So who's brewing this weekend?

[iamwhatiseem]

me me!!
Making a Black IPA, first brew this year.
Heating the sparge water now...

 

[slym2none]

My kettle is a little full.

https://youtu.be/kh6wICCA4W4

Take those pants out and you might get a little room back.

 

[whoaru99]

Got the Maibock done and into the fermenter. Boiled off just bit too much, shooting for 1.067, and ended right at the top of the style.

 

[modelafish]

Found some Mountmellick cans on sale for $10, so brewing up a 5 gal batch of brown ale with the recommended addition of DME, 6 oz of brown sugar (that's what was left) 8 0z of MD, Safale S-4 and will add 4 oz of root beer extract before bottling. The RB extract has sodium benzoate in it, but I think the yeast will have enough ooomph left to carbonate. Going into regular 12 oz bottles, but if it comes out ok, next batch goes in to some 6-7 oz Coke bottles I have, and in to my vintage coke machine.

 

[mattmmille]

what about out back under an awning or something to that effect? Do you have a shed? There is almost nothing more important to the final product than fermentation temp control.

I think I may be wearing SWMBO down...we'll see. There's a small deck, but no working power source and there's a an overly energetic dog. Same lack of power under carport and clutter that needs to be eliminated. That's a possibility, but I need to have an outlet installed. I don't want to rely on chance or up and down temps with a swamp cooler. *sigh* I'll get there, eventually.

 

[gometz]

Took the weekend off from brewing. But I installed a drip irrigation system for my hops. Realized how easy it was, so the raised bed gardens got one too.

 

[toestothesun]

Just finished up brewing a hefe.

 

[MoodyLane]

Just racked my wheat onto strawberries. This will be my first attempt at a fruit beer. I fermented the wheat at a higher temp for more banana flavor, so hopefully I end up with a strawberry-banana.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Just racked my wheat onto strawberries. This will be my first attempt at a fruit beer. I fermented the wheat at a higher temp for more banana flavor, so hopefully I end up with a strawberry-banana.

I want to try this this spring!

 

[ChelisHubby]

Finally I have beer in all three kegs in the kegerator, So now I am brewing another blonde as that just disapears. I hope I can keep a brew ready for the kegs in a fermentor or I just need to buy another Keg.

 

[Todd_Sails]

I am currently brewing my grain/extract version of toppling Goliaths 'Lightspeed'.

I'm drinking some of the last batch as I go, he he

 

[boondocksaint]

Brewed an oatmeal breakfast stout with dark chocolate and coffee (Founders-ish clone) on Fri. The yeasties are happily doing their part right now!

 

[chuckstout]

Hooray, got to brew today! American Strong ale style 5gal. Then going to rerun through the mash for 2.5 session ale

 

[day_trippr]

Finished up a Blonde and a Trappist just in time for SB Fitty.


Looong day without a beer.
That ends now!

Cheers!

 

[val214]

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[ThirstyPawsHB]

I haven't brewed since last late Oct./early November. I have a recipe ready for a Fluffernutter Sammie Stout, but I haven't a way to control fermentation accurately and I think I have my stout fails down to S-04 yeast and temps in the mid 70's as the culprits in the tangy, metallic flavors and eventual overcarbing issues. I keep putting it off, because I have access to an old, small chest freezer that I could convert...but SWMBO isn't happy with any possible spot to locate it. Ugh.

Does your fermenter fit in anything you can add water then a couple trays of ice every 12hrs or so? My metal trough spring a leak Wednesday, ended up using a mop bucket, the 7.9gal bucket barely fit in. Better then nothing..

 

[tjmac5071]

Brewed up 10 gallons of my house pale ale tonight. My favorite brew and it has been missing from the kegerator for a couple months. A two year old and house renos leave me strapped for free time these days. I never dry hop this one since I use a 3oz 170 degree steep that adds a ton of flavor and aroma but going to dry hop one batch with centennial and the other with Mosaic, the two hops that make up the base brew.

 

[berheidebrau]

Bottled Hoppy Brown Ale

 

[mattmmille]

Does your fermenter fit in anything you can add water then a couple trays of ice every 12hrs or so? My metal trough spring a leak Wednesday, ended up using a mop bucket, the 7.9gal bucket barely fit in. Better then nothing..

Yeah, I could rig up something...I just want something consistent, where I can set a thermostat and it stay there. The house is usually 70-72F, so fermentation could be upper 70's or more at times. I really want to make a nice, smooth, sweet stout that never overcarbscand doesn't taste sour, astringent, or metallic. I've tried to lower my primer more and more, left the fermentation longer to ensure complete attenuation, and cleaned, sanitized the crap out of everything from start to finish. So, now I'm down to yeast selection and fermentation temps. Sometimes I have trouble with mash temp and consistently maintaining it, but I've gotten better at it.

 

[dstockwell]

Brewed a Porter and bottled a Rye Ale.

 

[Auger]

Getting recipes together for this weekend. It's a long weekend for me, but the wife is working on Monday, so I might get a few sessions in. Probably a double IPA, and either an APA or an ESB.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Yeah, I could rig up something...I just want something consistent, where I can set a thermostat and it stay there. The house is usually 70-72F, so fermentation could be upper 70's or more at times. I really want to make a nice, smooth, sweet stout that never overcarbscand doesn't taste sour, astringent, or metallic. I've tried to lower my primer more and more, left the fermentation longer to ensure complete attenuation, and cleaned, sanitized the crap out of everything from start to finish. So, now I'm down to yeast selection and fermentation temps. Sometimes I have trouble with mash temp and consistently maintaining it, but I've gotten better at it.

My easy relatively cheep setup. Boil kettle, copper tubing in ice bath, SCT1000 temp controller turns on/off Home Depot aquarium pump to recirculate chilled water around the bucket. Definitely a change in flavor after doing this. Usually control water temp around 60-62f.

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[mattmmille]

My easy relatively cheep setup. Boil kettle, copper tubing in ice bath, SCT1000 temp controller turns on/off Home Depot aquarium pump to recirculate chilled water around the bucket. Definitely a change in flavor after doing this. Usually control water temp around 60-62f.

That's an interesting set-up...hmmm. I've been doing 5 gal batches, but SWMBO wouldn't complain about smaller batches. I have the pot, I have a stainless wort chiller coil, I could use just about anything for the chiller ice-water bath. So,I would need a pump, some tubing, and I think Hello has a controller I can buy very reasonably. Not sure about a housing for the controller, but that wouldn't be a big deal either way. I really want to get a good batch of this stout recipe. But if it turns out really well, I'll wish I had done a full batch! Decisions. We have a bathroom nobody uses and I could use the tub, ice bottles, t-shirt & fan, .... There are times that I miss my 2500 sq. ft. house with the garage and big deck. *sigh*

 

[iijakii]

Ended up brewing a Munich Helles on Saturday because the brewstore had the Imperial 200B pitches, so I didnt have to make a starter. Now this coming weekend I really want to start a Flanders Red, but no place local carries Roesalare. Don't feel like spending $8 shipping on a $7 pack of yeast either. Decisions.

 

[Pantherjon]

Brewing up 5 gallons of Austin Homebrew Supply's "Shot In The Dark" tomorrow.

http://www.austinhomebrew.com/A-Shot-in-the-Dark-Mystery-Recipe.html

How did it go? I brewed my shot in the dark kit last weekend..I am calling mine Magical Mystery Brew, and I have a thread documenting it here..I think I am going to brew up the other 'mystery' kit I got Wild Card Ale...

 

[Wiscohio_brewer]

Ordered ingredients for a dry Irish stout that I'll be brewing this Saturday. Should be ready for St. Patty's day

 

[CJ-3]

How did it go? I brewed my shot in the dark kit last weekend..I am calling mine Magical Mystery Brew, and I have a thread documenting it here..I think I am going to brew up the other 'mystery' kit I got Wild Card Ale...

Hey! Glad to see I am not the only one who brewed it up!

I liked it, and I think it is going to be a Blonde, it's pretty light in color and has just a bit of a bite, but I will know more in 4-6 weeks when it's done though.

I'm sticking with the Shot In The Dark name just because I find it amusing.

 

[Pantherjon]

Hey! Glad to see I am not the only one who brewed it up!

I liked it, and I think it is going to be a Blonde, it's pretty light in color and has just a bit of a bite, but I will know more in 4-6 weeks when it's done though.

I'm sticking with the Shot In The Dark name just because I find it amusing.

Very cool! Nice logo! Mine turned out pretty dark, even with the light DME..It was the grain bill on mine that did it...Going to rack it to secondary not this coming weekend but next weekend(20th-21st)...Going to go through the ingredients on the Wild Card Ale to see if I can discern beforehand what it will shape up to be..

 

[CJ-3]

Very cool! Nice logo! Mine turned out pretty dark, even with the light DME..It was the grain bill on mine that did it...Going to rack it to secondary not this coming weekend but next weekend(20th-21st)...Going to go through the ingredients on the Wild Card Ale to see if I can discern beforehand what it will shape up to be..

Good ck with the Wild Card, it's one I want to try but right now it's too cold to me to brew outside. I may have to get that one for the spring or summer.

I have to admit I am really liking their kits, they are less expensive than anything I can get locally, and no one in my area sells all grain kits, or even grains in less than one pound packages. I think they may have made me a customer for life.

If you get a chance to, let me know how the Wild Card works out for you, I am going to follow your previous thread on the Shot In The Dark as well.

 

[gotbeer74]

Brewing my 1st Roggenbier this weekend.