brewing this weekend?

[belsonc]

So, what's everyone brewing this weekend?


I've been doing some fairly complex beers recently - so this time, I'm ramping it back down. Simple wheat beer - .75lb white wheat to steep, 6lb of DME, 1oz Liberty @ 60, 1oz Liberty @ 5, and dry wheat yeast. It's a tweak on the recipe I did last year, which I was very happy with - so we'll see if this time through, it's any better or if it's worse. :-)

[Seanibus]

So, what's everyone brewing this weekend?


I've been doing some fairly complex beers recently - so this time, I'm ramping it back down. Simple wheat beer - .75lb white wheat to steep, 6lb of DME, 1oz Liberty @ 60, 1oz Liberty @ 5, and dry wheat yeast. It's a tweak on the recipe I did last year, which I was very happy with - so we'll see if this time through, it's any better or if it's worse. :-)

Doing a Kolsch - I just got the Northern Brewer all-grain recipe. I did their extract version this time last year, and it was quite good. I usually brew Saturdays, but my wife is out of town for a week and I don't have anything to do tomorrow, so I am going to brew Sunday. Just started the starter for tomorrow and force-carbed a new IPA, which I had dry hopped with some Warriors and Simcoes. Good stuff. Tomorrow I am also going to rack over a Mirror Pond clone I have been tinkering with, taking it from secondary into a keg and dry hop it with some nice looking Cascade plugs my local shop got in this month. My first stab at it last fall was pretty good and I am tweaking my second try to get a little closer to the truth. This version of going to be a bit drier than I expected - the yeast went crazy, took it from 1.056 down to 1.014 in under six days and it dropped another .002 in secondary over the last week. I had anticipated it stopping somewhere around 1.016, but it should still be good.

[corkybstewart]

Did a 10 gallon of sort of an ESB-20 lbs pale malt, 2 pounds brown malt and a pound of crystal 40. All fuggles: 2.5 oz at 60 min, 1 oz each at 20 and 5 minutes. OG of 1.064, Nottingham yeast. We won't distill a couple of gallons to see how it tastes. Then if the stuff we didn't distill tastes good we won't distill the rest of the carboy. Either way I'm putting 5 gallons into a keg.

[brazilhead]

On Monday I´m planning on something quite different, a kind of smoked German pale ale. I have over 20 kilos each of smoked and vienna malts but I´m running quite low on pale malt. (Then my laptop motherboard took a turd on me yesterday so I couldn´t tweak the pale ale recipe I had wanted to as it´s on there...) Anyway, here´s what I´m thinking. There´s still time not to brew it but it´s already been measured and in the bucket so I´m fairly committed.

10 gallons OG:1.049 IBU: 39 SRM: 6.6
Pale malt 2.45K (28.8%)
Pilsner 2.0K (23.5%)
Vienna 2.5K (29.4%)
Smoked Bamberg 1.0K (11.8%)
Munich Malt .5K (5.9%)
Cara Aroma 50g (.6%)
Premiant 18g 60mins AA 10.75 IBU 16.4
Nugget 18g 60mins AA 11.25 IBU 18.1
Fuggle 28g 25min AA 4.0 IBU 4.0
Saazer 21g 5 min AA 2.9 IBU .9

The hops of course can be changed. I also have another ounze of Fuggles and Hallertaur Tradition pellets and Tettnanger pellets, but both packs have been opened and without pulling out the digital scale I don´t know exactly how much. Again, this info was on the new computer´s Promash.

Please tell me if I´m making a huge mistake!

[Beaver-Brew]

My third Kolsch on the same yeast cake and an IPA. I have a bunch of extra wheat so everything is getting at least a pound of wheat this spring....two pounds in the IPA. We'll see what happens.

[OntheLoose]

I didn't really care for IPA's that I've had in the bottle. Then I had one that my HBS supplier let me sample. It was in the neighborhood of 8% so it was probably more of a double IPA but it was great. Lots of hop character but not the bad bitter taste. It was really, really good. It went from my least favorite to possibly the next obsession in one small 16oz dose. I may try a 5 gallon batch this weekend.

[Mikegobrew]

Hello everyone,

I had the weekend off and decided to brew a 10 gallon batch. Brewed for the first time outside. It was great until I was at the chill and raindrops started to fall. I lifted the 90deg kettle off the burner and put it on a creeper to roll inside the garage. It worked fairly well, until I had to lift it again to get the height for the fall into the fermenters. It sure was nice to see the mash in the sun.
At least I got to put the pool ladder to use. This summer has been so cool in Michigan that it's not been used for swimming! My kids had fun too. I did have a few neighbors stop by though. :D