What's in your fermenter(s)?

[DonWheelio]

See below.

 

[FatDragon]

A pair of 1-gallon Vienna-Simcoe SMaSH experiments (with different yeasts) that were clearly contaminated when I bottled the other two gallons a couple days ago. Gonna see what happens if I let them ride.

My bottle-harvested Westmalle yeast is in the second stage of its "is it fermenting at all?" starter buildup. I was dumb and tossed a single pellet of Nugget in the first 100mL starter wort just so I could smell it in the 10 minute simmer, now I'm not sure if the small amount of trub is just hops and break material, or if I'm getting a bit of yeast action in there as well... If it works, I should have a half-grain batch of "The Pious" running in a week or so; if not, I'm torn between caramel amber and another attempt at tea beer.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,my Irish red's been in the fermenter a week today,got my ESB brewed up for National Home Brewer's day yesterday. It's bubbling merrily this morning. Good to have both fermenters full again after so many months!

 

[JonM]

An Oktoberfest-style ale, which is chugging along with 1007 German Ale yeast at a nice cool 61 degrees. Homebrewers don't have to wait until September for Oktoberfest beers.

 

[JimmytheGeek]

So I just went back for over a month and picked up where Jimmythegeek left off. Jimmy I hope you're brewing! Get back to your baby! This thread needs ya!

Yeah, I've been away for a while, but I'm back! Planning my next 2 batches now... :rockin:

 

[kenmcchord]

Black IPA, a recipe from northern brewers.

Up this Thursday is 8 gals of a Hop Stoopid clone that was up around here a few days ago. Trying to get 6 more brews in before the 4th of July, I really want to get some brews in the pipeline.

Have a good Sunday!

 

[BUCKNUTS]

12 gallons of Oaked Vanilla Bourbon Porter


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[unionrdr]

Since the red ale should be done first,I'd like to follow suite & get a saison going next. I had a spiced one from Heavy Seas that was really good. I'm thinking of using spicy German hops to sort of duplicate that flavor on the back.
* Just ordered the Petite Saison de'ete kit from NB with the French 3711 yeast. My Irish red should be bottled in time to brew again on the 18th when the fermenter opens up. Time to re-fill the pipeline...

 

[catdaddy66]

Tonight mine will be full of my first sMasH (MO and Columbus) with us-04.


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[jbaysurfer]

Hey hey! Stoked to see Jimmythegeek back!
Got 5G of Belgian Patersbier IPA. Basically a belgian session IPA.

 

[DakotaSouth]

Plinian Legacy bottled today so we now have an Irish Stout in secondary and a Vandal Eyes PA in primary that brewed today. All are NB extract kits. Think I will try a BIAB in the real near future. Next stop on the path to all grain.

 

[Setesh]

6 gallons of my lighter (4% ABV) version of Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar clone and 6 gallons of my late hopped extra pale ale.

 

[jbaysurfer]

Plinian Legacy bottled today so we now have an Irish Stout in secondary and a Vandal Eyes PA in primary that brewed today. All are NB extract kits. Think I will try a BIAB in the real near future. Next stop on the path to all grain.

BIAB IS all grain.
5G session IPA.

 

[boydster]

Currently I have 5 gallons of Dark Side dry stout and 5 gallons of a blonde ale I'm calling Wookie Pee.

 

[Brewmex41]

6 gallons of a nelson Sauvin oaked imperial Ipa (12.7%abv) beer wine hybrid.
And I just pitched the yeast into a 3 gallon batch of Barleywine inspired by Widmer Bros drop top amber ale.

 

[unionrdr]

Just to clarify,BIAB isn't just AG. It can be used in partial mash as well. I do Partial Boil,Partial Mash biab & it works just as well for that. The mash doesn't care about it's size . My Irish red is finishing up after initial fermentation, bubbling occasionally. The ESB I brewed on NHB day is still bubbling,but not the machine pistol bubbling like yesterday. That S-04 yeast re-hydrated is pretty fast,like they say it is. I believe it now fer sher. The red might just be ready for Memorial day after all...

 

[TheCanisDirus]

Tonight mine will be full of my first sMasH (MO and Columbus) with us-04.


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Please let me know how that turns out! I was planning one f my next smashes to be GP and Columbus so i'm super interested. How much Columbus will you be using and at what times?

 

[jbaysurfer]

I'm on a tear. Today I racked 5G of Patersbier IPA, and 5G of Session IPA and 5G of Pale Ale (yes, they're different! ). Going to be brewing at least twice more this week.

 

[jbaysurfer]

Just to clarify,BIAB isn't just AG. It can be used in partial mash as well. I do Partial Boil,Partial Mash biab & it works just as well for that. The mash doesn't care about it's size . My Irish red is finishing up after initial fermentation, bubbling occasionally. The ESB I brewed on NHB day is still bubbling,but not the machine pistol bubbling like yesterday. That S-04 yeast re-hydrated is pretty fast,like they say it is. I believe it now fer sher. The red might just be ready for Memorial day after all...

Good point. I think maybe I've just seen one too many buthurt posts on HBT, and didn't want any BIAB AG brewers to get defensive.

 

[pdietert]

12 gallons of North German Altbier fixin to get kegged and lagered this week and 12 gallons of Saison fixin to get kegged.

 

[atoughram]

11 gallons of the house IPA My efficiency sucked - but it'll turn out just fine..

 

[roosmur]

I have a very light bohemian pilsner in Primary 1, getting ready for the summer, and a Fullers ESB clone in Primary 2. Fermentation finished and I have tried dry-hopping this one for some summery notes.

 

[FatDragon]

11 gallons of the house IPA My efficiency sucked - but it'll turn out just fine..

Nice conical.

Do you actually need a blowoff tube with that much headspace, or do you just do a blowoff tube with every batch to be safe? Not sure of your experiences with it, but I would suggest keeping the growler below the level of the beer - I have a fishtank that drained itself halfway twice thanks to an air-intake tube for the pump that got backed up and started to siphon until the water level inside the tank was lower than the end of the intake tube. A blowoff tube carries much greater volume of air, so it takes more pressure to start that siphon, but it can (and does) happen in certain circumstances.

 

[ChefRex]

An overpitched IPA, bubbling away

 

[MindenMan]

I still have an Irish Red Ale in my primary, as I haven't been able to bottle it yet. I found a bottle bomb today in my Strong Scottish Ale. Then another bottle bomb went off and again another. I was hoping it was a bad priming sugar blend but, a gusher went off when I opened it. Damn, that sucks. I had something happen at bottling with my priming sugar. Arrgh.

 

[atoughram]

I would suggest keeping the growler below the level of the beer

Good point! I hadnt thought about that.

It's a US plastics 17gal induction tank - This is the second year I've used it. I havent had much luck with sealing the lid so it rarely bubbles and I could do away with the blow off.

 

[STFulton1]

Ommegang Hennepin clone. SG 1.070 Gravity as of 5/4 1.008
Hope to bottle tomorrow night.

 

[unionrdr]

My Irish red has been fermenting since a week ago last Sunday. The ESB I brewed on NHB day last Saturday is already past initial fermentation as of today. Both used re-hydrated S-04 yeast. Seems like the ESB is catching up to the red quite rapidly. Many of you said,as did the manufacturer,that S-04 can ferment out quickly. Seems like that's basically true.

 

[arborman]

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[beersk]

I have a Munich gold lager with 65% Munich type I, about 33% blend of Best pils and floor malted maris otter, and a couple percent acid malt. Czech pils yeast and noble hops to about 23 IBU. Hoping for something between a Marzen and Helles. Should be good. OG was 1.053, expecting it to finish around 1.012.