So who's brewing this weekend?

[Bulls Beers]

Making a Helles lager on Sunday or Monday. I'm down to 2 kegs of this.

 

[brewbama]

Brewed an All Grain Festivus Miracle beer today smelled so good can't wait to Keg it 1.066 OG

I brewed this last. It's ready to keg this weekend. Then I am brewing a German Alt

 

[Greg1Cruickshank]

Making a stout this Sat.

Tweeked my dry Irish stout recipe a touch and using more oats.

I'm not sure if it would be considered an oatmeal stout. We'll see once I taste it

 

[Pkrd]

Grapefruit Sculpin brewed up tonight. Went pretty well, few points low but thats not a bad thing in summer.

 

[suckerpunchltd]

Brewing up a modified version of BierMuncher's Loon Lake Smoked Porter Saturday or Sunday - smoked the grains in my cold smoker last weekend and am doing some raspberries and vanilla in a secondary to end up with a smoked raspberry vanilla porter. It will be my first time using secondary and adding additional flavor elements.

 

[DaNewf]

Brew day is tomorrow. Will be making a batch of KingBrianI's Common Room ESB. I don't have an official rotation but this is one of my repeat recipes.

 

[Jkane101]

Got all my ingredients for an attempt at Stone's Xocoveza

 

[lazarwolf]

We're brewing another partigyle. Sierra nevada pale ale clone, and a 2nd runnings red ale we are calling "The Dankness Monster"

Cant wait for tomorrow.

 

[TropicAl]

Cranberry chocolate stout.....BAIB
Bottling Apple Ale

 

[jdonley]

Method: BIAB
Style: American Porter
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 6 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 7.5 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.052 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)


Original Gravity:
1.065

Final Gravity:
1.020

ABV (standard):
5.96%

IBU (rager):
28.57

SRM (mosher):
37.27


Fermentables

Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
5 lb United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale 38 3.75 32%
3 lb American - Munich - Light 10L 33 10 19.2%
2 lb American - Vienna 35 4 12.8%
1.5 lb Flaked Oats 33 2.2 9.6%
1 lb American - Victory 34 28 6.4%
12 oz American - Caramel / Crystal 60L 34 60 4.8%
12 oz United Kingdom - Pale Chocolate 33 207 4.8%
10 oz American - Roasted Barley 33 300 4%
8 oz American - Chocolate 29 350 3.2%

15.13 lb Total


Hops

Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
0.5 oz Magnum Leaf/Whole 15 Boil 60 min 28.57

Mash Guidelines

Amount Description Type Temp Time
6 gal Infusion 155 F 60 min
2 Gallon sparge 168 F 10 min


Yeast
Fermentis / Safale - English Ale Yeast S-04
Starter:
No

Fermentation Temp:
68 °F

 

[Genghis]

Brew day is tomorrow. Will be making a batch of KingBrianI's Common Room ESB. I don't have an official rotation but this is one of my repeat recipes.

Good recipe. Doing my fourth batch of it tomorrow.

 

[Floored]

Tomorrow is my first run at Yooper's oatmeal stout. I can't wait to drink this one.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Brewing up the base for a cherry wheat. I think I'm going to give some out as Christmas presents this year.

 

[solbes]

Brewing up a big RIS that should be similar to Surly's Darkness. Adding a lb of D180 syrup a few days into fermentation, which is not a usual RIS addition. Something that is added to Darkness. I'm within a percent or so of all of these ingredients, see Post #7 (different hops):

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=273322

Trying to finish up before the Vikes/Packaz' game. Looking forward to Gerbschmidt crying in his beer over his Packaz' losing.

 

[user 51917]

I am, got ten of my haus pale ale in the kettle

 

[brewbama]

Just pitch yeast in 5 gal of Alt.

 

[griffi]

Brewed two clone recipes this weekend: Two Hearted Ale on Friday, then Allagash White today. As a relative noob, it was fun to spread the hobby by having some interested folks over to help with their first brew. Hopefully, they will like their wit beer when its ready.

 

[Braufessor]

Been a busy last couple months and struggled to keep the beer supply up. Making up for lost time this weekend with 3 brews: Blonde Ale, American Amber and Oatmeal Stout. Hope to follow it up with 2-3 more next weekend.

 

[screamin6]

Brewed up a Spruce Ale on Sat. Used yeast from my Pumpkin Ale and went off like a bomb. (this time I used a blowoff tube so no mess)

 

[Jsamp]

Tomorrow is my first run at Yooper's oatmeal stout. I can't wait to drink this one.

That's what I brewed today. Grain bill was exact but subbed magnum and wlp007. The wort smelled so good.

 

[mattmmille]

Follow-up to my most recent brew, a gose style, with a Sea Breeze cocktail-ish flavor, called "There Gose Sea Breeze". Planned for the Thanksgiving beach trip...so , the sea breeze tie-in to the cocktail name and the cranberry-ish tie-in via the hibiscus. Was pushing it to get it ready, but I think it turned out very well.

 

[thaymond]

Had a great brew day with my Christmas Ale. It smells like Christmas in my fermenter.

 

[lumpher]

May not be the weekend, but since I'm off this week, it still is for me, especially since I'm brewing. Got the strike water heating for 10g Yellow Fizzy for a wedding next month.

 

[solbes]

Brewed up a Spruce Ale on Sat. Used yeast from my Pumpkin Ale and went off like a bomb. (this time I used a blowoff tube so no mess)

How much spruce tips did you add and at what point in the boil (or flameout)? I have spruce ale recipe and always like to compare with other brewers as its a fairly non-traditional brewing ingredient.

You'll have to update with how it tastes vs what you added.

 

[ACSlater]

Brewing a Smoked Maple Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout tonight. 3 pounds of overcooked maple syrup added to the beginning of the boil, 2oz of Target hops with 9.8% AA, shooting for an OG of about 1.100 or so. We shall see...

 

[screamin6]

How much spruce tips did you add and at what point in the boil (or flameout)? I have spruce ale recipe and always like to compare with other brewers as its a fairly non-traditional brewing ingredient.

You'll have to update with how it tastes vs what you added.

I used liquid spruce essence, about 1/3 of the bottle or it tastes like pine-sol for for a couple weeks (it does diminish over time).

I changed things up and used some Simcoe, Northern brewer, and Cascade for filtering in the Hop Rocket.

Here is the recipe, feel free to use it.

Steve's Spruce Ale 2015

5.5 Gal batch (according to BeerSmith 2)

10# 2-Row
1# Crystal 20L
8 oz Carapils
4 oz Crystal 60L

Mash at 150 +/- 2 degrees for an hour or until starches have converted fully. Sparge at 170. Collect around 8.5 - 8.75 gallons BEFORE adding molasses. If you did add the molasses it will skew the reading a bit. RDWHAHB.

1 oz - Simcoe - FWH
1# Unsulfered Blackstrap Molasses - Add and stir in well, before starting boil (to prevent scorching on the bottom of the brew vessel).
.5 oz - Northern Brewer (I used .8 oz and it could use a little less) - 20 Min
1/3 of a 2 oz bottle of spruce essence. (.666 oz) - 5 min
1 oz Northern Brewer - 5 min

Your standard Irish Moss, yeast nutrient, Alpha Amylase also if desired at 10-15 min.

American Ale Yeast II - 1272 at pitching temp around 65 degrees

Ferment for 7 days at 68 degrees.

Dry hop with 1 oz of Cascade if you wish.

You WILL get blowoff if fermenting in a 5 Gal Corny keg.

Tasted nice unfermented, and with a barely noticeable hint of spruce. We'll see once she's done fermenting.

It's still bubbling away, and did push out more than expected in a growler and spilled yeast all over the floor of the mini fridge. No worries all clean (for now).

Once done fermenting, take a bit and then once you have consumered a beer then transfer 2 a keg and have another bear. then have a bar and carbonute at 12-14 PSI for another beer. Cleen stuff some time. Dun. WHOOO!

 

[AMartAUB]

Brewed an Oatmeal Porter on Sunday. Going to add raspberries and coconut to the secondary. Very excited!

 

[jspain3]

I'm brewing a Moose Drool clone after lunch today. Hopefully, I'll be bottling my Xmas Belgian later tonight, too.

 

[olotti]

Just mashed in on my Wookie Jack-ish clone black rye IPA. Using Centennial, Amarillo, Columbus hops and trying it with wlp001 instead of us-04 this go around, hoping for a little cleaner yeast profile so the hops really stand out against the roasty/ rye backdrop.

Then Friday trying my hand at a East Coast style IPA, going for the cloudy, juicy ipa using Azacca and El Dorado for the first time. Should be interesting.

 

[Siberian]

Brewing up 5 gallons of Centennial Blonde this weekend, probably pitching it on Kolsch yeast if I can find a vial. Otherwise WLP-001.