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5 gallons of Centennial Blond. 5 Gallons of a nifty dry export style stout. 5 gallons of Irish Red Ale. (I have it on good authority that there is a beer and food oriented holiday a mere 8 weeks or so away, and i did not want to arrive unprepared) (OOOH - Almost forgot: Just put two large pieces of leg-o-pig, and a very hefty piece of chuck into the bucket of Pop's brine as well. The first for traditionalists who wish for Colcannon on the anointed day, and the later for the corned beef aficionado! I hope this counts - since it is a bucket and is sort of fermenting:rolleyes:)
 
I just bottled a dubbel and then a tripel, leaving two empty fermenters. Then today two brand new fermonsters showed up and now all four are sitting here staring at me. Empty fermentor fever is setting in; I might attempt my first double-header on saturday.
 
For now a octoberfest lager that I am doing as an ale, but come Friday I’m going to shoot for a double header, with a milk chocolate stout and a alt bier, 5 gal batches
 
5 gallons of Brown Ale
5 gallons of Porter
5 Gallons of Irish Red
5 gallons of ESB
5 gallons of Pale ale with no dry hopping
 
12 gallon batch split 3 ways.
4gal WLP590 French Saison
4gal WLP644 Saccharomyces Bruxellensis Trois
4gal US-05 as a neutral control. Never used the White Labs version of French Saison (only Wyeast) and never used the Brux. But a sacch previously thought to be a brett intrigued me!
 
That should last you a couple weeks.

:yes: That's the idea.

I share a lot of it with myself, friends and family. But I also have some people that buy some of the beer, so instead of just brewing 5 gallons of what I like, I brew 5 x 5 gallons of what I like and get to taste more than one variety. I say it's win-win. ;)
 
5 gals of nut brown ale and 5 gals of mystics raging red.

Can't wait to drink the both of em!
 
Black IPA, basically adjusting a Wookie Jack clone to my preferences.
OG 1.084

This was my first trial with some new equipment and trying out a manual HERMS set up. The brew day was rough. I couldn't get my new Captain Crush grain mill to work right for awhile. It just kept spinning only one roller and not catching the other. Then, while trying to recirculate my mash through an old copper immersion chiller in my HLT, the temp of the mash kept varying so much. It was much more difficult to keep the temp consistent than in my test with just water. Adjusting the speed of the pump, and the flame on the HLT, wasn't working as well as I'd hoped. I may try to get better burners and put solenoid valves on them with controllers. Then, when transferring to the carboy, the plate chiller clogged. At least I thought it did, because it ran just fine when I was cleaning it, but wouldn't pump any more while I was transferring. Maybe I will put an SS braid on boil kettle to hopefully prevent debris from getting in there. On top of that, it was freezing outside.

On the plus side, I hit my numbers exactly, which I've never done with my previous, orange cooler mash tun.
 
:yes: That's the idea.

I share a lot of it with myself, friends and family. But I also have some people that buy some of the beer, so instead of just brewing 5 gallons of what I like, I brew 5 x 5 gallons of what I like and get to taste more than one variety. I say it's win-win. ;)
Don't think I'd admit that...
 
American ale made with Hallertau and Northern Brewer bittering and Azacca aroma hops. I'm really liking what Azacca has done to the nose of the wort... can't wait to bottle and taste!
 
Currently have 25 gallons of a 9.5% Coconut Chocolate Imperial Porter (with a touch of vanilla). 57 gallons of a 6.3% IPA, packed with Columbus, Simcoe and Centennial and 53 gallons of a 2xIPA, 8.5%, with Cascade, Citra and Amarillo. Kegged the contents of our other 3 the end of last week. Time to fill them again.
 

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