Let's Brew Today!

[Yooper]

It's 8 degrees outside, but the sun is shining. I have a cough that I can't shake, so I'm skipping church but I'm not sick at all.

So..................brewday!

The water is heating, the grain is crushed.

I'm making 10 gallons of IPA, my house favorite. It's a take off from the DFH 60 minute clone I posted a few years ago.

Who else is brewing today?

 

[ColoHox]

Ha, how great! Its 11º here and I am making a DFH 90min clone. Some warm wort should help that cough. Stay warm!

 

[brewbeerry]

Started a 1.060 porter with grated ginger at 10 mins and cinnamon stick in whirlpool earlier this morning. Just finished up an hour ago in time for the Packers game

 

[Yooper]

Ha, how great! Its 11º here and I am making a DFH 90min clone. Some warm wort should help that cough. Stay warm!

Oh, I'm plenty warm! I brew indoors, and it's about 75 in here right now with the boil going.

I have 25 minutes left on the boil, so I've just poured a capital brewery's Mutiny IPA.

 

[ShootersBrewCrew]

Nice we are brewing in slippery rock pa which is about an hr north of Pittsburgh....really cold!

 

[Yooper]

Nice we are brewing in slippery rock pa which is about an hr north of Pittsburgh....really cold!

I know Slippery Rock quite well! I had friends there in college (I'm from Youngstown, Ohio myself) and we spent many hours drinking and having a great old time. That was over 30 years ago, though!

 

[NTXBrauer]

It is nowhere near 8º or 11º, but it is 30º and feels like 11º here in North TX with the north wind blowing. The freezing rain has pushed me into the garage for today's brewing adventure, but I will push on. Sitting as close to the burner as I can without catching fire to keep warm. On a day like today, I dream of an electric setup.

 

[ShootersBrewCrew]

I know Slippery Rock quite well! I had friends there in college (I'm from Youngstown, Ohio myself) and we spent many hours drinking and having a great old time. That was over 30 years ago, though!

Ah very nice! Have you ever been to North Country Brewery over here in slippery rock?

 

[speeddemon190]

I wish I was brewing instead 16 hour work day.

 

[Yooper]

Ah very nice! Have you ever been to North Country Brewery over here in slippery rock?

Pretty sure they weren't around 30 years ago!

I'm finishing up chilling now, and then will start making dinner. I'm cooking tonight, and making roasted cornish hen with a cinnamon-orange glaze.

Today's brewday went so well that I keep waiting for something bad to happen. I feel like something has to go wrong, or it isn't a brewday!

 

[Yooper]

It is nowhere near 8º or 11º, but it is 30º and feels like 11º here in North TX with the north wind blowing. The freezing rain has pushed me into the garage for today's brewing adventure, but I will push on. Sitting as close to the burner as I can without catching fire to keep warm. On a day like today, I dream of an electric setup.

My friends are leaving tomorrow to have Thanksgiving in Austin, and it seems like the weather should be better before they get there. My other friends said it was like 90 in Port A on Friday, and then 50 yesterday!

We'll be leaving here around Jan 15 for Texas, but cold days like today make me wish it was coming much sooner!

 

[ShootersBrewCrew]

No they were not... They got into a distribution channel and are moving on to bigger things.

However, they have inspired us to brew our own. We are brewing a Christmas Ale today for New Years (hopefully)

 

[NewkyBrown]

Skipping church to brew beer! - Homer Simpson would be proud!

 

[Britinusa]

I have just finished up my second brew of this weekend, its cold here too so I only cracked the garage door enough for ventilation.

 

[NTXBrauer]

My friends are leaving tomorrow to have Thanksgiving in Austin, and it seems like the weather should be better before they get there. My other friends said it was like 90 in Port A on Friday, and then 50 yesterday!

We'll be leaving here around Jan 15 for Texas, but cold days like today make me wish it was coming much sooner!

By tomorrow, the moisture should be moving out. We should have a pleasant cool mid-50s Thanksgiving week. Perfect temperature in the evenings for a campfire outside to warm up to.

We are fortunate that the very cold temps don't hang around too long here in TX. This weekend is definitely not the norm, I am ready for the 64 degree days to return.

 

[Yooper]

By tomorrow, the moisture should be moving out. We should have a pleasant cool mid-50s Thanksgiving week. Perfect temperature in the evenings for a campfire outside to warm up to.

We are fortunate that the very cold temps don't hang around too long here in TX. This weekend is definitely not the norm, I am ready for the 64 degree days to return.

In February, we left the coast to go to our friend's 40 to shoot a hog. (long story, but a fun one!). It was about 60 near Corpus, but in Smithville- it got down to 27 degrees that night! I nearly froze, as I don't camp up north when it's that cold. I didn't even have a sleeping bag, just some blankets. Even my dog was freezing.

Moral of the story: Sleeping bags already packed for Texas.

 

[Tinhorn]

In February, we left the coast to go to our friend's 40 to shoot a hog. (long story, but a fun one!). It was about 60 near Corpus, but in Smithville- it got down to 27 degrees that night! I nearly froze, as I don't camp up north when it's that cold. I didn't even have a sleeping bag, just some blankets. Even my dog was freezing. Moral of the story: Sleeping bags already packed for Texas.

if you get to smithville this year drop me a note that's my neck of the woods

 

[Yooper]

if you get to smithville this year drop me a note that's my neck of the woods

Oh, we're going! We go to a friend's 40 to camp and hang out. I don't know exactly when yet, as we're all a bunch of retired people who can go "whenever".

Some of us are homebrewers, some aren't. We don't go into any stores or anything, though, just to his 40. We did stop at the Shiner brewery last year in the tap room, as that's on the way, and the rest of the drive was hazy after that.

We come up from Rockport to visit there. We stay on the coast from mid-Januaryish to mid-March.

 

[NTXBrauer]

In February, we left the coast to go to our friend's 40 to shoot a hog. (long story, but a fun one!). It was about 60 near Corpus, but in Smithville- it got down to 27 degrees that night! I nearly froze, as I don't camp up north when it's that cold. I didn't even have a sleeping bag, just some blankets. Even my dog was freezing.

Moral of the story: Sleeping bags already packed for Texas.

The winter months can be mild during the day, but the temperature definitely drops after the sun goes down. You know it was a cold night if you dog was freezing Actually, my 3 dogs have been hanging out in front of the fire place keeping warm today, while I hung out in the garage brewing beer.

No complaints though...Our cold temps are nothing compared to the UP of MI.

 

[kenmcchord]

I had plans to brew my Pliny the Elder clone yesterday, but got called in for an overtime shift in the morning. After work I rushed home, set up immediately in the garage (25 degrees outside) and started my brew. Didn't finish until 9pm and that was after a full day at work (up at 5). Ugh! I rushed so much I grabbed my brew directions off of beersmith with the wrong equipment profile and as a result I missed my gravity readings by .02

Never again will I brew after a full day at work. The upside, I still made beer that's chugging away in the fermenter, I guess it's not all bad

 

[Glynn]

It's 8 degrees outside, but the sun is shining. I have a cough that I can't shake, so I'm skipping church but I'm not sick at all.

So..................brewday!

The water is heating, the grain is crushed.

I'm making 10 gallons of IPA, my house favorite. It's a take off from the DFH 60 minute clone I posted a few years ago.

Who else is brewing today?

To late yoop. I had to work today so i moved my brew day up to last friday. Made a nice pliny-ish DIPA based off of one of yours