Who's brewing this weekend?

[feedthebear]

It was an all-nighter. Started boiling and sanitizing at 9:30pm. Finished boiling at 1am. Stupid electric stove take 30 minutes to just bring 3 gallons of water to a boil.

I tried the frozen/almost frozen spring water bottle trick I read in another thread. It sort of worked. I dropped the temperature from 195F to 140F in 10 minutes. But by that time, I had four gallons of wort in a 5 gallon brew pot. So I moved it to the freezer to cool. It didn’t work as fast as I hoped, but it was at pitching temperature by 5am. Thankfully, I managed to sneak a couple hours of sleep in.

I was amazed by the 1/8 inch of trub that settled out of the wort during the 3.5 hours it was in the freezer.

I’m not really that tired this morning. My wife said, “You were looking forward to it so much that it was probably really relaxing for you. Freak!”

 

[feedthebear]

I was hoping to rack to the secondary over the weekend, but its not finished in the primary yet. Looks like it won’t be ready to rack until at least Saturday.

I suppose that’s just as well. I’ve been sick as a dog all weekend. Last thing I need is to sneeze into the wort while racking.

 

[nightstrm]

I'm hoping to get my Honey Raspberry Wheat experiment started this Sunday... hopefully it'll turn out good; it's going to be drank at the Christmas party my friends always have.

 

[Brew-boy]

I brewed 2 this weekend. One was a AHS Warrior pale ale and the second was a AHS Goose Island Honker ale, first time I did back to back batches. It took all day but worth it I hope.

 

[feedthebear]

Racking the Cream Ale to the secondary tonight with the peaches.

After having peeled and pitted 7lbs of peaches, I’m starting to seriously consider using Oregon Fruit purees in future batches.

 

[Truble]

Racking my IPA, and doing my first AG!!!! For the first, I am doing the AG conversion of the extract/minimahs IPA recipe that I am bottling. Hoping to learn a lot and still get drinkable beer!

edit- actually, heading to the LHBS right now!

 

[TheJadedDog]

Bottling my pumpkin tonight and racking my newcastle clone tomorrow. Not brewing again till next weekend though.

 

[the_bird]

Hoping to get the Rocktoberfest Ale brewed on Monday. Weather looks good all weekend, so hopefully I can get enough of my outdoor projects finished up so I won't feel guilty spending time brewing. Need to find time to get to the HBS, though.

 

[andre the giant]

I've got a wedding to go to this weekend. I'm bummed because I feel the need to brew.

I've brewed 8 batches in 6 months, so I'm keeping up a good pace, but now I'm starting to run low on bottles and minikegs. I need to do two things...

1) make empty bottles
2) brew more beer

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I just finished my second brew session helping/learning from a seasoned AG brewer. We did a 17 gallon batch of his favorite pilsner recipe. I can't wait until these couple of batches have finished lagering!

 

[Axegod]

Yep, doing my second AG this Saturday. It will be quite similar to my first, but a few changes done for the sake of experimentation.

I think I'll call it Thanksgiving Pilsner.

 

[uglygoat]

making stout this weekend as the browns are crushed by the panthers. you must have a firm upper lip to root for the browns... :cross:

it's also teach a friend to brew day in the garage!

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Making a Ryeizenbock tomorrow, and showing a friend how to brew.

Have the following to make very soon:

Winter mint stout
Pumpkin Ale
Sanity In Question IPA
Winter Rest Barley Wine
Rye PA

 

[Truble]

Just started my first AG- Missed mash temp by 2*F low, so I added a little water to bring it up. Now mashing, and heating up sparge.

 

[EdWort]

I'm set for my first AG Weizen in the morning. Yeast is looking good. 9 gallons of water is filtered and ready, and this Apfelwein is pretty darn tasty!

 

[rdwj]

I made my first brandywine today and kegged my caramel cream. My grand cru is getting a bit low - I really need to make something similar REALLY quick

 

[EdWort]

My grand cru is getting a bit low - I really need to make something similar REALLY quick

I hate it when a faucet goes unused. I've got two out of 3 going right now, but one is carbonating. It's going to take a while to fill the pipeline where I have cornies chilled, conditioned, carbed & ready when one blows, but that's my goal.

Fill the piple line. Brew every other weekend.

 

[rdwj]

I hate it when a faucet goes unused. I've got two out of 3 going right now, but one is carbonating. It's going to take a while to fill the pipeline where I have cornies chilled, conditioned, carbed & ready when one blows, but that's my goal.

Fill the piple line. Brew every other weekend.

I've just got two and I'm having trouble keeping them up. I'm usually at the very end of one when a second is ready to go. I'm seriously considering 10 gallon batches even before I'm ready for AG

 

[Brewsmith]

Doing the red right now. I'll post some comments in a little while in the original post regarding it: http://homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=14243

 

[Onescalerguy]

Last weekend my gal and i bottled 2 5gal batches and brewed(extract)2 5gal batches.And also put together my mash tun(cooler conversion)This weekend we're planning to do our first AG.Also it will be our first full volume boil.I just need to form up my copper tubing for the immersion chiller.I'm so excited about it !We're already talking about sacks of grain and 10-15 gal batches.Gotta keep the pipeline goin',that's for sure.We figure that we will probably drink close to 5 gal a week(2 of us) since homebrew is just so damned good!!!!!