So who's brewing this weekend?

[Dave Sarber]

Livin' the dream.

 

[Pkrd]

Just put down an Irish red. Smooth brew day. Noticed something very stupid with my scales when weighing the grain though...

 

[Oginme]

Just put down an Irish red. Smooth brew day. Noticed something very stupid with my scales when weighing the grain though...View attachment 666330View attachment 666331

The top scale is reading 1.050 kg and the bottom reading 1.500 kg. Not sure I understand the issue.

 

[seanjwalker1]

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Livin' the dream.

Love the improvised brew steps. Performed like a seasoned soldier! Improvise, overcome, adapt. I usually use counter to chair to flat step stool. The char I was using was my wife's mother chair from like 50 years ago. Was working out fine for a number of years...till I spilled wee heavy wort all over it...wasnt pretty! She called an air strike on me! [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[John Carpentier]

Took a break from brewing for a few years. Just got my new electric system set up a few weeks ago. Brewed a few batches so far.

1 staple beer was my saison using a “house blend” yeast. Well not brewing for almost 2 years, the yeast didn’t pull through. My inaugural brew was a saison brewed with yeast I harvested from a bottle of DuPont. I saved the yeast cake from that batch.

I got a pouch of Wlp 566 that was expired from my LHBS, so that is spinning up now. If it pulls through I will brew with it, if not I have a fresh pouch of 565.

I am trying to recreate my house yeast the best I can going from the notes I have. Granted that yeast was probably mutated beyond its original mixture, but trying is part of the fun.

What electric equipment are you using? I want to move away from my propane burner.

Thank you,

John

 

[Mike_kever_kombi]

SS Brewtech 3 vessels with RIMS

 

[Section1]

Brewing a Kentucky Common tomorrow. This one has some Rye in it, something I haven't used before. Hope it's not overpowering. Starter is going. Looking forward to some fun tomorrow!

 

[Pkrd]

Belgian Wit IPA tonight. It called for lemon zest, got the last one off the tree!

https://www.gladfieldmalt.co.nz/brewing-recipes/#Gladfield-Wit-Beer-IPA

 

[jcav]

In the middle of a mash of a really nice Irish Red that always is a hit with everyone around here. 5 gallons of this will be given to a friend of mine who asked me to brew this beer for her wedding in March. The other 5 gallons will be served with another beer at my annual St. Paddy's Day Party! Nice way to start a three day weekend!

John

 

[BongoYodeler]

Going to brew my first Dry Irish Stout tomorrow from a recipe I drew up, hope it turns out good.

 

[Gary Baker]

Brewed a Doppelbock today.....trying out the Voss kveik yeast....

 

[Novacor]

Put together a recipe for a black IPA with El Dorado, Sabro, and a Citra dryhop. This will be my first brew of the year, I need to get back in the brewing routine.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Waiting for the boil.

 

[Punx Clever]

Putting together a great big old wheatwine, then salvaging a belgian wit from the second runnings (plus a little sumtin sumtin to cap off the mash, another half lb of mela and 2-3 lbs of pils).

 

[TandemTails]

I'll be brewing up an irish red ale on Monday. I'm going to use nottingham yeast and plan on having it carbed up and ready for St Patrick's day

 

[Mascrappo]

Brewed a Helles yesterday, on top of the two I did last weekend, out of primary space now or would do another today!

 

[VirginiaHops1]

I'm doing a double batch today. Strata pale ale chilling in the sink and some bacon & sausage now on the burner

 

[burntchef]

@TandemTails,
If you have not used knottingham before, search some threads. BTW that yeast is on next recipe for Irish red instead of the us05.
Eric

 

[CascadesBrewer]

Brewed up a Single today. Smooth brew day...4 hours from start to beer in fermenter and all cleaned up (though I let it chill in the chamber for a few hours for the last 20F...about to pitch the yeast).

My goal for 2020 is to brew several Belgian beers. I figured a 5.5% Single is a good way to play with grains, hops, yeast and fermentation temps. This batch was: 5.5 gal batch, 91% Wyermann Bohemian Pils, 4% Dingemans Aromatic, 5% Cane Sugar, 26 IBUs (0.8 oz) Northern Brewer at 60, 0.75 oz Hersbrucker at 20 min, 0.75 oz Hersbrucker at 5 min, Wyeast 3787 Trappist High Gravity, Target OG 1.051, Actual OG 1.052. Should be a good batch to build up yeast for a Dubbel.

 

[Ultryx]

Brewed an APA yesterday (2/15/20) on my brand new BIAB setup. First time using that. OG projected to be 1.056 and I ended with 1.057 so not bad at all. I'm supposed to brew an IPA today, but I'm still waiting on the rains to stop.

 

[kingmatt]

I'm the only one in the family off tomorrow so I will hopefully have a nice relaxing IPA brew day.

 

[Rob2010SS]

Brewed a citra apollo and strata NEIPA today!

 

[TandemTails]

@TandemTails,
If you have not used knottingham before, search some threads. BTW that yeast is on next recipe for Irish red instead of the us05.
Eric

I've used it in a brown ale before. Is there something I should be aware of? I'm not seeing anything stand out when i search about nottingham yeast

 

[TandemTails]

Brewed a citra apollo and strata NEIPA today!View attachment 666811

That sight glass is awesome! Do you have a pic of your whole setup?

 

[MensBrewha]

First day brewing with all grain. Making a chocolate proter

 

[bracconiere]

i'm brewing 10 gallons of WTF ever today....it looks darker then i expected? lol

 

[burntchef]

I've used it in a brown ale before. Is there something I should be aware of? I'm not seeing anything stand out when i search about nottingham yeast

The Nottingham yeast is a beast! If you do not use a blow off tube, you will wish you did. It is a very strong yeast that finishes quickly. My first go with that yeast last month in a porter resulted in a lot of cleaning that could have been avoided with a blow off.
Eric

 

[Worthabrew]

Brewed a 13.5L batch (into FV) Fat Tire clone BIAB with my trusty Gigawort and batch sparging. Mashed at 154 for 60 min @ mash pH 5.4. Mostly 2 Row Pale, Fawcett malted oats, Simpsons DRC, Franco-Belges Kiln Amber, Crystal 75, Challenger and Fuggles. Inocluated with a 1L White Labs WLP515 Antwerp Ale Yeast starter with fermentation temp control set at 68°F. About 14 SRM, 15 IBU, looking and tasting great. OG 1.056. Hoping for greatness!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Brewed a Dry Irish Stout earlier today. Hit all my numbers almost dead on. Using WLP007 yeast, first evidence of airlock activity started in under four hours.

One thing unexpected though was a cow running through my backyard (the 6th fairway). It was seen running down my quiet street prior to cutting between two houses and onto the fairway. Last seen heading northwest. Police were about five minutes behind.

 

[Abhishek Dewan]

I experimented a bit on Saturday. Where I live, malt is not available & there are no HB shops nearby. So I have been making own malt for sometime. I made green malt from red wheat - about 2 KG & some malted white maize/corn. When I was drying up the malt in sun, I tasted a few wheat acrospire and they tasted sweet and had fruity aroma. I thought that I got to use them fresh. So I managed to get rid of lot of rootlets by drying in sun with lot of breeze. I live near the ocean and it gets windy. I used a food processor for the green malt and it wasn't difficult, had a add little water. Used BIAB, tossed in some corn flakes. The mashing was done at 50c - 10 minutes, 63c - 30 minutes, 70c - 30 minutes and sparged with 2 litres of 75c water, followed by little cold water wash to extract remaining sugars. Added 2 KG of DME & cold water directly to it to make 23 litres batch with OG of 1.047. No boil was done. DME can be dissolved without heating it, just stir it. By stirring, also oxygenated the wort.
I made a 10 min boil hops tea with 1oz Chinook & 1/2oz columbus hops and added to the fermenter I tasted the wort before pitching in the yeast and it tasted quite well, no grassy feeling. Pitched US-05 slurry from the last batch. It took off in a few hours & is fermenting vigorously. Will dry hop with citra & fresh orange peels later & post updates on how the flavour turns out to be.