So who's brewing this weekend?

[Piratwolf]

Friday brew-day with friends: 1st 10-gal brew, doing Mojave Red from the recipe section but elevated to Imperial level. OG 1.084 & 85+ IBUS backed by a big malty caramel grain bill. I'm actually going to have to split the grain bill btwn my 10 & 5 gal MLTs in order to fit the grain and water together! Should be a blast w/ my brother in from out of town.

"All your home brew are belong to us!"

 

[daksin]

Brewed saturday- a stone IPA clone with WLP530- something in the vein of Cali-Belgique. Was the smoothest brew day ever- made a great starter, oxygenated better than I ever have before, boil went super easily, had my new sink fittings for the wort chiller, everything was a breeze. Used DME for the first time- I'll never go back to LME. Got a great cold break, and the beer had nearly overflowed my 1/2 gallon blowoff before I got back from dinner. Put the tube into a 1 gal growler for blowoff and it's been rocking ever since.

As usual, I used too much water, so my OG was fairly low (1.060 instead of 1.066) but it's going to be a fantastic beer nonetheless. Cannot wait to get it over into secondary for dry hopping so I can start the next batch, but it should be done pretty quickly.

Hoping to cram in my first AG BIAB this weekend, but no idea when I'm going to get around to it. Can't brew without SWMBO, and she's working weird hours this week- could be an extra-late brewday on saturday. Will be an all-cascade APA, adapted from Yooper's house pale.

 

[noodle23]

Today is my Sunday so im got to brew. Had some left over northern brewer hops and made a SMaSH. Made what im calling SMaSHed blonde. Lol

 

[Desrever]

Doing a Dunkelweizen this Friday.

 

[jtkratzer]

Partial mash vanilla bourbon porter and kegging a batch of cream ale.

 

[TejasBrewing]

I brewed a Zombie Dust Clone yesterday, never done a brew with 5oz of hops in the boil.

 

[avidhomebrewer]

5 gallons of scottish ale

 

[kklowell]

Bottled my Chocolate Oatmeal stout this weekend. Also, Racked my cranberry wheat onto ~4.5 lbs of fresh cranberries.

That Cranberry Wheat sounds interesting...got a recipe you'll share?

 

[kklowell]

SOMETHING is getting brewed soon in this house! If I'm lucky, it'll happen on Sunday.

 

[timdsmith72]

That Cranberry Wheat sounds interesting...got a recipe you'll share?

Sure! I've actually made this with a couple of different recipes. I'll share them both. Basically, it's just a very simple wheat beer with a bunch of cranberries in the secondary.
1st recipe:

1 lbs Crystal Malt 20°L
1 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils
8 lbs Liquid wheat extract
1 oz. Cascade pellets (~5.5 %AA) 60 minutes
1 oz. Saaz pellets (~5.0%AA) 15 minutes
.5 oz. Saaz pellets (~5.0 %AA) 1 minute
~4.5 - 5 lbs fresh cranberries
Neutral yeast. I usually use Safale.
Steep grains as normal. Boil and pitch yeast as normal.
Once primary fermentation is done, heat cranberries in a sauce pan just enough so you can crush them a bit. I just use a potato masher. (may need to do a couple of batches) Add the cranberries to a fermentation bucket. (I tried it in a carboy one time. I'll never do that again. Cranberries are way to hard to get in and out.)
Rack the beer on top of the cranberries and let it sit for two weeks.
Rack the beer into a tertiary (sp?) and let sit for another week.
Bottle/keg as normal.

The other recipe I've used is even more simple.
1 lb white wheat malt. (steeped)
7 lbs wheat LME
.5 oz. Spalt (4.75) 60 minutes
.5 oz. Perle (8.25) 30 minutes
Neutral yeast.
Same process as above. Primary > Secondary with cranberries > Tertiary > bottle/keg.

 

[Szimdars]

I am brewing today!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[theveganbrewer]

I think I am going to attempt a brew day instruction course on Thanksgiving at my house. We'll already have a bunch of people over, so I think it'd be fun to brew a beer in the morning and show everyone the process. Then we can drink some finished product with our meal later in the day.

 

[uncleben113]

Sure! I've actually made this with a couple of different recipes. I'll share them both. Basically, it's just a very simple wheat beer with a bunch of cranberries in the secondary.
1st recipe:

1 lbs Crystal Malt 20°L
1 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils
8 lbs Liquid wheat extract
1 oz. Cascade pellets (~5.5 %AA) 60 minutes
1 oz. Saaz pellets (~5.0%AA) 15 minutes
.5 oz. Saaz pellets (~5.0 %AA) 1 minute
~4.5 - 5 lbs fresh cranberries
Neutral yeast. I usually use Safale.
Steep grains as normal. Boil and pitch yeast as normal.
Once primary fermentation is done, heat cranberries in a sauce pan just enough so you can crush them a bit. I just use a potato masher. (may need to do a couple of batches) Add the cranberries to a fermentation bucket. (I tried it in a carboy one time. I'll never do that again. Cranberries are way to hard to get in and out.)
Rack the beer on top of the cranberries and let it sit for two weeks.
Rack the beer into a tertiary (sp?) and let sit for another week.
Bottle/keg as normal.

The other recipe I've used is even more simple.
1 lb white wheat malt. (steeped)
7 lbs wheat LME
.5 oz. Spalt (4.75) 60 minutes
.5 oz. Perle (8.25) 30 minutes
Neutral yeast.
Same process as above. Primary > Secondary with cranberries > Tertiary > bottle/keg.

Can you really taste the cranberries in the beer? I know fresh cranberries are kind of gross by themselves until cooked and sweetened.

 

[timdsmith72]

Can you really taste the cranberries in the beer? I know fresh cranberries are kind of gross by themselves until cooked and sweetened.

Yes you can! Nice red color as well. Although, I LOVE the taste of fresh cranberries, so... If you don't like cranberries, you might not like this. You could sweeten them with something like splenda, though.

 

[uncleben113]

I love the cranberry flavor but I ate a fresh one once and I remember not liking it for some reason. Maybe it was kind of gritty?

Anyways, it sounds really good. I'm going to have to give it a whirl

 

[RM-MN]

I'm making an original recipe roggenbier today. It's chilling now and will go into the fermenter soon.

 

[wheels4]

Started pre boiling the water for my ESB...gonna be a great Thanksgiving. Hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

 

[theveganbrewer]

My guests have chosen to brew Sister Star of the Sun today. Starting up now. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

[Droot]

First brew in a couple of years. Taking a step back doing a partial mash due to where and how I live. Making a full flavor ale. Dry extract, Crystal and a little bit of chocolate malt ground up in the maltmill. Leaf hops. 5.5 gallon batch instead of the usual 11. I have all day. So5 yeast.

David

 

[copyright1997]

Doing a Captain Hooked on Bitters (Red Hook ESB clone). Just got done with Mash, batch sparge in process!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

[wheels4]

Have the ESB fermenting...gonna call this one Givin Back ESB.

 

[Sheldon]

doing a Guinness Foreign Stout clone manana.

 

[beernut70]

Brewing Edworts Haus Pale Ale. Trying out a new mash tun.

 

[Coog_Brew]

Brewing a Maibock after a football watch party tomorrow.

 

[wmatejka]

10g's of Paraphrased Bell's Two-Hearted. Cascade instead of Centennial and some other specialties. Milling it up tomorrow morn ate the LHBS... the Hop Shoppe, then home to dough in.

 

[wailingguitar]

I will brew one or both of the following this weekend; Marzen using 10# 7L Munich, Doppelbock 8.5# 2 Row 1.5L, 8.5# Munich 7L... 5 gallon batches, S-23 yeast. Hops to be decided, probably on the spur of the moment, but I have Saaz, Tettnager and Hersbrucker (maybe some Spalt as well) in the fridge.

 

[tdogg]

if the weather holds out ill be doig 10 gallons of my amarillo pale ale. i got a couple ounces of nelson sauvin hops to throw in towards the end this time. its just 2 row, carmel 50/60, a little melanoidin, chinook for bittering and amarillo. delicious!

got it done today! changed the hops a bit to use only amarillo and nelson sauvin. fermenting half with S-05 and half with wyeast headwaters.

 

[EdMerican]

Today brewing 5 gallons of Black IPA, Cascadian Dark Ale, India Dark Ale, whatever ya wanna call it, I'm brewing a black-ass hop bomb. Just doughed in 10 minutes ago

 

[Bubba]

2 batches today an AG Amarillo IPA and a gluten free beer for my daughter.

 

[harrydrez]

I have a freshly brewed london porter clone in a better bottle now.