So who's brewing this weekend?

[jcav]

Brewing a pumpkin ale right now for Thanksgiving that is always requested by family and my neighbors. Sitting out on the back lanai hearing the pumps going and sipping some coffee. The birds are singing and life is good!


John

 

[MrClint]

I just brewed the "Whitehouse Honey Ale" kit from Craft A Brew. It was delivered right to my doorstep off of Amazon. so why not brew it today? LOL
Here's a blurb from Amazon:

• PRESIDENTIAL ALE – Fit for discerning beer drinkers and diplomats alike! This White House Honey Ale features a golden color and a hoppy aroma and comes straight from President Obama’s coveted presidential beer recipe.

It's a special occasion beer to crack open while watching the mid-term election results in November. Good times!

 

[BrewZer]

Sounds great. What is the batch size?

Nominal 5 gallon - I start with 8, usually get about 6 into the fermenter, lose about .75 to trub. At least 24 22 oz bottles and several 12's or a couple 16s.

 

[BrewZer]

It's a special occasion beer to crack open while watching the mid-term election results in November. Good times!

Good call. EVERYONE will find a reason to drink after this upcoming election...

 

[Kemo]

I tried brewing last weekend... got burned by a defective grain bag (had about a 4mm gap in it). As an extract brewer, I'm not sure what to go with for a supplier. NB seems to struggle with fulfilling orders. I feel they need to do a better job of communicating this to prospective brewers... it appears you can no longer call them, there's no way to use their "chat" since they're offline, and email appears to be the only way to go.
I'm at the mercy of trying Amazon with Brewer's Best kits (got burned on the latest kit), and MoreBeer appears to be the best solution in my future as of this point.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Running off a brown porter

It’s done and pitched. Here’s a picture of the post-boil pH sample. Very pleased with the color and the brown malt and invert #3 are playing nicely together. Should be good.

 

[AlexKay]

School is on fall break so I've brewed this weekend and will continue brewing all next week. On the agenda:

• NEIPA (Harlequin and BRU-1), 2.5 gallons (brewed yesterday)
• Fennel Pollen Stout, 2.5 gallons
• American Spiced Wheat (cinnamon and orange peel), 1.25 gallons
• Mango APA (Citra), 1.25 gallons
• Spruce Ale, 1.25 gallons
• Blonde Ale (Harlequin), 1.25 gallons

 

[SlobberinDog]

Trying to get my clone of Ten Sleep’s “speedgoat” golden ale dialed in. Mash just about complete and damn it’s smelling good here in the shop

 

[seatazzz]

Wrong thread. No grain until I hit the LHBS this weekend. Ho hum I'm just gonna go post in the correct thread. Keep moving folks, nothing to see here....

 

[SlobberinDog]

I tried brewing last weekend... got burned by a defective grain bag (had about a 4mm gap in it). As an extract brewer, I'm not sure what to go with for a supplier. NB seems to struggle with fulfilling orders. I feel they need to do a better job of communicating this to prospective brewers... it appears you can no longer call them, there's no way to use their "chat" since they're offline, and email appears to be the only way to go.
I'm at the mercy of trying Amazon with Brewer's Best kits (got burned on the latest kit), and MoreBeer appears to be the best solution in my future as of this point.

For what it’s worth I use morebeer for about 99% of my equipment purchases. They have been nothing but a joy to do business with. One negative thing I will say about them is that if I ever see a shipment coming from their PA warehouse I’ll avoid hitting order, long time to ship out and once it got here it looked like the box inside of the big box went through Ukraine in a Russian tank. But all that aside they have been amazing to deal with and make everything right.

 

[AlexKay]

For what it’s worth I use morebeer for about 99% of my equipment purchases. They have been nothing but a joy to do business with. One negative thing I will say about them is that if I ever see a shipment coming from their PA warehouse I’ll avoid hitting order, long time to ship out and once it got here it looked like the box inside of the big box went through Ukraine in a Russian tank. But all that aside they have been amazing to deal with and make everything right.

MoreBeer has been pretty good for me, too. There’s also RiteBrew, which is sometimes rather cheaper, and my experience with them has been good, too.

 

[SlobberinDog]

MoreBeer has been pretty good for me, too. There’s also RiteBrew, which is sometimes rather cheaper, and my experience with them has been good, too.

I’ll be sure to check them out!

 

[Abrayton]

Morebeer is great. Much better prices than the other big 2 that got bought out a few years ago. Easy to contact and very good about correcting any mistakes, which are few, but do happen.

 

[Sunfire96]

Brewed my first ever altbier yesterday. Gave it a huge repitch of yeast from a recent kolsch. Trying to keep it under 64F, fingers crossed!

 

[Ren06]

Planning on doing a Braggot this weekend with 2row and probably magnum hops

 

[riceral]

Brewed a German Pils yesterday. First time trying a German Pils. Used Viking Pilsner malt, which I have heard nothing but good about. Magnum at 60 minutes, Hallertau Mittelfrauh at 5 minutes. Diamond Lager yeast. OG 1.050. 4.5 gallons.

 

[AlexKay]

Planning on doing a Braggot this weekend with 2row and probably magnum hops

Love braggots; have one fermenting now. What variety of honey?

 

[Ren06]

Love braggots; have one fermenting now. What variety of honey?

Probably clover or wildflower

 

[SlobberinDog]

I’m going to rock a galaxy session IPA this weekend. Got to fill up the new fermzilla Triconical that hopefully arrives on Thursday

 

[jdauria]

Planning on a British Brown ale this weekend, and if time permits, maybe a Schwarzbier also.

 

[FugacityBrews]

Having some fun this weekend with what is essentially a hoppy SMASH with enigma. Going to be using some amyloglucosidase, mash hopping with halleratu, and using OYL-403 lunar crush. I'm hoping it comes out quite dry and wineish. Not sure whether I really want to use the amyloglucosidase just yet, especially considering I'm already using a decently attenuative yeast and mashing low. That will probably be a game time decision.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Got a SNS starter going last night. Woke up to it rip roaring ready to go.

Brewing up an easy peasy bitter. English PA malt, 10% wheat, 10% demerara. Fuggle & Cluster in the boil. WLP-037. 1.044/35IBU

 

[grampamark]

Brewing a Dunkelweizen today. 49% wheat, 49% caramunich, 2% pale chocolate. Beersmith predicts .047 OG, 17 IBU, 21 SRM.

 

[seatazzz]

Heading to the LHBS later to restock base malts; tomorrow will probably brew up a batch of modified Bodhizafa clone. Got 2lb of Citra from YVH this week, also a 20ml thing of Mosaic Incognito™; going to give it a try, heard good things about it.

 

[Chorgey]

Brewed a Foreign Export Stout today. Yet another brew day that didn't go as planned. I was getting ready to try my conical for the first time and couldn't locate one of the TC gaskets. The Mrs. (thankfully) found the gasket, so I ended up placing the wort in a brew bucket, set in the fermentation chamber overnight and I will transfer to the conical in the morning. I'm just itching to use it.

 

[passedpawn]

Pilsner and India Pale Lager, now fermenting in chest freezer.

 

[SlobberinDog]

Got a SNS starter going last night. Woke up to it rip roaring ready to go.

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Brewing up an easy peasy bitter. English PA malt, 10% wheat, 10% demerara. Fuggle & Cluster in the boil. WLP-037. 1.044/35IBU

My stir plate did the same thing when I woke up this morning lmao! I guess the omega pack was viable!

 

[SlobberinDog]

Brewing a nice galaxy session IPA this morning with Mr. Arlo Red

 

[Group W]

Brewing an Altbier. Drinking an APA for inspiration. Lid partially on kettle to ward off the lightstruck demons.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Made a German Pils yesterday and tortured the hopstopper. It shrugged off the abuse.