So who's brewing this weekend?

[catdaddy66]

If my order from Morebeer gets here on time, I will be brewing an American honey ale (similar to the White House version). Then, AG here I come!! Scotch ale kit for my first AG batch a couple of weeks later...

 

[AVLbrewing]

I started heating my strike water at 5:30AM due to my SWMBO's friend coming in town today (last minute), and us heading out of town for 10 days starting Friday. So essentially it was now or never! I have about 10 mins left on boil!

I also have a doctor's appointment today, so I was forced to drink my other favorite brewed beverage this morning, COFFEE. Otherwise I would have been drinking before the sun came up!

 

[jpeebs]

Did a spiced amber ale with an extract kit. Got to use my immersion chiller and carboy for the first time. Chillers. Are. AWESOME. took my chill time down by about 60%. Hit my gravity right on, and I've been checking every couple hours since I can actually watch it ferment now.

 

[unionrdr]

Gotta start making ice any way I can for brewday hopefully this weekend. Retired & broke with a broke car sucks.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Can you put ziplock baggies full of water in the freezer? Or, even better, rubber balloons? Would that help?

 

[1Mainebrew]

Crop Chopper Premium American Lager will start chilling in 10 minutes!

 

[justkev52]

Brewing a 10 gallon split batch. 5 gallons of Jamils Antwerp Afternoon/Antwerp Ale yeast and 5 gallons of English Pale / Nottingham yeast cake.

 

[unionrdr]

Can you put ziplock baggies full of water in the freezer? Or, even better, rubber balloons? Would that help?

I have some quart size zip lock freezer bags I use for small stuff in the brewery. Maybe 2/3's full to allow for expansion?

 

[nickel23]

I am going to brew a brewers best cream ale. I am new at all homebrewing. This will be my 4th brew. Cream ale should be light in color but a nice crisp taste correct? I have brewed a brown
ale, American amber and ipa.

 

[Channel66]

I am going to brew a brewers best cream ale. I am new at all homebrewing. This will be my 4th brew. Cream ale should be light in color but a nice crisp taste correct? I have brewed a brown
ale, American amber and ipa.

Yup pretty much, light in color and flavor. It's a favorite amongst those who drink yellow fizzy beers. But I know plenty of craft drinkers that throw them back. Good lawn mower beer, or disc golf beer around these parts.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I have some quart size zip lock freezer bags I use for small stuff in the brewery. Maybe 2/3's full to allow for expansion?

When I freeze my chicken stock in a zipper bag, I have never allowed for expansion to be perfectly honest. I fill em up as much as I can without it spilling and then I zip the sucker up. Does that help?

 

[Xpertskir]

RIS tomorrow
Rye IPA thursday
ESB Sunday

 

[unionrdr]

When I freeze my chicken stock in a zipper bag, I have never allowed for expansion to be perfectly honest. I fill em up as much as I can without it spilling and then I zip the sucker up. Does that help?

When I fillet fresh caught fish,I freeze them in gallon size bags of water layed flat on the freezer shelf. Just do it with water in the quart size bags. Ice maker needs a 100 bucks to hook up,so this;ll have to do for now. Gotta get my PM NZ IPA brewed up asap. Blew the exhaust getting the local spring water at the source. Hard to pass up for 70c per 7 gallons.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I take it your tap water leaves a lot to be desired? I just brew with New York's Finest.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Gotta start making ice any way I can for brewday hopefully this weekend. Retired & broke with a broke car sucks.

Plastic bottles work great too. I use 1L bottles that had sterile saline in them. Good to have a nurse for a mother-in-law! But soda or water bottles work just as well.

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,out of those too though. Gotta get busy pretty soon with the ice makin. Finally got the brewery cleaned up & ready,save for some spigot cleaning & sanitizing. I wanna brew first thing in the morning (whichever morning that is) so the spent grains have the 7 hours they need to dry in a warm oven.

 

[AVLbrewing]

Brew day this morning went great. Hit all my temps/gravities. Now all I need to do is get motivated enough to clean out and clean up my free side-of-the-road freezer and wire up my STC-1000 I picked up for it so I can lager. Assuming I get that done sometime today/tomorrow I'll be brewing a Vienna Lager later this week!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Since I got Irish Red #1 bottled I might brew #2 ASAP.

 

[b-boy]

Well I brewed an Imperial Red Ale and an Amarillo Pale Ale last weekend.

Today my Imperial Red Ale exploded all over the inside of my fermentation chamber. This weekend I will probably be cleaning and de-yeasting said fermentation chamber rather than brewing.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Brewing a minimum of two batches Saturday (Cream Ale, Tafelbier), potentially a 3rd on Sunday, hell I might strongarm an all-nighter Saturday night and brew 4 batches in a row.

 

[JimRausch]

You da man Qhrumphf!
And I thought I was busy brewing 3 weekends in a row, but I bow before your brewing magnificience.

 

[Qhrumphf]

You da man Qhrumphf!
And I thought I was busy brewing 3 weekends in a row, but I bow before your brewing magnificience.

My usual practice is a one weekend a month all-grain double header. So adding a couple more isn't a big deal. Bottling two batches and brewing two more AG batches the same day was a lot. I've never tried for more than two AG batches in a row. But I figure 5-6 hours a piece, I could do a straight 24 hour brew day and be set.

 

[chuckstout]

My usual practice is a one weekend a month all-grain double header. So adding a couple more isn't a big deal. Bottling two batches and brewing two more AG batches the same day was a lot. I've never tried for more than two AG batches in a row. But I figure 5-6 hours a piece, I could do a straight 24 hour brew day and be set.

Sweet, I was just thinkin that, brew day fundraiser

 

[Hawaiibboy]

I am really debating about brewing this weekend. I have two beers that I plan to cold crash in about a week from this weekend so I'm thinking of a saison that I don't need my fermentation chamber for.

 

[MindenMan]

I just brewed 2 gallons of fresh cider, 4 gallons of AJC cider freshened up with 4 green apples and 2 large Fuji's. I overshot the initial volume on the AJC cider, even though I used 13 cans of AJC. No, I didn't use the hydrometer for an O.G. check, so come this weekend I will test the gravity at that time. My third fermenting thing is 4.5 gallons of Oatmeal English Dark Mild. For the 2 gallon batch, I added 1 cup of yeast starter. To the 4 gallon batch, I added 2 cups of yeast slurry, and for the 4.5 gallon Oatmeal Mild I added 3 cups yeast slurry. My house yeast is London ESB 1968. Ever since I began making yeast starters, I seldom wait more than 4 hours for airlock activity.

 

[unionrdr]

I'm gunna brew that NZ IPA tomorrow & dry the spent grains so I can make pretzel burger buns the next day. My oldest boy's birthday is Saturday.

 

[dstranger99]

I was planning too, if Brewmaster's would get off their ass, and send me the order I placed on Monday ! ..........

 

[OtisLamb]

Will be brewing a IPA on Sat.

 

[Johnnyhitch1]

WELLLLLL!!!
I a was going to be going for my 2nd Heady Topper Clone so i preparred a starter yesterday afternoon, after waking up today i find the flask on the floor with about 90% of the 1L starter now seeking refuge in the carpet...

Thing that really sucks is thats all the Conan i had left!!!
You guys think its worth it to try and step up whats in the flask or it has to be contaminated after sitting on a common way for atleast 3-4 hours if not more??

Looks like a nice hoppy amber will be brewed along with a 6%abv Cream of three crops (for the BMC drinkers at work) They say my beer tastes like.....really good.....beer. I took it as a complement considering theres not much to pick out of a 35% corn/rice adjunt beer, let alone for a BMC drinker

I'm gunna brew that NZ IPA tomorrow & dry the spent grains so I can make pretzel burger buns the next day. My oldest boy's birthday is Saturday.

What hops are you using? Just kicked a keg of pacific jade/moteuka 100%brett pale. VERYY tasty.

These pretzels sounds amazing!! Got a recipe? Always loved pretzel buns but mine come out either hard as a rock or dry as a bone.

 

[unionrdr]

WELLLLLL!!!
I a was going to be going for my 2nd Heady Topper Clone so i preparred a starter yesterday afternoon, after waking up today i find the flask on the floor with about 90% of the 1L starter now seeking refuge in the carpet...

Thing that really sucks is thats all the Conan i had left!!!
You guys think its worth it to try and step up whats in the flask or it has to be contaminated after sitting on a common way for atleast 3-4 hours if not more??

Looks like a nice hoppy amber will be brewed along with a 6%abv Cream of three crops (for the BMC drinkers at work) They say my beer tastes like.....really good.....beer. I took it as a complement considering theres not much to pick out of a 35% corn/rice adjunt beer, let alone for a BMC drinker



What hops are you using? Just kicked a keg of pacific jade/moteuka 100%brett pale. VERYY tasty.

These pretzels sounds amazing!! Got a recipe? Always loved pretzel buns but mine come out either hard as a rock or dry as a bone.

It'll be a PB/PM BIAB,bittered with pacific gem,flavored with 1.3oz each of motueka,pacifica,& wakatu. Then dry hopped with 1/2oz each of the 3 flavor hops. Should be like this Kiwi IPA I've heard tell of.
The pretzel bun recipe is from brooklyn brew shops' spent grain chef page here; http://http://brooklynbrewshop.com/themash/recipe-spent-grain-pretzel-rolls/
Click on spent grain chef in the list to the right of the picture for the recipe to dry the grains in a warm oven. Grind to course flour in a food processor. Some say they make regular soft pretzels out of this dough. I'm making the pretzel buns for my son's b-day Saturday. pit bbq'd cheese burgers.