So who's brewing this weekend?

[jasnjules]

Coopers Dark Ale: I started homebrewing when I lived in Australia. Coopers sells their basic kit and supplies at the regular grocery stores. Very basic extract kits. I've been back in the states for 8 years and am just getting going again. Made a Coopers Pale Ale last month - yummm. I've only done extracts so far. Bought a 6 gallon glass carboy to make apple wine (which turned out great) and decided to try making beer in it. What an mess. Friday night warmed a can of Coopers dark ale. Put the funnel on the carboy and started pouring - no problem until the paper -AHHH, since when did they start printing labels on paper instead of directly on the can? paper tears from being soft after heating up can in warm water. bit of paper dropped in the funnel. panic and get it out. whew. okay, pour water from the boiled kettle into the can to get the rest of the syrup. hot pad gloves and start pouring into the funnel. oh no, no air escape so sure enough it bubbles up and blows the sticky mess all over my table, floor and on anything else within two feet. blah. Thought I'd dump in some light DME. What a mess that was too. any tricks in getting that gloopy gobby mess in the carboy? my funnel was bit wet so I tried rinsing down with hot water from the kettle. Bah, you can imagine the mess that made. (note to self: add dry bits first.....while the funnel is dry. Then thought I'd dump in dextrose. Added 13 oz. (only because that's all I had left - might have gone a full pound if I could) Didn't get it mixed very well at all, ended up a mess at the bottom of the carboy. filled with water, pitched yeast and away she goes. Since it wasn't all dissolved nicely I didn't bother taking a reading. I have no idea how this is going to turn out. Quite a thick layer at the bottom but the yeast seems to be working its way through. Any ideas what % I might end up with? Coopers dark ale + two lbs muttons extra light dry malt and 13 oz of dextrose, Coopers dry yeast, topped up to six gallon mark.

 

[wvbeerme]

Mashed 5 lbs of rice and 5 lbs of 2 row malt on tuesday at 154 degrees added some hops and boiled the wort for an hour first batch of all grain was using extract before

 

[ChillWill]

Mashed 5 lbs of rice and 5 lbs of 2 row malt on tuesday at 154 degrees added some hops and boiled the wort for an hour first batch of all grain was using extract before

5lb of rice???

 

[Fordzilla]

Sake, I would guess.

 

[dolupoluv]

Just finished my first all grain. An all around american pale ale.
9 lbs 2 row us pale malt
1 lb 40L crystal malt
.5 lb flaked barley

Mashed in for 90 min at 155
Sparged with 4 gal 170 deg water
Collected 4.5 gal, topped off with 1 gal cold water to cool

Used American ale yeast with a starter.

Excited for the results.

 

[Fordzilla]

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[gavball6]

About to FLAME ON a basic APA (EdWort) to use my 1st year homegrown hops in!

 

[Soup4you2]

Brewed up a centennial IPA yesterday, this morning I moved the other dogfish clone into the secondary to dry hop. Next weekend i get to bottle the lager

 

[steinsato]

Going to a apple pressing party today. Planning on walking away with 5 gallons of cider to ferment.

 

[nukebrewer]

I just finished sparging an IPA I've been wanting to brew.

 

[TxBrewHouse]

Brew 10 gal batch of our own recipe for an American Pale Ale. Bottled 10 gallons of an Irish Red also.

 

[lumpher]

seems to be ipa/apa day. i have 10g apa about to start boiling

 

[Bradinator]

Just finished making up an Bravo/Falconer's Flight IPA, using Grape-nuts cereal in the mash.

One more beer to make before I am out of the country for two months. I want my pipelines full when I get back.

 

[1Mainebrew]

Brewing Kate the Great RIS and second runnings will be a schwarzbier. In the first boil now.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

I just finished sparging an IPA I've been wanting to brew.

Did you end up going with that Badfish by any chance?

Getting all my stuff together now to brew another original recipe IPA... Simcoe and Cascade, fresh ginger root, and blood orangeade. Been excited to make this one.

 

[new2brew1221]

Brewing a Williams brewing Belgian Harvest Ale currently.

 

[nukebrewer]

Did you end up going with that Badfish by any chance?

Getting all my stuff together now to brew another original recipe IPA... Simcoe and Cascade, fresh ginger root, and blood orangeade. Been excited to make this one.

No, today was an all-grain rebrew of an extract IPA I did way back in 2008. I has this recipe formulated weeks ago and was really excited about it, so I went ahead and brewed it. I actually considered doing a double brew day to do the Badfish, but while I was mashing the Jacksnap Reboot SWMBO tells me the in-laws were paying us a surprise visit, so that plan went to hell. Next weekend I'm brewing a blonde for a wedding I'm going to in October, so I'll either piggyback the Badfish onto that brew day or do it the very next weekend.

That IPA you just described sounds very promising. I'd like to hear how it comes out. I'm really excited to see how mine comes out, since it was my first time doing water treatment and the hop bill was decent size with FWH, lots of late hops (all Cascade) and I'll be dry hopping with Willamette.

 

[chuckstout]

Special Dark Vanilla Porter!

 

[AleFred]

Looks great.. I may do a smoked porter Friday but i need space after Fridays triple brew day!

 

[cwschupp]

Just finished a NB Ranger clone.

 

[corkybstewart]

Just finished a rye IPA pitched on the yeast cake from a nut brown ale. After 2 hours I can hear it bubbling through the blowoff hose.

 

[chuckstout]

Just pitched yeast for a Blackberry Plumcherry hard cider

 

[Zabuza]

Doing a dry rye stout and a wet hop, hop bursted IPA this weekend. Both should be pretty badass, I hope - the stout's going to use a combination of chocolate rye and flaked rye (as well as black patent and all the rest), whereas the IPA is going to use four pounds of wet hops (citra and chinook) that should reach the kettle within 36 hours of having been picked.

 

[Christ872]

This coming weekend (09/22) I will be brewing my first Holiday/Christmas beer. Hoping it comes out well and that I do okay with the spice additions.

 

[Homercidal]

Working on brewing this coming weekend. Western Michigan Bronco Football on Saturday. Then return home and maybe get a brew in before Crankers Brewery hosts a "corn roast" get-together for mug club members!

What to brew?

 

[dtyoung32]

Brewing a couple of batches of wheat beer. One will get the Autumn Olives picked in my front yard, the other will get the blackberries harvested out of my "North Fourty" pasture.

 

[ICWiener]

What to brew?

The eternal question. Go with your gut. Literally...whatever you're thirsty for.

I brewed a little experiment this weekend. Made a dark wheat...like super dark. Jet black. Used chocolate wheat for the color. Used all English hops and Wyeast London Ale III yeast. Tasted good going into the fermenter.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Gonna try to brew my pumpkin ale this weekend

 

[Allowishus]

Going to brew my first kit this weekend! Malty Brown Ale kit from morebeer.

 

[brycelarson]

Quick and dirty Scottish 70 for deer hunting.