So who's brewing this weekend?

[Bramling Cross]

I'm boiling on my first batch since returning home. I used the mother of all grants that I built last week and I'm pissed I didn't build this years ago. Lifting 9gals onto a stove top was getting (like me) real old. My back is much happier for it and the six holes they cut in me are still plugged--great success!

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Cool! What is it?

 

[Bramling Cross]

Cool! What is it?

The grant is the lowest vessel on the left side of the photo. It sits below the MLT and collects runoff. HB scale grants tend to be quite small, the really big ones are a couple gallons. Mine is my trusty old 9gal boil kettle that I've fitted with a bulkhead and an old ball valve--it's comically oversized by HB standards. The pump on the floor in front of the grant then sends the runoff to the right, up onto the stove top, and into my boil kettle.

Previously I ran off my wort into my boil kettle then hefted the 8-9gals in the kettle onto the stove top. I didn't enjoy doing that operation when I was in my early 20s (even then I knew it was stupid), so this is a big advancement for my hooptie brewery and a concession to the fact that I'll turn fifty in a few months.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Today's ordinary bitter is in the fermenter, the brewery is all cleaned up and reloaded with tomorrow's strike and sparge water, both being treated with YOS charges.

I'll get the lager fermenter up and going tomorrow with a pitch of S-189 on a smallish all-malt N. American lager that pays homage to my PacNW roots, I'm calling it Henry Weinhard's Private Parts. When that bit of inspiration hit me last September (at the ripe old age of 49 [going on 13]) I texted a couple of my buddies back home and we all agreed that we were deeply ashamed to not have thought of that sooner. How could a mob of knuckle-dragging imbeciles possibly miss such an obvious, infantile joke?

I suppose Hank's was such an institution in PDX that you didn't really think about dumb stuff like that. It was just Hank's. Kinda like air, you don't think about it, you don't make jokes about it (unless Spokane is involved), you just take it for granted.

And then Miller killed them.

 

[Beekeeper]

I'm going to need more of this, and soon. So planning for tomorrow.

 

[Beekeeper]

I'm going to need more of this, and soon. So planning for tomorrow.

Corona milled the grains, readied the FW hops.

 

[Beekeeper]

I'm calling it Henry Weinhard's Private Parts

So that's what "reserve" means.

 

[lumpher]

Hefeweizen is about ready to keg, so time to do another Bell's 2-Hearted clone tomorrow. I like to keep that 1 on tap. Nice balanced not-harsh IPA. Keg just blew, so drinking the last 1 I have on tap now.

 

[rhys333]

I'm thinking about brewing a stout tomorrow, if the wind dies down. I'm considering something like this, at around 1.050:

70% Pale ale malt
10% White wheat malt
10% C65
5% each chocolate malt and roasted barley
EKG @ 60 & 10
S-04

 

[lumpher]

Wheat malt in a Stout... why not? Unusual, but go for it and enjoy the experience and results. For some reason... even though they didn't use wheat, when I read this I thought about Watney's Cream Stout. I might have to clone that soon, since the brewery faded away 25-30 years ago. I loved that beer. That's the 1 that developed my love for Stouts.

 

[rhys333]

Wheat malt in a Stout... why not? Unusual, but go for it and enjoy the experience and results. For some reason... even though they didn't use wheat, when I read this I thought about Watney's Cream Stout. I might have to clone that soon, since the brewery faded away 25-30 years ago. I loved that beer. That's the 1 that developed my love for Stouts.

I do a porter with 20% wheat malt and it works really well. Foam for days. I would have used about 5% torrified wheat in this stout, but I used it all up in my last saison.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Wheat malt in a Stout... why not? Unusual, but go for it and enjoy the experience and results. For some reason... even though they didn't use wheat, when I read this I thought about Watney's Cream Stout. I might have to clone that soon, since the brewery faded away 25-30 years ago. I loved that beer. That's the 1 that developed my love for Stouts.

St Peter's Cream Stout is even better than my memory of Watney's, IMO. Try it if you can find it.

 

[bike2brew]

The grant is the lowest vessel on the left side of the photo. It sits below the MLT and collects runoff. HB scale grants tend to be quite small, the really big ones are a couple gallons. Mine is my trusty old 9gal boil kettle that I've fitted with a bulkhead and an old ball valve--it's comically oversized by HB standards. The pump on the floor in front of the grant then sends the runoff to the right, up onto the stove top, and into my boil kettle.

Previously I ran off my wort into my boil kettle then hefted the 8-9gals in the kettle onto the stove top. I didn't enjoy doing that operation when I was in my early 20s (even then I knew it was stupid), so this is a big advancement for my hooptie brewery and a concession to the fact that I'll turn fifty in a few months.

Using transfer pump to move wort from the kettle to fermenter has been the latest innovation for me. I am old too, and the lift always was a bear for me to handle.

 

[Abrayton]

Just did another 5 gallons of apple ale. It’s so simple and is such a crowd favorite it goes quick. 5 gallons of apple juice and a little 001. Crisp, clean and refreshing! Takes about 5 minutes not including equipment prep and sanitizing.

 

[skleice]

Brewing a gluten free IIPA with some new-to-market malts:

De-hulled pale millet
Pilsner Rice
Pale Oat Malt

Nelson
Citra
Idaho 7
Motueka

Lalbrew N.E.

 

[RumOnTheDocks]

Brewing a dark mild tomorrow. Hoping to test the improvements on my hunk of junk, knock-off corona mill.
Hoping I actually get a higher efficiency this time around.

 

[PashMaddle]

I was gonna do a SMaSH tomorrow just to get rid of my leftover Sabro hops but I bought some Citra and added some Caramel 20 to the grain bill at the LHBS and now it’s an IPA… kind of…

 

[Beerstein]

I brewed a low carb IPA with oats, rakau, strata, and mandarina bavaria.

Then I added cherries to my partigyle stout.

 

[Brewdog80]

Finished an English Bitter Friday. Three point Dachshund. New mini christened the side of my bucket with my grain it it when I set it down for a minute. Good thing he's short, no flavor enhancements we're added. The little ****...

 

[RyPA]

Update: I shipped the chiller back to JaDeD, at their expense, and they fixed it and are sending it back. Super easy process and very fast turn around. They said this is a very rare occurrence, so I wouldn't worry about this happening to you and don't hesitate to buy one of their chillers. For full transparency, I was running my hose water at full blast through the chiller with a ball valve on the outlet of the chiller, and that built up pressure must have found an imperfect solder and the water made its way through. Going forward I am going to put the ball valve on the inlet to keep pressure out of the chiller. Why did I do it that way? Because the inlet fitting has a spinning garden hose attachment which made it easy to attach a hose, my ball valve does not have this so I'd have to rotate a 30 foot hose multiple times to attach it, much easier doing that with a 10 foot hose.

Brewing a Citra Amarillo nectaron neipa and everything was going smooth, until this. It’s a jaded scylla. I noticed it very quickly so hopefully the batch isn’t toast. The wort was still at around 190.



Edit: they already responded and it’s covered under warranty.

 

[rhys333]

I'm thinking about brewing a stout tomorrow, if the wind dies down. I'm considering something like this, at around 1.050:

70% Pale ale malt
10% White wheat malt
10% C65
5% each chocolate malt and roasted barley
EKG @ 60 & 10
S-04

Brewing this today. I hit all my numbers and she's as black as squid ink. Should be a good one...

 

[bike2brew]

Brown Ale in fermenter now. 2,5 gallon BIAB Hungry Brown Dog new recipe. Off to the races and currently @ 1.025 since Saturday evening.

 

[jcav]

Brewing an Irish Red right now that I make every year for my ST. Patrick's Day party. 58 degrees on the back lanai and raining, but everything is going smooth!

John

 

[bike2brew]

Working on an extract IPA right now. Had 12 lbs of LME I need to use. Looking @ 6 gallons going into the fermenter. Full volume boil with my SVBS, timer and temperature control makes this process so easy.

 

[bike2brew]

Off to the races @ 1.067, from 1.70 OG. Cleanup made up for the ease of the brewing with persistent burned LME on the heating element. Can't envision using LME any more. Another epiphany on the linear path, like sticky mess the 1st brew wasn't lesson enough.

 

[Steveruch]

Brewed two weeks ago, bottled yesterday.

 

[Dland]

Brewed a nice pilsner today,;

Kind of regretted it about half way though, since it never did warm up & I had to sanitize fermentor and 6 kegs. But glad I did once I wrapped it up. It had been a brewing hiatus of 6 weeks, almost a record, mostly on account of an work injury.

20# Weyerman Czech bohemian pils
1 oz spalt FW
1.2 oz tetanger, 35 min boil
S-189

 

[AlexKay]

Two months off of brewing while recovering from surgery and not allowed to lift anything.

Yesterday a DIPA with Elani, Cashmere, and Nelson
Today an Imperial Red Ale with Northern Brewer, Centennial, and First Gold

Nice to get back to things.

 

[Tomahawk47]

Wednesday, actually.
I need something for summer. A double lawnmower ale ought to be nice. A simple blonde ale, all Hallertauer at 1.065

Next up, Thomas Hardy Ale for a winter brew (won't last beyond that!).

Dbl Cream Ale (1.075) clearing.
Maibock at d-rest.

 

[whoaru99]

Probably not until next weekend now as the inbound goodies stopped for the weekend, 75 miles short.

Come to think of it though, I do have a wine kit I could start. Hmmm...