What's brewing October edition

Cool sounding brews guys. I'm brewing one more , might as well brew the Hawiian King for winter.

and yes @DrMindbender , my belly is full of beer.

 

big NE Dipa with 15+ pounds of malt and over a pound of hops (primarily galaxy and medusa in dry hop with late boil additions primarily simcoe) for a 5 gallon batch

will it be unbalanced? you betcha!
will you be able to pick out individual hops or specialty malts? Unlikely!

Am I extremely excited about it? Absolutely!!!!

 

That's how I roll as well! And trust me, they come out amazing. My last DIPA (for 5-gal) was 24oz of hops. Yum!

 

Made a new brew.
10 lbs best ale
1 lb Munich L10
.5 caramunich L60
1 lb Abby malt
Perle 1 oz @60 and 8

Bring on the malt.

 

Brewed a quick sour today. 3.3 gallon batch, 3 lbs pilsen DME, boiled for 10 minutes, chilled to 70F and poured in a partial container of mango Goodbelly, and pitched WLP 670. Plan to ferment for 7 days, add an oz of Citra and let it sit for another 7 days.

Then will rack to a keg with some fruit juice (planning on OJ at this point, but may audible when I'm at the grocery store), another 1 oz of Citra, and let it sit for another week before putting it in the kegerator. Inspired from a MTF thread and I'm looking forward to trying it out. This may become a regular in the rotation using different juices and dry hops.

Also streaked out a few wild captures that I had pulled in a few weeks back. I had some wildflowers from around the in-laws farm pond, our butterfly bush and a bell pepper blossom. Hoping to find something interesting out of one of these. A few smelled really good, others were bland and one was extremely cheesy.

 

Brewed a Cali Common today.
Pils, Munich, Victory, Cara40 and pale chocolate. Shooting for 5ish ABV. Subbed out the Northern Brewer with Simcoe and Centennial(need to use up freezer hops). Pitched a starter made with 2 free packs of expired yeast.

Taking this beer to Deer Camp. November 15th here in MI. The old man doesn’t have any interest in my NEIPA unfortunately.

 

I brewed up an IPA this afternoon to try out some new hops. Used mostly African Queen and U1/108, both from South Africa. I'm going to dry hop with 6 oz of Vic Secret in two doses.

 

I currently have a brew fermenting in a brewbag since friday, I was expecting the bubbling action to start after the first 24 hours the way it always has done so far, but when I go to check on it the airlock is still, no worries, I'll wait until 48 hours have passed which I do. Still nothing. At this point I get the idea to check the temperature inside the brewbag (the weather has turned colder so I'm thinking that the ambient temperature might be different) so I place a glass thermometer inside and leave it, get back some hours later and it shows 10C, or 50 fahrenheit. At this point I'm thinking that the cold wrecked the yeast, even though I have used the same system in the three previous batches with no problems as far as fermentation goes (but without measuring the temperature, and with warmer weather). I decide to switch to using just one frozen water bottle and leave it over night to see if the temperature increases and the beer gets going. This morning I go to check on it and the temp is closer to 14C, or about 56F, but still no action. At this point I figure I have to check for kräusen and lift out the bucket and there's a small ring of kräusen but alot of sediment. When I go to place the bucket back in the bag it feels/sounds like the lid is loose, and sure enough it was. I was sure I had snapped it back on after sprinkling in the yeast but I must have been distracted and forgot. The tiny kräusen ring is unusal for me and the sediment could be mostly trub from the brewday, but I am at least more hopeful now. Yeast is Mangrove jack M44 by the way.

 

I had a 48+ hour lag time with M44 when I used it, and that was at probably 70-75° F. I think that's pretty usual. I wouldn't worry too much if it looks like its fermenting now. I really liked the way that beer turned out, for what its worth.

 

That's good to hear, even though I overdid it with the cold temps (I used to have to worry about high temperatures so when I was able to keep temperatures low and the fermentations worked out I became careless about cold instead, you live and you learn I suppose). As of now the airlock is building up pressure at least.

 

Do you mind sending me the recipe ?

 

NE DIPA
2row, flaked wheat, flaked oats, white wheat, honey malt, and a little crystal 10.
Citra, Galaxy, Denali, El dorado.
London 1318

3 hours after pitch there was bubbles
12 hours after pitch it was chugging like a champ.
Doing first dry hop tonight during fermentation

 

Forgot to add 2:1 chloride to sulfate and this will also have about 20oz of hops total with 12oz in dry hop. The aroma coming from the blow off tube is straight citrus/pineapple

 

Brewing a stout tomorrow and fermenting with 3068 for hopefully some nice banana stout. Probably gonna throw some extremely ripe bananas into secondary like @VikeMan talked about on a prior post.

 

Brewed this yesterday. Forgot that I bought Centennial and not Cascade. Should make for a completely different beer, right? Other than that, it was an uneventful brewday and she's fermenting away very actively now. A little eventful this morning, as I needed to clean up the yeasty mess on the floor, but that was no big deal.

 

Kegged up my Red Rye IPA on Saturday morning. The Red Rye IIIPA is tasting like it is ready to keg too, maybe tonight. Krausened my stalled Dopplebock on Saturday morning as well and it has dropped another 10 points in 30 hours. Just need it to drop another 13-14 points.

 

Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

 

Thanks! It was stalled for a week at 1.041 and dropped to 1.032 in 30 hours, still bubbling away at this point. I got a few extra gravity points on the initial brew so even getting it down to 1.025 would get me to 8.4% which is close enough to the desired 8.8% ABV for me.

 

You're definitely not going to notice a couple gravity points difference, but I remember you posting about this earlier and I was hoping that you'd find a solution to it. Looks like you have, at least in part.