So who's brewing this weekend?

[seatazzz]

Up early to get started on the Milk Chocolate stout. Strike heating up, cats are playing nicely, great comedy to listen to, and plenty of coffee. First attempt at this style, hope it turns out good.

 

[Pkrd]

Cycling event in two weeks and a near empty pipeline meant a busy weekend on the grainfather.

Blackberry bitter Friday night:
https://beerandbrewing.com/blackberry-bitter-english-pale-ale-recipe/

Treehouse Eureka tonight.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/...-eureka-w-whatever.532825/page-2#post-8045551

 

[MagicRat]

Brewing a simple blonde. About 80% pils with some Vienna and Munich for character and color. Using Hallertau Blanc for the first time. I think it should be a nice fit for the style. Shooting for a low ABV, low IBU lawnmower beer.

 

[Genuine]

Just made a Cream Ale and Now working on the video for a Summer Shandy:

 

[seatazzz]

Mashing in on a kinda kitchen sink warm fermented lager. Only had 6.5lbs of two row and 4lbs of pilsner, will add a pound of DME at 10 minutes to end of boil to bring the gravity up. Last one had late additions of Amarillo; kinda wish I hadn't because it didn't do diddly. This one will bitter with Cascade and do a 5 minute addition of chinook instead just to see what happens.

 

[tofuguy]

Working on my house bitter recipe. It's almost where I want it, just changed the mash temperature from 152 to 154 and upped the ABV from 3.8 to almost 4.1. hit my numbers dead on! 3.5 hours later (9:30am) and it's already settling post whirlpool.

 

[Novacor]

Wasn't planning on brewing, but suddenly everything fell into place.

1) I have tomorrow afternoon off
2) I have an empty fermenter
3) 20% off everything sale going on now at my LHBS

So it looks like I'll be making my DuClaw Euphoria clone tomorrow after all..

 

[tgolanos]

Got a rasberry Berliner Weisse on deck. Hoping to brew it this afternoon, but might have to put it off until tomorrow.

 

[seatazzz]

Surprise nothing-much-to-do day, so ran to the LHBS to get more grain to do another batch of my American strong. Last one only came in at 5% (error in grain bill & mashing) and after doing some figuring, realized if I want to take this one to the Fair next month I need to get cracking. Hit my strike temp dead on for once, and will do this one with a reduction as I've done in the past. Will need to up the Chinook bittering addition to compensate but I've got plenty. Going to get to about 93 today, yeah stupid decision to brew, but I'm a glutton for punishment...not that brewing is! Fans going on full blast, good tunes to listen to, and neighbors out and about to talk to. Good times!!!

 

[BarleyStanding]

I brewed a saison yesterday. While mashing, I was organizing this massive pile of "brew day notes" that I keep for each beer I brew into a binder; got tired of shuffling through it all when I wanted to reference something from a past brew. I ordered them by type, and then sequentially by date, and realized it was 6 years to the day from my first all-grain batch on home-made equipment in my pals garage. It was an IPA back then, because you know, I just wanted to make IPAs. I think I've made 1 IPA in the last 8 brews. Man, I've brewed a lot of beer in the last 6 years.

 

[orionol73]

Brewed an APA this morning, first time brewing in 3 months!

 

[schematix]

3 weekends in a row now.

1. Pilsner
2. Marzen
3. Maibock - Today's

Will the wife let me get in #4 next weekend??? (If the Maibock is finished)

 

[catdaddy66]

Haven't brewed in two weeks but will have two fermenters empty by next weekend. Going to brew Da Yooper's pale ale (v3.0) followed by my California common using aurora hops. They are a progeny of N Brewer so it makes sense.

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Next weekend I’ll bottle my Nelson Sauvin SHaME beer and then brew a 60 Shilling/Wee Heavy partigyle to pour onto my 1728 yeast cake.

 

[BrewMan13]

Did an american porter yesterday, kind of spontaneous, wasn't originally planning on doing it this year. I have a smoked porter recipe I like quite a bit that I've brewed more than anything else, but decided to make it this time sans smoked malt and supplemented the base malt with a little dark munich.

 

[SEndorf]

Brewed the Watermelon Wheat yesterday.
My drinkin' posse laughed. What the hell are you doin?
Don't laugh until you try it.
It continues in the 90's here with humidity around 80%
I look at it as the quintessential lawnmower beer.
They can kiss my ass...…....

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Citrosaic Saison using only 1oz each of YHC Cryo Citra and Mosaic in the whirlpool

Pitched WLP565 (DuPont) and Belle Saison together at 65°F where I'll hold it for 3 days, open fermentation per the Drew Beechum method, then will allow it to free rise, and will start adding heat to get it into the upper 80s, low 90s

Rockin along this morning, probably gonna have a mess as the krausen is already touching the foil!

 

[jcav]

Brewing an authentic German Alt tomorrow, gonna be a classic Dusseldorf Altbier. I am even going to do a decoction mash. I will do a hybrid decoction on my electric e-herms system. My stand has propane burners even though I do not need them anymore since going electric. But I am going to put one of the burners to work and use it to do the decoction when I boil the mash.

My electric system will hold the temps I need instead of doing a double or tripple decoction, I will do a single. I will mash in at 144 degrees and hold for 20 minutes. Then I will pull a thick decoction (1 quart of grain for every pound of grist). I will put this in a separate pot on one of the burners and fire up the propane, while the electric does it's thing and holds the temp in the rest of the mash, in the mash tun. I will hold the decoction mash at about 158 degrees for 15 minutes and then bring it to a boil and boil for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. After boiling the decoction I will add the boiled mash to the mash tun and then target 154 degrees and use the electric rig to keep it there for 45 minutes. Then I will raise the temp to 168 degrees and do a mash out for 10 minutes, and then sparging and boiling as normal. Looking forward to brewing this one the old way and seeing how it turns out.

John

 

[NitrogenWidget]

emptying my grain bin and doing up a ekaunat session ipa this weekend.

 

[6Tap]

I am going to brew a pissed off xxIPA this Sunday since my last batch of beer turned out bad. I under pitched the yeast! [emoji35]

 

[TANSTAAFB]

We've got a club group brew on Saturday, planning on brewing my spin on Denny's First Alt (listen to the latest Experimental Brewing) and about the 5th iteration of my take on Lil Sumpin that is now nothing like Lil Sumpin! This one's getting nothing but whirlpool hops and it'll be amazeballs because I make kick a$$ beer!

 

[Griffin495]

The wife's going out of town so I'm going to take advantage of the time. I'm going to be brewing the west coast blaster from Brewing Classic styles and a bourbon barrel porter.

 

[catdaddy66]

We've got a club group brew on Saturday, planning on brewing my spin on Denny's First Alt (listen to the latest Experimental Brewing) and about the 5th iteration of my take on Lil Sumpin that is now nothing like Lil Sumpin! This one's getting nothing but whirlpool hops and it'll be amazeballs because I make kick a$$ beer!

I have made that clone twice but it's been at least two years. I will need to put it in my brewing queue, behind the Two Hearted ale and 90 Minute ipa clones.

 

[patwestlake]

Weissbier from the Bible. Her ladyship is hop and bitterness averse but loves sours and wheats, so weissbier it is! First all electric brew so looking forward to it !

Pat

 

[jcav]

Today I brewed a Dusseldorf Altbier and for the first time I did a decoction mash and then step mash with my electric e-herms. Not to bad time wise, only added maybe about two hours to the brew day vs. a regular mash brew day. I really enjoyed it and everything went smooth. It was like a "rite of passage" becoming one with the brew and how it was done in Germany the old way. At least I told myself that while I was stirring the mash like a banshee so I wouldn't scorch the wort!

Cheers

John

 

[Ogroat]

Today I brewed a Dusseldorf Altbier and for the first time I did a decoction mash and then step mash with my electric e-herms. Not to bad time wise, only added maybe about two hours to the brew day vs. a regular mash brew day.

Another two hours! That's dedication as far as I'm concerned - sounds like an all day affair.

On the other side of things, I'm planning on making a saison this weekend. I'll be doing a BIAB mash of 30 to 45ish minutes and then a 30 minute boil in an attempt to get a batch in without being rained on.

 

[treacheroustexan]

5 gallons of NB dead ringer IPA last night and 3 gallons of a tropical kettle sour going right now.

 

[JonM]

Got that great Cottage House Saison in the fermenter this morning.

 

[MikeOhio]

Tomorrow morning...1st brew/Biab-3g. batch, Yooper's Anchor Steam/CC clone.
Mike

 

[catdaddy66]

Tomorrow morning...1st brew/Biab-3g. batch, Yooper's Anchor Steam/CC clone.
Mike

Welcome to the HBT community! You have picked a winner in that one. It's one of my house ales and next up for me as well.