So who's brewing this weekend?

[BarleyStanding]

Made a British Golden and hopped it with Galaxy, about 35 IBU. I have no idea what it will be like, but I thought a tropical fruit hop with some British, bready malts might be tasty. Just started to hit high kraussen; smells wonderful. Yes, I'm an airlock sniffer.

 

[Dhm8484]

I will be brewing a NEIPA, with 6 ounces of Azecca and 4 ounces of centennial hope it turns out for time doing it and need to use up the hops

 

[BikerMatt]

Drinking HB while HB:ing more, turns out to be a Munich Helles with viking pale, hallertau mittelfruch, tettnanger and for a brit twist first gold @5mins. Decided to name this one POSTALe cause it's going to my workmates and guess where I work...

Just took OG, not sure what happened but never missed my target this bad. Should be 1.048, is 1.035! Gutted, must either be the grain basket instead of the muslin bag I've used before, or incomplete crush as I didn't notice I had quite a lot of uncrushed stuff in there because of all the flour on top.

Gonna correct the OG with sugar but for the life of me cannot find the formula to calculate the addition with...

 

[Leapsandbounds]

Me! Cascade/Amarillo Pale Ale with orange and coriander.

 

[ProblemChild]

Just put in a pale.
GP, Franco-Belges Pils, Red wheat, carared, Munich, biscuit.

Hops Chinook, Denali, Centennial,. WY1056.

Looks like it will be a great batch. Pre-pitch wort tasted fantastic. Also, used my induction cook plate for the first time. Absolutely loved it

 

[EclecticBrews]

Boy just had a horrible breakup, asked if we could brew a beer tonight... something we used to do all the time before his mom and I divorced. So we busted out the gear, cleaned and sanitized it all while he designed a basic brown porter - marriage otter and 2row base, crystal 60, chocolate and a touch of black patent. Northern brewer hops and London yeast. (Huge thanks to Stomp & Crush in Clinton, CT for going out of their way so we could get the yeast from them last minute! Support your locals!) a whole host of minor issues (to be expected when we haven’t brewed in 3+ years)

BUT great fun, a good day together, and the wort tasted excellent so far!

Plus our new cat loves brewing too! Guess it’s tome to start planning the basement brew corner again.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Well the holidays are (almost) over so I am targeting my first brew of 2019 for this Sunday (or next). This year I am going to focus on making more sours, so I will start with a Margarita Gose to combat winter based on this recipe:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/margarita-gose.594994/

To change it up instead of a kettle-sour I am going to try a mixed fermentation sour by pitching WLP644 and then 48-72 hours later pitching lacto (OYL605), I might add a dry-hop step depending on how the fermentation goes, this is my first unhopped beer recipe and it feels a little uncomfortable in that sense.

Now let's see if I can wrangle the supplies/ingredients and get my crap together in time to make the first beer of 2019 on the first weekend of 2019. If not we will push it a week. Cheers.

 

[brewbama]

I am mashing the grain for a British Golden Ale now. Cheers!

 

[grampamark]

Getting one last brew in for 2018. A Blonde Ale. Mashing now.

I can use the same picture I posted on Saturday (HB Cali Common)

 

[seatazzz]

Have to change mine up since the new hops are sitting at the Fedex depot waiting to deliver on Wednesday now. So will play with the new grain mill and brew up a batch of American Strong tomorrow, with double-milled two row & special malt to see if that helps the efficiency. Ferment fridge is already at 66 waiting for the wort, new Pliny clone is ready to tap for fun tonight, got a new thermometer, and ready for a good brewday.

 

[DeepSeaRick]

Just did 2 10 gallon batches

Farmhouse Sassaion much like Tank 7 and an IPA with heavy Mosaic and Amarillo/Simcoe backing

 

[505-Brewer]

Schwarzbier-10 gal batch.

 

[Leapsandbounds]

I will be brewing a NEIPA, with 6 ounces of Azecca and 4 ounces of centennial hope it turns out for time doing it and need to use up the hops

Have you used this hop combo before? I was thinking about brewing a NEIPA and happen to have a lot of those hops on hand.

 

[Dhm8484]

Have you used this hop combo before? I was thinking about brewing a NEIPA and happen to have a lot of those hops on hand.

Nope never have first time doing it for me

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

1st Brew of 2019

Belgian Dubbel

 

[BongoYodeler]

Our son was in from Minnesota for the holidays. He wanted to brew a batch of beer since he's never brewed before. We did a 1-gallon batch of Raging Irish Red Ale.

 

[Mark3885]

Brewed a 10 gal Amber Vienna Lager like Modelo with home grown leaf hops. Going to lager until Cinco de Mayo.

 

[grampamark]

My pipeline is empty, I have one empty fermenter, so it's the weekend if I say it is.

I signed up to brew the Abbey Weizen for the 2019 Beers of Christmas. Not wanting to wait until the last minute, I decided to start working on a recipe.

I have a 5 gal Better Bottle available so I’m doing a 4 gal batch. For a first cut at it I’m basically just doing a Hefe, adding coriander and orange peel, and fermenting with BE-256

 

[ProblemChild]

Getting in a Saison.
82% pils
15% red wheat
3% Carahell.

Little twist - American hops. Strata and Chinook. Keeping the IBU in the 20's, but since Saisons seem to have the history of using what is on hand, I am going to use what I have on hand. Additionally, the quantity of the hops should be low enough to where the flavor will not dominate.

 

[seatazzz]

Up super early to brew a SMaSH with two row and the Southern Passion hops that finally arrived. And hoping that the strike volume will solve the efficiency issue. If not...I'm stumped. Grain was double milled, using some Burton's for the heck of it, and water was meticulously measured with a gallon pitcher going into the HLT (saving up for a sight glass). Fingers crossed.

 

[dchmela]

I brewed for the first time in my new house yesterday, so I spent most of the brew day making sure all of my equipment made it over in the move! Brewed a nice pale ale with some experimental hops that a local brewery gave me. Feels good to get the first one out of the way,

 

[seatazzz]

And yes it was the strike volume (got 3 gallons first runnings at 1.070), but then I went and oversparged the poor thing. Got two kettles going, one with 3 gallons and the keggle with 7.5, to get down to a respectable preboil/prehop of 8g at 1.055. Dammit. I should know better.

 

[imnotcassie]

Not brewing .... bottling 2 cases of APA and 2 of a Milk Stout.

Note to self: time for a couple of kegs.

 

[6Tap]

I’m brewing a Stout today. 2nd attempt.
Made some tweakes
to the grain bill and I am going to try Imperial Darkness Yeast for the 1st time. If the batch ferments fast enough I plan to enter this one in a Homebrew competition. Fingers crossed.

 

[Phildo253]

Brewed a NEIPA yesterday. Mash went great. Boil was horrible. Somehow turned off my timer, so I had to guesstimate my timing based on boil-off rate. Then both my pump and my backup pump failed. Had to rebuild them really quick, then missed my 180 degree hopstand, which ended up being a 160 degree hop stand. Then overfilled carboy and ended up having to dump some out to allow for krausen and dryhopping. And the flys were ridiculous. Worst case, I made some beer. We will see.

 

[imnotcassie]

I’m brewing a Stout today. 2nd attempt.
Made some tweakes
to the grain bill and I am going to try Imperial Darkness Yeast for the 1st time. If the batch ferments fast enough I plan to enter this one in a Homebrew competition. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed for fast fermentaion!

 

[6Tap]

Both.
Fast fermentation and good tasting beer that has potential for gold ribbon.
Brew competition bottles are due by Jan 16th.
If the Stout is not ready I will still be entering an IPA (West Coast,
not east coast!). [emoji482]

 

[shoengine]

I decided around noon to brew today. It's nice that with 30 minutes notice I can brew a batch of beer.

 

[connell89]

I brewed a winter warmer last week.

 

[imnotcassie]

Both.
Fast fermentation and good tasting beer that has potential for gold ribbon.
Brew competition bottles are due by Jan 16th.
If the Stout is not ready I will still be entering an IPA (West Coast,
not east coast!). [emoji482]

Got something against us East Coasters? Hum-huh? [emoji846]