Who's brewing today?

[uuurang]

Bottled 5 gals. of Old Ale into the wee hours of night Sat. Got up early Sun. morn to mash and boil Brewpastor's Water to barleywine. How I got 8.5 gals from 10 total gallons water, I have no idea!?(new to All-graining) Anyways, a long boil it was to get back to 5 gals.
Oh yeah transfered a Belgian wit, with some help from SWMBO in between to make room for the Barleywine.

All in all a very satisfying day

 

[ohiobrewtus]

ok, I lied. Jingle Hell is ready to rack to secondary (I normally don't rack wheats to secondary, but this one is a bit darker than I would like so I'm going to let it clear for a week or two), so I'm brewing (as I type) a much more tame Hoegaarden clone to pitch right on the yeast cake.

Kolsch will probably have to wait until Friday, and I still have to find time for that honey porter.

I bottled my Wee Heavy, which I'm calling 'KiltLifter', with help from BrewBabe and the BrewGirls. You can never start them too young. They all actually love helping me bottle. I'm even thinking that the oldest BrewGirl (who's almost 8) is ready to help me with a boil.


BrewBabe (yup, she helps me brew sometimes and although it's a bit hard to tell, she's bottling in this pic) and the BrewGirls

BrewGirl #1 (almost 8 years old)

BrewGirl #3 (3 years old)

BrewGirls #1, #2 (5 years old), and #3 (#2 helped bottle also but no pics that weren't all blurry - BrewGirl #4 is only 3 months old so she was unable to participate - that slacker! )

 

[BierMuncher]

Beautiful family. I have four girls of my own including twins.

Course, their all over 21 now but I still have a 13 year old at home. You have quite a journey ahead of you.

Most dad's take pride when their kids can "go get them a beer from the fridge". We can take pride in saying "help me brew some beer this weekend sweety..."

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Beautiful family. I have four girls of my own including twins.

Thank you, sir.

You have quite a journey ahead of you.

I know. I have no idea how I'm going to deal with the teenage years. I own guns, so that may help. :rockin:

Most dad's take pride when their kids can "go get them a beer from the fridge". We can take pride in saying "help me brew some beer this weekend sweety..."

Amen. I can't wait until they are all old enough to get involved. Of course by that time good ol' dad probably won't be very cool any more

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Changed my mind; this Belgian is gonna need a BIG starter, not something I just brew up tonight. I'm gonna want to step that up a couple of times.

I'm intrigued, Bird. How exactly do you do this? I've thought of doing this for high gravity brews by doing my starter about 10 days in advance and adding a boiled DME mixture 1-1.5 quarts at a time 3-5 times to even further build the yeast population.

I was a bit worried about the AHS Hoegaarden clone that I kicked up a few notches (I had to since SWMBO came up with the name 'Jingle Hell' for it - I can't make a beer called Jingle Hell and have it be anything under 8% ), but I made my standard starter 2 days beforehand and after an OG of 1.080 it was down to 1.018 today (7 days later) so the WLP400 yeast that I used seems to have been able to handle the high gravity so far.

I'm very interested to hear about how you 'step up' your starters (PM if necessary).

 

[Brewsmith]

Brewing my kolsch now. I couldn't get around to it last weekend. I had starter problems with the yeast. It was a little old and the starter was taking it's time. I had another strain, and the smack pack didn't swell up very fast. So I took this week to build up the cell count.

 

[dibby33]

sterilsing some bottles (3 30l barrels full of them!) ready for next weekend.

moving my IPA to secondary. Hopefully will be brewing Walkers IPA 2mrw.

Just about to pick up a new (free!) fridge. Wife thinks that it is for food! Ha ha ha

 

[Brewsmith]

Just about to pick up a new (free!) fridge. Wife thinks that it is for food! Ha ha ha

I own 4 fridges now...

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Damn. No brewing at all this weekend. My folks asked me to help extend there patio with cement pavers. Of course it had to be 36C or more.

Hoping to brew an ale version of my check pils tuesday and maybe an IPA on thursday.

 

[FireBrewer]

Trying to get up the courage to do 10 gallons of dry stout while watching a 3-1/2 year old and a 1-1/2 year old at the same time...

 

[eriktlupus]

did a lemon wit this morning first full boil on the new turkey fryer. first run with the diy wort chiller too. getting ready for ag. just need to order a perforated steel plate for a false bottom

 

[Big "A"]

I brew almost every Monday. Will do Tuesday this week. I worked my Ass off last week, Brewed one, Bottled one , racked one. Didn't want to do that all in the same day this week.

 

[dibby33]

I own 4 fridges now...

...I have two now! Big enough for kegging! Yipppeee....

Wife found out that it was not a freezer yesterday. Not happy.

"It is for your beer I suppose, is that all that you can think about?"

"Yes"

 

[Whelk]

Not really brewing, but I just threw together 3 more gallons of cider.

 

[2nd Street Brewery]

Just got up and getting ready to start milling my grains. Taking my first stab at my Dead Guy clone in AG.

 

[EdWort]

Smacked the pack on a Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan last night. It goes on the stir plate with a pint starter this morning for an anticipated 10 gallon batch on Friday afternoon.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Brewing my Pils recipe but with safbew 33. Should be interesting, though not quite a pils.

Might brew an IPA or something as well today... Maybe another beligian.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Used 3 packs of muntons gold for the "pils". Using a pack of saf 33 and windors in my belgian dark strong ale (1.092 OG)

And since there were sugars left in the mash.. a lot.. I added 3.5 kgs of malt, mashing as we speak to make a mystery beer...

So that will be either 25 or 30 gallons in two days.

 

[BierMuncher]

..."It is for your beer I suppose, is that all that you can think about?"

"Yes"

Sounds oh, so familiar.

Wife - "Can we go out tonight?"
Me - "Sorry hon...not tonight..."
Wife - " Why not? We haven't gone out...blah...blah...blah..."
Me - "Sorry. I gotta get this wit into kegs tonight or else..."
Wife - "What about tomorrow night?"
Me - "Uh...no can do sweety. I gotta measure grains for Saturday's brew."
Wife - "Well...what are we doing for dinner tonight?"
Me - "Me?...Triscuits and a Porter."
Wife - "Well, do you have any cash? I'm gonna go grab a subway..."
Me - "Ummmm. Sorry babe. I had to stop off and grab some WLP002 for my Red Hook ESB this weekend."

Wife - "Dick!!!!"
Me - "Oh that's nice dear. Maybe later if you're still in the mood."

 

[Desert_Sky]

Going to be brewing my favorite. My house pale Saturday morning. Some people enjoy sleeping in on Saturdays, while I purposely wake up at 5 to get started on my mash.


The great thing is that by the time the wife and kids are waking up, Im done and in the process of spraying off the back porch.

 

[HighPlainsDrifter]

I'm brewing for SWMBO today. Honey Kolsch. Tomorrow I brew for me, Belgian Tripel. I have twenty gallons of beer and five gallons of Edwort's apfelwien in my fermentation cooler now......yeah sure......I can squeeze in ten more gallons .

 

[BierMuncher]

...Some people enjoy sleeping in on Saturdays, while I purposely wake up at 5 to get started on my mash.


The great thing is that by the time the wife and kids are waking up, Im done and in the process of spraying off the back porch.

Ain't it the truth. It also makes 10:30AM feel like 2PM....beer time....

Hey Chimone...how bout sharing that recipe for your haus ale?

 

[HighPlainsDrifter]

Well, I had to do some major squeezing to get five more gallons into the fermentation chiller today. Looks like 30 gallons is about my max . Guess I'll have to really get rockin' on my kegerator to free up some space. Sigh, if only my shanks were not on back order.

 

[Brewer3401]

I'm brewing tomorrow. Blonde ale (maily for our kids / yes they're old enough).

Will have the APA kegged and carbed for Fathers Day.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I'm brewing tomorrow. Blonde ale (maily for our kids / yes they're old enough).

Will have the APA kegged and carbed for Fathers Day.

Shoudn't the kids be doing that for you?

 

[EdWort]

I just put 13 gallons of Bavarian Hefeweizen wort on to boil. 14# Wheat + 8# Pils and no stuck sparge on a stainless braid. I left the rice hulls out after reading how dirty they are.

Time to feed the deer.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I think I might brew another hefe sans-acid rest.

Need to reorder some yeast though... better get in that. Crap it's friday... that mean next week sometime.

 

[EdWort]

I think I might brew another hefe sans-acid rest.

I did a 90 minute mash at 152. Got a massive starter of 3068 to split between two buckets. I'll ferment it at 68 degrees.

 

[Desert_Sky]

Ain't it the truth. It also makes 10:30AM feel like 2PM....beer time....

Hey Chimone...how bout sharing that recipe for your haus ale?

Its a very simple recipe. The wife and I absolutely love this beer especially on a hot summer day.

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
90% 8.50 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) America 1.036 2
5% 0.50 lbs. Crystal 20L America 1.035 20
5% 0.50 lbs. Munich Malt(light) America 1.033 10

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.50 oz. Perle Pellet 7.70 17.2 60 min.
0.50 oz. Perle Pellet 7.70 14.1 45 min.
1.00 oz. Cascade Pellet 6.00 7.2 15 min.
1.00 oz. Cascade Pellet 6.00 0.0 Flameout or Dry Hop (up to you)


White Labs WLP001 California Ale

mash at 154

5.5Gallons
OG 1.049
IBU 37.5
SRM 4.8

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

too lazy to type this into beersmith. whats the abv, ibu and srm on this beer? I don't have any crystal 20 but I do have crystal 40.