So who's brewing this weekend?

[skleice]

I was planning to brew another amber, but my hops didn't arrive in time. So, I'll be brewing a gluten free NEIPA with galaxy, amarillo, and columbus today.

- Edit, gonna brew the amber but sub out the hops instead.

 

[RyPA]

I brewed a citra galaxy amarillo NEIPA yesterday. It was my first time using the Jaded Scylla wort chiller, it got the wort down to 170 for my whirlpool by the time I got from the water spigot back to my kettle…I had to quickly turn around to turn off the water. It got me down to pitch temp (95F Voss kveik) in around 2-3 minutes.

 

[z-bob]

I'm getting a late start, but I'm grinding the malt now for a strong ale. (had stop and give my arms a rest because I'm a wuss) I should have it on the stove in a half hour. Some of the weights are a little odd because I'm using up the last of some bags of malt. For 4 gallons of beer:

8.2 pounds American pilsner malt
2 pounds dark (20L) American Munich malt
3.8 oz Crystal 40 malt
1 pint homemade dark invert syrup (late addition)

1 oz Columbus (30 minutes)
1 oz Willamette (10 minutes)

Lallemand Koln yeast (starter)

It should end up about 7.8% ABV and a little under 60 IBU. The pint of syrup contains 1 pound of sugar. The Munich malt might actually be aromatic malt; I'm not sure. It's from a local maltster and they didn't put in in a category, it's 20°L, smells *very* malty, and still has some enzyme activity but pretty weak (enough to almost convert itself.) I've never used this much of it in a recipe before.

 

[Jette]

Just put down a Bohemian Pils and I have 5 gal of Mead fermenting away. There's a gallon of Jun almost ready!

 

[40yr@HB]

I brewed a citra galaxy amarillo NEIPA yesterday. It was my first time using the Jaded Scylla wort chiller, it got the wort down to 170 for my whirlpool by the time I got from the water spigot back to my kettle…I had to quickly turn around to turn off the water. It got me down to pitch temp (95F Voss kveik) in around 2-3 minutes.

Wort chiller copper or stainless? (or other)

 

[BongoYodeler]

I brewed a citra galaxy amarillo NEIPA yesterday. It was my first time using the Jaded Scylla wort chiller, it got the wort down to 170 for my whirlpool by the time I got from the water spigot back to my kettle…I had to quickly turn around to turn off the water. It got me down to pitch temp (95F Voss kveik) in around 2-3 minutes.

Wort chiller copper or stainless? (or other)

I added one of these, on the end of my hose where it attaches to my Jaded Hydra for that very reason.

 

[RyPA]

Wort chiller copper or stainless? (or other)

Copper. Take a look, they are essentially 3 x 25 foot coolers in one. Wort Chillers

I added one of these, on the end of my hose where it attaches to my Jaded Hydra for that very reason.

Yup, a valve immediately came to my mind when I had this issue. I am going to get one of the lever-style ball valves to make it easier to turn on and off. I am going to leave the valve attached to the Jaded cooler, and then connect the hose to the valve on brew day. I also need to order appropriately sized hoses. I was stuck using 20-30 foot garden hoses.

 

[RyPA]

I added one of these, on the end of my hose where it attaches to my Jaded Hydra for that very reason.

I realized that there may be some heat transfer going on, being you have super hot water flowing in the outgoing pipe which is sandwiched against the incoming pipe, potentially heating up the incoming cold water. I put a piece of silicone tube in between for now, I am trying to think of something more effective. I emailed JaDed for their thoughts, but I didn't get a response. Not sure if they didnt take this into consideration, or if they did their testing and just found that the difference is negligible and wasn't worth it.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I realized that there may be some heat transfer going on, being you have super hot water flowing in the outgoing pipe which is sandwiched against the incoming pipe, potentially heating up the incoming cold water. I put a piece of silicone tube in between for now, I am trying to think of something more effective. I emailed JaDed for their thoughts, but I didn't get a response. Not sure if they didnt take this into consideration, or if they did their testing and just found that the difference is negligible and wasn't worth it.
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Flow rate is way too high for that to matter except for the first couple of milliliters when resuming after a stop and even then most of that would come from conduction and convection up the three pipes on the cold side.

 

[RyPA]

Flow rate is way too high for that to matter except for the first couple of milliliters when resuming after a stop and even then most of that would come from conduction and convection up the three pipes on the cold side.

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[jdauria]

Nothing brewing this weekend, Schwarzbier next weekend. But lots of brewing related stuff on tap for the weekend. Need to keg and quick carb a Grisette and then keg a Pink Guava mead. Then need to bottle some of my Bock, the mead and Grisette for upcoming 2024 comps. Then start cold crashing a Rauchbier and taste test a Pilsner to make sure it's carbonated enough to be ready for our housefull on Christmas Eve.

 

[kurds_2408]

Gonna brew a Daisy Cutter clone on Sunday since it'll finally be over 40 degrees. Wondering if I should get ambitious and try my first double brew day cause who knows when it'll ever be warm enough again.

 

[SFC Rudy]

Vienna lager today and honey amber ale tomorrow.

 

[leedspointbrew]

Guy I brew with wants to do one of my beers - Cali-style schwarz - on his new rig.
Not feeling it, but heading out to get started.

 

[Novacor]

I have everything ready for a smoked porter, just need to take all my equipment out and get going...

 

[Beerstein]

I brewed up something hoppy yesterday with Strata, Idaho Gem, and Mandarina Bavaria. Using Belle Saison and S-33...we'll see how it goes.

Finished mash pot cleaning this morning.

 

[lumpher]

Just put my first NEIPA in the ferm bucket. Not an IPA fan, but got a good deal on a 3 IPA pack. Kegged a Swig of Sunbeams IPA while brewing the NEIPA. That Swig was awesome even uncarbed and not cleaned up yet.

 

[Joggin]

Brewed an IPA using Verdant for first time yesterday. My to go Juice yeast got infected after many brews.
Zeus, Comet 60
Cascade 20
Amarillo 5
Zappa whirlpool
Fermenting nicely today.

 

[lumpher]

Got a Chocolate Milk Stout at 198 now and moving toward boil. I love the smell of Stouts brewing, and the taste is even better.

 

[bike2brew]

5 gallon amber extract with my SVBS sans the mash basket. 1st ever full volume boil. Enjoyed use of the knock out pump for transferring the wort to the fermenter etc. Loving the new system upgrade from my stove top kettle.

 

[corkybstewart]

I'm planning to brew 10 gallons of stout Saturday or Sunday. 5 gallons will be plain stout, 5 gallons will be bourbon vanilla stout.

 

[Abrayton]

Just pitched a jar of 001 slurry into 5 gallons of apple juice. It will become the starter for my 5th annual Santa’s Secret Stash Imperial stout that will sit for a year and get kegged next November. Kegged last years about 3 weeks ago and clocked in at just over 14% and quite tasty.

 

[jcav]

Mashing in here on the back lanai, 56 degrees out, high of 74 degrees later today, and a perfect day to brew my Pennsylvannia Porter. Merry Christmas everyone!


John

 

[bike2brew]

Plans for a 2.5 gal Amber ale. 1st try @ BIAB.

 

[Tomahawk47]

Happy brewing John & Chuck!

Now boiling a 1.066 Sticke Alt., and cold crashing a big version of Lil Sparky's Nut Brown Ale, 6th iteration.

Merry Christmas to all from foggy Fort Wayne!

 

[HM-2]

Probably midweek rather than weekend, but will definitely be brewing something between Christmas and New Year.

Depending on time, I'll either do:

West Coast DIPA
BRU-1 SMaSH hazy
Hazy DIPA

I knocked out the BRU-1 recipe this morning, estimated 6.2% and 45 IBUs. 100% Weyermann Vienna and 300g of BRU-1 Cryo, fermented with my favourite hazy yeast (Lallemand Koln).

But I'll probably do the Westie as I'd like to try out my BrewZilla extended boiler and malt pipe. It'll be nice not to have to reiterated mash for 8+% beers.

 

[kylewag]

I'm going to brew my first lager this week, an International Pale Lager. Probably mid-week actually. I'm off of work and can spend all day if I want. I'm so busy on weekends that I usually brew during the week in the evenings after work. So, now I can finally take my time.

 

[skleice]

Last brew of 2023 will be a SMaSH utilizing HBC 1019 and a brand new rice base malt. Gonna ferment with Verdant on the cooler side to keep the esters in check.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Haven't brewed anything since Labor Day. Tomorrow I'll brew my annual strong Scotch ale, Traquar-ish.

 

[seatazzz]

We don't do much in our family anymore for Christmas Day; will visit the parentals later, and talk to the kids on the phone. So why not brew? Low on hops, so I dug deep in the freezer and came up with, not exactly a kitchen sink, but a 'leftovers' NEIPA. No bittering hop, just HBC586 and El Dorado late. Why those? I have the most of them. All my other usual suspect NEIPA hops are either less than an ounce, or gone. Hit up YVH for some crop closeout Citra and Mosaic that will be here later this week, but I wanted to do something today. Smells divine on the mash. Merry Christmas All!!