So who's brewing this weekend?

[MaryB]

Moved brew day to Monday, this dang head cold is kicking my butt...

 

[BikerMatt]

Great name!!

Was juggling between that, and Smashed Otter. Gonna decide which one to use when I design the label.

 

[Genghis]

Grains crushed for a blonde ale tomorrow. Something involving Maris Otter on Tuesday. Need to work through the grain horde and get some beer back on tap.

 

[JonM]

A half batch of this for my nieces who are coming for a Christmas visit. It’s a huge hit every time they visit. Even the grown-ups like it, especially for floats.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/a-dubwa-woot-beer.314367/

 

[CJ-3]

Made a Pilsner on Sunday.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

I'll bang out an IPA tomorrow.

 

[Scturo]

Aiming for late this weekend or early next week to brew a Caramel Quad for the 12BOC '18

 

[ZmannR2]

Brewed an NEIPA last night and my Blichmann Riptide went out during whirlpool....I meade a thread about the problem.......still went ok.....gravity feeding into the fermenters was annoying though

 

[MaryB]

Brewed yesterday... hack, snot, cough... in and out of the warm humid garage into 36 degree air to wash stuff did not help my cold.

 

[Professor Frink]

Doing a Brown Ale today.

I don't think I've posted in 5 years...

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

Mashing in on a neipa right now

 

[Ogroat]

Brewed up an altbier base today that I’ll be pitching London ale yeast into shortly.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

Brewed a robust Porter right after the neipa yesterday. Today I'm smoking malts for a Rauch.

 

[Redpappy]

Will be bottling my lucky brown tomorrow, then 8 will start my brew on a red ale.

 

[MaryB]

I won't be brewing again until temps are mid 20's or higher... have a cold spell settling in... 2 degrees right now!

 

[Genghis]

Did an oatmeal stout on Wednesday. Glad I'm a bag brewer. That would have been a nightmare of a sparge otherwise.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Babysitting. So beer time. Bose Noise Canceling head phone time and chocolate stout brewing time.

 

[JonM]

I did a bock yesterday morning in sub-freezing temps and everything went remarkably smoothly, thanks in part to some awesome cold weather clothing that family got for me last Christmas.

 

[rhys333]

I'll be brewing a brown ale on boxing day at the parent's house. It's predicted to be -20C outside. Brrrrrr.

 

[BikerMatt]

9am, Kids at daycare, no work today since it's so quiet, wife sleeping after second night shift so can't wrench on the bike... but I can always brew

Strike water heating up for a maris+first gold SMASH. It's sister brew with EKG should be about ripe to bottle this weekend.

 

[jschm19]

Was going to brew tomorrow morning but the shed isn't heated and it is supposed to be -3 with a high of 9.

 

[BudgetBrewer]

builds character. lol. Cheers to sum warmer weather. Wuz a balmy -13 F with wind chill here today. lol

 

[Murphys_Law]

Was going to brew tomorrow morning but the shed isn't heated and it is supposed to be -3 with a high of 9.

Hell, I was just sitting here thinking about brewing Sunday but it’s supposed to be low 20’s so I may punt. That’s a heat wave compared to where you are!

 

[jschm19]

Our last 2 mornings the wind chill was -15 F and I think tonight it is supposed to be -15 to -20. Sadly my dryer is gas so I can't steal the power from that to brew. Could be worse though, I'm sure parts of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and our upper peninsula would be in shorts if they had my weather

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

It was a balmy 40F in Austin. IPA..

 

[Pkrd]

Made a nice citra/cascade pale ale on the grainfather tonight. I split the batch in two, one I pitched US05 and will dry hop with galaxy, the other I added 1.5l of cold steeped carafa III which I had boiled and cooled separately, and pitched S04. Will dry hop the stout with Zythos.
Grainfather pump choked on the 220gms of hops, must get a spider.

Man I hate cleaning that thing too.

 

[JohnK93]

Brewed a Citra/Mosaic/Galaxy NEIPA, and this was not a good brew day! Started off early, 5am, as usual and everything was going as planned until the boil. At only 5 degrees outside, my SP10 burner was struggling to keep a boil. About half way through, I moved everything down into the garage (burner, tank, and 7 gallons of boiling wort) where it was a little warmer. The valves on the propane tank and burner were freezing over and I kept loosing the flame...not good when you're brewing indoors!

Had to keep spraying them with warm water, which works great until it freezes. Anyway, I got through the boil and am whirlpooling now. Good news is that chilling to 65 should be pretty easy!

Don't like when things don't go as planned, but you gotta roll with it. Missed my OG by quite a bit, 1.053 vs 1.060, probably due to reduced boil off. Oh well

John

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Brewed a Citra/Mosaic/Galaxy NEIPA, and this was not a good brew day! Started off early, 5am, as usual and everything was going as planned until the boil. At only 5 degrees outside, my SP10 burner was struggling to keep a boil. About half way through, I moved everything down into the garage (burner, tank, and 7 gallons of boiling wort) where it was a little warmer. The valves on the propane tank and burner were freezing over and I kept loosing the flame...not good when you're brewing indoors!

Had to keep spraying them with warm water, which works great until it freezes. Anyway, I got through the boil and am whirlpooling now. Good news is that chilling to 65 should be pretty easy!

Don't like when things don't go as planned, but you gotta roll with it. Missed my OG by quite a bit, 1.053 vs 1.060, probably due to reduced boil off. Oh well

John

You can add 1/2lbs or so of DME since its still fermenting and emitting CO2. Done it myself with success.

 

[grampamark]

I thought I was probably done brewing for the year, but I started going through my inventory of odds and ends and leftovers and decided I had enough to make beer.

I plugged my ingredients into Beersmith and played with numbers for a bit and came up with a Pale Wheat Ale.

Seven lbs of German Pils, 3lbs of white wheat, Citra and Cascade hops and US-05. Beersmith predicted 1.048 post mash and 1.055 OG, 40 IBU. I ended up at 1.044 and 1.058.

The OG sample tasted really, really good. I may have to make this one again, but on purpose next time.

Mark

 

[BudgetBrewer]

gotta love US05. lol. so easy. Not perfect, but a definate go to.