Plan on doing an Imperial English Pale Ale. This based on a beer done by Phantom Canyon Brewing in CoSprings, CO. It is an amazing beer. I just hope I can do my homebrew some just. Plan on putting 5 in a whiskey barrel and the other 5 will be kegged for an upcoming brew festival.
Doing first all-grain this weekend. Witbier. Excited. Been wanting to do this for a while. Though I like extract. Problem is I'd like to nail down a day this weekend to do it. Kids' are invited to a birthday party, otherwise I'd do it Saturday. We'll see.
I am traveling this week and assuming I get home on schedule, I'll have a full beer weekend. I will be taking my second batch, an Abbey Ale, to bottle and I plan to brew my third batch a Belgian Caramel Whit kit.
I was hoping to brew today since it would be one year from the first time I brewed but with on and off drizzles I had to bail. I will get to it this weekend and brew a American blonde ale but fermented with Belgian yeast. I actually need to do a ton of brewing for a graduation party for my sister in law who finished her masters but I am waiting for a bulk grain order to come in.
I made an India Brown Ale Friday( i dont think ive ever even drank this style yet),after previously bottleing my Mulitigrain Extra Stout the day before.
Just did put 6 gal of kolsch in the fermenter. I love my 6.5 gal carboys!
Now to put it in the basement to drop it 6 more degrees (as per the stick on thermometer, I love them too). I stopped short while using my wort chiller because my regular thermometer died. I guess they don't like getting dropped in 151 degree water...
Brewing a pale ale right now. If the weather holds I'll brew a belgian wit next. If I'm really feeling like a glutton for punishment I'll make some more base beer for my sour solera tonight.
Between tonight and tomorrow, bottling an IPA, and brewing at least a saison or berliner weisse. Not sure which, might pull a really late night/early morning and just do both.
I am brewing an Avery Ellies Brown ale clone as we speak. My first AG. So far so good. I got about 151 mash or so. I hit 153, added a couple ice cubes and it came down a bit too far(wanted 152). But I cant complain. My mashing routine will get nailed after a couple batches.
I built a cylindrical mash tun in about 30 minutes on thursday off a website parts list(the one on brewwiki)
Lowes is delivering a 7 Cu Ft freezer to my door in the next 3 hours. I am wiring up a temp controller right now. Everything is falling into place
Brewing a Double IPA featuring columbus, cenntenial, & Simcoe hops (heavy on the Simcoe) tonight then either a Citra IPA or a Wheat using sorachi ace hops tomorrow AM. Both brews using the BIAB method.