So who's brewing this weekend?

[Brewstress]

2 whambers and a pale ale please!

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

13 gallon AG batch of light hefe, got a friend's birthday party coming up, and the ladies LOOOOVE the light hefe.

Last AG batch until fall. It's just too dang hot in the summer to do AG, I'll stick to smaller extract and PM batches.

Gonna be hot Saturday as it is, I'll try to mash in by 7:00AM.

:rockin:

 

[cruckin78]

doing a nice clean Hefe this weekend...Hope to have it on tap in ~3 weeks.

 

[TheBrewinator]

I'll be making a citra wheat ale tomorrow. Shooting for a 4.2%ish summer beer with tons of late citra hops for a really fruity wheat. Be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

[keg2881]

Gonna do ten gallons on saturday of a recipe that I came up with to try and use some of my hops I bought and on Sunday I'll prolly do another five of caribou slobber.

 

[Breck09]

Brewing the IPA recipe from Brewing Classic Styles this Saturday. Had to change the hops a little do to shortage bit should be okay. Already wishing I had a 10 gallon set up.

 

[smalliewader]

Going to put together a Butternut Brown Ale Sunday evening. Have to get something going for the Fall.

 

[electric_beer]

Brewing a dunkelweizen tomorrow. I've wanted to brew one for a while now and its about time to rack my hefeweizen to the keg so it seemed fitting. I think its going to be a good 4th of July brew!

 

[Bradinator]

Planning either a AG rye ale or a cascadian depending on the ingredients available at the LHBS.

 

[Whippy]

I'll be brewing a 5 gallon batch of Little Mountain München Dunkel tonight and look forward to it very much, as I have not brewed in 6 weeks!! >:-(

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

Maris Otter/Magnum SMaSH on Sunday. Excited to see what Magnum will bring with late additions & a dry hop.

 

[brrman]

no brewing... just drinking (an Altbier I brewed back in Jan)

 

[Bradinator]

Managed to get a hold of some Falconer's Flight hops so I have decided on the Cascadian ale.

 

[electric_beer]

Maris Otter/Magnum SMaSH on Sunday. Excited to see what Magnum will bring with late additions & a dry hop.

I thought magnum wasn't very big on flavor contributions and was more of a "clean bittering hop." I'd be curious what it brings to a smash...post your findings here?

 

[npauley88]

Short brew day for me, only took 5 hours. Did 5 gallons of a pale ale for a 4th of July party.

forgot to add whirlfloc

 

[unionrdr]

My wife & I already have 4.75 cases of ale in bottles conditioning for the 4th. Her Belgian wit clone & my newest version of pale ale,more of an APA. I just pitched the yeast on a dark ale last night that's going to become my whiskely ale. "whiskely" is an old slang name for whiskey ale. Usually a stout aged in bourbon casks since colonial times,right up through prohibition. But over the years,dark ales & porters were also used.
So I'll be basing it on a dark ale,going into secondary with medium toast French oak chips & Beam's black 8 year old bourbon. That'll be for at least September.

 

[yummybeer]

brewing up an oktoberfest this weekend, most likely tomarrow.

 

[Daddymem]

Southcoast Homebrewer's Association group IPA brew Sunday. Skeeter Pee onto an Apfelwein yeast cake Saturday so rack the Apfelwein into a secondary. Rack Kolsh into a secondary for the yeast cake for the IPA also on Saturday.

 

[osagedr]

5 gallon batch of premium bitter sometime this weekend. Maris Otter with some crystal 45; S-04 yeast; Northdown and Fuggles hops.

 

[JetSmooth]

Got an impromptu brewday happening tomorrow. I was supposed to go with my wife and son to West Virginia for a family reunion. The water main in the town blew and the ENTIRE town is without water. Reunion cancelled.

So we'll be meeting her folks half way to Roanoke, VA instead and I'll be back home for the weekend by myself. If I get home by noon, I'll brew. If not, Sunday after church.

Making a Maris Otter Fuggle SMaSH. I call it M'UGGLE SMaSH.

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

I thought magnum wasn't very big on flavor contributions and was more of a "clean bittering hop." I'd be curious what it brings to a smash...post your findings here?

Will do...It smells so good in the bag I can't help but think it will be nice in late additions, so I am to find out.

SN uses it throughout the boil and as a dry hop in Torpedo, which is a damn fine beer IMO.

 

[mikeysab]

Anybody else ever get this?

Me: so we got any plans for tomorrow?
Wife: nope, nothing at all, why.
Me: nuttin big, might brew some beer.
Wife: Oh god, why do you need to make more beer, you have beer upstairs
Me: (after mentally taking stock of whats upstairs) that beer is almost gone and i have grain thats been sitting around that i need to use.
Wife: fine, brew beer, whatever
Me: or i'll take the girls to the park and do whatever they and you want all day.


Please someone say im not the only one that goes through this. I wanna quit brewing because of this attitude but know that giving in isn't right. Should i get rid of the wife? Or just tell her to go eff herself?

 

[Scruffy1207]

Anybody else ever get this?

Me: so we got any plans for tomorrow?
Wife: nope, nothing at all, why.
Me: nuttin big, might brew some beer.
Wife: Oh god, why do you need to make more beer, you have beer upstairs
Me: (after mentally taking stock of whats upstairs) that beer is almost gone and i have grain thats been sitting around that i need to use.
Wife: fine, brew beer, whatever
Me: or i'll take the girls to the park and do whatever they and you want all day.

Please someone say im not the only one that goes through this. I wanna quit brewing because of this attitude but know that giving in isn't right. Should i get rid of the wife? Or just tell her to go eff herself?

You like to brew, tell her it's your hobby and you're not going to stop. Just make sure that you make her happy when your not brewing. Happy Wife, Happy Life. Also helps to make things she likes (if not beer try hard cider or hard lemonade.

 

[milldoggy]

I would tell her to eff herself, watch out for the right hook though.

 

[o4_srt]

Anybody else ever get this?

Me: so we got any plans for tomorrow?
Wife: nope, nothing at all, why.
Me: nuttin big, might brew some beer.
Wife: Oh god, why do you need to make more beer, you have beer upstairs
Me: (after mentally taking stock of whats upstairs) that beer is almost gone and i have grain thats been sitting around that i need to use.
Wife: fine, brew beer, whatever
Me: or i'll take the girls to the park and do whatever they and you want all day.

Please someone say im not the only one that goes through this. I wanna quit brewing because of this attitude but know that giving in isn't right. Should i get rid of the wife? Or just tell her to go eff herself?

As long as you aren't spending every free second brewing or doing something beer related, and the family is taken care of, I don't see a problem with a couple hours of time spent brewing beer.

I've gotten the same attitude from swmbo, now I just brew when she is at work, and she doesn't have a problem with it, providing I don't blow all our savings on a full blichmann setup, which has been kinda tempting at times.

 

[mikeysab]

Well, ive brewed 10 gallons so far this year. Hardly taking up all my time. All my additions to the brewery have been DIY with a bare minimum spent on materials.....always. ive been unemployed for 3 months but take home more money than if i were working. Basically GAVE UP brewing this year and cant get away with brewing 10 measly gallons of wee heavy. WTF? Am i a pu$$y or do other people go through this?

 

[lumpher]

got a 10g cream ale in the plans for tomorrow. need something for the bmc drinkers for july 4th

 

[milldoggy]

My women loves my product to much to complain. She gets annoyed, but supports me because I like it. I spent 4 monthes building my kal clone, that caused some issues, mostly $$. She's a saver, I am a spender.

 

[Scruffy1207]

Well, ive brewed 10 gallons so far this year. Hardly taking up all my time. All my additions to the brewery have been DIY with a bare minimum spent on materials.....always. ive been unemployed for 3 months but take home more money than if i were working. Basically GAVE UP brewing this year and cant get away with brewing 10 measly gallons of wee heavy. WTF? Am i a pu$$y or do other people go through this?

Yeah, don't let her take your balls, if she does you'll never get them back. Too much pussin' ruins relationships, trust me, SWIMBO and I are still trying to reconcile after rolling over too much. Pick your battles, this one is good to start with.

Edit: You should probably move this to a new thread as not to hijack this one.

 

[Yosh]

Just put the lock on my 2nd batch ever. AG Czech Pilsner. Lovin it!