So who's brewing this weekend?

[David Winsemius]

Brewed a roggenbier (American version). Mini malt: 3 lb Caramunich II, 2 lb rye malt, saccharification at 158 deg F, 8 lb liquid amber extract, 2 oz Cascade hops for 45 min. Yield 7 gal at 1.059 OG. White Labs English ale yeast for 4 gal, and recycled Gigayeast NorCal 0001 to 3 gal. Planning to add tinctures of juniper berries, coriander and fennel to taste with target of a "spiced winter ale" after fermentation complete.

 

[Mungo]

Sitting here watching our first batch of Perry bubbling away. Really anxious to see how this turns out. We should rack over the weekend and do a batch of pumpkin cider, which is one of our favorites. We live on a rather small boat, so all our brewing tends to be in gallon batches of things that can be consumed fairly young. Will post recipes for these new ones when I see how this turns out.

 

[Sprouthog]

Kölsch

 

[treacheroustexan]

Didn't brew my cherry blonde yet unfortunately like I wanted to. My last few brew days have been rushed during the week due to my work schedule, so I'm taking a few hours this upcoming weekend to be able to actually enjoy the brew day. Fingers crossed.

 

[smurfjuice]

Weef is gone to the Carolinas till Monday. scotch ale Saturday and going to sneak a stout in Sunday. wish me luck …

 

[govner1]

I’m doing a 6g AG batch of Devil May Cryo Black IPA based on the recipe from Great Fermentations

 

[thepicklebrewer]

Making 2 gallons of mead this weekend! One Orange blossom honey that is going to be aged, and one is going to be cheap costco stuff I'm hoping to turnaround in about a month through near perfect fermentation.

 

[Oldskewl]

Brewing the Trillium Vicinity Clone but I am whirlpooling and dryhopping with Galaxy & Nelson.

 

[dstockwell]

Pale ale with Galena for bittering then Azacca, Ekuanot, and Mandarina Bavaria with WLP041.

 

[snowtiger1987]

Brewing an English ESB. My party last weekend cleaned me out of all my drinking beers.

 

[Jerome Sidley]

Hoping to brew my first all grain this weekend it will be a stout.

 

[seatazzz]

Planning to brew my 2018 Winter Warmer on Sunday. Working at my friend's brewery tomorrow, early start at 4am so can be done in time to hit up the LHBS to get the grain I need. Recipe is simple; 12.5lbs two row (have that), 2lbs Cara 80 or 120, 1lb special roast, and 1/2lb roasted barley. Going to try for higher volume so I can reduce 2 gallons down for more maltiness, and add 1lb dark brown sugar at 15 minutes as well. It's the spice that's going to make this one; 2 vanilla beans (chopped), 1tsp cloves, 1/2tsp allspice, and 2 grated cinnamon sticks at 15 minutes to end of boil, and the same again stuffed into a bottle with Captain Morgan's for a week or so and added to the fermenter after that. Might turn into a spice bomb but it sounds good and looks good. Not aiming for huge ABV but if I get it...more's the better! Planning on doing two batches, one this weekend and one next, first will get bottled for giveaways & maybe save a few bottles for competitions, second will be kegged. Looking forward to this one.

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Hoping to brew my first all grain this weekend it will be a stout.

One of my first all grain beers was a stout. I use Nestle Pure Life water which is relatively soft. I think for that reason my efficiency was quite poor. On the plus side though, that was one of the clearest beers I’ve made. It was a nice dark ruby color when you held it up to the light.

 

[SpottedDogBrewing]

Simcoe Pils

 

[jmswarts]

A British brown ale

 

[seatazzz]

Worked at the brewery today, brewing up the boss' porter. Wound up with a bit too much in the tun, so I brought home 10 gallons of wort to play with. Just popped it in the ferment fridge, it's going to be a Session black lager because that's the yeast I had. SG at 1.050 so will wind up about 4-4.5% but I'm okay with that. If it turns out well will do a 1bbl batch of it next month and it will be my first recipe that will be on tap there. Recipe is two row, crystal 40, chocolate, and some roasted barley. I added my own twist with the hops; only had 2oz of Cascade left so made up with some Chinook at both bittering and flameout. Going for the flavor of a Cascadian Dark Ale but fermented on S-23 yeast. Should be interesting to say the least.

 

[schematix]

Decided to brew today. Low oxygen Rye IPA with brown marmonated stick bug.

Currently mashing a very stressful grain bill. Decided to give some rye a try and it's trying it's best to get stuck. Was recirculating at 2 GPM and now we're down to 0.7 GPM. Just need it to hang on a little while longer so i can lauter it. If it drops any more and i'm gonna have to stir it.... ugh.

 

[tiredofbuyingbeer]

I'm making a fuggle pale ale:

9.75 pounds Double Eagle Rustic Ale malt
0.25 pounds honey malt
All fuggle hops (just shy of 50 IBUs)
Appropriate sized starter built up from an expired package of Imperial Yeast "Joystick" (the Pacman strain)

 

[schematix]

Low oxygen rye IPA.

80/16.7/3.3 2-row, malted rye, and c20.

OG 14.7 Plato. Expected FG <2 Plato.

Kettle IBU to the saturation point. 22oz high alpha hops split between 50/15/10/5 and a long soak at 160-170F.

 

[A2HB]

I brewed an out of style cream ale today, should come in around 6.5% abv 30 ibus. Two row, flaked maize, and table sugar. Hops were Columbus and Hallertau. Cream ale yeast blend. Plan on fermenting at 60 for a few days then ramping up to the low 70’s.

 

[Leapsandbounds]

I brewed an IPA using Columbus, Cascade, and Centennial. In other news, I cranked out an 80% brewhouse efficiency for the first time! I’m usually much lower than that.

 

[MT's AZ Ale Haus]

View attachment 596255 I brewed an IPA using Columbus, Cascade, and Centennial. In other news, I cranked out an 80% brewhouse efficiency for the first time! I’m usually much lower than that.

Do you just drop your hops in or do you use muslin bags?
If you go straight in, what is your process for filtering?

 

[Abrayton]

Attempting my first lager Saturday with a Munich Dunkel and the quick lager method

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Being a lazy POS the last month has cost me, by Sunday I will do a lambic and I think I will try to squeeze in a Mosaic IPA, the well is running dry.

 

[smurfjuice]

Weef is gone to the Carolinas till Monday. scotch ale Saturday and going to sneak a stout in Sunday. wish me luck …

I pulled it off … yay me …

 

[Leapsandbounds]

Do you just drop your hops in or do you use muslin bags?
If you go straight in, what is your process for filtering?

I just drop them in. When I pour the wort into the fermenter I do my best to keep most of the hop sludge out (it usually settles at the bottom).

 

[Abrayton]

Do you just drop your hops in or do you use muslin bags?
If you go straight in, what is your process for filtering?

This is easy and cheap to build and works great to keep hop debris out of the fermenter. It is linked here below and HBT has a link or two on it.

https://byo.com/project/build-a-hop-spider-projects/

 

[seatazzz]

Tomorrow morning I'm going to brew up another batch of what I'm now calling the 'house' lager. Straight two row, with crystal & chinook hops for bittering and crystal for flavor/aroma. The last one is divine, and I want to keep it in the pipeline. Also going to keg up one of the two 5g batches of dark lager I've got going in order to pitch on the yeast cake; yes, maybe stupid, but this yeast has not done me wrong yet in 6 generations. No esters, no off flavors, just darn good tasty beer. The dark is essentially done with primary and can finish lagering in the keg. There's enough in kegs right now to drink so I can keep this one in the fermenter for 2 weeks. Getting cold up here in the great PNW, so will ferment this one a bit colder at 56-58 and see what happens.

 

[fatnhappy]

In the process of brewing Denny’s rye IPA. Since I’m a captive audience to brewing, I’m smoking 6 pounds of cheese.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Brewing Jamil Z's Hoppiness is an IPA. LHBS out of Simcoe so using Mosaic for the aroma hops.