So who's brewing this weekend?

[Andrew Hodgson]

just punched up a basic recipe to try my hand at a summer saison. Having a beer style that lends itself well to letting the yeast ramp up is perfect for summer hoping I can keep the yeast I use (belle Saision) for the rest of the summer.

 

[epimortum]

Going to bottle Kentucky Common "kiss ye cousin" (extract).

If time permits, going to brew my house Dunkel (extract).

Now that the biab bag is complete, next time will be doing all grain .

Going to do a simple kolsch (pils, sauermalz, hallertau, 2565 or wlp029 149° 90min boil) need to do more research to be specific

 

[Conehead]

Brewing a Kolsch on Sat since rain is scheduled where I live.

 

[epimortum]

Brewing a Kolsch on Sat since rain is scheduled where I live.

Would you mind to review my kolsch that I mentioned?

This will be my first All Grain and first kolsch so any input would be greatly appreciated.
Prost

 

[probablynotnick]

My club (Oregon Brew Crew) is hosting a campout this weekend and we'll be brewing a mock Steinbier (stone beer)!

We'll be heating stones over the fire and adding them to the kettle to achieve boil. Extract with steeping grains this time to simplify the process and reduce the necessary number of rocks. One of our members has been experimenting with the process at home as explosions are possible if the proper care isn't taken. One thing that helps is to ensure that all stones are DRY and not reused when heated. It's the expansion of steam that can blow them apart if heated too quickly.

Photos to come!

 

[Sparkncode]

Yep, brewing my first porter.
My knee was real bad this week so took today (friday) off work to let the inflamation settle.

I found my spare quick connect hose joiner so took my 3 filter water filter ( 1micron sedement + granulated carbon + compressed carbon) out to my deck and put it on the end of my food grade hose after running thr hose first to get rid of any sitting water. The hose may be food grade for drinking water but any water left in it picks up plastic flavours.
Its now slowly filling the HLT.

I use to leave the filter inside by my kitchen tap and fill buckets and carry them out but with a painful knee that wasn't happening this time and always had the risk of a bucket overflow due to distraction.

I realised i can use the return port from the pump at the top of the hlt as an overflow so i can just leave it to fill slowly for the best chlorine extraction although it does well at higher flow rates i would rather run it slow and be 100 % sure. The temporary overflow has a pipe running off my deck.

Just doing a 10L batch so I don't have to move 23L while my knee is bad.
The weather probably isn't helping the arthritus in it either.

Not sure if saturday or sunday brew day. Just depends how my knee feels although only a single hop addition so a nice simple brew with 60 minute mash and boil.
Not much monitoring needed apart from keeping an eye on the fly sparge and comming to the boil although a 10L batch in a 50L BK should be reasonably safe.

I guess i could have just filled it fast then set the pump to recirculate through the filter for the ultimate level of chlorine removal but never had an issue with a slow single pass.

 

[MolecularBrewologist]

Making cinnamon cranberry apple cider this weekend while I wait for my next shippment of ingredients.

 

[Saunassa]

Bottling the hopped mead (which is my first fermented item) and then going to try my hand at beer with Basic Brewing 15 minute pale ale. It is the three gallon version, figured start small and learn, not so expensive if I screw up.

 

[JensenLewis]

Brewing up 2 identical beers except for using citra/mosaic in both with a third hop being different in each. I have a few options in the freezer and figure it’ll come to me when I get to that point! Trying something a little different with my water... we’ll see it if gets rid of the strange off flavor I had in my last batch. Only thing I could narrow it down to. Beautiful brew day!

 

[catdaddy66]

Going to pull the trigger on a Belgian golden strong ale. I have no big ale to bulk age. An empty carboy calls out to be used! Also have to bottle my steam beer tomorrow but need more bottles so I better get to drinking!

 

[HVCBrewing]

This will be a dual weekend:
* Pale Ale - Magnum, Perle and Cascade Hops
* Hop Head IPA Mead - with Cascade, Citra and Centennial Hops.

Celebrating Memorial Day Weekend with Two Brews and a sincere appreciation for all who served.

 

[Saboral]

Thinking about making a Cider with the wife this weekend. The beer pipeline is nearly filled up after the last couple of marathon weekends.

 

[stella_tigre]

Planning a Memorial Day IPA, Bell's Two Hearted all Centennial.

 

[stella_tigre]

Brewing up 2 identical beers except for using citra/mosaic in both with a third hop being different in each. I have a few options in the freezer and figure it’ll come to me when I get to that point! Trying something a little different with my water... we’ll see it if gets rid of the strange off flavor I had in my last batch. Only thing I could narrow it down to. Beautiful brew day!

Our next brew after this we will do 10 gallons, maybe some Centennial and Amarillo in the boil. Then hop in each 5 gal fermenter with a couple of different hops. Maybe Sterling in one, Citra in the other. Still deciding here too! We finally got our water analyzed, so less guesswork on that, hoping to take it to the next level.

 

[Konadog]

All ready for morning.

 

[marjen]

Trying to brew something new this weekend a citrus chocolate wheat IPA. Its either going to be glorious or a big ole mess.
Already think 4 0z of heresy cacao powder was too much but we shall see.

 

[Sparkncode]

Finially decided to do my planned brew. my knee was too bad yesterday and has settled a bit overnight and through the morning so this is an afternoon brew.

Rain outside but dry on my covered deck and 11 degC / 51.8f.
Dry enough for the eHERMs om the deck ( positioned to avoid leaks) and just in case its all wired up to a RCD / GFCI
I don't mind brewing on cool damp days, it makes the clouds of steam more impressive LOL.

Just warming up the strike water in the HLT and warming up some PBW in the BK to run through the wort pump and plate chiller so currently pulling an average of about 30A at 230V. The chiller and pump had a hot water rinse last time but I decided that some PBW was due so the clean during the mash etc.

The recipe is a English porter, based on someones clone of Speights old dark with a few tweaks and changes for the malt I have in my spare room.

It willl be the first porter I brew and its based off a beer my dad likes.

 

[BrewMan13]

Did my first parti-gyle brew earlier, scotch & scottish ale combo. Brewday went well, fermentation started very quickly.

 

[Sparkncode]

All grain Brew day over. 19L into the fermentor. I was going to do 10L so easier on my knee yo get to the fermentation chamber but i forgot and got the default 19L/5g batch.
Apeights old dark clone made with gladfields malts. The sample tasted ok for a pre-fermentation sample.

I managed to cool the wort slightly more than my intended fermentation temp but still ok for us05. The the heat pad will taise it the 2 degC to my target easy enough.

Finishing up the evening with a glass of my Belgium Tripel 9.5% while resting my knee in my spa bath. Nice hot water after a cool evening finishing up the brew day.

Nice clouds of steam brewing in about 10C ambiant temperature

And the steaming boil against a dark background.


The belgium tripel tastes great but needs more time to fully carbonate. This is the result from a fairly aggressive pour. There is definitly some carbonation in the beer.

Pretty clear too

 

[SEndorf]

Bestmalz red-x
Trying this grain, going after the elusive red ale.
I've made several before which tasted great, but always a brown or copper color. In search of a stunning red.

 

[catdaddy66]

Heating strike water for my golden strong ale. I am going to try to bottle a batch along the way but that means I will need to drink several... I mean, 'empty' several more bottles today!

 

[kman6234]

Brewing an APA with el dorado and Idaho 7 hops

 

[NitrogenWidget]

Brewed a grapefruit pale ale yesterday using experimental grapefruit hops and grapefruit zest.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Heating up to mash out on a chocolate hazelnut porter

 

[Eltes]

Brewed a NEIPA today trying out spelt and oat malt in the grain bill for the first time. Cryo hops in the hop stand was another first. Going to hit it with Denali and Galaxy for the dry hop

 

[Elkobrewer]

Not brewing but does kegging a grapefruit IPA. Brewing a ESB next weekend

 

[oscarjets]

I brewed my first Barleywine yesterday. A small 3.5 gallon batch which came up short with about 3.2 gallons in the fermenter, and quite a bit of trub. It took off like a rocket and is going strong now.

 

[Sean McColgan]

This weekend brewed a basic American wheat that my wife enjoys and lemondrop saison that northern brewer had advertised, all four of my fermentors are full! In two weeks when two of them should open up I'm gonna do maybe a October fest and maybe some sort of IPA haven't pick either recipe out yet though

 

[seatazzz]

Strike heating up for an APA with two row, cara 10, and Columbus, Comet, & Citra hops. And today will be the first use of the fermentation chamber/chest freezer. Hope it works out.

 

[the-adjunct-hippie]

Decided to take on a venture of doing ultra small batch brews, we are talking 1.5 gallon yields. This is to get me acquainted with how each variety of hop reacts with each malt. It's an incredibly fast process - boil time is cut in half, and my ingredients usage is almost nothing. Today's venture :

a SMaSH beer called 100 Degree Day (that's what it is outside).

2 gallons water
1 lb Great Western NW Pale Ale High Color
4g Amarillo at boil, for 50 minutes
4g Amarillo for 20 minutes
and later will dry hop the remaining Amarillo I have (another 3-4g)

So far it's smelling great. I bought two 2.5 gal food grade buckets from Menards yesterday, and drilled spigots for them today. Can't wait to see the results.

Happy Memorial Day!