So who's brewing this weekend?

[Gozie Boy]

Just bottled my first Belgian Tripel, and will start on 10 gals. of Munich Helles on Thursday to have something refreshing and very drinkable ready by early summer.

 

[seatazzz]

Weekends are when I'm NOT working both my effing "essential" jobs...dammit. Trying to decide if I'm going to brew a Czech Premium, or another IPA. Have to keg the Amber lager I did a couple weeks ago anyway so might as well brew something. Nice to have a choice of what to brew with the ingredients I have on hand.

 

[skysmyzer]

I'll be brewing a Brown Ale with 3x the Crystal malt I had planned for as I rushed the order to get it on the courier before lockdown (oops). Should be interesting...

 

[Sheik_Yerbuti]

What's a weekend?
I'm brewing a Helles tomorrow.

 

[DeanRIowa]

Hopefully a Berliner Weiße, split half with Hibiscus and half with raspberry, using a kveik Voss yeast. First time trying the Kveik yeast, going to ferment at 70 & 85 degrees.

 

[bracconiere]

morebeer shipped my base malt, being lazy and buying it.....they shipped yesterday, i ordered it friday last week...and FedEx says it should be here tommorow (Friday)....so planning a brew for Saturday with it.....What do you guys think, should i go dark or light? thinking either 100% base malt or tossing in a pound or two of special b, and black patent.....


edit: i have an amber on tap, and cider now.....

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

morebeer shipped my base malt, being lazy and buying it.....they shipped yesterday, i ordered it friday last week...and FedEx says it should be here tommorow (Friday)....so planning a brew for Saturday with it.....What do you guys think, should i go dark or light? thinking either 100% base malt or tossing in a pound or two of special b, and black patent.....


edit: i have an amber on tap, and cider now.....

Dark



I plan on Brewing a malty amber this weekend and a nugget/2row smash

 

[bracconiere]

Dark



I plan on Brewing a malty amber this weekend and a nugget/2row smash

vote is settled, dark it is, i've been slacking on brewing and drinking a lot of cider...so something dark, and roasty sounds like a good change....(plus dark beers are so much easier to make! covers up my crappy brewing skills! )

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

vote is settled, dark it is, i've been slacking on brewing and drinking a lot of cider...so something dark, and roasty sounds like a good change....(plus dark beers are so much easier to make! covers up my crappy brewing skills! )

With the amount of brewing you do I am sure your skills are not crappy

 

[bracconiere]

With the amount of brewing you do I am sure your skills are not crappy

man it took me from 1996 when i started, to 2006 to learn i needed to sparge slow......i just ran it full open, and got like low 60's% efficiency.....lol, but in my quest for the cheapest beer, i learned!! i plan on getting probably about 90% with this store bought malt on the weekend now though! (i'm largely self taught....never posted in forums much, all i really knew was 145-158....)

edit: for the record, this is my plan, because it's what i got....

10 gallon batch scheduled for 4-4-20

20lb's pale malt
8oz's special b
1lb black patent
1lb roast rye
4oz's roast barley......and i'll love it like it's my own!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Brewed a 1.25 gallon of single hop pale ale (Simcoe), today. Currently chilling.

 

[bracconiere]

Brewed a 1.25 gallon of single hop pale ale (Simcoe), today. Currently chilling.

that's off topic, it's only thursday! (or slightly off-topic being it's only a gallon batch )

 

[BongoYodeler]

that's off topic, it's only thursday! (or slightly off-topic being it's only a gallon batch )

Yeah but every day has suddenly become a weekend day. So my plan is to brew again tomorrow and then again on Saturday.

 

[bracconiere]

Yeah but every day has suddenly become a weekend day. So my plan is to brew again tomorrow and then again on Saturday.

damn, i wanted to say something but don't have the words....

 

[Dave Sarber]

Yeah but every day has suddenly become a weekend day. So my plan is to brew again tomorrow and then again on Saturday.

Love to do the same. Have lots of supplies, but no temp controlled fermenter space right now.

 

[Amadeo38]

Love to do the same. Have lots of supplies, but no temp controlled fermenter space right now.

You need to get you some Kviek yeast! All temps are a go.

Anyway, finally bottled my mixed ferm wild ale after 9 months since brewing and it’s time to get another one going this weekend. Going to use a modified version of the Rare Barrel golden ale, ferment it on my house culture then rack it onto Loquats and Blueberries for what will likely be several months.

 

[seatazzz]

Pipeline suddenly got dangerously low (Sabro IPA just kicked today, damn that thing was delicious), and next weekend will be taken up with working on stupid car, so doing a double brew weekend; tomorrow will do an IPA with Columbus, Citra, and Mosaic, and Sunday another Czech lager. Still cool enough in the "brew room" in the house to ferment one in there so we're set.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Brewing a 5 gallon Helles. A few weeks late because of Covid 19 madness but going in kegerator chamber with temp control so no worries.

 

[seanjwalker1]

 

[dochawk]

count me in.

For the first time in years!

I'll be hitting the store for yeast and keg rebuild kits this afternoon, as well as to grind my grain (yeah, I bring grain *to* a Homebrew store . . . and the owner gets to tell tales about a lunatic with 30 lbs of grain and a massive drill in the trunk ).

I've dragged the cajun cooker and former keg out of storage, and insured that it draws from both of my propane tanks. A fuller test this afternoon.

A new 100 qt wheeled Coleman cooler arrived yesterday, and I pulled the EZMasher and tube from the old, disintegrating cooler.

I'll sniff some old hops to make sure they haven't gone funny before I run to the shop (most are still vacuum packed from the manufacturer, and have been frozen for years).

It seems that I *do* need a lighter for the cooker (hmm, I wonder if I could take the one from the gas grill waiting for scraping . . . in the meantime, just a long lighter).

I probably need a new siphon starter; we'll see if a usable one shows up . . .

I'll get a pack or three of a fast, temperature tolerant yeast . . . we let it be warmer here than most like, but the fermenters will sit in a water bath with 2L bottles of ice changed a couple of times a day . . . . .

If I can't find tubing laying around, there's an insane amount still left on my wort chiller . . .

I wonder what I'm forgetting?


I'll be using about 5 lbs of steel cut oats from Winco, about 3 pounds of cara pils, and about 10 of two-row. I suppose about 4oz of whatever that 12% hop in the freezer is, and maybe 3 or 4 oz of cascade to finish, and a similar amount later sunk in the serving kegs . . .

But just what am I forgetting?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Using whatever I have laying around to make Steve's Covid-19 Americanish Pale Ale. Pale ale malt, Warrior, Falconers Flight, Lallemand ESB yeast and dry hopped with chinook cryo.

 

[seatazzz]

IPA I brewed this morning with CTZ, Chinook, Citra, and Mosaic is already taking off; always makes me giggle seeing the big ugly clumps that fresh Notty throws when it's happy. Going to push this one fast to be done by next weekend, all I've got on tap is a very nice porter that I want to have around for a while.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Three brews in three days. All 1.25 gallon pale ales featuring a different hop. Despite their dark appearance they are actually quite light in color. I've noticed these LBMB's always seem to make the beer appear darker than it actually is.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Three brews in three days. All 1.25 gallon pale ales featuring a different hop. Despite their dark appearance they are actually quite light in color. I've noticed these LBMB's always seem to make the beer appear darker than it actually is.

I have one of those, but I've been using it exclusively to make starters. The bottom has a dimple, so it's hard to throw the magnet on the stirplate.
Never thought of using it for small batches!
DUH! It is a LBMB! fermenter.

 

[gaviga]

Brewed a couple of meads on Friday. Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit/Mesquite Honey mead in the left, and a Pineapple mead on the right. Both will be sweet meads.

 

[seatazzz]

Trying out full volume MIAB for the first time today, on a simple Czech lager. 14lbs of pilsner, struck with 12 gallons of water, got 8 gallons first runnings at 1.035; then added a gallon from the dead space in the tun, brought it up to 9 gallons at 1.037 preboil, which is exactly where I wanted it. Glad it worked, will knock some time off future brewdays, although using more grain is a bit pricey for me. Usually only use 10lbs for this recipe.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Brewed a couple of meads on Friday. Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit/Mesquite Honey mead in the left, and a Pineapple mead on the right. Both will be sweet meads. View attachment 674336

Have you made the misquote honey before? I love honey beers and mesquite is my fave smoke flavor(taste I picked up living in Texas for 20+ years). Sounds like and interesting combination

 

[Sebastian Weetabix]

Just put a Beach House Ale into the conical and pitched the yeast.

Give it ten or so days and then its bottling time!

 

[w8av]

Brewed Irish Red on Friday. Tapping Amarillo IPA today. Next up, ESB and Saison

.............Goose
AHA Governing Committee Member

 

[w8av]

Yep. Usually ha

Hey, Goose! Good to see you here on HBT. Getting out and about virtually, eh?

Yeah. Usually hanng out on AHA Forum but thought I would pop in here as well!