So who's brewing this weekend?

[2row]

American Brown Ale today. Looking forward to this, first time new recipe.

 

[Abrayton]

Either a Belgian Quadruple or a Hibiscus Saison

 

[Punx Clever]

Saturday is going to be a Dunkel Dopplebock. I screwed it up last time learning how to use my Spike Solo... I've got it sorted out now.

 

[day_trippr]

Tomorrow (Tuesday): brewing my SN Fantastic Haze clone.
Thursday (knock on wood - just building the starter now) I hope to get in another batch of the popular Treehouse Orange Julius clone...

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

Knocked out the Fantastic Haze without much ado.
Cooked up, gassed up, hooked up and ready to rock...

This will be the first outing for my "FermCam"

That's an ESP32-CAM board with the application that actually works! Even the LED "flash" light works!
Resolution isn't going to knock anyone's socks off but for $7 plus some stuff from my parts stash this could save me some observational trips to check whether there's a krausen problem...

Meanwhile this 1318 starter is looking nearly done. I'll let it run the full 24 so it'll go in the fridge around 10 tonite, and hopefully will use this week...

Cheers! (time for a beer! )

 

[DuncB]

Like the camera, I could repurpose my clever dog cam for that role. It has built in Infra red light so can see in the dark. But then how would I watch the A24 rat trap?

 

[day_trippr]

Aliexpress another one? Or a handful?

They are so cheap - but tbh until the "demonstration" software package was fixed by a random user (bless whomever that was ) they were barely useful. Now - as uber cheap low res observation platforms - they could find their way into all kinds of usage models.

I have four of the wee beasties and use a pair of them as "NestCams" to observe the bird nests under our deck ("Real Life, Up Close" ). And I am planning on using one to "see" the "% full" dial gauge on the 330 gallon buried propane tank at our cabin up in the mountains (the gauge is under a pivoting steel "conning tower" and being able to check the tank from 200 miles away would be a huge benefit!)

Cheers!

 

[DuncB]

Yes and during the lockdown being sent a message and a video of a rat approaching the trap and possibility of the coup de gras it was the only live sport.
Now there is a bit more choice.
Will have to add to my aliexpress order.

 

[day_trippr]

The Spousal Unit will be attending a mass sibling birthday celebration (she is 1 of 7) so I'm good to go - everything is staged for a Thursday Brew Day
Meanwhile, Tuesday's brew is chugging along. So far no worries. Gotta love the FermCam(tm)

 

[day_trippr]

My 12th Julius batch is done and done! Nailed all the metrics except time - burners emptied the cylinder and I didn't notice for almost a half hour. Duh.
All pumped full of O2 and hooked up to purge the two kegs it'll end up in...

We are having our load center upgraded to 200A next Wednesday, which should be just enough time to get both of these batches to a stable SG so they can ride through the most-of-the-day loss of power without anything untoward happening. It was scheduled for Monday but blessedly got pushed back two days

Cheers!

 

[k-os]

I'll be brewing a Pale Ale this weekend with Citra and Huell Melon, and fermenting with Omega Sundew. I just got my starter spinning now and will be overbuilding it so I can harvest and save some of the yeast. This will be my first brew on my 15 gallon kettle (BIAB) after having done around 40 batches on my 10 gallon kettle. Mainly a "break-in" run on the new kettle to verify my equipment profile in Brewfather.

 

[orionol73]

so you can see your fermentation...but i gotta ask, if you are going to a birthday somewhere, can you adjust things if you see it going off the rails?!?

 

[day_trippr]

If that was aimed at me, the answer is "Yes - depending".

I have full cool/heat temperature control of each of my three fridges, accessible anywhere with an interwebs connection. I've exploited that ability for ramping when I was away from home, and there were a couple of fermentations this fall that I had the wife check on and adjusted the temperatures based on her observation (note I'm talking "tweaks" of a degree F).

So, if I see krausen rising up into the neck of a carboy I can drop the temperature and see if there's a response.
This is getting close

Cheers!

 

[seatazzz]

Almost recovered from the mild case of 'rona I caught this week, so planning a brewday tomorrow, if I feel up to it. Fever is almost completely down this morning, just have some post-nasal issues and a bit weak in the knees. Later today I'll get the grain milled; it goes in a sealed bucket so if I decide against brewing tomorrow it won't be hurt. Also have to send the husband out for propane since I'm on lockdown here until at least Wednesday; gotta love having enough grain and hops on hand to brew whatever I need to. The only heavy lifting my system requires is pulling up the grain bag from the tun when it's time to drain, since my usual grain bill for this recipe is only 12lbs I can handle that.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

Brewed a 5 gal batch of a Pale Ale with Amarillo today. This one checked a few boxes for me.

• I purchased the Amarillo about 2 years ago and it has been sealed up in my freezer so I used up half that 8 oz pack.
• I recently picked up some malts from Murphy & Rude in Charlottesville Virginia. This batch is 93% Pale and 7% Crystal 40 (both from Murphy & Rude). I have a Saison fermenting made with Pils, Rye and Biscuit from them.
• I have been wanting to try out more dry yeast and just try yeasts other than American/Chico for my Pale Ales and IPAs. I split this one with half US-05 and half S-33.

I almost always have dry hopped my Pale Ales with 1 or 2 oz of hops. The last Pale Ale I made I fermented in a keg. Since I have not figured out a good way to dry hop in a keg I just moved the 2 oz of dry hops to a hop stand at 170F. I really liked the hop character in that beer so I did the same strategy here. 18 IBUs of Columbus at 30 min, 1 oz of Amarillo at 10 min, 1 oz of Amarillo at flameout, and 2 oz Amarillo for 20 minutes at 170F (no dry hop planned). I am sure the beers look much darker in this pic than they will in the glass.

 

[danimal92sport]

Brewing a Centennial Blonde, which my wife named, “Corky StClair Sesquicentennial Blonde” for any Waiting for Gufman fans out there. Got my brewing buddies giving me company again today

 

[Medicbrewer]

Not brewing, per se, but prepping for a brew day, hopefully, next weekend. Today it's "build a chiller" day as well as "upgrade your mash tun" day!

 

[camonick]

Just mashed in a new recipe. @Beerwildered Honey Brown Ale. Hopefully my version tastes as good as his.

 

[Miller4]

First brew in over a year, working on getting the pipeline back up and running for summer. 10 gal batch of my house beer skipping stone blonde, variation of centennial blonde.

 

[SMD]

Today I brewed my first lager, a Vienna Lager. Got a helper to run the mill.

 

[Barbarossa]

My first brown beer. Special request from friends who wanted a caramel focused brown beer.

7# Vienna
2# 75lvb
1# 35 lvb
1# 10 lvb
1# red wheat
6
70 minutes @156F
Wyeast 1099 whitbread
120 minutes gentle boil

 

[k-os]

Brewed a 5 gallon batch of Citra and Huell Melon Pale Ale and Omega Sundew yeast on Saturday to break-in the new 15 gallon kettle. Need to tweak my equipment profile now that I can whirlpool and leave some trub behind in the kettle.

 

[seatazzz]

Today and tomorrow left for the obligatory quarantine, so since I'm feeling a bit better did a major clean of the garage/brewspace; all boxes broken down and in the overflowing recycle bin, trash in a big contractor bag, and everything (almost) put away where it belongs. Still have to gather a bunch of tools that went astray (don't they always?) and do laundry. Lots of sit-down breaks in between, I'm not quite all there yet, but I hate sitting here idle when there are things to do. Also sipped on some more of the Bodhizafa clone that got kegged the other day, the more I have the more I like it.

 

[day_trippr]

Wow. If my 2x Moderna vaccination gets busted by a variant I'd be happy to do half as well getting back as you have so far

Cheers!

 

[jrgtr42]

I need to get a minute to brew in the next few days. My annual pale ale for the kiddo's birthday party (who knows if there will be a party this year - last year we didn't, but the keg was repurposed for a cul-de-sac, socially distanced graduation party.
I was hoping to brew today - we sent the kiddo to auntie and uncles for the day and night, |I did have to work this morning, so I was hoping to brew when I got home. Of course, SWMBO had other plans and kept me running around doing errands until a few mintues ago. Dinner just went on the grill, (salmon and green beans) so even if I got things started now it would be midnight or after by the time I was done.
Gonna have to eek out time somewhere else along the way.
|Also may need to do another one soon after per request of the other neighbor, who also has a graduation this year. He also homebrews, but wants to hedge his bets on how his comes out.

On top of brewing, I need to get the yeasts I had incubating into glycerine mix for freezing. |I can do that the same time- it's just making up the styrofoam insulator that will not be fun, and I don't want to do that with brews going.

 

[MaxStout]

Plan to brew a Witbier this coming weekend. 5 lbs Belgian Pilsner, 5 lbs flaked wheat, 1 lb flaked oats, and a little sauermalz for pH adjustment. I zested a few oranges, and have some Indian coriander. I don't have any noble hops on hand, but have some Triple Perle I'm interested to try in this. Will pitch Mangrove Jack's M21.

Glad I looked up a data sheet on the Pilsner malt I bought. It's Castle malt, diastatic power is on the low side, only 76 Lintner. With all the adjuncts, the mash will only average out to around 35L, so I'll add some amylase enzyme to the mash.

 

[seatazzz]

Wow. If my 2x Moderna vaccination gets busted by a variant I'd be happy to do half as well getting back as you have so far

Cheers!

I like to think it's all the vitamin B I get from the yeast....at least that's what I keep telling myself. and I meant to post this in what I did for beer today, oops.

 

[BrewMan13]

Looking to brew up a foreign extra stout this weekend - first crack at it - another dark beer style to check off the list. As usual my brewing is already outpacing my drinking

 

[BongoYodeler]

Taking today day off from work to brew an IPA. It's one I've brewed a couple times before, hopped with Citra and Idaho7. Changing up the yeast though, it'll be my first time using Verdant.

 

[cmac62]

Last weekend I brewed two beers (haven't done that in a long time). 1. all marris otter with 2 oz cascade at 60 then 1 oz Kohatu at 10 and FO with Omega Hornidal Kveik at 85* 2. all pilsner with 2 oz cascade at 60 then 1 oz Hal Mit at 10 and FO with Omega Hothead Kveik at 85* The pils is in a Fermonster and still has a inch of krausen. I wonder if I need to be concerned. I heard these yeasts were fast.