Brewing Activities (2019)

I'll have to debug at home, can't get on imgur at work anymore...

It's a steaming pile of hot mash...

 

Hi what is your recipe for that spruce ale? I've been wanting to make one of those for a while now. Thanks!

 

And just to stay on topic, will be brewing my wife's favorite Blackberry Cream ale this weekend.

It's just 2 row, Flaked maize, table sugar, Warrior @ 60, Saaz @ 5 and flameout, blackberry extract at bottling. She loves it so I make it a lot

 

Session IPA/Blonde Ale/Pale Ale Whatever
Rahr 2 Row/GP
10% white wheat
5% Carahell
Acid

Magnum for bittering
HBC586 @ 20 and WP

Was trying to revive some old yeast but was a little skeptical when it came time to pitch. Noticed that the IPA I brewed two days ago was at high krausen so top cropped that for the yeast for this one. Bells yeast. I’ve top cropped before and made a starter off of it but never went right into another ferment. HBC586 smells amazing! Highly reccomend it.

 

5.5 gallons finished volume
10 lb best ale malt
.5 lb L20
1 lb carapills
mash 150
sparge 170
50 min boil
1 oz cascade @50 and 10
1 oz centenial 10 and 1 qt fresh norway spruce tips.
1 pkt nottingham or nottingham slurry
1 oz citra @FO
1 oz citra DH 3 days

****i have found freezing tip then useing them boosts the spruce a bit much so now if using frozen spruce tip i use 1 pint or less***

 

- Brewing Citra & Mosaic NEIPA. Fermenting with Lalbrew New England

- Kegging Bravo, Citra & Amarillo NEIPA fermented with M36

- Bottling a 10% Milletwine that's been aging for 6 months. Adding some CBC-1 for insurance.

All gluten free of course...

 

Munich Helles racking hose sample.

 

Adding pic

 

Disassembled and cleaned 12 kegs today. Various sizes and types.

 

Slowly.....carefully.....brewing a sour IPA while on crutches.

 

That must make hopping difficult.

 

Ba Dump Bump

 

Predominantly Citra IIPA today. All available forms (at least that I have access too) and a bunch of different lots of it grown in 3 different states. Trying to make a single hop beer as interesting as possible.

Warrior at 90 and 30
Citra Pellet @ 5
Citra Cryo WP
Citra Leaf Hopback
American Noble Citra DH during ferment
Blend of Leaf/Cryo/Pellet in DH
Targeting 8%
Bells Yeast/Vermont Ale blend

 

Priming two beers to condition in kegs for a while.

1st is a mixed ferm beer I used Omega C2C on. Used 7.7oz of Raw Wildflower honey.

2nd is a robust porter. Going to attempt to prime with Maple Syrup. Doubt I’ll get much flavor impact but even a touch would be nice.

 

2nd attempt at something spontaneous tonight.

Gonna leave 6 gallons out overnight to cool. Transfer 5 into a fermenter and pitch the TYB Lithuanian strain. Transfer the other gallon into a jug to see what happens.

Tried this once before and the 1 gallon just ended up getting moldy. Going to acidify the wort to hopefully keep the nasties at bay and leave it in a more exposed area. Lows in the teens tonight.

 

Guess I’m the only one brewing these days...

Something loosely inspired by a Kolsch but with more American Ingredients

Admiral Feldblume
10% Mecca White Wheat
Acidulated
Magnum @ 90
American Noble versions of Citra/Simcoe @40 and 10
“Vermont Ale”

The wort smelled amazing. Really enjoying a lot of the Admiral Maltings offerings.

Took some influence from the Alchemist which ferments Kenny’s Kolsch with their house yeast at 56. So I built a huge starter, basically lager pitch rates, and pitched at 52. Was trucking right along at 56 the next AM.

 

well, not the only one,
bottled belgian blue berry, smoked magik and irish stout

brewed yesterday 2 hearted clone, message recieved pale, and a christmas stout.

Im doing my part. hahahahhahaahaa

 

Bottled the milk stout, planning a dark mild for next weekend. Cheers

 

This may have been asked before, if so I apologize. But what do you do with all this beer? You seem to do a ton of brewing. Most of which sound freaking awesome.