Who is Brewing this 4th of July....or at least the weekend?

[Hoppity]

Halfway through mash on a Honey-Brown Bourbon-Oaked Ale. Unwilling Barley Crusher stalled the process. Mash should have been in 3 hours ago. Slight detour to BMW dealer to drop off son's car for service. Didn't know you have to be listed on insurance policy to get loaner. Got shuttled back home in courtesy car and solved mill problem. Holy "Brewus Interruptus".

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Did a saison yesterday. Bone-simple: all pilsner malt, mashed 147 for 90, continental hops, and a big starter of WLP566.

 

[The10mmKid]

Brewing Sunday the 5th.
Work had me passing through Indianapolis Wednesday, so I had to stop in Great Fermentations. Couldn't leave empty-handed . . . . spread the love.

http://shop.greatfermentations.com/product/brain-eater-pale-all-grain-kit/all-grain-beer-kits

1028 London Ale starter on the stirrer.

Have a great 4th,
'da Kid

 

[dad23ds]

View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1435947069.035776.jpg 5 gallon PM Stout

 

[TechyDork]

Don't know if it counts or not, but brewed up a Coconut Brown last night.

 

[kh54s10]

Brewing up my third version of Brown Eyed Girl. Lighting the flame for the boil right now.

 

[dcrog]

Just finished 5.5 gallons of eschatz's Requiem Raspberry base all grain version with the intent of kegging in a couple of weeks with half second fermenting as Raspberry and the other half Blackberry.

Numbers came out perfect so we'll see what happens later.

 

[Brew_G]

I'll try to brew tomorrow, July 3. I have a blonde/pale ale in mind - 1.049, 4 oz of a Summer/Rakau split, with Notty (first time using it).

This'll be my last summer beer before I get into fall mode with a Maris Otter pumpkin ale and a hopped-up brown ale.

Brew day started at 6:35 am since the pup woke me up at around 6:10. Wife and daughter stayed in bed until 7:45, so I was nearly done with my mash by the time they were up. Pitched Notty into my new Speidel 30L fermenter at 10:40 or so. Relying on an ice bath is the long pole in the proverbial tent on my brewday, but this was my shortest brewday so far. Maybe not the most relaxing, but I wanted to get this done to get my pipeline up and running before I start brewing these upcoming longer-conditioning beers.

 

[mdwilson]

Just finished getting 5 gal. of Bier Muncher's Kona Firerock clone into the fermenter.

 

[OleBrewing]

Won't be brewing, but will be drinking a victory blonde ale on the 4th for sisters wedding.
All 2row with victory being the specialty grain. Seemed fitting for the date.

 

[mbobhat]

Brewing Sunday the 5th.
Work had me passing through Indianapolis Wednesday, so I had to stop in Great Fermentations. Couldn't leave empty-handed . . . . spread the love.

http://shop.greatfermentations.com/product/brain-eater-pale-all-grain-kit/all-grain-beer-kits

1028 London Ale starter on the stirrer.

Have a great 4th,
'da Kid

Cool brew store there. Awesome that they have a zombie dust clone kit! Enjoy. I forgot about London ale yeast. That would be a good sub for me from the usual S05 kick I've used for my last 4 brews.

 

[schematix]

Done!

The rest of the weekend involves consuming previous brews.

 

[jaydlaw]

Brewing tomorrow, a Saison with citra hops

 

[ram5ey]

Brewed an American Stout on the 3rd. Just finishing up primary now. WLP002 is a beast.

 

[TallDan]

I expect I will brew on the 4th or 5th since I plan to go fishing/camping the following weekend. I'll probly brew an IPA and smoke some ribs as well.

Can I borrow your time machine?

 

[JonM]

1.21 Gigawats!

 

[m1k3]

Here is an update on the IPA that I brewed on the 3rd.... In a few days I plan to cold crash, warm back up to cellar temp and then dry hop.

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 16.07 gal
Post Boil Volume: 14.82 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 13.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 13.05 gal
Estimated OG: 1.068 SG
Estimated Color: 6.5 SRM
Estimated IBU: 124.5 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 67.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 70.7 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
20 lbs 11.0 o Pale Malt (2 Row) US ( Grain 1 55.4 %
10 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2 Grain 2 26.8 %
6 lbs 11.0 oz Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 3 17.9 %
2.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [1 Hop 4 36.3 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.90 %] - Hop 5 10.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [1 Hop 6 13.2 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boi Hop 7 10.9 IBUs
2.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [1 Hop 8 22.0 IBUs
2.00 oz Centennial [10.90 %] - Hop 9 13.1 IBUs
2.00 oz Citra [13.90 %] - Boil Hop 10 12.2 IBUs
2.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boi Hop 11 6.3 IBUs
1.00 oz Citra [13.90 %] - Boil Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
4.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/ Yeast 13 -
3.00 oz Centennial [10.90 %] - Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
3.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [1 Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
3.00 oz Citra [13.90 %] - Dry Hop 16 0.0 IBUs
3.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 17 0.0 IBUs


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out
Total Grain Weight: 37 lbs 6.1 oz
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Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 12.48 gal of water 149.0 F 75 min

Sparge: Batch sparge with 3 steps (Drain mash tun , 4.44gal, 4.44gal) of 168.0 F water
Notes:
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Brew Day: 7/3/15

heated HLT to 168F

150F mash rest from 11:40 to 12:40

1:41pm - 2oz Columbus

2:14pm - 1oz Columbus

2:16pm - 1oz Simcoe

2:21pm - 2oz Columbus

2:26pm - 2oz - Centenial

2:31pm - 2oz Citra

2:36pm - 2oz Simcoe

2:41pm - 1oz Citra

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Collected 4.5 gallons in each of three fermenters.

Could only chill into the 90s due to hose water temp

Chilled down to 75F before pitching 4x US-05 into the three fermenters

Continued to chill down to 64F, held for two days then ramped up 1F at a time to 70F

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[ahariton]

Good luck on the 10 gallon batch! My boil kettle is only 10.5 so I usually do around 7-8 gallons, or just enough to top off the corny keg after losses if I'm not bottling. I will be doing a orange honey wheat soon as well. The recipe on HBT here but I think I'll add the late citruisy hops just because I've got them.

10g worked out ok in my keggle, with some slight modifications.

20# grain bill.

Instead of being able to mash in with full volume, I started with 10g.

After the mash, I drained about 4g out of the keggle. I added 4 gallons as a pour over sparge, then pulled the grain bag. Finally, I added the "first runnings" back in, giving me a 13g pre-boil volume.

Will definitely do this again for future batches.