Brewing Activities (2020)

brewed up a Belgian tripel today. Everything went pretty much to plan, hit my numbers spot on. (couldn't believe that - usually I'm a few points off one way or the other.)
Just as I was finishing up cleanup, I was ready to hit the couch and I get a call from my kid's school - he caught a toy golf club to the bean. Ended up going to the walk-in minute clinic and a couple staples later...

 

brewing a foundry ipa
marris otter
victory
L10
columbus for bittering
Foundry blend hops. columbus cascade chinook and centennial
notty slurry
no dry hop

 

Busy brewing related long weekend...

Bottling a Stout, Raspberry Sour & Peach Sour. Transferring 1 gallon of each sour onto Brett Brux I.

Dry hopping a NEIPA with Nelson & Enigma.

Brewing my American Amber with a couple of tweaks.

 

Collected all the ingredients for tomorrows Oatmeal Stout brewday.
Going back to a classic.
Cheers all

 

Didn't you do a hotside Millennium brew before? Results?

 

This is super interesting. I always love finding under the radar hops. Report back!

 

Just mashed in on a big ol’ barleywine. Est OG 1.122. Columbus and Fuggle in the boil. Fermenting with WY1028 London Ale. Splitting the batch in secondary with a bourbon/Madeira spiral and letting them sit for 5-6 months. Possibly blending in the future depending on how they come out individually.

 

Hit all the numbers for this 4.8% Oatmeal Stout.
Shameless Sparge photo
Cheers all

 

very cool!!!!!!!!

 

Brewing a raspberry ale.
Marris otter
l10
Carapills
Notty slurry
2 quarts of frozen berrys in the secondary.

 

7% WC IPA

92% two row
5% rye malt
2% honey malt

40% strata
40% mosaic
20% Columbus

Stoked to use strata hops for the first time.

First wort hops just about to boil.

 

now I am even more excited to try it. My LHBS finally got some and at a good price, $11 for 8 ozs. And no shipping costs.

 

I’m gonna buy some strata when I get paid. Been wanting to try it

 

Brewed a brown ale today.
8# Maris Otter
1.5# Crystal 60L
.25 Malted Rye
.25 CaraMunich
.25 Pale Chocolate
Only used 8oz of the Buckwheat honey as discussed in the other thread. It is very potent and I wanted to start small and see.
8oz of wildflower honey
1liter starter of Scottish ale yeast WL.
1oz Fuggle 60min
1oz East Kent Golding 0min This guy brewed with me all day!!

 

I need more info on your setup. I have the M&B and need to get a better recirc and sparge on it.

 

It’s just the basic Anvil Foundry setup. There is a plate that’s included with the grain basket that distributes the water through the grain like a manifold would. I still have to remove the lid and plate and stir the grains every 15min during the mash to get water/grain contact when I use more than 10# of grain. It’s only a 5.5 gallon kettle intended for 3 gallon batches but I push it every time. Trying to save up for the 10 gallon system and make this my HLT and get rid of my propane setup now. For sparge I just scoop out about half a gallon at a time and slowly pour it through the grains with the plate on it. I over shoot on HLT water temp because it drops a lot as I’m pouring. I should have gotten 71ish% efficiency on this brown but came in low at 67% but I noticed a lot of uncrushed grains when I emptied it later. Think I need to purchase a mill or ask my LHBS to double mill if they will.