So who's brewing this weekend?

[Zimm9]

Finally going to get brewing again this weekend after two long months without. Just an easy simcoe smash but I might throw together a blue moonish clone, too. I also need to keg a batch of apfelwein that's been in the fermentor for ~7 months. Probably should start another batch of that as well.... Could be a busy but fun weekend.

 

[jeeppilot]

Dug out my old Granite Ware kettle for a 1 gal SMASH with Golden Promise and an experimental hop. The hops are definitely dank, resiny, spicy and tangerine. My weekend started early!

Drinking a lightly smoked Scottish Ale.

 

[beermanpete]

I am going to brew a Rauchbier on Sunday (my first brew this year). If time permits I may make an ale as well.

 

[seatazzz]

On the boil of another Arrogant Bastard clone. It's the best beer I do so following many other homebrewers' advice and nailing down something I do well rather than trying something new. Also a simple cheap grain bill and I have the hops. Overshot my volume (again) so I'm about an hour into what's turning into a 2.5 hour boil. Just added a 1 gallon reduction (not for gravity, I like what it does to the flavor) and staring at the timer for the hops. Already cleaned the mash tun so all I'll have left to do is clean the boil kettle.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Brewing Great Fermentations Over the Pond ESB all-grain kit. Will naturally ferment it in a corny keg and then serve it using a home made beer engine.

 

[NitrogenWidget]

Brewing Ed Wort's chocolate porter today.
Heating up the water now and about to mill the grains.
I only bought them 3 weekends ago but every weekend something came up with family needing me so since it's a long weekend I've reserved today and told the kids to go play video games and only bother me if someone is bleeding.

 

[seatazzz]

Marriage is always a plethora of tradeoffs...at least mine is. Husband is off to trade in our two xBoxes on the fancy new one, so I get a double brew weekend. Doing a simple cream ale with Cascade hops just for the heck of it. The Bastard clone from yesterday is going gangbusters in the brew room and I just pulled the FWH from this one, 80 minutes to go. Gotta love a guy who lets me do what I do. Also found a brew supply store closer to my house (and open on Sundays!!) with decent prices. Props to Mt Si Brew Supply for having what I needed and will definitely go back the next time I can afford a full bag of two row.

 

[beerlover77]

Did 5 gal of Saison yesterday with orange peel/coriander. Grains included: Pilsner, flaked rye, wheat and Carastan. Fermenting warm with WLP585 Belgian Saison III yeast

Got to use my Millars Mill B3 for the first time and it did a fantastic job as I got 80%+ efficiency

 

[MaryB]

Wanted to brew Sunday... 30mph winds and lack of snow cover meant I woke up to a dust storm and no way was I going to try and brew in that.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Marriage is always a plethora of tradeoffs...at least mine is. Husband is off to trade in our two xBoxes on the fancy new one, so I get a double brew weekend. Doing a simple cream ale with Cascade hops just for the heck of it. The Bastard clone from yesterday is going gangbusters in the brew room and I just pulled the FWH from this one, 80 minutes to go. Gotta love a guy who lets me do what I do. Also found a brew supply store closer to my house (and open on Sundays!!) with decent prices. Props to Mt Si Brew Supply for having what I needed and will definitely go back the next time I can afford a full bag of two row.

What a lucky guy. My wife hates beer, much less brew it! Ha!

With 8+%ers all kegged and bottled, working on lower abv and hard lemonades. HL brewed. Blond next.

 

[helterscelter]

planning an Oktober Fest for Saturday afternoon!

 

[NitrogenWidget]

No kids!
Brewing a pale ale tonight.

 

[knotquiteawake]

Brewing our first all grain batch this weekend.

Just the basic Nut Brown from the HBT recipe library.

That is assuming my brew buddy stops at the LHBS and picks up the grains and yeast. Having him do this saved me either $12 in shipping or and hour and a half in driving. Very lucky he works nearby our LHBS.

Going to try and make it work in my 5gal mashtun. The calculators say my 11.25lbs of grain are just at the limit of its capacity. I'm expecting a 10gal cooler in March for the birthday. So I can do some big all grain beers later.

 

[beerlover77]

Brewing our first all grain batch this weekend.

Just the basic Nut Brown from the HBT recipe library.

That is assuming my brew buddy stops at the LHBS and picks up the grains and yeast. Having him do this saved me either $12 in shipping or and hour and a half in driving. Very lucky he works nearby our LHBS.

Going to try and make it work in my 5gal mashtun. The calculators say my 11.25lbs of grain are just at the limit of its capacity. I'm expecting a 10gal cooler in March for the birthday. So I can do some big all grain beers later.

I routinely do 12.5 LB batches in a HD 5 gallon cooler using 1.25 quarts of water per LB grain. They are probably more like 20.5L capacity not 19L.

 

[bushizell]

I've got some pretty decent plans to brew this weekend. I have 3 batches all prepped to go atm:

1) AG BIAB - White IPA with Cascade, Summer, and Amarillo hops.

2) AG BIAB - APA with Summer and Denali hops

3) The rest of my extract and some hops I have left from other batches (Experimental #07270, and Zythos)

I'll probably only have time to get to 2 of them between Saturday night and Monday night. Anyone got any suggestions on which ones I should do? Anyone else doing any brews?

 

[MaryB]

Brew day Monday or Tuesday... 6 inchs of snow tomorrow, lots of wind on Sunday...

 

[Jtk78]

After not brewing since Nov. 13th, I was finally able to get two batches in last night. A SMASH with Maris Otter and Centennial, and an extra stout. Was nice to knock the dust off the kettles.

 

[jschm19]

Planning on brewing an American amber on Saturday

 

[jerbrew]

Brewed 6 gallons of dark saison. 3 gallons destined to be what it is, 2 gallons destined for some red wine soaked french oak chips, and 1 gallon destined for souring.

 

[htaylor]

Brewed the deception cream stout and the cascades/ orange pale ale

 

[day_trippr]

Cranked out the first brew in my new galley brewery today, had a couple of teething issues with infrastructure but fixed them up quickly enough and kept on chugging.

10 gallons of the BYO Julius clone safely in one of the ferm fridges...

Cheers!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Cranked out the first brew in my new galley brewery today, had a couple of teething issues with infrastructure but fixed them up quickly enough and kept on chugging.

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10 gallons of the BYO Julius clone safely in one of the ferm fridges...

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Cheers!

That is sweet!!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Cranked out the first brew in my new galley brewery today, had a couple of teething issues with infrastructure but fixed them up quickly enough and kept on chugging.

10 gallons of the BYO Julius clone safely in one of the ferm fridges...
Cheers!

That is a nice set up. Curious on your display. What was used to show the beers...Windows??

 

[JediJoel]

That is a nice set up. Curious on your display. What was used to show the beers...Windows??

Looks like it could be RaspberryPints a program that runs on a RaspberryPi

There is a non-Pi version here http://bernerbits.github.io/ras-pints-without-pi/

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Looks like it could be RaspberryPints a program that runs on a RaspberryPi

There is a non-Pi version here http://bernerbits.github.io/ras-pints-without-pi/

Thanks! I have a Pi..just never did anything with it. Have a reason now thanks!

 

[day_trippr]

That is a nice set up. Curious on your display. What was used to show the beers...Windows??

RaspberryPints running on a RPi2B in a crate that slides into the dolley under the keezer. Each keg has a flow meter so their levels are tracked in real time. That same RPi2B system controls the keezer temperature, and the two fermentation fridges over Bluetooth links.

Cheers!

 

[MaryB]

How well did your vent hoods work and what size heating duct adapter is it? That is next on my list to build for the brew shed...

Cranked out the first brew in my new galley brewery today, had a couple of teething issues with infrastructure but fixed them up quickly enough and kept on chugging.

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10 gallons of the BYO Julius clone safely in one of the ferm fridges...

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Cheers!

 

[Vandulus]

Brewing up my first batch of Jucifer today - an Imperial IPA with blood orange juice.

 

[day_trippr]

How well did your vent hoods work and what size heating duct adapter is it? That is next on my list to build for the brew shed...

My Goldbergian vents are 6" galvy ducting to the blower which then fires into a ~2 foot long 3.25" x 10" galvy section in the overhang space under the second story floor, then exits downwards once outside. And before anyone gets the vapors the whole thing is positioned behind the kettles so even if it did drip the drips will miss the kettles.

Anyway it worked fairly well for its maiden run but not without issue. I quickly found I needed a way to balance the flow between the BK and HLT drops during the brewing liquor pre-boiling, which I split between the two kettles for the sake of speed. With two 90° turns to the HLT vs a straight shot to the BK almost all the flow was through the latter, and the thus uncontained heat plume from the HLT rose straight up and caused the blower to thermal shutdown. Fun!

I did the NASCAR thing and put some tape across the BK duct to get through the day and from that point the system worked very well.
This week I added a pair of dampers that allow me to fully control air flow now. I'm brewing another batch tomorrow so I'll be giving it a full test.

My original intention was to fab a hood - and I may still do that. I had used the blower and the 6" stuff in my shop when I brewed in there and at least to this point was considered temporary. But it works so well I may just stick with it because I see a lot of problems folks have with hoods...

Cheers!

 

[NitrogenWidget]

The Plan is biermuncher's orange kolsch using yeast harvested from Bell's amber ale.