 

[nicklepickles]

Brewing my first attempt at a house IPA. Using Bravo and C type hops, hoping this turns out well!