So who's brewing this weekend?

[Dave Sarber]

Ok, just filled a 5 gallon bourbon cask, and had enough leftover to fill 8 750ml bottles. I believe this is my first batch of the year, so I'm gonna call it Belgian 2020, as opposed to MD 20/20.
ABV is calculated at 15.87%, had to calculate OG because of sugar feeding during fermentation.

I'll put this away for awhile to see what happens. Now I need to raid the fridge to see what's ready to drink!

EDIT: Just did some notebook updates on this batch, and it's actually the third batch, but who's counting

 

[bstacy1974]

After a few months of not having time to brew, I got an IPA in the fermenter last night. One advantage of living in a cold climate, free crushed ice! [emoji1]

 

[bleme]

Brewed 15 gallons over at a friends on Saturday. He has an older Barley Crusher that we just could not get to grab the grain. Finally I just opened it up wide and ran the grain through. It was a terrible crush, with half the grains still whole, but when we closed it back down and the grain ran through again it worked fine.

 

[Abhishek Dewan]

Finally bottled them on Sunday. Will be ready to drink on Friday. Right on time.View attachment 668139
I tasted while bottling & it had nice orange aroma with hints of grapefruits. I think the green malt hit right on money with taste and flavours. I'll use green malt more often at least in such ales.

very drinkable. 12 litres already gone. Need to brew again, weekend is near.
I don't calculate priming sugar anymore. Typically I add a tablespoon of sugar directly to the bottle (1 litre coke bottle) before filling it with beer. For less carbonation, simply reduce that amount a bit.

 

[danielthemaniel]

I just kegged my cream ale with kolsch yeast today. Also dry hopped my pale ale with citra and simcoe. About to brew my orange pineapple hefeweizen.

 

[danielthemaniel]

Looks pretty good! Lots of hops! Interesting that you preferred honey malt to Crystal malt.

Knocked out a "single-hop" American IPA today:

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[seatazzz]

I've got two of my four competition entries done; need to do the porter this weekend but slap out of grain. Hoping to get a shopping trip on Saturday and brew Sunday. Going to go with Edwort's recipe again; last time I did it was when my grain mill busted on me, so this one (knock wood) will be much better. Entries are due mid-April, which will give them all some good aging and/or lagering time. Will do an IPA two weeks before so it's fresh.

 

[BrewMan13]

Sunday I plan to brew a no-boil IPA for a small club contest next month. All hops in it are ones I haven't brewed with before, so fingers crossed.

 

[Rob2010SS]

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

Hey man @TandemTails , sorry just saw this. Thanks for the compliment. Here's a pic of my setup before I added the sight glass. I added the sight glass to the top recirc port of the mash tun along with a 1.5" TC 90 deg elbow to orientate the sight glass vertically.

Here's a picture of the sight glass.

 

[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.

Despite hitting all my pre-fermentation numbers dead on this one didn’t finish where I wanted or expected it to. I was looking for a FG of around 1.010 and it stalled at 1.020. Used WLP007 and fermented a tad cool at around 65-66f. Tried giving it a gentle stir and warming it to 70 for a couple days. Nothing. I then added a half pk of US-05 I had leftover and it dropped another point or so, then stalled again. Going to go with it as is (no choice anyway) and have a sweeter Dry Irish Stout at 3.2% rather than the 4.2% I was hoping for.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

brewing a kolsch, fermenting with voss kveik for the first time. hit my gravity dead on. brew day went very well.

 

[grampamark]

Brewing a Mosaic APA, drinking a HB Altbier.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Running around all day, got all the ingredients for a brew day tomorrow, and 4 cases of 500ml bottles to put it in.

 

[Harleybrew32]

brewed up a Northern Brewer Mosaic IPA

 

[grampamark]

Yeast pitched, kettle cleaned, a little over 4 hours. Beersmith predicted 1.053.

 

[seatazzz]

Mash is recirculating on the batch of Edwort's Porter; apparently my brain forgot about DST and got me up at 3:45 (formerly 2:45)am to start brewing. Oh well I can take a nap later. Smells divine.

 

[Abrayton]

Good weekend. Got in a Munich Dunkel and a Maibock, both for my wife’s surprise grad party in May.

 

[RevA]

I brewed what was supposed to be a nice stout for the winter and the realised that I made a starter with lager yeast, so now its a Swartz bier

 

[Mutant]

Just started a Light American Lager variation using Bohemian Lager yeast. The Helles Bock Lager yeast variant medaled at CA State Fair. I have an American Lager yeast version lagering at the moment - that is really good even though it has only been lagering less than a week. All SRM 2 IBU 10 ABV ~3.6%. Session beers are great daily drinkers.

 

[jbuff]

Made a big ol' barleywine on Saturday.

1.115 OG.

 

[TandemTails]

Some friends and I brewed up a 'recovery' gose today. The idea is a low ABV beer that has some rehydrating qualities for post mountain bike rides or hikes.

45% pilsner
45% red wheat
10% acidulated
13 IBU of chinook

Hibiscus, lime + lemon zest and quarters, lemon balm and salts

Fermenting @ 90'F w/ hornindal kveik

 

[balrog]

View attachment 669974 Good weekend. Got in a Munich Dunkel and a Maibock, both for my wife’s surprise grad party in May.

How in the freaking world do you lift those out?!! Hurts my back just to look at it!

I'm going to try a session hoppy wheat (a la @Braufessor ish) this weekend. Ferm and serve in floating dip tube keg. Not my particular style, but the tennis crowd are all lupulin shifters, so I'll call it "Everyone Else Is Doing It, So"

 

[seatazzz]

Going to make a second batch of the Sabro/Citra IPA I did a few weeks ago; keg just kicked, it was delicious although I think it could have used more hops. So this time, since I have yeast to spare, will drop the dry hops directly in the fermenter instead of using a bag. Brewing sure as hell beats watching the news around here these days. Rumors are circulating that the gubmint might order a 14 day quarantine for the entire state, or at least the three biggest counties in the west.

 

[gotbeer74]

Brewing some type of lager. Pennsylvania closed schools for 2 weeks. No idea what else will be coming this week for travel or businesses.

 

[bracconiere]

hoping too, as long as i get the kitchen clean....i'm getting tired of fermented cheap apple juice....

 

[Brewbuzzard]

We will brew a 12 gal batch of English Barleywine tomorrow. I have got to get rid of some beer. I have about 70 gal in the fridges and room is getting thin. A good problem to have.

 

[RevA]

I'm making some Pynappel bier which is a South African version of Tepache, so basically a home brewed soda.

 

[bracconiere]

We will brew a 12 gal batch of English Barleywine tomorrow. I have got to get rid of some beer. I have about 70 gal in the fridges and room is getting thin. A good problem to have.

just don't eat! just posted to w3hat are you listening to now, funny this came on afterwards while i was reading this...





and i can only fit 30 gallons in my fridge, so you're the bomb! when i run out, wish i had you on speed dial, lol








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[gbbeer]

Brewing as Saison right now. It's tough to beat a great tasting Saison especially when they're almost too easy to make.

 

[RoguePixels]

Brewing an ESB currently and just kegged a Smash maris otter/el dorado. Didn't collect enough filtered water for this brew so had to run to the store. Was a pain with everyone hording water these days.