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Never tried this one before, great reviews, I'll post a review when it's drinkable [emoji481]
 
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Going to brew a dark mild on Saturday because the last one (also the first one!) was too damn delicious! Using wlp007 in this because it's my go to British yeast strain.

Should I be this excited?? Lol

Heating strike water as I type this... Simple dark mild with:

7# 2-row
.5# caramunich
3oz black prinz
5oz chocolate

.75oz fuggles at 60 minutes
1oz EKG at 5 minutes

wlp007 (1L starter)

OG 1.040: FG 1.010
25 IBU's, srm 21, 4% abv
 
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First try at Raging Red. LHBS didnt have Melanoiden malt, subbed Amber in a pinch. Could be more red during the mash... but good and clear in sight glass just above the RIMS tube. It'll be good beer. But still gotta try it with the right ingredients.
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I brewed a very simple pale ale yesterday, using Voss Kveik yeast for the first time. Just American pale ale malt, a light touch of Dr Rudi (Australian) hops for bittering, and a generous amount Cascade for flavor and aroma. I forgot to dechlorinate the mash water; I did acidify it, and I dechlor'd the sparge water. (and I hadn't even started drinking yet) I didn't taste or smell any bandaids in the wort so hopefully I got away with it. I pitched the yeast last night, and there was a nice Krausen layer this morning.

I'm going to start 1 gallon of cider today, using T-58 because everybody says it sucks for cider. (that's also why I'm only doing a gallon)
 
Brewing Oktoberfest. I picked up what I thought was White Labs "Fest" Lager but upon further inspection when I got home it is actually Fast Lager. I have not used that one yet. I don't really care if its fast since I am not planning on tapping the beer until September 27th.
 
I have a 2-gallon batch of Banana wine started; already out of the "cover with Muslin" stage - this is my 4th overall. I'm trying different adjustments each time - this time I am brewing without raisins or peels. Hoping to have a nice smooth dry wine from this. We'll see
 
Last weekend’s Japonica Wine gets strained into the airlock fermenter this weekend. I used a crabapple wine recipe with added pectinase and a German white wine yeast. Smells good.
 
I’ll be brewing my 2 gallon SHaME beer. I don’t usually use liquid yeast so I am considering getting my stuff online. I think that due to volume with a company like Morebeer I might get fresher Scottish ale yeast. I then plan to use the SHaME yeast to make a partigyle 60 shilling/Wee Heavy.
 
I have a 2-gallon batch of Banana wine started; already out of the "cover with Muslin" stage - this is my 4th overall. I'm trying different adjustments each time - this time I am brewing without raisins or peels. Hoping to have a nice smooth dry wine from this. We'll see

Which means it is in the secondary fermenter, doing well.
 
Boss gave me some money to make him a pilsner-ish cream ale so I'll be doing that this Friday. It'll be my first brew day on my electric system.
 
Planning on doing a basic oatmeal stout and an American strong this weekend. If the stout floccs out well I might consider adding some cacao nibs soaked in capn morgans after a week or so...husband should have hidden that bottle better.
 
I brewed a hefe last weekend. 7# red wheat, 4# pills with a bit of flaked corn. 1 ounce of midnight wheat for a bit of color. 75 ounce of coriander and 1 ounce of sweet orange peel. 1 ounce of hallueto. 3638 bevarian wheat yeast. Cool brew bag at about 62 degrees.

Blow out tube is going crazy! Smells like a banana bomb!
 
My dad is coming in about 6 weeks so i'm going to attempt 3 weekends in a row of brewing.

This weekend: Pilsner
Next weekend: Marzen
Following weekend: IPA

I might even get greedy and go for 4 weekends in a row. The pipeline is a little lean now.
 
My dad is coming in about 6 weeks so i'm going to attempt 3 weekends in a row of brewing.

This weekend: Pilsner
Next weekend: Marzen
Following weekend: IPA

I might even get greedy and go for 4 weekends in a row. The pipeline is a little lean now.

I did 8(!) in a row last summer. That was because my daughter had her friend over a bunch. She was an unemployed raging alcoholic and my free beer was Xmas in July. That isn't the case this summer so I only did 3 in row in the spring.
 
Tomorrow I aim to brew an ESB using the yeast that I harvested from a bottle of Fuller's. Plated it, picked single colony to a fresh plate, then propagated to make a starter. I also plated the yeast from a bottle of Schneider Weissbier but that will have to wait until next week.
 
I love how with low oxygen brewing there’s almost 0 aroma. All those good compounds stay in the beer rather than float away.

Anyways, made a batch of pils to break in the conical and glycol. Racked everything except the trub cone, and then bottom dumped it before pitching the yeast.

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Did a Rye Pale last night with a few friends over last night. ESB, rye, munich, caramunich II, carapils. Hopped with Idaho 7 and Mosaic. Did firsst step mash with homemade RIMS and it worked wonderfully. Incorporated a mash-out for the first time, Exgtra temp got me to boil more quickly - so that was good. If wort flavor is any indication, this batch will be awesome.
 
Hmmm, whatever would i be making with these [emoji6]
Going to brave the heat and whip up an IPA tomorrow.
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