My starter culture of Wyeast 2565 is crash cooling in the fridge right now. Gonna brew up 5 gallons of Kölsch tomorrow to have ready for the spring warm up!
Brewing this weekend for the first time since spring of 2008! A winter porter recipe from my local home brew supply store... Very excited to get back into it!
Got the day off on Monday for MLK day and will be brewing an India Black Ale if I can find some carafa. Otherwise I'll be doing a Citra APA/IPA... undecided.
I brewed KingBrian's caramel amber ale last weekend. Today I brewed a Blacksheep Riggwelter clone and used a pound of the dark amber candi sugar that I made for the amber ale. I've never had a Riggwelter before but it sounded good.
Headed downstairs to bottle first batch - Trew Brew Pilsner - this AM. Plan to brew Brewer's Best Red Ale tomorrow, then try something non-kit next. Found an extract recipe for Poor Richard's Ale on a link from one of Revvy's posts. Anybody tried this? Sounds good - may try that next. So many beers, so little time (money,equipment, etc....)!
This weekend I am dry hopping my almost IPA, and brewing a dark strong belgian... going for a 1.1OG.. highest gravity I've attempted... I have a big starter crashing for it now. 18.5 lbs grain for a 5 gal batch... plus the sugar etc. probably wind up overshooting my gravity. (recipe is based on about 80% eff though I often get closer to 90%.. just not always) I'm ok with that.
I'm bringing my wort up to a boil right now. It's a partial mash belgian golden strong ale with bitter orange peel and coriander. I'm looking forward to tasting this one! Hopefully it'll be ready in a couple of months.
Tomorrow I'm brewing a new IPA recipe with Chinook,Simcoe & Citra, & the Grain Bill will have some Honey malt and about 7% Rye Malt. Should be interesting, I hope it turns out to good.
I am brewing my first attempt at an all-grain nut brown ale for the wife. Doing this in my garage with the door cracked open and it is still only 15 F.
Brew day is early tomorrow morning. got to get done before taking SWMBO and the little one to the circus. Mashing in will have to be around 8am to make the 2:00 show.
AHS Juniper Rye. My third Rye recipe in a row. Last summer was all wheat; this year is shaping up to be all Ryes. strange how that is working out.
Brewed Deny Con's Waldo Lake Amber Jan 12th n it's just finishing it's fermentation.
This week I have a second Better Bottle coming so I can ferment two batches simultaneously..
Next brew day will be Thursday or Friday this week...doing the AG Irish Ale from Northern Brewer, then California Common (Anchor Steam) will be my first attempt using Lager yeast.