What's Brewing This Weekend?

[Cheesefood]

Depending on how tomorrow goes, I might make my blueberry melomel.

My Dead Fly Ale may end up absolutely ass-tacular.

 

[McCall St. Brewer]

Probably nothing. Winter has come to Wisconsin and that means no more brewing outside for awhile. SWMBO will kill me if I try to go back to brewing in the house.

Oh, well. It's an el nino year. Maybe it will warm up again next week.

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

Probably nothing. Winter has come to Wisconsin and that means no more brewing outside for awhile.

Huh? There was a high of about 4*F here yesterday and I brewed....

 

[aekdbbop]

making a golden ale.. my first light (in color) beer...

 

[Johannes]

Making Cristal a Cuban pilsner. Racked my Pilsner Urquell to secondary. Lagering Bitburger pils and another Czech pilsner.

 

[Evan!]

What's brewing? Some new stud walls and electrical work. Tonight, I imbibe with my crew on some Eau-de-Vie distilled deliciousness, which, given all the work I did yesterday and this morning, will be well-earned. I just don't envy my future self...like...tomorrow-morning-self...

But I needed a weekend off from brewing. Blasphemy, perhaps, but I've been brewing like it's goin' outta style. It's nice to hang it up for one weekend at least

 

[the_bird]

:rockin:

Hit 79% efficiency on my pale ale!

:rockin:

Best I've done by far (previous high was 70%). Finally remembered to add the PH buffer to the mash for the full period, and since I was doing a modest brew (was counting on a 1048 OG), I was able to sparge (batch sparge) for more than I usually would. Hit my 5.5 gallon target spot-on.

Other that the propane tank almost catching on fire and nearly taking out the neighborhood, a GREAT session!

 

[Evan!]

Go bird! Nicely done, brother. So, no life-threatening injuries, I presume?

 

[trinitone]

Brewed up a Tripel yesterday and showed SWMBO that my current brew pot is WAY too small. So today I am shopping around for a keggle and the assorted bits and pieces. AG here I come... slowly but surely.

 

[RichBrewer]

Other that the propane tank almost catching on fire and nearly taking out the neighborhood, a GREAT session!

I nearly did that too. I didn't know it but my gas supply line from the tank touched part of the metal framework of the cooker and melted through. The hose is metal encased in rubber. It melted enough the rubber and gas started leaking out.
Always watch where your gas line is and don't let it come in contact with your burner!

 

[the_bird]

I didn't realize that the connections had gotten loosened up a bit; there was a bit of a leak where the hose connects to the burner. When I turned the flame up, the gas leaking out caught on fire, which was a little bit freaky. No injuries, though - although it scared the crap out of me.

It was also only a four-and-a-half hour process, start to finish, and that was even having to wait a bit longer than I should have for my sparge water. Fastest AND most efficient; I'm liking these smaller beers...

 

[Mike B]

I'm making another pale ale tonight. Tweaking the recipe and adding some more hops.

I'm about halfway throught the boil right now, and I'm about to start sanitizing everything. I wasn't planning on brewing today, but I needed something to help me get over the loss to Chicago today . . .