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I have two bitter recipes I enjoy so far! The Cooper's English Bitter with EKG hops added & a kit from Morebeer! on the lighter side of the color spectrum, but great flavor. Kit #138- https://www.morebeer.com/products/extra-special-bitter-ale-extract-beer-kit.html Yeast must be chosen as an add-on. I like S-04 rehydrated for this one.
Gonna get the ice & spring water to brew the mumme' tomorrow for Saturday. Then try to find my hybrid lager V4 recipe on here that got lost when old hard drive fubared. Besides finishing up some brewery/man cave cleaning & try to tweak the BC grain mill one more time? Dang thing won't hold the setting between rollers?
 
Making a 3G Apricot Blonde with a combo of real purée I made and some extract flavoring at keg time. Bit of an experimental batch.
 
Bottling up the cream ale I brewed a few weeks ago, for a wedding in three weeks. Then dry hopping the Racer 5 clone & IPA I brewed last weekend, then brewing up another batch of my Speedbump Special IPA. Got a batch of it in primary right now but just cracked the last bottle of the first batch last night, and I know I'm going to be jonesing soon!
 
good chance I will be showing a coworker how to do an extract brew and they will be tying up my ferm chamber and if so I will be doing a Saison, if they don't make it, I will be doing a lager and using my ferm chamber all for my self :mug:
 
Doing a belated birthday brew.

Told two brewing friends that I wanted to do a brew, but did not want to think and offered them this:

Create a 5-gal batch of an IPA or close to an IPA (Get creative and break the rules if you wish) and I will buy the supplies

Recipe is a 15lb grain bill of ESB malt and some others - no crystal but does have golden naked oats - and has the following hops:

Waimea
Columbus
Mosaic
El Dorado
Citra
Amarillo

Using an ESB yeast and doing the starter tonight.

Have to say the hops have me interested.

I cannot even begin to guess how this one will come out, but based on all the offerings from the creator's fermentations, it should be good.
 
Brewing my second AG batch of Sandman's Zombie Dust Clone recipe from Beersmith. This go around going to use 1056 American Ale yeast to see how it compared to the first one with British Ale.
 
Brewed up 11 gallons of blondes. Used my house blonde base recipe, and did a split batch of citra and HBC 342. I used up my 1728 to make a beast sized starter for my next Wee Heavy project.
 
I have an empty fermenter and cannot wait to fill it with my Green Warrior IPA recipe! Gonna try some honey late in the boil to dry it out a bit (has 1# of crystal malts). Then I will have 3 different brews at varying stages of fermentation.
 
Brewing 5 gallons of a test batch. Quick fermenting Metheglin. Should be be drinkable and actually tasty(if everything goes as planned) within 7 days of pitching.
 
Just had the most annoying brew sesh ever. Tried to get an early start. Hadn't wound down enough from work yet. Spilling things all over the place... So annoying. Tomorrow I drink.
 
Oops, I was thinking the wrong NB kit... I brewed the Phat Tyre already! Picked up 3 of them when they were on sale for $19 each! Tomorrow is Chinook Ale, grain has been crushed, yeast starter is going, cleaned up the brew pots and got around to punching gallon markings into my new Concord boil kettle. I have to get a dust cover made for the brew stand, thinking of ordering some canvas and sewing it to custom fit with a zipper to provide access and easy off. Since it is in my garage/workshop it can get dusty in there at times and I am tired of having to wash everything a second time before I use it.
 
Did a hefeweizen and decided to do my first ever decoction. It seemed to go well, but the sacch rest was a touch lower temp than anticipated, but still in the okay range. We shall see if the decoc was worth the effort, but it wasn't as difficult as I had heard.
 
Too many things going wrong today with brew day. Darn beans taking forever to soften up on the stove, since I forgot to soak'em overnight. Then dropbox messing with my memory card after 2 takes with BC grain mill screw ups. Shiz gets fubared when bulk get angry...I quit till morning. :mad:
On a lighter note, one of the Greenx guys brews & makes wine. He instantly recognized what I was doing...funny though, he didn't recognize the grain mill?
 
Just wrapped up a session saison that'll be dry hopped with 4oz of citra. Cleaning kegs now and will be kegging some sort of double dry hopped American wheat IPA kind of thing.
 
LHBS has a mini-competition to do a Belgian IPA, so I picked up a small supply (60% pilsner, 36% pale 4% aromatic, along with a f***ton of hops, relatively speaking, and WY 3522) yesterday to make it today.

It's currently chilling in the sink, to get to pitching temperature. It's Saaz and Cascade for the aroma (late addition, and dry-hopping), and I'm excited to see how it turns out.

2-gallon batch, scaled down from a 19L recipe.
 
Did a hefeweizen and decided to do my first ever decoction. It seemed to go well, but the sacch rest was a touch lower temp than anticipated, but still in the okay range. We shall see if the decoc was worth the effort, but it wasn't as difficult as I had heard.

Brewing a hefeweizen also today. Usually do a single infusion mash for my house hefe, but did do a Traditional multiple step mash today so we'll see if I can (or my wife, it's her favorite) taste a difference.....
 
Chinook IPA is in the fermenter. First runnings into the pot after vorlauf... nice and clear, only a few grain bits from the spoon I was resting in the boil kettle.

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Sparging with my homemade copper sparge bar. Works well!

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Gonna try brew day, take two today. Think I got glitches fixed with pic upload software to try filming more of it today? Grains crushed, two yeast packs swelled nicely...
 

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