So who's brewing this weekend?

[gometz]

Not brewing, but I'm trying to propagate some yeast i have. The plan is to take the initial viral and step it up in two states to enough for 4, but there's no activity 8 hours in.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I'll bottle my English "Barleywine". I used WLP099 as a secondary strain to dry it out, and it got hungry and ate everything in its path down to 1.004 (never using that strain again). It tasted good, but definitely wasn't a Barleywine any more, so I stuck the it on oak for a couple months, and I'll bottle it with Brett C tomorrow. Then I'll make the Cayenne Mango Short Mead I didn't get to last weekend.

 

[states02]

You'll definitely want rice hulls. I'd start with 1/2 lb, but have more on hand just in case. My pumpkin mash that used 2x29 oz cans of pumpkin still took almost 1hr to batch sparge, even though I used over 1lb of rice hulls. I even tried the protein rest trick and had a hot mashout infusion. The common way to use rice hulls is to mix them in.

Used 1# of hulls throughout the mash, was still pretty slow, probably could have used another ½#. I had to blow back into the tube a couple times. Temps were stable at 152-154 the whole time... Raised to about 162 for mash out and it started flowing very well.

Turned out great, wort tasted good with subtle spice and pumpkin. If anyone would like to try the recipe please feel free to message me..

Put a pic up when chilling, great color.

Thanks all

OG 1.060

 

[Renegades_Brew]

Finally brewed my NG Wisconsin Belgian Red clone last night. My own recipe with some assistance from the lhbs on yeasts. Hit the color spot on. Now it gets to sit for a year before secondary.

 

[DRonco]

Brewing a Maris Otter/EKG/Nottingham SMaSH and a Scottish 80 Schilling. The SMaSH will be my first AG in too long. Looking forward to it.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

5 gallon batch of AG Scottish 70/- Second time on my newly finished system, going through a few basic styles before I start making 10 gallon batched and messing with split fermentations. Up in 2 weeks: Foreign Export Stout.

 

[Cincy17]

Just mashed in my pumpkin ale. Finally got a chance to brew it this year. Trying out my new setup and made a few tweaks, so hopefully it comes out as good or better than last year's did.

 

[jimyson]

Sparging!

 

[Cincy17]

Finally boiling after the longest sparge ever.



Just so everyone knows, graham crackers and canned pumpkin make for a terribly stuck sparge. Destroyed the steel braid in my cooler mash tun while getting it flowing. Maybe it's time to buy a real one.

Edit: Even with 2.5lb of rice hulls.

 

[uncleben113]

Brewing up a mini mash pumpkin beer tomorrow. This will be my first batch in over a year and I couldn't be more excited

 

[BeerGrylls]

Oh god, I just crushed the grain for a Great Divide Brewing Oak Aged Yeti clone for tomorrow, and it filled my homer bucket to the top. I was like "why is my mill stalling" ... the bucket was to the top!! Never done a beer this big before! I can't wait. Home brewing is such a magical hobby.

 

[CliffMongoloid]

Oh god, I just crushed the grain for a Great Divide Brewing Oak Aged Yeti clone for tomorrow, and it filled my homer bucket to the top. I was like "why is my mill stalling" ... the bucket was to the top!! Never done a beer this big before! I can't wait. Home brewing is such a magical hobby.

It seriously is man! Good luck tomorrow

 

[govner1]

My brew day just got cancelled. Honey Do issues!
I'll try my Belgian IPA later in the week, weather permitting.

 

[Cider123]

Mashing a German Alt right now. It's the recipe from Northern Brewer with the Wyeast Dusseldorf strain, I just don't buy the kits. Looking forward to the turn out.

I also just upgraded from a cordless drill to a corded 9 amp drill to power my BC. Quite the improvement I must say! The drill was kickin @$$ and takin names.

 

[unionrdr]

Don't have the rest of the stuff I need to brew my PM Snowbound porter. but my infected Maori IPA got settled out after the yeast battled the lacto & seem to have won. It cleared to slightly misty again & tastes/smells good. so it gets bottled today! Thank God for small favors on His day!

 

[JoBoo]

Dry Irish Stout brewed yesterday morning. Got up this morning to happy yeasties creating blow-off the color of chocolate milk! Can't wait!!

 

[unionrdr]

My traditional stout is finishing fermenting. I got 47 bottles of that IPA since racking under the infection. Smelled & tasted ok.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

brewing a Belgian Dark Strong right now. about 30+ minutes left in the boil.

 

[gone_fishing]

Brewed Cascade Mountain Imperial IPA last night and a Honey IPA tonight. Kegged Pumpkin Ale yesterday and bottling Chimay Grande Reserve this week.

 

[ChefBrew]

Made Beernip's Pike's Kilt Lifter clone yesterday. Did not have peat smokes malt available, so just used the smoked that the LHBS had. Also replaced Kent Goldings with Styrian Goldings because that's what I had on hand. Also used WL Ettinberg yeast instead of Suggested yeast.

This was my first all grain BIAB, following Death Brewer's method. I fell short a bit on the gravity by 6 points. My biggest confusion was knowing how much volume I had. I might have topped off with too much water.

 

[BeerGrylls]

Newcastle clone and/or Oak-aged Yeti clone

So brewed the Yeti clone, using around 19.5 lbs of fermentables for a 5 gallon batch. Did a infusion with a single decoction, twice batch sparged. It was still coming out like motor oil after collecting 7 gallons, so I decided to run about 4 gallons through a fourth running. I ended up with 2.5 gallons of a 1.042 mini-Yeti. I guess you could say I did a decoction parti-gyle. First time for both.:rockin:

 

[BeerGrylls]

Made Beernip's Pike's Kilt Lifter clone yesterday. Did not have peat smokes malt available, so just used the smoked that the LHBS had. Also replaced Kent Goldings with Styrian Goldings because that's what I had on hand. Also used WL Ettinberg yeast instead of Suggested yeast.

This was my first all grain BIAB, following Death Brewer's method. I fell short a bit on the gravity by 6 points. My biggest confusion was knowing how much volume I had. I might have topped off with too much water.

My efficiency was crap on my last BIAB. I guess you don't really hit the same numbers unless you squeeze the dickens out of the bag, which is a bit divisive around here. Some people say squeeze, some say don't because of tannins.

 

[brewcephus]

Plan on doing my Cascade Mountains DIPA this weekend, if I get my new yeast pack in from NB in time. Had planned on doing it this past weekend, but I made my starter up last week and it never took off. Emailed NB this morning and they are sending me another yeast pack.

Great Customer Service from those guys.

 

[states02]

I am looking to brew a black Ipa this weekend or a Porter. Does anyone have a recipe they suggest?

Also Got my McKee Pumpkin Blaze fermenting from last week's brew.. Thanks to all for the suggestions on that brewing.

 

[jimyson]

I am looking to brew a black Ipa this weekend or a Porter. Does anyone have a recipe they suggest?

I have this bottle conditioning as we speak and tastings prior all gave a thumbs up to this thread. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/any-founders-porter-clone-recipes-info-160119/

 

[states02]

I have this bottle conditioning as we speak and tastings prior all gave a thumbs up to this thread. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/any-founders-porter-clone-recipes-info-160119/

Looks good Jimmy.. Did you use a yeast starter?

 

[GrogNerd]

will be brewing the postponed imperial pumpkin this Saturday, a week late. but what's a week for an imperial?

won't boof the starter this time.

hopefully

imperial pumpkin ale postponed until next weekend; I funked my starter

relieved to have my first infection out of the way on a $7.99 starter instead of the $34.99 full batch

brewing an imperial pumpkin ale on Saturday

 

[NervousDad]

I think I'm going to brew an extract batch for fun, Modus Hoperandi-ish IPA

 

[BreezyBrew]

Denny 's Rye IPA! Can't wait! Long live brew day.

 

[RM-MN]

After a few 7 day weeks of 10 hour days it becomes hard to tell if this is a weekend or the start to another week so I'm grabbing this opportunity of a crappy day to brew Yooper'r Oatmeal Stout, except that I didn't have all the ingredients and the LHBS that is half an hour away doesn't either so I started substituting malts and changing quantities to fit what I had on hand. It may come out nothing like Yooper's but I'll bet that brewing today is better than doing another 10 our day out in the snow/sleet showers.