So who's brewing this weekend?

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

10 gallons of Helles here

 

[Mexibilly]

Jalapeño Cream ale, recipe from right here on HBT.
Any advice regarding how many peppers?
I'm thinking 6 sliced and roasted in the boil and 6 sliced, roasted and soaked in vodka for 3 or 4 days after primary fermentation

 

[torilen]

This weekend - batch three of ginger beer, and attempt one on gingerbread beer.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Unless stuff goes sideways on the Saturday racecar build day, doing my first double brew in my manual eBIAB basement brewery Sunday. This is the biggest negative to going single vessel...double brew means double time instead of 1-2 hours more.

 

[Donough]

5 gal of yuengling inspired beer, and a 1 gal batch of RIS

 

[TheZ]

Doing 5 gallons of the well-respected Wookey Jack all-grain clone on a new Grainfather/Chronical BME set-up on Sunday. Have to remember to get a starter going tomorrow night.

 

[bigken462]

I'll be milling for a double brew tomorrow night for a Saturday morning early start at daybreak. Brewing up a SA Summer ale and a gaarden hoe.

 

[DaNewf]

Tomorrow I will be brewing up a batch of Moonless Tropical Night. This is a Foreign Extra Stout recipe by Jamil Zainasheff that was in the September 2007 issue of BYO magazine (I got it from the website). This supposed to be a tropical version of an FES.

I modified the recipe a little by replacing the 12.5 lbs of English 2-Row with 10 lbs of Canadian 2-Row, 2 lbs of Munich and 0.5 lbs of Biscuit.

I will be pitching Nottingham slurry I took from the primary fermenter after bottling a batch of Orfy's Hobgoblin Clone (ii) last night. (That batch used slurry from a batch of blonde ale)

I'd like to tell you that I modified the grain bill and will reuse yeast in the spirit of experimentation but the truth is I will save $10CDN with these "hacks". This combined with a $10 discount offered by my LHBS dropped the price of the batch from $52 to $32. (Members of my LHBS's mailing list get emailed coupon codes every now and then.)

 

[mightyquinn34]

Kegging for the first time this weekend. Irish red, can't wait !

 

[Clearbeer1]

I have an all grain batch of Blonde Ale in the BK right now. I am following the recipe in the latest issue of BYO. So far it looks and smells good.

 

[dtyoung32]

I'm bottling Black IPA, Maple Porter and Oatmeal Stout tomorrow. As soon as the equipment is clean and sanitized I'll start on another batch of Maple Porter with some fresh Maple Syrup from a local Sugar House in Central MA and a Black Lager.

 

[BudgetBrewer]

mm, got a recipe?

 

[zchwlsn]

Brewing a Marris otter Galaxy SMaSH tomorrow.

 

[bigken462]

Beautiful Saturday morning. Fresh pot of coffee with frost on the grass. I'm in the middle of the first mash. Doing a Gaarden Hoe first, then will be following up with a Samuel Adams Summer Ale. The fresh ground coriander and orange peel is making the brew house smell lovely.

Happy brewing everyone.

 

[brhenrio]

I haven't left work after nights shift yet. So I will not be brewing

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brewed a 3.5gal all grain Rye PA with wyeast1056. Starting smaller batches and using liquid yeast. Wondering if the quality improves.

 

[A2HB]

Homebrew Sunday is going to be a DIPA using apollo, citra, and "farmhouse blend" hops. 7.5 oz for a 3 gallon batch. US-05 yeast.

Today I'm bottling 3 gallons of my first attempt at a Barleywine. I think I'll go easier on the chocolate malt next time, but so far this batch still looks and tastes promising. 1.085 down to .012 in 2 weeks with US05 4th generation yeast. The last two beers I reused this cake from had a hard time carbing up the bottles so I think from now on I'm going to only reuse yeast about 2 times before buying some more. Low and under carbed bottles are no fun.

After I'm done bottling it's over to AiH to get the grains for tomorrow's brew day.

 

[bigken462]

I haven't left work after nights shift yet. So I will not be brewing

I feel your pain on night shift buddy. I was off last night, but not without having to avoid being called into work.

Happy brewing when you get there!

 

[Genghis]

Might be able to squeeze a batch of something in tomorrow. Not sure what, and I'm not sure I can get to the brew shop, so whatever it is, it'll have to be done with what's already in the pantry/freezer.

 

[secondbase]

10 gallons of hef split between WLP611 New Nordic and a slurry of 3068 for comparison.

 

[iijakii]

Im gonna brew in a couple hours. Still no idea what I'm doing. Only have Perle hops I think. Thinking I'll do a random black lager of some sort. Don't have the ingredients to do a proper schwarzbier so might just play around with one of my porter recipes on lager yeast and noble hops.

 

[Genghis]

Might be able to squeeze a batch of something in tomorrow. Not sure what, and I'm not sure I can get to the brew shop, so whatever it is, it'll have to be done with what's already in the pantry/freezer.

Turns out that something looks a lot like vanilla porter.

 

[Brewenstein]

Brewed 3 batches today with my oldest daughter. Mashed for an 11 gallon batch and split the wort evenly. One became my first attempt at a Revolution Fist City clone, the other became one of my pale ales - Across the Galaxy (2 oz of Galaxy at FO). While finishing one of the boils, doughed in for an oatmeal stout so it could mash while we finished up the previous boil.

Started at 7:30, and was finished by 1:30, except for pitching the yeast, which I just did. Got the recipes made last night, weighed out grains and crushed also. The rest was today. First mash was a half our, two of the boils were half our, and one was 45 minutes. Also used hot water from the tap so that heating time was cut down. I've done this a lot with no ill effects. (I have a gas HWH; don't think i would do this with an electric one.)

This is the first time I have had 3 fermenters going at the same time in a couple years, so I am stoked!

 

[iijakii]

Mashing right now went 8lb pils 2 Munich 12pZ pale chic and 8 biscuit. Hope is ok. Curious to see what this bill is like as lager

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brewed 3 batches today with my oldest daughter. Mashed for an 11 gallon batch and split the wort evenly. One became my first attempt at a Revolution Fist City clone, the other became one of my pale ales - Across the Galaxy (2 oz of Galaxy at FO). While finishing one of the boils, doughed in for an oatmeal stout so it could mash while we finished up the previous boil.

Started at 7:30, and was finished by 1:30, except for pitching the yeast, which I just did. Got the recipes made last night, weighed out grains and crushed also. The rest was today. First mash was a half our, two of the boils were half our, and one was 45 minutes. Also used hot water from the tap so that heating time was cut down. I've done this a lot with no ill effects. (I have a gas HWH; don't think i would do this with an electric one.)

This is the first time I have had 3 fermenters going at the same time in a couple years, so I am stoked!

That's impressive! First to get a kid, much less a daughter, involved. But only 6hrs for 3 brews? That's a 12hr day for me. How long to drink it all??😉

 

[Elkobrewer]

Just finished kegging my wicked Citra Wheat. But next weekend I hope to be brewing my first batch on my new Grainfather if it gets here and also the grains and hops for my Fall Down Brown. :rockin:

 

[Brewenstein]

That's impressive! First to get a kid, much less a daughter, involved. But only 6hrs for 3 brews? That's a 12hr day for me. How long to drink it all??😉

Well she is 24, and I converted her into a craft beer drinker over the past couple of years. The only bad thing is, now she expects half of it! She lives in Pittsburgh and is leaving to go back tomorrow, but by the time she makes an appearance here again in April, it should be kegged and ready to go.

I drink 1-2 beers a day during the week, and a few more on weekends, so it doesn't go too quickly since it is mostly me drinking it. That and I usually have 4 kegs going at once.

And for the time - like I mentioned, I had the grain ready the night before. And half hour mashes and boils help keep the time down too. I don't do this all the time, but I haven't noticed any difference in a 60 or a 30 minute boil, so for multiple brews in a day, I usually do it.

 

[bigken462]

Just mopped up from a triple back to back brew day about a hour ago. My tail is dragging, but it was a great day. Gaarden hoe, pale ale and a summer ale.

On a added note, the experimental hbc hops from Northern brewer smells absolutely splendid. Hope it taste as good as it smells.

They look nasty in the pictures. Just flowed some 02 in and pitched the yeast when the pic was taken.

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[johnmac22]

Brewing a simple pale ale tomorrow. Simcoe, Citra and another hop but I have decided what yet.

 

[TX_Brewing]

Brewing right now!!! English mild out of brewing classic styles.