5 gal of an American Brown ale that I'll be bottling next weekend
5.5 gal of a Wee Heavy that will probably be getting bottled in March or April so as to be ready by next winter.
Gotta do another FG on my robust porter today to see if it's ready for vanilla in the priming solution to bottle in time for Christmas. Not to mention a bunch of HB bottles to clean for that.
6 gallons of Prom-Cran Sour '14 8% Belgian Lambic-style Sour Ale (will be racking it onto the fruit next weekend)
6.5 gallons of Gentleman's Porter 7% Chocolate Vanilla Robust Porter
6 gallons of Belgian Golden Rye 8.5% Golden Strong with Rye
Well,I got the bottles cleaned & on the bottle tree to dry for a bit. My robust porter is @ 1.012,so that's grounds for bottling. Nice malty/roasty flavor already. Held a bit of veneer head in the hydrometer tube. Should be great with the vanilla.
Nobody else brewed today? Well I'm on a role. 3rd batch in 3 days. 5G of my best recipe. Session IPA/Strong Pale...feels great to have 3 different batches bubbling away.
My robust porter is finally ready to bottle today. Strained vanilla bean/vodka solution into priming solution,figuring I'd get the best flavor this way? Oh man,it smells like smooth,fresh vanilla. Just needs to cool a bit while I get everything else ready...
I have a Stone Ruination clone bubbling away in the basement right now. Hat tip to Yooper, as I took her clone recipe and tweaked it a little. Switched out the Magnum for Cascade.
Just finishing cleaning up after bottling day yesterday. Fermenter stand reaching maximum density after getting new fermenter delivered. gota clean some bottles & the fermenter yet. At least I kept the airlock on it to keep these pesky flies out. Still haven't figured out where they're comin from yet.
I've got my first ever all grain fermenting away. It's actually the first time I've ever gone for a straight clone of a beer: Ruination IPA. Unfortunately, as it was my first all grain, I was waaaaaaay off the mark with my efficiency and was shooting for 1.072 and wound up with 1.055. So in order to not give up on it i boiled a bit of sugar with a tiny bit of lime juice to invert it and dumped in a bit of simple sugar after the high krausen. Here's hoping it turns out ok. Turned out to be about 7% of the grain bill with the sugar so I really hope that's not too high. I've also got a barley wine conditioning but who knows how long that will take before its "ready".
My 1st and 2nd all grain batches (of just my own, anyways). ESB was pretty close, stout was way off, didn't try to fix it like I should have, gonna be a chocolate session stout once its done haha.
I formally submit that if you don't have anything in your fermentors this thread is not the place to brag to about it. If you need a "like" just PM me and I'll give ya a bunch of them
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I now have 4 different fermentors going, 2 different IPAs, an IIPA, a Pale ale and a Flanders Red that's just about ready to rack. Yes, I had some 2012 hops to use up...and got a vial of conan