So who's brewing this weekend?

[Zepth]

Long weekend coming up, already booked off 3 days and my usual commitments aren't going on due to said holiday weekend. I'll be getting at least one batch in. Not too sure what. Need to finish up the last fine tuning of the electric setup and I should be set after a quick autotune. Should. That's always the catch. Should...

 

[smurfjuice]

I've had the fixings for a pumpkin and a RIS sitting in the garage for 3 weeks.
too busy slapping paint all over the 1st floor ... ... well, painting is finished
and hopefully i can get a start on at least one of them ...

 

[kman6234]

Brewing a saison this Sunday. It'll be my first brew since baby #2 was born 4 weeks ago. It's coming not a moment too soon since I'm down to only 1 beer on tap right now. I underestimated how much everyone was going to be drinking when they came to visit the baby

 

[NathPowe]

Taking a brief break from remodeling my house on Sunday morning to brew up a Schwarzbier. I'm assuming by middle/late November the weather down here will be at least a bit more appropriate for blasting back some dark beer.

Cheers.

 

[TimFarAway]

Me! I'm brewing this weekend. Making a regular 'ol brown ale, but going to add some Christmas spices to it. Anybody got advice on how to bling out my beer for the holidays?

 

[philipCT]

Thank the gods this will be my first weekend brewing in the newly finished electric brewery!!!

I've got a 10 gallon batch of Dale's Pale Ale clone planned for Sat, and a Pliny clone for Sunday. If all goes well and I haven't regained my sanity, I may punch out a Red Rye PA on Monday. Why not take advantage of the holiday weekend, right?

I got zippity-doo-dah in the pipeline right now because it's taken a while to convert from propane, so what a difference a weekend will make.

Happy Columbus Day everyone!

 

[Devin]

Going to brew my red ale this Saturday. Love the change of season and the darker beers that tend to come with it!

 

[Bowfisher]

Got a Northern Brewer Sweet Stout kit to brew Saturday, first weekend in a while we won't have grandbabies running around the house. They're a lot of fun, but sure make brewing difficult!

 

[jfr1111]

Brewing two 5 gallon test batches of pale ale for my house recipe.

 

[Staestc]

Crappy brewday since I broke my hydrometer. I think I cried a little on the inside when it smashed on the kitchen floor.

Welcome to the club. :smack: There is an Official Broken Hydrometer Count thread at https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/official-broken-hydrometer-count-148083/

 

[MaddBaggins]

Saison sour tonight after work. Probably finish up around midnight. I should be plenty buzzed by the time I get to boiling.


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[finsfan]

Saison sour tonight after work. Probably finish up around midnight. I should be plenty buzzed by the time I get to boiling.


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Is this something you have tried before or is this your first run at it?

Im also brewing tonight after work but making a tripel with homemade candi sugar.

 

[MaddBaggins]

Is this something you have tried before or is this your first run at it?

Im also brewing tonight after work but making a tripel with homemade candi sugar.

First run. Using YeastBays Farmhouse Sour blend. I've got a basic grain bill and a little bit of spices, some Saaz hops.


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[brewbama]

American Brown Ale tomorrow AM. Looking forward to it.


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[BreezyBrew]

American Brown Ale tomorrow AM. Looking forward to it.

You read my mind. What are you hopping with?

 

[skysmyzer]

First AG attempt underway, Maris Otter - NZ Cascade SMaSH. Nerves running high.

 

[2drunk2]

My wife wants something that tastes like a gingerbread cookie in stout form. Wish me luck.

 

[MaddBaggins]

First run. Using YeastBays Farmhouse Sour blend. I've got a basic grain bill and a little bit of spices, some Saaz hops.


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Mrs Baggins started my water before I got home. Timing was perfect. I walked in, put the water in the grains and mash in! Sitting pretty at 156.

Now, a cigar and a cherry brett beer.



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[mattmmille]

My wife wants something that tastes like a gingerbread cookie in stout form. Wish me luck.

Do you have a recipe? This sounds like a great idea. I did some googling and found an old thread. The person who posted the recipe never posted final results, but the ingredients look good and he did post when he racked to secondary and commented that it was delicious at that point:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/gingerbread-stout-3099/

 

[podz]

My wife wants something that tastes like a gingerbread cookie in stout form. Wish me luck.

Otherwise known as How To Please A Woman

 

[jfr1111]

Brewed 5 gallons of pale ale this morning and I'm on the last hour of a three hour boil on an american barleywine (mashed two 1.050 5 gallon beers and I'm reducing the two beers into a single monstrous one). I'll still have to do a 30 minute hop stand with half a pound of hops though.

 

[te-wa]

im doing a kern river citra clone-ish. it called for 6oz of honey malt, i accidentally milled 1.3 lbs and mixed it in the other grains. guess it will still be tasty, though.

 

[Hikeon3]

Brewed my first batch in 2 years (had a kid)

A variation of EdWort's Haus Pale Ale Partial mashed and bittered with Columbus. Overshot my volume so ended up at 1.046 instead of my planned 1.050.

Fermenting in my outside fridge with San Diego Super Yeast. Cheers!

 

[toestothesun]

Did my first all grain last night... OG was supposed to come in at 1.079 and I came in at 1.070. Growing pains

 

[Erythro73]

Did my first AG today.

Last time I brewed, I did a PM and got around 65% efficiency, so I figured I should have about the same efficiency. Nope. Last time I brewed, I had a boiloff of 1 gallon/hr, so I figured I should have about the same boiloff rate. Nope.

I got a 75% efficiency and a 1.3 gal/hr boiloff. So I was really going mad on Excel trying to figure what volume I should add/have at the end. I decided to increase the volume by adding water (larger batch volume to compensate for bigger efficiency + bigger boiloff ) and to increase the amount of hops (to compensate for the bigger batch volume). I forgot to add my immersion chiller @ 15 minutes... but I remembered @ 10... My thermometer got stuck for about 1-2 minutes, so my mashout was @ 177 instead of 170 so I removed the grain as fast as possible when I realized that (probably was at 177 for max 2 min).

And I think a minute amount of the black dust forming under my kettle while it is used went into my beer.

 

[Bigstaubbie]

Sounds good, Good Luck.

 

[corkybstewart]

I just started heating water for a British style IPA-not too strong with lots of Fuggles and Goldings. I'll use that yeast cake for an oatmeal stout, then I'll pitch a robust porter onto that yeast cake in about a month.

 

[ReverbDude]

I'm about to start the sparge process on my attempt at a Yellow Rose clone. I'm using 12# pilsner malt and plenty of mosaic hops.

 

[buddman]

Brewing up 10 gals. of Vanilla Porter on Sunday.

 

[smokinop]

Brewed a dubbel Saturday. OP was 1.070. Patience!!!!