What's in your fermenter(s)?

[JohanMk1]

6 gallons of Irish stout, found out while I was brewing this that the previous batch is finished I'll need to brew this more often.

 

[mtnagel]

10 gallon White House porter (single variable test of liquid yeast w/ starter vs dry yeast in each 5 gallon) (split between 3 people)
5 gallon White House ale (split between 3 people)
5 gallon milk stout that will get secondaried in whiskey barrel with vanilla beans soaking in bourbon (for me)

Next week bottling the White House brews and making 5 gallons pale ale (for me) and 5 gallons DIPA (for my friend)

 

[JimmytheGeek]

Okay, I guess the Obama beers will have to go on my list. I'm finding more & more people who are brewing them. Must be halfway decent.

 

[luke_d]

Right now I've got two gallons of Oaked Vanilla Bourbon Dubbel (which I'm still trying to find a name for), and one gallon of a cider experiment.

 

[Stauffbier]

1 gal all Citra IPA
6 gal grilled pumpkin porter
6 gal Stauff's IPA

 

[meadmazer]

4 gallons CDA. 5 gallons porter. 5 gallons split batch huckleberry mead, half of which I am pretty sure has gone bad

 

[janson745]

Okay, I guess the Obama beers will have to go on my list. I'm finding more & more people who are brewing them. Must be halfway decent.

Jimmy, that has to be the saddest signature I have seen. Empty bottles, primary and secondary... Ugh, get some beer going, my man!

 

[whitebirdfeathers]

5 Gallons - Yooper's Dogfish Head 60 recipe
5 Gallons - My own begian hybrid ale

and now I wait...

 

[JohanMk1]

6 Gallons pale ale

 

[1Mainebrew]

Primary:

Cream Ale
Light Lager
Organic Hard Cider

Secondary:

Kate the Great RIS clone #4
IPA

 

[BrewChem]

Secondary - RIS
Primary - barleywine
In a few hours, another primary will have a brown porter in it...! Gotta love brew day..!!

 

[wyldewal]

6 gallons of strong bock in the primary.
6 gallons of hard cider in the secondary.
5 gallons of blueberry port that's been aging since July.
And a gallon of onion wine I'm making for cooking.

 

[OldBunny]

As of yesterday evening, Fireside Ale from William's Brewing.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

primary: Standard American Lager finishing up. decided it wasn't quite ready yet.

secondary: Imperial Sour Stout. OG 1.138 (we are 138).

bulk age: Merlot Pyment.

 

[OldBunny]

Just put up a starter of WLP037 that will go into a batch of Pale Ale next week.

 

[metanoia]

Just my Two Hearted Ale clone right now. This week it'll be joined by a SMaSH ESB and my first ever batch of EdWort's Apfelwein!

 

[smartass]

I have three on tap, stone IPA clone, sam adams clone, and old ale. In the carboys i have off kilter scotch ale and dennys imperial bourbon vanilla porter, i also have white wine and cranberry wine in fermenters.

 

[Gregwarro]

I have 5gal of apfelwein in primary and 10gal of Holiday porter just about ready to go in... Sunday Brewday!

 

[cdludlum]

I have the NB all grain kit of dry dock apricot blonde. Just getting done in the fermenter. Can't wait to try it.

 

[Veritas]

Fermenting now:
* 11 gallons of Porter
* 11 gallons of Jamil's Evil Twin (hopblasted with amarillo and centennial)
* 11 gallons of Belgian Dark Strong Ale (actually kegging this one tonight.)

 

[benpen]

First brew in months.. Midwest brewers pumpkin kit!

 

[jerrodm]

Okay, I guess the Obama beers will have to go on my list. I'm finding more & more people who are brewing them. Must be halfway decent.

So, funny story:

I brewed the White House honey ale this weekend. Normally I wouldn't make a beer like this; my standard styles are ESBs, brown ales, porters, etc. However, SWMBO tends to prefer the lighter stuff and she doesn't hassle me about my hobby so I try to make a batch that she'll like every occasionally. So I go down to the LHBS to get my supplies, and while I'm checking out I ask the guy at the counter whether he or any of the others at the shop have tried an AG version of the White House recipes. The guy gets a really disgusted look on his face and says, "Those are two beers I'll NEVER brew. Why would anyone want to do that?" And then he gave me this look like I obviously have no taste in beer or I wouldn't have even asked the question.

I mean, I tend to agree that the recipes posted by the White House aren't anything special--those guys (and yes, I'm assuming that they were probably a bunch of youngish male staffers who got the idea to do this) clearly don't have a really serious brewer among them. However, with a little tweaking I'm sure they could be OK. I got the distinct feeling that he was so disgusted by the thought of brewing White House beers, not because of the recipes themselves but because of who had brewed them. I would think he would be encouraging people to try the recipe, albeit modified perhaps, as a way to drum up more business. Anyway, it was kind of an awkward exchange.

Anyway, I don't much care. SWMBO will like it and that's the only reason I'm making it.

 

[ArcticBear]

I feel like its more because any idiot who doesnt really brew but supports obama has flooded his shop tonask about how hey can drink the same stuff as the president.

Let me clarify before this gets trolled, im not calling obama supporters idiots, just talking about people who know nothing about brewing beer and dont really care about anything other than making this recipe because the white house has released it

 

[jerrodm]

It's a good possibility. And yes, I didn't plan to turn this thread political either, so apologies to those on both sides of the fence. It just struck me as funny--I've been in that store literally dozens of times over the past year and a half, know a couple of the guys by name, and I didn't expect him to react with such disdain the way that he did. But whatever--like I said, I ain't making it for him, so I don't much care what he thinks about it!

As to whether it's worthwhile to brew these recipes or not, I can't say since this is my first go at it. But I'll report results in two months or so--SWMBO wants to break it open on Inauguration Day so that's what I'm shooting for.

 

[emmdubb23]

Can't fix stupid,
5 gallons of imperial stout sitting on scotch soaked oak chips

 

[ajbram]

Since I started brewing with a friend, I have been really bad at keeping my signature lines up to date. Here's what's underway right now.

Primary
1 - DoppleBock
2 - Cherrywood smoked maple rauchbier
3 - 80 IBU Black IPA
4 - Kolsch-style Pacific Gem Vienna SMaSH

Secondary
1 - Black Bochet Braggot

Bottled and Conditioning
1 - Irish Red
2. ESB

Bottled and Drinking
1. Double Cream Chocolate Stout
2. 80IBU Black IPA

Kegged and Drinking
1. Blackstrap Molasses Porter

 

[Majafoo]

1: Red pale ale
2: hefeweizen
3: Rye of the tiger
4: Belgian blonde
5: crabapple wine
6: sour mess.

 

[jerrodm]

Right now,

Primary: White House honey ale
Secondary: Spiced Christmas ale

Auxiliary fermenters: 10 gal. hard(ening) cider

I need to brew again this weekend--I've only got about 10 beers left of my primed-and-ready-to-go batches...yikes! But there are a couple that will be coming online within the next week or two, so things are looking OK, just a little tight in the meantime...

 

[meadmazer]

Kegged 5 gallons of Simcoe APA yesterday. Dumped apple cider and a lb of honey right back in carboy, on top of Notty yeast and some Simcoe hops. Might be interesting. Going like crazy today.
Kegging porter today.

 

[FLA-Brewer]

Currently Fermenting:

#1 - Patriot Lager
#2 - IPA

Both are going to be bottled this week