So who's brewing this weekend?

[Jonakr]

I begged up my last batches, so I did another ginger apple cider. I think I'm on order for another GF sorghum Smash. That won't be until this weekend.

 

[HM-2]

I'm way behind on my brewing plans and have just (well, last night) kicked the Brut keg. I need to save at least some of the Belgian Amber as I need a mini keg for a gathering with some mates, and a couple of bottles for homebrew club.

I need to sort my barleywine so might try brewing that tomorrow. Them try and squeeze an IPA or best bitter in next week.

 

[Willy]

Started a 10.7g batch of Irish Stout that is a little stronger than "spec" for the recipe. (4.7 ABV vs ~4.2) .

Mash is half way finished - looks gorgeous and clean already. Smell is amazing and I made enough to condition properly (4 weeks+ )
Hurray!!! I love a good stout!

 

[jcav]

Doughed in on the back lanai on a spiced Belgian Christmas beer that I put together. Smells incredible out here. Beautiful morning, a cold front came through finally to kill this heat and it was 55 degrees earlier this morning. Now it is 63! Have a great weekend everyone!

John

 

[DuncB]

Saturday morning brew of a carrotflower saison. We are on the cusp of summer here it will take over the elderflower saison tap.

 

[Byedziniak]

Brewing a 5 gallon brew of east coast black ipa hopped with magnum in the boil and motueka, galaxy, and Amarillo for flame out and dry hop

 

[camonick]

Heating the strike water for a brown ale right now

 

[rhys333]

I had a hankering for porter after watching Don O's recent YT video. It's a lower abv version of the Heretic Shallow Grave clone he was doing. First running heating up on the stove...

 

[MaxStout]

Tried my hand at a skibsøl over the weekend. Did basically this exact recipe: https://beerandbrewing.com/recipe-right-proper-skibsol/ I made a couple dumb (but probably insignificant) mistakes, so we'll see how it turns out.

I wasn't familiar with that style, but upon seeing the linked recipe, looks like something I'd like to try. I love those oddball historical brews, like Grodziskie, etc.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[Tony B]

I'm planning to brew a Kolsch this weekend. It's finally cooling down enough in SoCal with my no ferm-temp control brewing to do some brews in the under 70F range.
Hoping next year to get an inexpensive mini fridge and set up as a ferm chamber.

 

[brewbama]

collecting RO and assembling the brewery for tomorrow’s brewday. Ordinary Bitter

 

[jdauria]

Wasn't planning on brewing this weekend, but my relatives kicked all three of my beers this past Sunday, the savages that they are! Out of beer for my homebrew club meeting tonight, going to get so many demerits! So probably will whip up an American Stout this weekend and get my Altbier kegged and quick carbed too.

 

[DuncB]

Dark mild and a variant of Sisyphean task brewed lower alcohol, enzymes and metschinkawa reukaufi yeast.

 

[HM-2]

Still no luck getting a brew on these last few weeks, and it's now dropped below sub zero.

I have been pulling bits together for my barley-wine-imperial-west-coast-IPA-sorta thing which is planned up next, though.

10%
OG 1.090
FG 1.014

80% Floor-Malt MO
10% Invert
7% CaraRed
3% Extra Light Crystal 100

30 IBU of Columbus Cryo @30m for bittering
Still tweaking the rest of the hop schedule, but it'll be a mixture of Amarillo Cryo, Citra Cryo and Strata.

3 packs of WHC High Voltage.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

After a years hiatus,where every spare minute was taken to rebuild my boat from the keel up, I'll be cleaning,sanitizing and checking operation of my equipment in anticipation of a Saturday brew date with a spiced winter ale. I've come to the conclusion that "store bought" beer sucks and cant wait to to get my fermenters going.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

My weekend starts today and Bock is in the menu to brew. Coffee and breakfast first though.

Milled grain is in the mash tun waiting, it'll be "mashing" by 9am.

 

[jameswatsonuk]

Aye, brewing a 38L batch Aussie/Kiwi hopped IPA for the Chrimbo batch. Testing out my newly modified kettle for the first time

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

My weekend starts today and Bock is in the menu to brew. Coffee and breakfast first though.

Milled grain is in the mash tun waiting, it'll be "mashing" by 9am.

Done, except for cleanup and hauling out spent grain. Having a brew, my favorite other than my own!

 

[bike2brew]

I have a 5 gallon batch of pale ale based on Briess Heritage Gold and Cluster hops planned for the weekend. Likely Sunday as the temperature is supposed to be warmer for outdoor cleaning. I will attend to my brewery hygiene and mill grains tomorrow.

 

[lumpher]

Got a Mexican Lager ready to brew. Time to start that process here in Texas. Besides, always good to have a lager on tap.

 

[Halfakneecap]

Kind of an american style wheat, with dried lemon peel at the last 5 mins of the boil.

73.7% Voyager Atlas lager malt
26.3% Wey wheat malt
30g Dried lemon peel last 5 mins of the boil
1.039
16 IBU


Not sure of the yeast yet. I have Verdant, which i really like. I use WLP029 German ale quite a lot but am out at the moment. Not sure whether to use Verdant, or re order 029. Ill definately use it ( its my house ale yeast ).

Or order Wyeast 1010, and try that as my go to ale yeast for a while. Not sure about it in standard APA's etc.


EDIT. Just ordered 029.

 

[bike2brew]

Heritage Pale ale into the fermenter 1.064. A bit high on the OG for the standard but I would rather start higher than lower. Likewise, I favor my brews @ > 6% abv.

 

[HM-2]

Mashed in on an 8% West Coast DIPA with Columbus, Amarillo, Citra and Strata.

 

[brewbama]

Brewing a Weissbier this AM.

 

[bike2brew]

Hungry Brown Dog ale in production today.

 

[bike2brew]

5.5 gallons into fermenter @ 1.058. Clean up all done and ready to kickback w/ a cold one.

 

[seatazzz]

Contrary to popular mechanics (as we said when I was a young 'un) I am still around. Had to wait about five weeks between brewdays as bills needed to be paid before grain procured, now that a company that rhymes with shmowing finally gave us something decent. Pipeline is completely empty so brewed up a superfast warm pressure fermented lager today, that is already up to 20psi and looks to be drinkable by the weekend. Until then it's what I like to call drinkydrinks (hard alcohol with mixer) or Rainier.

 

[BrewMan13]

From last weekend; my last brewday of the year so figured I'd go out with a bang. Yes, that's a full size keg mash tun. Yes, my efficiency and other numbers took a big hit, and brewday was a nightmare in almost every way. But at the end of the day I ended up with 11 gal of my gruit-inspired imperial oatmeal stout. Was targeting 13 gal as it's going to be the next beer in the barrel, but it is what it is.

 

[HM-2]

Having decided not to do my Christmas barley wine this year, I've planned an imperial red rye ale instead.

70% MO
15% rye malt
7% red rye crystal
5% CaraHell
3% T50

Keeping hops pretty grapefruit/resin forward. 50 IBU with Apollo for bittering and Apollo/Simcoe for aroma. Small dry hop, WHC LAX yeast.

I plan to soak some of my oak stave chunks in Rittenhouse Rye and chuck them in for 6 or so weeks once fermentation has finished.

 

[CodyRonan]

Started a 10.7g batch of Irish Stout that is a little stronger than "spec" for the recipe. (4.7 ABV vs ~4.2) .

Mash is half way finished - looks gorgeous and clean already. Smell is amazing and I made enough to condition properly (4 weeks+ )
Hurray!!! I love a good stout!

What yeast are you using...

 

[Willy]

For this batch I used 2 US-05 packets. I contemplated using 1 Nott & one 05 but decided I would just use the US-05 because I had more of that in house than Notty. The batch is still conditioning in kegs and one of the kegs should be tapped by year end. (The other keg in late Jan or Feb)

 

[Halfakneecap]

Fuggle bitter.

98.8% Maris Otter ( Simpsons )
1.2% Dark Crystal ( TF )

Green Bullet 60 mins
Fuggle 30 mins

Windsor

Long low mash, 1 hour at 63c, then 72c x 20.

1.033
32 IBU

 

[brewbama]

Woke up early to start the mash. I’ll go thru mash out, then hold it there until I get back from running ~ an hour errand, then lauter to the BK and finish the brewday.

Edit: I’m usually happy with a gravity point or two N or S of target. Today I was spot on. Love it when a plan comes together.

 

[SFC Rudy]

Brewed a Kentucky Common yesterday and heating water for my Copper Ale.

 

[seatazzz]

Brewing up the House NEIPA this morning (12lbs two-row, Citra and Sabro late and dry hop) since the wonderful husband has been hinting about it. Also it will be done fast. Tomorrow considering doing just a plain blonde with the same yeast slurry (Imperial POG) just to see what flavors I get. I hate to see only one selection on the kegerator chalkboard. Current on-tap is getting closer to Kona Golden which is my eventual goal.

 

[kurds_2408]

My Christmas gift this year is a diy EBiab setup. Finally moving from propane outside to electric inside. It'll be a month or more before I get it finished and do the first brew though. On Sunday the weather is ok so I'm going to brew a simple APA on my current setup. Going to use that recipe as the baseline to dial in my new setup when it is ready. Will also be my first time trying Omega West Coast. LHBS charges way less for Omega than White Labs so fingers crossed.

 

[MaxStout]

That beer fridge full of HB and HM hard lemonade is getting a lot less crowded. Time to brew on Monday. Will do an English ordinary bitter. Maris, some UK medium crystal, a touch of Carafa III for color. First Gold, and S-04.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Not the weekend but today I brewed 23 litres of Budvar
4000g Pilsner malt
200g Carapils
200g Melanoidin
50g Saaz leat at 60 minutes
40g Saaz pellets at 15 minutes
2 packs of Crossmyloof Hell yeast at 15C

 

[Halfakneecap]

Euro lager

60% Heidelberg pils
37.5% Barke pils
5% BB dark munich

Spalt at 60 and Hopstand

S 23

1.044
31 IBU

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Grodziski.