So who's brewing this weekend?

[Jelley]

I will be brewing my first beer ever Sunday.

 

[CliffMongoloid]

I will be brewing my first beer ever Sunday.

Good luck! Take your time and sanitize sanitize sanitize!

 

[gometz]

Finished brewing at about 1AM last night. Everything went well, I think I may enjoy brewing later in the day.

However, got home from dinner with the fiance and her mother and found that the airlock and shot off of the carboy. Had a nice big mess on my hands, but got it cleaned up pretty quickly.

 

[unionrdr]

Gotta get things out of the freezer & fridge to brew my porter today. Gotta find time to replace a headlight & turn signal bulbs as well.

 

[MrNickVT]

Just racked my blonde into secondary

 

[dcHokie]

Brewed 70 gallons of lambic yesterday with a couple friends to refill a barrel. Pretty tired today.

 

[gavball6]

Sparging a bourbon barrel porter right now, plus I am enjoying my first Hot Scotchie of the season!

 

[behlingbrad]

I started a fruity wheat last weekend and added the fruit to my secondary yesterday. This is a first for me I'm two ways. I've never done a secondary before and this is my first fruit beer (Cherry/Apple). Any one know how long I should keep it in the secondary? And how do I separate the fruit out for bottling?

 

[E_Marquez]

Brewing a 5gal batch of Octoberfest today.

Been steeping specialty grains for almost an hour at this point.

 

[Melana]

Just racked my blonde into secondary

Now that's a hot blonde!

 

[TheLostBeer]

Plan on doing a Frankenstein version of a pumpkin ale, should be interesting. But that's as long as I can get a few hardware items ....

 

[MrNickVT]

Now that's a hot blonde!

Thanks. But then again I did create it!!

 

[vtbrewer111]

I brewed my first AG batch yesterday. Brewed a blonde ale. I got better efficiency then I thought I would. First time around wasn't bad. Only thing that sucked was the longer then anticipated brew day!

brewed my first all grain yesterday as well( pale ale) . Everything went well but still waiting for ferment to start up. Yours going already?

 

[MrNickVT]

brewed my first all grain yesterday as well( pale ale) . Everything went well but still waiting for ferment to start up. Yours going already?

oh yes. Just racked into secondary. Went from 1.052 to 1.008 in 10 days!

 

[JDGator]

Brew my first partial mash today. Kind of ESP/EPA. Also did my first yeast starter. Only used us-05 but i did it for ****s and giggles more then anything. May have to order some liquid yeast now. Good temps to do lagers right now.

Good luck to all others brewing!!

 

[zeg]

After a summer that was pretty much a lose for brewing (busy at work, new baby in the house, etc; I have some excuses), I finally got things going again. Shooting for a 2 gallon batch of AG BIAB barley wine with some cascade and simcoe hops.

Just threw in the bittering hops after a fairly smooth mash, considering that it's been months since I've brewed. Only real problem was BeerSmith's underestimating the volume of water + grain. Ended up with a bit of overflow. Gotta say, it's really nice not screwing around with DME---the hot break was so much easier to manage than ever before.

Wound up with a free second recipe's worth of malts through some brew shop hijinks. So next weekend or so I'm going to repeat this (hopefully without the overflow) but using EKG instead of the American hops. I'd planned to do a full UK style barleywine with UK malts, but this'll be ok, and a real direct comparison of the hops.

 

[Schol-R-LEA]

I took part in the Covert Hops Society's Fall Group Brew yesterday, brewing up a mild from an established and trusted recipe. Despite some missteps along the way (Dorothy, our RIMS, apparently hadn't been cleaned as thoroughly as we thought it was after the last brewing session, and some of the connections were clogged), we managed to get the wort into Tinman (our brew kettle, which was being heated on the new brewing stand, the Wicked Witch of the West, which features two 10" banjo burners, which replaces Toto, the heavily-rusted one we'd used for years) by mid-afternoon. I had to leave a bit early, but the host of the gathering was gracious enough to make sure my carboy had been filled and pitched for me - thank you very much, Eric! - and I picked up the fermenting beer today.

 

[evolcoms]

Im currently brewing up BM SWMBO Slayer. Just started the boil. His recipe called for (willamet?) hops, but I sub'd them for Fuggles. Thought I would use up what I had in the fridge. Anyways I just got my boil over, lol. Ill keep ya updated.

 

[abrdnck]

Leaving on vacation, and all my fermenters are empty, so needed to get something going...

Threw together a 1.5 gallon batch of a hoppy American Red Ale with Centennial, Amarillo and Citra out of some leftover DME, crystal 40 and carafa III. A little short on fermentables so added some brown sugar to bring it up to 1.065.

Should be ready to dry hop when I return from Hawaii!

 

[stevehardt]

I have tomorrow (Veteran's Day) off, and have the house to myself. First chance I've had to brew in a month. I stoked!

BTW, thanks to all vets and active duty personnel for your service!nestar:

 

[TheLostBeer]

just finished this double IPA this evening, tasted awesome just before I pitched the yeast. tomorrow will be a pumpkin batch.. hopefully!

 

[evolcoms]

So all finished up with the SWMBO Slayer. Im thinking it looks a bit dark in the carboy, but looks ok in the gravity reading tube.

 

[Piratwolf]

Next up is either an XPA or Coffee Porter. Since I have all the ingredients for the Extra Pale, I'll probably go with that while I await my specialty grains for the CP.

 

[SandstoneCityBrew]

Brewing up a Chocolate Milk Stout on Wednesday. It's been a while since my last brew, so I'm excited.

 

[Lost_Arkitekt]

BTW, thanks to all vets and active duty personnel for your service!nestar:

Just wanted to reiterate stevehardt and thank all my fellow Veterans and service personnel today.

This Thursday, I'm making a pumpkin brown ale recipe of my own concoction: Doc Pumpkin Brown Ale.

 

[TheLostBeer]

Bout time to start the second day for brewing, today is the pumpkin batch, hope all goes well..

 

[Majafoo]

I got to brew my first spontaneous fermented beer on Friday, and today I'm going to brew an oatmeal stout.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Gonna brew 2 batches this weekend, an IPA and a Saison, to showcase our up and coming brewery at the Phoenix Brewer's Invitiational on Dec. 7th.

 

[finsfan]

Gonna brew 2 batches this weekend, an IPA and a Saison, to showcase our up and coming brewery at the Phoenix Brewer's Invitiational on Dec. 7th.

cutting it a little close, eh?

 

[BrewinHooligan]

cutting it a little close, eh?

Yeah, not much chance for error... With the right amount of happy, healthy yeast and good temp control we won't have trouble though. It's even a little longer than my normal turn-time, especially for the IPA. I would have liked to have more time to prepare, but we just found out we are doing this last Thursday.