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Today I'll be making a Cider and a Nut Brown. If I have time I will also do a SMaSH of Amarillo and Maris Otter.

Cider - 5 Gallons
NB -10 gallons
SMaSH - 2ish Gallons

Should be a good day!
 
Brewing a 1gl amber wheat experiment today with saaz and crystal. Gonna try first wort hopping for the first time. Also using homemade cooked sugar since I forgot to buy some candi syrup during the week. Not the same at all, but whatever. Experimentation is fun.
 
Brewed dagger falls IPA this weekend. I will likely brew wheat ale next weekend. Anyone brew dagger falls before?
 
Bottling a ranger creek Opa clone and a ipa of my own design and brewing a sorachi ace clone from Brooklyn today long day of beer stuff
 
I wish I could drink and brew at the same time. Maybe I'm a lightweight but whenever I've tried that, I start getting all comfortable and lazy. I often drink a toast to the new beer being born after I pitch and get that sucker in the fridge. "Here's to yet another fabulous homebrew!"

I no longer drink while brewing in case I run out of propane etc...or if i require real thinking due to an issue. Everytime I drink more then one beer while brewing something odd happens.
 
Tasty's Janet's Brown is brewed, pitched and in my ferm fridge. Ran out of time to bottle my Northwest Red, then got called to go out of town for work. I guess I'm not bottling tomorrow afternoon any more. Might get home by Wednesday or Thursday.
 
Got a new mirror pond clone in the closet!


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I stopped drinking while brewing too. Something odd always happens and I usually am trying to do quick calculation on the fly as I make minor adjustments to the recipe to account for small variations in efficiency. I also find myself with a less than efficient process as I'll forget stuff when I go to the basement or take something to the basement and not grab the things I need for the next step etc, causing more up and down stairs than needed.
 
A new week which means I will be brewing this weekend! Racking RIS to 2ndary, and then Sunday brewing up the Simple Hefe's recipe on here. I can't wait to try my RIS after 4 weeks of fermenting! Oak chips, vanilla, and bourbon go into the 2ndary for 2 weeks :D
 
Just got the nod to brew Saturday. Brewing a mild because both kegs are about to kick and I need a reserve.

Brewery improvements since the last brew:
1. Relocated wort and HLT pumps for easier access to output valves.
2. Relocated CFC for better hose management and...wait for it...
3. Inline O2 stone/cast thermometer, fed with aviator's grade oxygen.

Process changes to be tried on this brew:
1. Use kettle and HLT pump to achieve better mash out temp (RIMS). Expecting to thin the mash by one gallon to ensure said pump is properly primed and I have a buffer.
2. Oxygenation of wort during cast at a rate of 2 liters per minute for one minute, halfway through the cast.
3. Brewing during daylight hours! I work 3rd shift and I have kids, so I am a night owl. Hope to start early because Sat will be hot!
4. Do a mock second brew to establish the timeline for a double brew day. (When is a good time to mash in #2 and avoid a conflict with equipment?)
 
Nosferatu Clone IAA and Sierra Nevada Pale

Duckredbeard, i've found that mashing in right when i kill the boil on batch #1 works out best. By the time I transfer the 1st to primary and get the kettle clean it's been about 45 minutes and i've got a little time to spare.

Improvements this brew;
1. New cold water chiller in front of my ice chiller.
2. Inline thermalcouple for measuring chilled wort.
3. New fermentation chest for all 4 primaries.
 
this weekend, i need to:
- make a starter for my 3787 (done)
- bottle my belgian blond
- rack chocolate oatmeal stout to smaller carboy (formerly occupied by the blond)
- brew a tripel, ferment in larger carboy (formerly occupied by the stout)
- ask myself why i don't have more than 2 carboys.
 
sweetcell said:
this weekend, i need to:
- make a starter for my 3787 (done)
- bottle my belgian blond
- rack chocolate oatmeal stout to smaller carboy (formerly occupied by the blond)
- brew a tripel, ferment in larger carboy (formerly occupied by the stout)
- ask myself why i don't have more than 2 carboys.

Sounds kinda like my Weekend:
-Gotta bottle a Belgian blonde from my car boy
-Rack a mirror pond clone into the cleaned carboy From its corny keg primary
-Make a starter of 1056 from a pale ale
-Keg an amber ale into the former MP primary
-And brew a black IPA
-only got one carboy ... Tough
 
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