What's Brewing & Doing - December Edition

Sounds delicious!

 

I need a way to use up 8 oz of EKG, Fuggle, or Tett. I need some freezer space. I'll brew some sort of German lager/cream ale on Monday. Maybe an RIS afterwards.

 

Mid-19th century Export-India Porter will definitely use that up and then some

 

Any suggestions on a recipe?

 

Play around with this:
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2012/11/lets-brew-special-1859-barclay-perkins.html

 

Currently, I have US05 munching away on a Barleywine I brewed last month because 1450 stalled. I can't really blame 1450, as I pitched on a cake, and had a massive blowout. Lost at least half a gallon, and a heck of a lot of yeast went with it.

Should have used fermcap...or apparently more than the 1 gallon of head-space I allotted.

Anyway, I plan on brewing a Golden Strong sometime this month that will see some rhubarb.

 

Racked ~4 gallons of my golden sour that was brewed on 08/19/15 with CS Dregs and 1056 onto 6lb of mix berries and 1 gallon onto raspberries.

 

I just picked up ingredients for an Imperial stout that I will brew on Friday. Shooting for an OG of 1.10ish. Planning to age this one on bourbon and oak cubes.

 

I had previously bought ingredients for a Pannepot clone, but I could never quite construct a recipe that worked. Instead I'm going to take all of the grains / sugars I bought and put them towards a big, black saison. I was going to use Carafa Special I and III, so hopefully these debittered grains won't come off as too astringent and harsh in a dry beer.

Grains: Pilsner, Munich, Special B, Carafa I, Carafa III, flaked maize
Sugar: D180
Hops: neutral bittering
Yeast: WYeast 3726

Planning on an OG of 1.080 and a FG of 1.010. Low-ish IBU for a saison.
Does this sound like it would work? Would a different yeast work better?

 

I'm very jealous of you guys and your frozen fruit concentrates
We don't really have anything like that here (that I can find at least).


I won't be able to brew anything this month, but I will be sitting down and calculating what brews I need to put down and when for next years competitions (will be my first entries to any comps).

 

Sunday I am brewing 10 gallons of IPA. Five dry hoped with Citra and five with Simcoe.

 

Just smoked 4 lbs of pale wheat malt on smoldering hickory/Apple wood chunks to use in a big 'smoked and oaked' Weizenbock. This is attempt number 2 and all went smoothly this time around!

 

Transferred my FW Wookey Jack clone to keg for dry hopping, will crash and transferring to serving keg in about a week. Smelled and tasted pretty good so fingers crossed.

 

Tasted my zombie dust clone today... Color is a bit weird, but the aroma, flavor and quality of beer is fantastic. I have a bottle of ZD I am going to put it head-to-head with next week... Moved my whole batch into the fridge to cold condition a few days before digging in!

 

I have a beechwood smoked porter in the fermentation chamber that just finished primary fermenation. I have plans to brew a Simcoe, Galaxy, Mosaic IPA in the next week or so. I haven't brewed a hoppy beer in awhile but I've really been craving one on tap recently.

 

Did you feed the first batch to the neighbor kids?

 

Back from my travels,going on down to the winter brewing headquarters to make a IPA and the Belgium dark with raspberries. Winter headquarters is a art foundry, so lots of interesting projectsz and folks. Owner lives for IPA so I'll be makin that every other batch.

 

Ha, no... but my dog sure wanted some!

 

I am drinking on my Beachwood smoked porter and every day that goes by the better it gets. I needed something on tap and put this on a little early. It's growing on me. I may have to put this on my by yearly rotation! take care.