What's Brewing This Weekend (1-25/26)

[loopmd]

Not brewing, only consuming. SWMBO and I are also going to check out some land in Missouri on "Big Lake".

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[Wolf]

I will be brewing my first batch Saturday, Nut Brown Ale from a 20 minute boil kit.
Then it's off to a Australia Day/Homebrew Tasting party to ask what I did wrong

By the way, this is the nicest, most helpful group I've seen on a board since...well, ever! Thanks for the help from a recent lurker.

 

[Darth Konvel]

Welcome aboard, TWolf. Good luck on your first brew!

 

[jeffg]

No brewing this weekend, although tomorrow is supposed to be another perfect January brewing day of 50 degrees. Racking my my munich Helles to the secondary and may rack my Fat Tire to secondary if it keeps slowing down.

Also going to obtain ingredients for the next couple batches. Maybe a belgian alt and a quick and dirty English bitter or pale ale.......

My holiday ale keg is getting light but is peaking after about a month in the keg...

Jeff

 

[Rhoobarb]

I will be brewing my first batch Saturday, Nut Brown Ale from a 20 minute boil kit.
Then it's off to a Australia Day/Homebrew Tasting party to ask what I did wrong

By the way, this is the nicest, most helpful group I've seen on a board since...well, ever! Thanks for the help from a recent lurker.

Good luck! And welcome aboard here!

Australia Day/Homebrew Tasting party... now that sounds interesting!

 

[Wolf]

Good luck! And welcome aboard here!

Australia Day/Homebrew Tasting party... now that sounds interesting!

Thanks!

An Aussie buddy got me into homebrewing, and this is his 2nd annual Australia Day/Homebrew party. Unfortunately I was in Vegas for the first one. My wife got to go, but she was pregnant at the time, so this is the first one she'll be able to really enjoy as well.

 

[Truble]

Since the weather is gonna be nice tomorrow, I might alter my plans and start welding up my brew stand. Still going to Boston tomorrow night though

 

[Treekiller]

I will be brewing my first batch Saturday, a Heffe weizen. Got my yeast starter going Wed. night, White Labs WLP300. Wish me luck gang, I am sure I will need it.
I have to agree with the earlier post, this is the best bunch people. Thanks for putting the wealth of information where others may learn from your experiences.

I can hardly wait to see the action in my 6.5 gallon carboy!

 

[Rhoobarb]

I will be brewing my first batch Saturday, a Heffe weizen. ... Wish me luck gang, I am sure I will need it....

Good luck. I'm sure it will turn out great! Have fun!

 

[Dude]

I'll probably rack the Fat Tire cloner over to a keg, but I won't be brewing until mid Feb probably.

Have no clue what I want to brew either. Probably the Red Eye Rye or a LWPA.

Well, I just racked the LWPA over from this brew session. Good stuff. First time I used Amarillo. Smooth bitterness, not near the bite those Perle hops had. I'm lovin' me some amarillo.

Now I have to kill this smoked porter so I can put the LWPA on tap. Anyone wanna come over?

So when does this week's installment of "Who's Brewing?" come out?
I have 2 planned for this weekend.

 

[Alembic]

If we are up to talking about the March 3rd-4th weekend I will be brewing a California Common and racking a SNPA clone to secondary and trying a recipe from charlie p's book called cherries in the snow. After the lengthy discussion about adding fruit to the brew I want to do an ale with cherries. The cool thing is I work at a bakery and I ordered through the shop a cherry puree through a distributer that is a good quality and should hopefully work out well!

By the way is it a law or something that every homebrewer does a SNPA clone at one point or other? Its just that I see that a lot in these posts since I started reading. :rockin:

 

[UNOmar]

By the way is it a law or something that every homebrewer does a SNPA clone at one point or other? Its just that I see that a lot in these posts since I started reading. :rockin:

Well, I only have 1 secondary and 1 set of bottles so I won't be brewing for the next couple of weeks, but as you can see in my sig next up is a SNPA clone.
I guess it's just part of the ritual. And a tasty ritual at that.

 

[Wolf]

After trying Sprecher's Generation Porter, I'm going to try making a 'Generation' Stout this weekend, light chocolate and raspberry flavors.

If you're in the Midwest and you see Sprecher's Generation Porter, it's definately worth a try.

 

[Rhoobarb]

Well, I just racked the LWPA over from this brew session. Good stuff. First time I used Amarillo. ...

I've got some Amarillos in the freezer, waiting to be used. Nice, aren't they?! I had an IPA at Great Dane in Madison, WI the last two weekends in a row. They use a lot of Amarillo in it and it is wonderful. Bitter, but smooth - not harsh. It is appropriately called Texas Speed Bump. I brought a growler of it back home with me, but alas, it is all gone!

No brewing for me this weekend. Instead, my girlfriend Kelly is going to try her hand at her very first brew (with me there to assist) at her home. It's an extract with grains version of Yukon Brewing's Arctic Red from BYO!

 

[Truble]

I might not brew this weekend, and instead start welding up the frame for my brew rig. Just took delivery of my burners, and my sanke keg is going to the welder tomorrow. I bought all the fittings for it today, so I will be able to assemble it this weekend as well. I am hoping to have some base functionality going by the weekend's end.

The main thing I am trying to decide on now is what type of screen.filter/bottom to use in my boiler. I typically like "homemade solutions", so I am looking to fabricate something. I was looking at some of my stainless collinders in the kitchen tonight, and was having 'evil' thoughts..........

If I brew, though, it will probably be YAPA (Yet another Pale Ale), though my LHBS had a nice English Mild on tap last weekend that I wouldn't mind making either...

 

[todd_k]

I'm gonna be poop-faced. My Pale Ale will be 10 days in the bottle as of this Friday. I'm actually going to sample my 2nd bottle tonight.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Right on, Hurricane.

I brewed last weekend (MacTarnahan's Amber clone) and bottled my Weihenstephan clone tonight...still cloudy after 40 days in the secondary! (don't ask) Planning to tour Carolina Brewing Co. with some other board denizens and generally follow Hurricane Floyd's lead.

 

[Dude]

I'm brewing a version of Sam75's honey wheat. Replaced the Atuhnum hops with Glacier. This one is for SWMBO. I'm thinking about splitting this batch and adding blueberry to half.

I also saved the slurry from the LWPA batch for a honey pale ale recipe I devised. Probably brew that early next week though. Psyched for that one too. In a honey kick right now!

 

[Dude]

By the way is it a law or something that every homebrewer does a SNPA clone at one point or other? Its just that I see that a lot in these posts since I started reading. :rockin:

I'll bet my next paycheck it is the homebrewers' most cloned beer. That and Hoegaarden.

 

[RichBrewer]

This weekend (March 4th and 5th) I won't be brewing but I will be kegging my ESB and transferring my honey ale to the secondary. I need to free up a fermenter for 06.06.06 to be brewed on the 13th of March.

 

[Lou]

i'm brewing deroux's turbodog clone tomorrow night....

 

[Alembic]

I didn't know that Hoegaarden was a popular style/(brand?) to home brew.

How would you describe it? Is there an attraction to brewing it besides what I would obviously guess is taste?

Speaking of styles I went out and bought a couple brands of wheat beer - Blue Moon Belgian White and SN wheat. To be honest I never tried a wheat beer before because for whatever reason the sound of a "wheat" beer didn't appeal to me. BUT now that I've tried them now I want to brew them!! They are much fruitier tasting than I expected and lighter as well. They seem like a good summer time beer. Am I correct?

Anyway, THANK YOU Home Brew forum for your influence in making me want to try the wheat style ale. I probably wouldn't have otherwise.