So who's brewing this weekend?

[dochawk]

ARGHHHH!!!!

High winds. And they don't stop until midnight. Not even below 15 until 8pm . . . .

I may do this anyway . . .

 

[grampamark]

Brewing a Brown Ale (Bullwinkle Brown). Drinking a HB Mosaic APA.

 

[orionol73]

A porter in the morning

 

[Novacor]

Brewing up a pale ale with Sabro and Vic Secret.

 

[dochawk]

Trying out full volume MIAB for the first time today,

wait, what?

I miss a few years, and IPA *has* subcategories rather than *being* one, and there's a new language?

MIAB?

Missing In Action, Beer

?

uhm, *find it!*

and the timer just went off. Hopefully my mash is done.

 

[grampamark]

Into the fermenter at .060. Four and a half hour brewday.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

I am still working (from home) so today was a weekend day for me!

Brewed a beer that I am excited about. I am a huge fan of 5% ABV beers and I have been wanting to brew a hoppy hazy pale ale for a while. OG was 1.052, so should be close to 5%.

• 7.5 lbs (71.4%) Muntons Super Pale
• 1 lb (9.5%) White Wheat Malt
• 1 lb (9.5%) Flaked Oats
• 0.5 lb (4.8%) CaraFoam
• 0.5 lb (4.8%) Munich 15
• 0.3 oz Columbus - 30 min
• 1 oz Columbus - Whirlpool 20 min
• 1 oz El Dorado - Whirlpool 20 min
• 1 oz Azacca - Whirlpool 20 min
• 2 oz El Dorado - Dry Hop
• 2 oz Azacca - Dry Hop
• WLP013 London Ale

I debated about a run to the homebrew shop for London Ale III, but figured WLP013 would be a good enough stand in (and would avoid a non-essential outing). I am playing around more with 30 min boils. Saves some time and means half gal less water to mash in my 10 gal pot (BIAB). First batch with the Muntons Super Pale that I got from a local brewery just before things got crazy.

 

[CantWinThisGame]

Brewed a wee heavy scotch on Friday. OG 1.092. should be a tasty beverage!

 

[bracconiere]

welp, going for an all nighter it's 8pm Sunday, just put the spurs to my strike water, got the grain mill going....as discussed, going to be dark, both outside, and in my kettle....

 

[dochawk]

It's cooling down.

It seems I *started* the day with five regular size carboys, a smaller one, and a 7 gallon (I didn't realize I had that many), but one shattered in cleaning.

And my cheesecloth bags turned out to be just cheesecloth from my stint with cheesemaking long ago.

So loose hops. It got 8 ounces of 8.7% Amarillo, and an ounce or so of 13.7% nugget that was left in a bag.

I scooped most of that off the top and added half a half pound bag of cascade (hmm, 8% themselves, not that that makes a difference for finishing).

And now it's cooling.

I'll wrap some cheesecloth around he end of the racking tube and see if that helps.

 

[bracconiere]

It's cooling down.

It seems I *started* the day with five regular size carboys, a smaller one, and a 7 gallon (I didn't realize I had that many), but one shattered in cleaning.

And my cheesecloth bags turned out to be just cheesecloth from my stint with cheesemaking long ago.

So loose hops. It got 8 ounces of 8.7% Amarillo, and an ounce or so of 13.7% nugget that was left in a bag.

I scooped most of that off the top and added half a half pound bag of cascade (hmm, 8% themselves, not that that makes a difference for finishing).

And now it's cooling.

I'll wrap some cheesecloth around he end of the racking tube and see if that helps.

??? i just mashed in and hit a perfect 5.3ph without needing to add anything! are you trying to jinx me?

 

[seanjwalker1]

It's cooling down.

It seems I *started* the day with five regular size carboys, a smaller one, and a 7 gallon (I didn't realize I had that many), but one shattered in cleaning.

And my cheesecloth bags turned out to be just cheesecloth from my stint with cheesemaking long ago.

So loose hops. It got 8 ounces of 8.7% Amarillo, and an ounce or so of 13.7% nugget that was left in a bag.

I scooped most of that off the top and added half a half pound bag of cascade (hmm, 8% themselves, not that that makes a difference for finishing).

And now it's cooling.

I'll wrap some cheesecloth around he end of the racking tube and see if that helps.

Get a 304SS hop spider..can find them pretty cheap on eBay. Works wonders

 

[dochawk]

oh, I thought you meant 5.3mph . . . which doesn't even qualify as a breeze around here . . .

gosh, I don't think I've *ever* measured ph on a mash . . . heck, I've only remembered both IG and OG on the same batch once . . .

checked a few minutes ago, and only down to 110 . . .

And as for hop spiders . . . I normally use a 5 gallon nylon screen bag for hops, and failing that cheesecloth bags--but I couldn't find *either* this time (although I thought I had the latter . .)

 

[gaviga]

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

I have made the Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit/Mesquite Honey mead before. It is an old Charlie Papazian "Complete Joy of Homebrewing" recipe. I can say without a doubt that it is the best mead I have ever tasted. It is a big one at 18%, so it needs 5+ years of aging. I am going to try to hang on to this one for 10 years as it just keeps getting better.

 

[seatazzz]

wait, what?

I miss a few years, and IPA *has* subcategories rather than *being* one, and there's a new language?

MIAB?

Missing In Action, Beer

?

uhm, *find it!*

and the timer just went off. Hopefully my mash is done.

LOL. MIAB - Mash In A Bag. Kinda like BIAB but not really. It actually turned out fantastic, hit my numbers and last night it was chugging away happily.

 

[dochawk]

Eventually I got it cooled down and into containers.

I had to scoop out the hops with my wife's colander and ladel out the wort, but . . .

And I never got a gravity reading, and really don't know whether I got a stuck sparge or didn't use enough water . . . oh, well, it's old grain that may not work anyway, and old hops . . .

LOL. MIAB - Mash In A Bag. Kinda like BIAB but not really.

Ahh. We didn't have a name for it back when.

One of the things we couldn't find was my 5 gallon nylon bag . . .

 

[seanjwalker1]

Pitched 2 pks Saflager 34/70 into Helles after cold crashing 2 days to 40°. Off and running!

 

[Abrayton]

Currently brewing Vienna Lager that had been planned for last Friday. Life...

 

[day_trippr]

Knocked out the second batch of my raspberry hibiscus wheat, getting ahead of my kegs for a change (they're all full but I expect at least a couple of kicks in the next few days).

Some brews go well, but this one was truly a walk in the park. All numbers hit or bettered - and zero time-sink screw-ups!
Gonna treat myself to a short pour of that raspberry bomb right now!

Cheers!

 

[Robert65]

Some brews go well, but this one was truly a walk in the park.

Must be something in the air (besides the plague.) Perfect Pilsner brewday here, on this weekend Wednesday.

 

[day_trippr]

I mean, brew days that I don't find some way to lose time - even just 5 minutes - are rare. It's a skill

Otoh, today was like greased lightning. No mill issues, no mlt/hlt overshoots/undershoots, no sluggish mash recirculation or lautering (which, considering this was a 45% wheat beer, was a good possibility), did not forget to actually turn on the water to the IC for 10 minutes (like the last brew )...and on and on.

Cheers! (Prolly just jinxed tf out of the next brew, but wth, we're all living for now these days )

 

[Dave Sarber]

Just ordered a bunch of grain from my LHBS, for "curbside service" pickup later today. Brewing a big azz barleywine just cuz I'm bored. Got this recipe from Omega yeast website, "10 day barleywine" using Hornindal kveik. Should solve my lack of cooled fermentation space!

 

[Harleybrew32]

Started late, but brewing a Kama Citra session IPA

 

[cmac62]

Started late, but brewing a Kama Citra session IPA

What, do you brew it with your leg over your head? LOL

 

[Sebastian Weetabix]

I have two row, a few hops, some Munich lme and some US-05 yeast!
I’M BREWING ON THE EDGE!
SOMEBODY STOP ME!

Sometimes y’all just gotta let go. Sanity is so overrated!

 

[Harleybrew32]

What, do you brew it with your leg over your head? LOL

i ain't that flexible anymore

 

[cmac62]

Im picking up a 50 lb bag of pils Saturday. Maybe brew my first all pils lager for fun.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Brewing a 20 gal batch of Scottish Export. I'll brew it and split it with my brew buddy. He'll pick up his full fermenters Saturday evening or Sunday morning. He would do the same for me.

 

[seatazzz]

If I can get my car repairs done tomorrow, will brew up another IPA on Sunday as a prize for getting it done; mainly because I'm running low on yeast, and I have an IPA in the fermenter right now that will be keggable Sunday, so can just rack right onto that yeast cake. Got everything else, except propane might futz out, but we haven't had any shortages around here....yet. Haven't decided yet on the hops, but itching to see how well Mosaic & Citra play together.

 

[hopkincr]

Brewed an IPA today with el dorado and citra and then added Ella hops as whirlpool addition. Made a galaxy/Citra IPA that has been my favorite so far; hoping this new one is even better.