Pacific NW Brewday III: The Reckoning

[Picobrew]

I'm still uncertain, unfortunately! Evil - you need to check on your McMenamin's Ruby thread, there are a few people (including me) wanting more info.

 

[TXCrash]

Still a definite maybe from me...

If I do show up... what time does brewday tend to start?

 

[portlandbeergeek]

I hope to attend! But i'm still a maybe. I just got a new job today, and don't know what my schedule will be. It's at a busy restaurant downtown, and I may very well be working on the 28th. I'll let 'ya know no later than this Sunday, the 22nd!

 

[EvilTOJ]

Uhm, the 22nd was three days ago. Curtis, I have noon for when people are set to show up, but it's not set in stone. We'll be going at least a few hours, since brew day tends to take that long anyways. I'm going to be making an Oktoberfest with a double decoction, and if you've never done a decoction before it takes a long-ass time to do.

I have extra propane tanks and a second turkey fryer if anyone needs to borrow one. I also have a cooler-tun that can make 10 gallon batches if need be, along with my 5 gallon cooler-tun.

 

[TXCrash]

Still a definite maybe from me...

If I do show up... what time does brewday tend to start?

I hope to attend! But i'm still a maybe. I just got a new job today, and don't know what my schedule will be. It's at a busy restaurant downtown, and I may very well be working on the 28th. I'll let 'ya know no later than this Sunday, the 22nd!

Uhm, the 22nd was three days ago. Curtis, I have noon for when people are set to show up, but it's not set in stone. We'll be going at least a few hours, since brew day tends to take that long anyways. I'm going to be making an Oktoberfest with a double decoction, and if you've never done a decoction before it takes a long-ass time to do.

I have extra propane tanks and a second turkey fryer if anyone needs to borrow one. I also have a cooler-tun that can make 10 gallon batches if need be, along with my 5 gallon cooler-tun.

Two different people ;-)

So far it LOOKS like I'm not working. Bad for the wallet, good for the... laziness... Plugged in your addy and it looks like you're a mile from my MIL. Have to figure out which car I get, whether the kid is going to the MIL's. and whether my brew gear will actually fit in the car.

 

[portlandbeergeek]

Ah....geez i'm a *******, I have no idea what day it is I start my job this saturday, so mark me down for no. Thanks for the invite, and have a great brewday! I'm bummed I won't get to see a decoction. I tried doing one once, but I must've pulled too little wort because my temps really didn't change much. I didn't have a forumula, I just kinda winged it.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Wow, a decoction Evil? I'm impressed...
Anything I need to bring? I'll assume you have power (for pump and grain mill) and water source (for chilling)?

 

[TXCrash]

Showing up is looking more likely for me... Count me as 3/4 likely to be there, though I'll probably be there closer to 1 (wife going to dogshow first... ).

Now I need to decide what (if) to brew.

Racked 3 brews (cent blonde, brown ale, afpelwein) to kegs just now... a bit buzzed from the "samples". You'll see me in drunken ramblings tonight!

 

[EvilTOJ]

Wow, a decoction Evil? I'm impressed...
Anything I need to bring? I'll assume you have power (for pump and grain mill) and water source (for chilling)?

Oh yea, I have all kinds of power for pumps and grain mills. And a hose too!


And yes Curtis, I knew I was talking to two different people, I just didn't space it out right in the post so it looked like crap.

So it looks like one definite, one 3/4 definite, and one maybe. Picobrew, hie thee to the brewday! Don't make me whip out the hypnotoad!

 

[TXCrash]

Consider this my RSVP. So change it to two definite ;-)

Honest officer, I'm brewing BEER...

I'll be brewing up a second round of lil sparky's nut brown. First batch is conditioning in the keg, but the sample on the way to the keg tasted so good...

Expect me to roll in 12:30 to 1.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Right on. Now it's a party. Just hope the rain lets up. Evil...I'll bring a pop up canopy with me as well. Not big, but we may be able to at least cover up the kettles, etc.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Awesome. Yea looks like we'll need the popup canopy. Damn the weatherman for being right for once! The hookers and blow should be here by 1 PM. I mean wait what??

 

[TXCrash]

Miserable weather for a brewday but a good one nonetheless ;-)

Thanks for the great brewday guys!

 

[EvilTOJ]

Yea it was craptastic weather, but still tons O fun! Pictures will be forthcoming soon....

 

[TXCrash]

Yea it was craptastic weather, but still tons O fun! Pictures will be forthcoming soon....

I take it the hookers and blow finally showed up and you're busy with them...

 

[EvilTOJ]

Sorry, got distracted building a chicken coop, of all things. How about some pitchures? Sorry, they're big and I ain't makin em smaller.

Here's Curtis's bitchez watching the brewday go on



Check out our awesome weather! See the three boils and the horizontal steam. Yet kilted's kilt somehow stays straight up and down the entire time. It's magic I tells ya.



Some of kilted's brew gear and my garage miscellania in the background.



Kilted and Curtis during a brief respite from the weather.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Here's kilted getting set up for cooling off with his counterflow chiller. It's a pretty sweet setup.



Here's another view of my craptastic garage and kilted's junk



Here's me mashing in. Just as an FYI, there was NO dust in the air before, and the camera was about 10 ft away. Crushed grain is messy.



I'm sparging!!

 

[EvilTOJ]

Last one, where Curtis and Kilted are checking out their mashes. ALthough it looks like an awesome 70's split screen montage, that's only the leg of the canopy. Man that thing was a life saver.

 

[TXCrash]

Ahh... brings back memories...

And uh... The weather was way worse than the pictures make it work! Fun day though, and the batch I brewed up started bubbling that night - fastest I've ever had a fermentation start...

 

[explosivebeer]

That looks like a great time in spite of the weather. Thanks for posting the pics EvilToJ.

 

[Saccharomyces]

Diggin' your garage. If it was in Texas folks would think it was a barbeque joint.

Where's dem slabs of meat now??! Oh, sorry, I forgot you wuz brewin.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Curtis, am I reading you right that the batch brewed on the 28th just started bubbling on the 3rd? And that's your fastest start?

Thanks for posting the pics Evil. There were actually a few gusts that did pick up the kilt a little more than I'd like, just glad you didn't have a camera in hand at that point.

 

[EvilTOJ]

No, he said it started bubbling that night. As in less than 12 hours or so. I'll bet it was 75 miles of driving/aeration that got the fast start.

You can't see it in the pictures, but there's plenty of horizontal rain action going on.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

I guess someone needs to learn how to read...I read it as LAST night, not THAT night.
Phew!

 

[portlandbeergeek]

Looks like it was a fun day, wish I could've been there. Hope i can make the next NW brewday. When I finally can afford a house I'd love to host!

 

[thataintchicken]

should have called in sick and flew to PDX instead of working.
bleh.

thing is...
if things would have gone as planned... and my contract job wasn't removed from the budget last year, I would be posting from a new home in St. John's rather than a condo in SF bay area.

 

[TXCrash]

Looks like it was a fun day, wish I could've been there. Hope i can make the next NW brewday. When I finally can afford a house I'd love to host!

Same here!

Too bad I'll likely be in the boonies and ya'll would have to deal with the zoo...

BTW Evil - ya should share the recipe for the... crap... don't remember what you served but it was damn good!

 

[EvilTOJ]

if things would have gone as planned... and my contract job wasn't removed from the budget last year, I would be posting from a new home in St. John's as I should be rather than in that craphole california

There fixed that for ya. SWMBO used to live in San Fransisco, not sure what part though.

BTW Evil - ya should share the recipe for the...

hulk SMASH!!!!!!

 

[TXCrash]

Noo... The one ya served was the one you'd brewed at your old apartment. That sat on the lees for months. Damnit brain - bring name back in or at least descriptions (it was darker).

Trying to avoid a quote ending up in the stupidest things thread...

 

[EvilTOJ]

Ah, you're talking about the BlondDoppelBock. I saw BrewPastor had made a recipe for one and I decided to use it. You can find it here although I don't know what changes I made to it since I'm at work at the moment.