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I brewed a pale yesterday. After an early morning call about losing my grandfather I took the day off and decided to brew something to honor him. I'm calling it Hoppy Pop Pop. (Insert reminder to call your loved ones) Cheers guys.
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Agonizing over what to brew this weekend; plenty of grain, a plethora of hops, propane tank is full; but the only yeast I have is either BE-256 or Loki slurry. About decided to do what we call Sabrotooth, an IPA done with Citra & Sabro (no bittering hop), fermented on Loki. Just trying to decide on the fermentation temperature; done hot (about 85), this one has incredible pineapple flavor from the yeast that is only augmented by the pineapple/coconut from the Sabro. I'm leery of running my heat lamp for the four days it will need for primary, though don't ask me why. Might just get it down to 80, set the controller to 84, and see what happens. Getting cooler at night so I don't want to do this one in the house. Arrrrgggh!!!
 
Mashed in. 12:15 Friday - it's brew-o-clock somewhere! Pushing my BIAB limits - 14 lbs of grain, 8.5 g water, 10 g pot. NEIPA IPA go-to of mine
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It's a shame we couldn't have swapped rigs today. You're banging hard on the limiter and my little dark mild was looking rather small and pitiful at the bottom of my MLT, even with a full volume, no sparge program.

Doesn't matter, though. You had more than enough room to spare.
 
I'm measuring the grain and gathering my other stuff this morning to brew a Belgian single this afternoon. My 1388 yeast starter was dead, so I will use a packet of T-58 instead.

I need to throw out all the jars of yeast slurry in my fridge, except for two jars Voss kveik yeast (an old one and the most recent.) The others, I'm not ever going to use and they are taking up precious space. I might work on that while the wort is boiling.
 
Brewed up a pale ale yesterday, bottling the oktoberfest ale I brewed 3 weeks ago tomorrow.
 
WCIPA off and running. Recipe is basically clearing leftover grains and hops I had lying around. Magnum, Simcoe, Centennial, and Cascade hops with pale malt, Morris Otter, and Crystal 60l. We'll see. No, the 2x4s are not structural. My old half blind Bassett keeps trying to walk through the new screened in porch.
 

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Started a all grain stout on Friday. This is the start of a Maple, bacon and coffee stout. 18 lbs of grain in my Anvil 10.5. OG lower than wanted at 1.070, but today with fermentation, gravity down to 1.024. Racked my Belgian Dubbel to a keg to finish aging. Started a Bourbun barrel stout a week ago. Have a 5 gallon Bourbon barrel coming from Northern brewing to second ferment in. Oktoberfest started in July has 6 more weeks to go. Black ipa has 4 more weeks until putting CO2 on it. Starting a apple cider this week to put on tap 3 of kegerator which never gets used. Ok, done. Cheers.
 
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