So who's brewing this weekend?

[unionrdr]

Bottled the first batch of berlin wheat today,got 53 bottles. Will brew the second batch of it tomorrow.

 

[Shenanigan]

First brew day was today!

Caribou slobber brown ale. Had some hiccups along the way but I'll still have beer in a few weeks. Did a full boil (with the specialty grains in 1.5 gallons separately) so I reduced the hops by 30% (used a calculator).

Tried the cooled wort after taking a reading (low of course) and it was so sweet but so bitter at the same time.

Just wish my temp controller had made it in time. Midwest needs to get their shipping department in order. 5 days before shipping is not cool. Set up a swamp cooler and I'm praying I won't have off flavors

Thanks HBT for all the great threads and info that made today go so much more smoothly than expected!

 

[Hawaiibboy]

First brew day was today!

Caribou slobber brown ale. Had some hiccups along the way but I'll still have beer in a few weeks. Did a full boil (with the specialty grains in 1.5 gallons separately) so I reduced the hops by 30% (used a calculator).

Tried the cooled wort after taking a reading (low of course) and it was so sweet but so bitter at the same time.

Just wish my temp controller had made it in time. Midwest needs to get their shipping department in order. 5 days before shipping is not cool. Set up a swamp cooler and I'm praying I won't have off flavors

Thanks HBT for all the great threads and info that made today go so much more smoothly than expected!

Congrats on the first! Hope there will be many more great brews in the future for you! Keep us updated about how your first brew turns out!

 

[brewNOLA]

Just put together my new Blichmann burner and, man, am I excited. Brewing up a Red Rye Amber with it tomorrow!!!:rockin:

 

[drives_a_bike]

My yearly Super Pale Ale is finally getting brewed (I change it every year), this year with cascade, mosaic, and sweet orange peel...wlp007

Got Austin city limits playing from the living room

 

[Qhrumphf]

Went to the LHBS. Did inventory of my bottle stash. Dosed a beer with champagne yeast that hasn't carbonated after 8 months in bottles (think I exceeded the alcohol tolerance of the yeast). Tomorrow, I'm going to get a nice big starter going on the stir plate for the Quadrupel I'll brew in the couple days I took off prior to NHC. Making wort, pitching yeast, I count it as "brewing", sort of.

 

[adiochiro3]

Bottled an English Brown & brewed an Irish Ale. Guess it's a British Isle kind of day...

 

[Brewitt]

I brewed a red IPA today. Turned out very well. 1.076 OG and nice red color. Made homemade mozzarella cheese at the same time. Wow, that was a bit much for one day.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

got up at 5 and mashed in 5:45 for 8.5 gallons of Munich Helles. beautiful Minnesota morning for brewing!

 

[beaksnbeer]

got up at 5 and mashed in 5:45 for 8.5 gallons of Munich Helles. beautiful Minnesota morning for brewing!

Translation: Making beer early and look no snow!

 

[catdaddy66]

Just getting it going now! An extract kit from NB for 5 gallons of ESB... Been wanting to do this for a week now.

 

[mpride1911]

Working on this recipe here.http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/blog/show?title=beer-recipe-of-the-week-california-common-beer

 

[unionrdr]

Got everything outta the fridge & freezer warming up to brew up that 2nd Midwest PM Berlin Wheat kit. gunna cut the flavor hop addition from 30 down to 20 minutes. I'll add some Trulemon crystal to the priming solution at bottling time. thought a smooth lemon spice might be interesting from the Haulertaur Mittelfruh.

 

[catdaddy66]

Got everything outta the fridge & freezer warming up to brew up that 2nd Midwest PM Berlin Wheat kit. gunna cut the flavor hop addition from 30 down to 20 minutes. I'll add some Trulemon crystal to the priming solution at bottling time. thought a smooth lemon spice might be interesting from the Haulertaur Mittelfruh.

Gazundheit!

 

[unionrdr]

Reminds me of Last Action Hero. "...this Arnold Bransweiger guy." "Swartzanegger!" "Gazundheit!"... Finally had to use an Exacto knife with the 1" trim brush to clean the grain mill. Some grain kernals got mashed into the knurls on the rollers & had to be picked out. Gotta crush 4lbs of grains for the BW.

 

[mpride1911]

Working on this recipe here.http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/blog/show?title=beer-recipe-of-the-week-california-common-beer

...And I just jacked up the mash. Wasn't paying close enough attention and the mash tamp ran away from me. Not sure how this is going to turn out. May have to try again next week. The is my second attempt with an AHA beer of the week and the second time the EXACT same thing happened to me.

 

[williamsdm1111]

really cool pic

Thanks. All 3 love to help. My older 2 like to run the mill.

 

[hunter_le five]

Brewing a Bohemian Pilsner right now (Nathan's recipe). This was my first attempt at decoction mashing, hope it turns out ok.

I'll probably brew it again later with a single infusion mash and compare the results.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Waiting for a $%& I forgot the saaz succulent strawberry blonde to cool down (subbed citra and upped the cascade)... then bottling batch #1 of Edwort's apfelwein, then making my 3rd batch on that yeast cake

 

[Dave200204]

I'm testing out new brew equipment tomorrow. I'm going to try a belgian witbier that I got from a local brew store. I'm down to my last Oatmeal Stout from the last brew so I figure its time to start brewing.

 

[williamsdm1111]

Got a new 10 gallon kettle for fathers day. Going to brew something tomorrow. Stout,ipa, ale, or hefe. Decisions decisions.

 

[SPR-GRN]

Ended up doing an impromptu batch of Cider on Sunday, showed the father-in-law how to make it Now he wants to get in on the fun

 

[JDGator]

plan to do my first AG batch BIAB style this weekend. thinking about an IPA but may do a light beer of some sort. i'll have to check out the level in my kegs.

 

[seigex]

Brewed a West Coast IPA that was suppose to be 6 gallons, buddy I introduced into homebrew (his second batch assisting) and I started drinking our last homebrew batch at the beginning, neighbors came over, started drinking more. Became a bit chaotic, too much going on, and ended up mixing up a few of the hop additions, and boiling off too much wort. Went from 6 gallons to 5 gallons. OG was suppose to be 1.069, ended up with 1.081. Used a starter, and was fermenting like crazy when I woke up the next morning. Smells great though.

It's cool introducing new people to homebrewing, but I like my brewspace to be organized and for things to happen on time, and this was anything but.

 

[tugbucket]

^^ I hear ya. 2-4 people and it seems all good. More than that can start getting to the point of forgetting stuff. We did a squash ale last year and we usually brew on the back deck but this one we brewed on the front porch because it was raining some.

We started just the two of us. Neighbors across the street came by. Next door neighbors then came by. Lady across the street dog got out. Some guy that lives 4-5 houses down wandered over. 3 cars with other friends came by during the boil. It was a little bit of a mad house and being that the brewing was happening on a 5'x 12' porch rather than a 14' x 20' open deck, well, a lot of beer was drank and some mistakes were made.

Anyway, We did a Hibiscus Lemongrass Saison Sunday in the back. Went smooth. Smells boss.

4oz dried hibiscus and 1oz corriander in a hop bag and 6 stalks of lemongrass smashed just dropped in. All for the last 10 minutes.

 

[ColeR]

saturday i plan on a brewing 10gal of American Brown Ale
sunday i plan on brewing 10gal of Hoppy Amber Ale

 

[Genuine]

I'll be brewing SN's Sierra Madre Pale Ale all grain kit tonight once I'm home from work. Stoked to finally brew this month!

 

[BMClark2210]

Brewing my first lager this weekend!!

 

[firerat]

Another centennial cascade pale ale. Using the spent grains to make a sugar head whiskey wash. Piggy backing it is often called.

 

[williamsdm1111]

Hefe and ipa this afternoon.