Who's Brewing this weekend 3\20-22?

Brewed my Stone IPA half-batch tonight and for the most part, things went quite well. But my final gravity reading was way too high, and that has me scratching my head. I took a gravity sample pre-boil, chilled it down to around room temperature and found it was about 1.039. I had about 4.5 gallons at that point and was aiming to finish the boil at 2.75 with a gravity of 1.065, so that seemed pretty good to me. Pitched my yeast, then remembered to take a gravity sample and it was over 1.080?? The wort was highly aerated at that point, so maybe that messed up the measurement? I actually have slightly more wort in the fermenter than I was planning for, so I don't think I overconcentrated the wort during the boil.

 

Brewing a cream ale and a version of FATC1TY's chocolate oatmeal stout, still debating if I should throw some PB2 in or not. Last two test batches I'm doing before selecting two recipes to brew for my wedding later this summer!

 

What kind of propane burner are you working with?

Have you tied a dark beer recently? Give a porter or a stout 4 months before you tap a keg. You won't go back to that crappy IPA ever again. <<<--- Come to the dark side!

Why aren't you brewing professionally yet?

 

I know you meant it as a joke, but if I can't get the Grant funding I'm applying for in June for the biotech company I started up, I'm going all in on starting a brewery. Had five US patents from grad school and postdoc and felt compelled to give it a shot starting a company on the IP from dinner of them.

 

Finished up another batch of my Copper Ale house brew.

 

Brewing BCS Vienna Lager with Wyeast 2308 tomorrow and bottled up about 2 cases of PtE clone straight from VC's old school Zymurgy recipe tonight. Smelled and tasted good!

 

Brewed on Friday Imperial Chocolate Milk Stout. Going to age on toasted coconut flakes, vanilla beans, and Coffee. Sort of a Last Snow Variant pretty excited for this one!!!

 

Well, I lied. Only hit 21.5 gallons in the fermenters due to hop mass (0 trub due to hop back filtration), but hit 86% efficiency, which was an all time high (I'm normally dead on 73% regardless of gravity) and pretty weird considering I batch sparged. Would've diluted buy kettle was full to the brim at 26 gallons.

 

Brewed up an IPA yesterday that I came up with. 50/50 2-row and golden promise. Bittered with nugget, late hopped with mosaic and citra. Plan on dry hopping with galaxy. Rehydrated US-05. OG was 1.063. Fermentor smells amazing this morning.

 

Kolsch. Grains are milled, mash water is heating, salt additions have been measured out. The plan is to infuse at 145, take the dog for a walk, decoct to 156, then decoct to mashout. Perhaps decoction isn't really necessary, but it's been a long time since I bothered, and I need to do something special for my first brew of 2015.

 

I started a porter from a Brewer's Best kit on Friday. I plan on adding a couple of chipoltle peppers in secondary for a little heat! I like a pepper porter. Let's hope it comes out right!!

 

Why not dilute in fermenter(s)?

 

It's a Dark Star, got it for free when NB was having a promotion a while back. It's pretty damn powerful, anyway! Only problem is that I can't figure out how to adjust the air intake - it's fine when it's running full-bore, but the flame went a bit more orange once I had established my boil and I turned it down. And Jesus, so much soot on the bottom of my kettle, I think my hands still aren't clean. But overall, it performed very well and you can't beat the price.

 

As the folks in my circle of friends say "If its free, its for me"

 

Brewed a Surly Furious Clone and an English Mild. Actually never done either.

I thought I hadn't brewed in a year, but my logbook showed August!

 

15 gallons Lagunita's Sucks clone

First brew this year for me. When you brew beer 6 days a week for a living, the seventh day tends to be sabbatical in nature

 

The cobbler's children have the worst shoes, right?

 

It runs in the family. My brother is a Subaru Tech. I've been waiting since January for him to fix mine some weekend

 

I was very close to my desired OG (I added Distilled H2O with 5 min left in boil), and didn't have any more distilled water, so I just left the beer an extra 0.05 points high. I think I had at least the volume equivalent of 3 gallons of hop matter in the kettle after emptying the liquid, forgot the amount of volume lost to hop matter in a 26 gallon batch.

 

Stouts, etc. are growing on me, but they aren't my go-to style, because IPAs are the best. :-) I didn't brew this weekend but I might tonight or Tuesday, depending on what works out. I have a stout extract kit. I need an empty keg soon if I want to age a stout for 4 months.