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Plans for tomorrow


IPA
50% Vienna 5.5 lbs
50% Pilsen 5.5 lbs

1oz of each
Mosaic 10.6% a/a
Citra 13.3% a/a
Ekuanot (lupulin) 24.9% a/a
Pacific Gem 14.1% a/a
Mandarina Bavaria 6.1% a/a

Us-05
 
Brewing up Biermunchers Centennial Blonde for my first all grain/biab brew tomorrow. Supposed to be warm outside 65 or so and am excited to fire up the new propane burner and see how it all works out. Only variation is i had a brain fart and told her to crush .5# carapils versus the .75# in the recipe even though it was on my phone.
 
Four o'clock on Friday is close enough to call it the weekend. Brewing a Blonde Ale and drinking a HB Amber Lager.

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Brewed the first half of the Britfoot barleywine tonight. 90 minute mash, 120 minute boil, and hit my numbers perfectly. 1.098 OG and 1.5 packs of US-05 pitched at 65F. Looking good!
 
Celebrating National Homebrew day by brewing up a session IPA with the wife.
Also cold crashing a honey APA that I will keg later tonight. Wooo!!
 
It's planting time on the farm but the weather isn't cooperating. I brewed yesterday because we had high wind and rain showers so I couldn't do any preplant spraying. It snowed last night and is still half raining/snowing so I’m brewing again. Besides, it's National Homebrew Day.

I was going to brew a Mosaic SMaSH but only had 4lbs of Golden Promise so I added 3.5lbs of Pils (4 gal batch) and called it a Pale Ale. Drinking a HB Fizzy Lager.

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Brewed up a Smash-ish beer for my neighborhood block party with stone path pils, golden promise, hallertau blanc and 34/70... cheers to all you homebrewers!
 
A saison inspired ale, mostly pilsner malt with a touch of wheat, a blend of two yeast strains, crushed coriander seed, orange zest and a couple cardamom pods... fermenting at 20,5ºC as I write...
 
Brewed a 5gal batch of oatmeal cream stout yesterday. I walked away to grab the yeast. Brew kettle tumbled from the table while siphoning into the fermenter. Ugh. Saved about a gallon. i’m Pitching coffee and Cocoa nibs in a couple days. Brew kettle is a little jacked, not the best brew day.
 
I brewed the first batch on my 5 gallon system today. I still have a few things that need to be worked out. first **** my hose. It's kind of sucked for a long time and now it's really gone. So much wasted water. But at least it wound up in the ground. I want to work on my cleaning system. I feel like I wasted a lot of water doing that. I'm going to figure that. Because I don't trust my hose I didn't get to fully try my system out with my plate chiller. So I need a new hose and maybe to do some work on the outside faucet. Anyway, aside from that, everything was going alright. Got my mash going well, striking temps wound up pretty much spot on.

I made my big mistake during the sparge. I was rushing because I was making a hard cider at the same time as I was mashing and wound up about 5 minutes late on heating up my sparge water. I pushed the heat got it in and started and it went ok. But I forgot to close off the valve to my kettle and lost a lot of wort. Also some bad overflow issues wasted a healthy amount of wort.

But I got everything done, and I made beer. Hopefully ina few weeks I'll be drinking said beer.
 
It's planting time on the farm but the weather isn't cooperating. I brewed yesterday because we had high wind and rain showers so I couldn't do any preplant spraying. It snowed last night and is still half raining/snowing so I’m brewing again. Besides, it's National Homebrew Day.

I was going to brew a Mosaic SMaSH but only had 4lbs of Golden Promise so I added 3.5lbs of Pils (4 gal batch) and called it a Pale Ale. Drinking a HB Fizzy Lager.

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I have that same digital thermometer. Works great
 
Could not get around to brewing this weekend so Saturday I will get on it and brew the Triple hopped Miller Lite cream ale from the ale recipe section. I swear I will get to it this time, Mother's Day be damned (love you Mom).
 
I've brewed something every weekend for the last 5 weeks, so taking a weekend off, also out of grain. But it's already the new week, so planning on my competition Czech this coming weekend. Brewed one up last weekend that is going to be too strong (7.2%!!! Geez!) for even a Premium Czech, so this weekend will ramp it waaaaay down to 10lbs pilsner and see what we get. Making some water adjustments helped big time, so hoping using less grain will still get me in the 4.5-5% range.
 
Planning on brewing a small batch of Irish Stout with some leftover grains this weekend.
Changed up slightly, I brewed an Irish Coffee Stout today. First time formulating my own recipe. It wasn't without a couple surprises but hopefully nothing that will affect the finished product too much. Now just waiting on the bubbles.

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