Labor Day = Brewing Day!! What you guys got planned?

[SgtB]

Work. :/ Insulin must be made 24/7.

 

[Bithead]

Friday I bottled my blonde ale and Saturday I brewed 5 gal of octoberfest ale. Working on keeping the temps down.

 

[NorthBay]

Steeping some grains right now for a 5 gallon batch of APA I will be brewing up in about an hour.

 

[CrookedTail]

Brewing a batch of my pumpkin ale today.

 

[Revvy]

Drinking coffee and getting ready to brew the 2 hearted clone. Starter has been going for the last 48 hours.

 

[ceannt]

All you guys brewing today.... have a pint for me.... I'm at work.. gggrrrrrrrr

 

[jfr1111]

I'm at work too

 

[ao125]

I got my Christmas brew done on Friday and picked up some yeast today for the secondary / frozen cherry addition next Saturday.

 

[kpr121]

Going with my first FWH and second No-Chill - IPA. I know, probably not the best beer for No-Chill but I gotta party to be at around 3 and I'm just starting mash now.

Heres the recipe:


BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: IPA
Brewer: Kevin
Asst Brewer:
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 10.00 gal
Boil Size: 12.13 gal
Estimated OG: 1.071 SG
Estimated Color: 8.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 57.8 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
23.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 88.46 %
2.00 lb Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 7.69 %
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 3.85 %
1.00 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 21.8 IBU
2.25 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (20 min) (First Wort) Hops 12.8 IBU
2.00 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker [6.20 %] (20 min)Hops 12.9 IBU
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (20 min) (First Wort) Hops 10.4 IBU
1.00 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker [4.00 %] (0 min) Hops added tonight to corny -
1.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (0 min) Hops added tonight to corny -
3.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
1 Pkgs Bells Oberon Yeast harvested - RWS Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 26.00 lb

 

[jarod7736]

Mashing a breakfast stout right now.

 

[TromboneGuy]

Bottling day. I've got a Golden Wit ready to move today. (Wit-style recipe, but used WLP570.)

 

[Pappers_]

Putting together a semi-dry traditional mead (my second attempt, made a raspberry melomel last autumn) and perhaps brewing a cream ale today. I've made a tincture of fresh basil and lavender from our organic herb garden that I think would be great in a cream ale. http://www.singingboysbrewing.com/The-Blog.html?entry=beer-experiment-lavender-and-basil

 

[bucfanmike]

im doing 10 gals of OctoberFAST today and 10 gallons of LHMS clone with a buddy tomorrow.

 

[Revvy]

Gonna try Revvy's Leffe clone, if I can get off my lazy butt and get the starter ready in time that is.

Cool!!!!


I got the strike water going....after not brewing since may it took forever to clean all my gear from just the normal sitting around gathering dust grime.

Grains all crushed and everything else is ready to go.

 

[KFH]

I have to work today.

But I'll be racking my Hellfire porter onto the datk chocolate and peppers tonight, along with racking my Succubus dunkelweizen onto 5 lbs of cherries as well. This weekend I'll be bottling 10 gallons of my LPR apfelwien, as well.

 

[Pappers_]

....after not brewing since may . . .

Glad you can get back to it, R! Hope you have a great time today.

 

[kpr121]

I have to work today.

But I'll be racking my Hellfire porter onto the datk chocolate and peppers tonight, along with racking my Succubus dunkelweizen onto 5 lbs of cherries as well. This weekend I'll be bottling 10 gallons of my LPR apfelwien, as well.

Hellfire Porter, that sounds awesome! Got a recipe on here?

EDIT: Nvrmind, see it in your avatar recipes. Thx!

 

[Revvy]

I'm done. 5 gallons of hoppy goodness is in the fermenter!!!!! How'd everyone else do?

 

[Chrisl77]

Just got done brewing an Irish red and racking my stout into A keg.

 

[jaycount]

NB Smashing pumpkin ale with 5 lbs of real pumpkin in the mash

Yum yum

Had trouble holding my mash temps (was 5 deg F short) but had good extract efficiency.

 

[kbuzz]

Just put the lid on my fermenter. Tried a variation of Scooby Brew's Darth Vader Black IPA. Had to use roasted barley instead of Carafa II - 12 oz instead of 1 lb. Definitely isn't as dark as I would have liked...but it's dark enough - and hopefully there are some pronounced roasted notes.

 

[Paul07293]

American Wheat in the fermenter, despite the intermittent downpours

 

[bierhaus15]

Just finished making a london porter in the rain. Fun brew day...

 

[pmkealiher]

Making a nice robust porter. 15 min. into the boil right now.

 

[Runyanka]

Kegged 10 gallons of my haus wheat. Other than that.... clearing kegs, making empty bottles

 

[Huskysibe]

Brewed a Hefe, then kegged up some root beer for my daughter.

Billy

 

[kpr121]

I'm done. 5 gallons of hoppy goodness is in the fermenter!!!!! How'd everyone else do?

I had my wort in the cornie primaries at around 1. Not bad for starting around 8:30 (milling grains and collecting water), having to double batch sparge (26 lbs of grain fills up my MLT quickly, not to mention my 5 gallon E-HLT is limiting), and splitting babysitting duty with the wife (niece was over for a lil while).

Primaries have been sitting outside with foil around the 'in' posts (secured with zipties), temps are about 110 right now. I added my 'flameout' hop additions when it was down to 140ish. RWS just started to show a krausen on the Bells yeast I harvested last week. I am really liking this no chill, takes so much work out of the brewday!

Never made it to the party since its been downpouring all day and they dont really have the type of house that everyone can pile into. So now I am putting a hurtin on the Blonde Ale on tap!

 

[AdamM]

I bottled my APA today and I've got a modified Blonde cooling until I can pitch.

 

[CrookedTail]

I'm done. 5 gallons of hoppy goodness is in the fermenter!!!!! How'd everyone else do?

Had a little trouble with my sparge (8 pounds of pumpkins in my recipe), but I managed. After that things went smoothly.

During the mash I made pizza dough. Just finished eating the pizza now. I've been at it all day and I'm pooped. Time to relax....

 

[Jazman]

Well, I had a rough brew day on Saturday (10 gal Octoberfest Ale). I was breaking in some new equipment and had some issues. Don't get me wrong, it still will make beer, but it sure won't be a repeatable recipe... I think I know the solution to the issues for next time, but it was more stressful than fun (new pump and new burner)

Missed the mash temp way high... hopefully compensated quick enough without too much over-compensation... Used a whole tank of propane for a single 10 gal batch... Probably had too little yeast due to a starter that didn't start very well and had to add another dose...

But it's fermenting very actively now so we'll see how it went in a couple months!

Jaz