So who's brewing this weekend?

[razyrsharpe]

gonna brew an imperial red on Labor day in honor of... my labor. and everyone else's labor. will be a partygyle brew day, my first. good luck to me.

 

[brewbama]

Gonna brew a Pal Ale Labor Day. Cheers!

 

[mainiac]

Brewing a 5 Gal batch of a basic American wheat beer tomorrow (Sunday), which will become a raspberry wheat.

 

[SeraW]

Firing up a late season Märzen on Monday. Going to try again on a double decoction.

 

[philipCT]

Everybody is so ambitious with the double decoctions and exoctic recipes. Good on ya!

Today I'm just looking to plug an empty spot in my taplist - a BCS American Amber. It's a house favorite/crowd pleaser and a pretty straightforward brew with a simple hop schedule. I'll brew 10 gallons though, so that'll fill two kegs to last for a while.

Once that's in the fermenter, I can focus on brewing something for a friend's birthday in November, and then maybe something close to my heart - like a Black IPA.

 

[BadDeacon]

I am brewing this afternoon once the honey does are done. Original kit I ever did from more beer. Frenzy's left coast pale.

 

[4arrows]

Our faithful family dog passed away yesterday. He was a German Shepherd named Dante, so I figured I would make a German summer beer in his memory today.

Noble Old Man D's Honey Hefeweizen.

 

[griffi]

Our faithful family dog passed away yesterday. He was a German Shepherd named Dante, so I figured I would make a German summer beer in his memory today.

Noble Old Man D's Honey Hefeweizen.

I'm sorry to hear that. Good dogs well treated are family. I hope the beer brings you good memories of him.

 

[govner1]

Moved today's brew day to next Sunday w/ mg daughter. Brewing a 6 gal AG Ninkasi True Believer Double Red clone.

 

[schematix]

I tried to squeeze a brew day in this weekend but was overruled by "you just brewed two weekends ago and your kid is being a brat". So now I'm taking next Monday off.... B2B 3-day weekends!

Planning to make a to-style German Pilsner. Can't wait to drink it in 2 months.

 

[paperairplane]

Yesterday brewed my entry for Cigar City Pilot This contest and made a hopped cider. Today did a brown ale and partigyled it so also made a saison.

20 gallons in 2 days in 90*F heat - I am worn out, but my ferm chamber is happy.

 

[unionrdr]

It'll be at least this Thursday before it cools off to more September-like weather around here. Then I got an English Ordinary bitter to brew so I can make a gallon of malt vinegar. Then A hot pepper IIPA, if I can get some peppers?...

 

[Peruvian802]

I hear ya, unionrdr. I was planning on brewing but the temps were just too damn high.

 

[EtchyLives]

So, I ended up brewing my pumpkin ale this weekend and it was a near abortion. Much like the guy in another thread I had the hose between my false bottom and ball valve come off mid-mash. I managed to drain the mash tun pretty well despite the missing false bottom (rice hulls made themselves into a really good filter, I guess) and it ONLY took 2 hours to drain. Then I emptied out the grain into a five gallon bucket, cleaned out my mash tun and reassembled the hose, dumped the grain back in, and batch sparged which ONLY took another hour to drain.

This was probably my last pumpkin beer with the pumpkin in the mash because this is a bit ridiculous.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Have a 5 gallon MO/all home grown centennial SMaSH mashing as we speak.

 

[unionrdr]

I finally got my 11lbs of grains, 18ozs of hops & 2 packets of yeast today that should've been here Friday. Just got through putting everything away. Also got three silicon drier packets in some camera stuff that I tossed into the grain dunnage. So if it cools down, it's on!

 

[wtaylor3]

I have to assume that 18oz of hops aren't all for one recipe lol

 

[unionrdr]

No...they're for two. One English ordinary bitter, & the hot pepper IIPA.

 

[razyrsharpe]

On Labor Day I did my first partygyle brew session. An Imperial American red ale and a smaller amber beer.

 

[wtaylor3]

I really want to do a partigyle brew day, this combination has my interest.

Have actually been researching splitting the batch at several different points in the brew day. It seems if you could start with a big enough batch you could make several drastically different beers.

 

[brewshki]

Brewing an extract bitter this Friday. Showing someone who has never brewed the hobby and maybe brewing with my buddy who also brews for the first time.

 

[unionrdr]

Looks like I'll be waiting till Friday to start brewing when it cools down. Ordinary bitter first up. Then look for some 2G buckets to make vinegar in.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Yesterdays brew session was a PITA, looks like I have to readjust my mill as after the mash I found some whole grain in my tun. Had to extend the mash rest by an additional 30-45 minutes because my sister came by when I had 20 minutes left on the mash rest and asked if I could go with her to pick up the keys to her new place. The rest of the brew went well, ending up .01 shy of projected and with maybe half a gallon to a gallon of spare wort. Only other gripe was tha it was so freaking hot out that I was dragging and kept forgetting things. Not to mention that I forgot to close off one of the vents on my smoker and upon returning found I was 100 degrees high. Food still came out well though. Unfermented wort was darn tasty, and I have high hopes for the beer.

 

[corkybstewart]

I'm gonna brew some sort of IPA on Friday, our office closes at noon on Fridays so that gives me time to brew and still fix dinner before my wife gets off work.

 

[chisena]

More Vanilla Bean Porter. It may be played out but I still love the stuff!

 

[unionrdr]

I gotta get the spring water & ice for the ordinary bitter brew tomorrow. Hot peppers should be coming in today for the Hellfire IIPA brew Sunday. Should be a busy weekend...

 

[tfbrews]

I've been slacking so I need to run a bunch of brews this week:

Saturday:
Vanilla Porter
Punkleryezin (Pumpkin Dunkleweizen with Rye)

Thursday:
Honey Blonde
Coconut Brown

Friday:
Belma IPA

 

[JonM]

Common Room ESB tomorrow morning.

 

[Peruvian802]

Getting my starters going to brew a hoppy red ale and a belgian dubbel with maple syrup on Sunday.

 

[jc4466]

Brewday today, Blonde Ale on the way :-D