So who's brewing this weekend?

[Puddlethumper]

Spent a couple hours today moving a batch of American Amber to secondary and bottling a batch of ShockTop clone wit. I have everything ready for a brew day tomorrow. Planning to build a simple Irish red.

 

[Melana]

Brewed a nut brown today, AG 10 gallons. Missed my OG by 0.001. I'll take it!

 

[irishrover32]

brewed a big belgian trippel today, my pre boil was 1.036 but i took this when the water was about to boil, then my finishing gravity was 1.082 so missed my target by .002 which im very happy about. any idea what my actual pre boil gravity was id love to figure out my effeciancy since its my second BIAB and third brew in general.

 

[Mozart]

Brewing another batch of traditional German wheat!

 

[beaksnbeer]

1/2 gallon starter spinning for tomorrows BiaB class for a Piney Clone Will hit 200 gallons for this year with my 5 gallon share

 

[Cider123]

Brewing an American wheat this weekend. Any suggestions on what to do to it?? I am not sure what to add, if anything.

I have an American Wheat on tap right now. I dry hopped it with 1 oz of citra. It is a winner in my book. Not overpowering, but makes the wheat a bit more interesting. It is also great for folks like me that like a hit of hops aroma/flavor but are not into the bitterness of IPA's

 

[Cider123]

YUMMY! careful about stuck sparging with that much oatmeal. Use lots of rice hulls. Oh, and if you take my advice don't forget to send me one!!

I don't sparge since I use the BIAB method. Still, I've never used quick oats before so who knows what will happen to my bag.

I've been tempted to add some vanilla and cinnamon also. Radical brewing lists those things to make their oatmeal cookie ale. But I'm a coward and will probably make the brown in a purer form. Spiced beers are good when you have one bottle every now and then, but a whole keg when I only have 2 taps? I'm thinking not
What spices are you using in your Christmas ale?

 

[timmy7649]

Brewing a oatmeal stout tomorrow!

 

[timmy7649]

brewed a big belgian trippel today, my pre boil was 1.036 but i took this when the water was about to boil, then my finishing gravity was 1.082 so missed my target by .002 which im very happy about. any idea what my actual pre boil gravity was id love to figure out my effeciancy since its my second BIAB and third brew in general.

Probably about 1.072 on 90 min boil. Just my drunking guess though! Lol

 

[kombat]

Thinking of brewing a 10G batch of my house double IPA tomorrow (the Stone Ruination clone recipe). We'll see how I'm feeling after my ... uh... "research" into other beer recipes tonight.

 

[tugbucket]

Currently drinking my 2nd cup of coffee waiting for my neighbors to get up so I don't wake their dogs hauling the brew stuff out of the shed. I mean c'mon, it's 6:54AM, get up already. We have a Belgian Strong to brew.

 

[BeerGrylls]

I don't sparge since I use the BIAB method. Still, I've never used quick oats before so who knows what will happen to my bag.

I've been tempted to add some vanilla and cinnamon also. Radical brewing lists those things to make their oatmeal cookie ale. But I'm a coward and will probably make the brown in a purer form. Spiced beers are good when you have one bottle every now and then, but a whole keg when I only have 2 taps? I'm thinking not
What spices are you using in your Christmas ale?

Oh good, yes you have that sorted. I'm sure it will be fine, and delicious. I love oats in beer.

My beer is using cinnamon sticks, ginger root, nutmeg, allspice, and vanilla. Like you said, i don't want 5 gallons of it so this is just a 3 gallon batch. I'll probably bottle this batch. Mmmmmmm....

 

[finsfan]

mashing an American Red Ale right now

 

[m3n00b]

Just got done brewing a partial mash founders breakfast stout semi-clone! My first stout and my first time using oats, coffee and chocolate.

 

[Warthaug]

I made a Belgian Dark Strong ale on Sat, using some homemade belgian candi sugar I whipped up (details on my blog) - but thanks to poor efficiency, its a little weak on the strong...

Bryan

 

[RedOktoberfest]

I made a Belgian Dark Strong ale on Sat, using some homemade belgian candi sugar I whipped up (details on my blog) - but thanks to poor efficiency, its a little weak on the strong...

Bryan

I had a little mis-step making a CDA using brewtoad calculator. More like a weaker ICDA. 1.066 and 85+ IBU

 

[Warthaug]

I think my efficiency woes come from buying my grain pre-milled; I've noticed the efficiency varies greatly depending on which store I buy from. Thankfully, I'm getting a grain mill for my birthday, so I should be able to resolve that source of viability...

Bryan

 

[BreezyBrew]

I have an American Wheat on tap right now. I dry hopped it with 1 oz of citra. It is a winner in my book. Not overpowering, but makes the wheat a bit more interesting. It is also great for folks like me that like a hit of hops aroma/flavor but are not into the bitterness of IPA's

Agree with this. I used Citra late in the boil and wasn't a fan. Anything that you put in an American wheat really shows through. 1 Oz dry hop is the way to go.

 

[justkev52]

Brewed up a 5 gallon batch of Imperial IPA. Hop soup.

 

[JonM]

Finally getting around to brewing the Dubbel I've been meaning to brew for the last couple weeks.

 

[unionrdr]

I think my efficiency woes come from buying my grain pre-milled; I've noticed the efficiency varies greatly depending on which store I buy from. Thankfully, I'm getting a grain mill for my birthday, so I should be able to resolve that source of viability...

Bryan

You'll def like the grain mill! My efficiency went up,with less of the poofy,floury part clouding the beer. Get Some Fivestar super moss as well. It's been good stuff to me.
I placed my order with Midwest last Friday,& as of now it's still processing. Damn,I wanted to bottle & clean up after one of my two IPA's Friday,& brew my Whiskely this Saturday.

 

[justkev52]

10 gallons of Bailey's Irish Red.
1/2 with Irish Ale yeast. 1/2 with London Ale yeast.

 

[abrdnck]

Haven't had enough time to do a proper brew for some time, so I am doing a 1-gallon steeped grain and extract IPA with Centennial, Amarillo and Citra. If it turns out good, I will try an all-grain full sized batch. I really hope it turns out, since I just purchased 1 lb. each of those hops...

 

[chuckstout]

Forgot to post brewed a session C hopped brown this last weekend

 

[unionrdr]

Well,midwest sent out my order last Monday night,didn't get the tracking number till last night. It'll be here today! So Saturday morning I'll brew up the PM Traditional stout kit & get the American oak chips & bourbon soaking for the secondary. Glad my plans can stay on track to bottle my Cougar Country IPA as well Friday to open up a fermenter for Saturday.

 

[Araknaphob1c]

I'm brewing BierMuncher's Centennial Blonde Ale this weekend. First all-grain batch for me.

 

[brew_ny]

some how a double post

 

[brew_ny]

brewing either or maybe both, shallow grave porter or a Vienna SMaSH with perle hops

all-grain

 

[Hello]

I'm going to brew my first recipe that was derived from the various coconut stout recipes found around here. With a couple slight variations, it should be a toasted coconut sweet stout. I may go pick up ingredients to do a couple 1 gallon brews if I can come up with wacky ideas before then. If not, I'm going to try out a recipe I was screwing with in this post. It seemed like it could actually be good.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Brewing a Belgian dark strong ale on Sunday. Should be good to drink I a year