Any New Year's Brewdays going on?

Kegging an IPA. GP/ Belgian Munich base. All bursted Citra, Amarillo, Centennial and UK Progress.

Cheers!

 

Not until this weekend.

 

This weekend... Anglo/American Pale Ale. With Rye.

 

Progress is like a spicy Fuggels. At least to me.;-) I use it in a lot of styles.

Cheers!

 

Just watching last week's Pilsner ferment and working on the recipe for the next beer, a Vienna Lager. Happy New Year to all !

 

Waiting for the bowl games to begin. No brewing today, but going with the Everett clone on Saturday.

 

No bowl games here in Norway so I am racking a pilsner to the secondary and enjoying the new red IPA that I bottled two weeks ago.

 

No brewing here. Got a keg of a BA Chocolate Stout getting close to carbed in the keg that I want to drink so bad.

BA Scotch ale is resting away, tasting like it's coming together nicely so far.

Thats about all I have "incomplete" at the moment. My truck transmission blew up the other day, so who knows when I'll have time or cash to run to the store.

I'm working on a recipe for a good brown ale, something similar to Averys brown, and then I think I want to brew up some lager of sorts.. Maybe a bock.

 

Brewing a Golden Promise/Mosaic SMaSH best bitter tomorrow. First go round with Simpson's GP (LHBS of choice doesn't carry Fawcett, the sack of Fawcett I got last time from the other LHBS seemed really old and dried out) and Mosaic (I've enjoyed it in commercial beers, though) and retrying the Mangrove Jack's Burton Union yeast in something it might actually show up in.

 

Just finished a big barley wine. I hit 1.120, I did an overnight mash and woke up at 6 to sparge and start boiling, which I did for 3.5 hours. Also collected two gallons of the first runnings and boiled it on the stove until it got super thick. Can't wait to try it!

 

Bottled an Irish red that I hope was done (OG 1.050, FG 1.020, recipe calls for 4.5% I'm at 4%, but doesn't give a target FG).

 

Brewing an ESB of sorts. My coworkers voted for Chinook and Sterling hops, so that's what I'm going with. With Wyeast 1335 British Ale II, let's just call it a mutt.

 

Fuggles never gets the luv it deserves. It's a really tasty hop, very complex.

I'll brew something on saturday. Don't exactly have a "plan" yet, except to brew something and cook some baby back ribs. Oh, and to get the final dimensions of the next phase of the mancave/brewhaus on paper so it can be built next week.

 

No brewing, but this is the first New Year's Day for me to have 3 different beers actively fermenting right now, so I am pretty much at my maximum comfortable capacity.

 

I'm planning on brewing a big English Old Ale on Friday to age until next Xmas/New years.

 

As stated above, no brewing today. Removed the oak from my now 1/2 keg of Imperial Stout. This Friday night I will mash in 25# of GP. Saturday morning I will run off for a Wee Heavy (steeping a blend of English crystal malts and black malt for color), and an APA SMaSH with NZ Rakau hops. Both will get 1056. Wee Heavy I am shooting for 1.114 OG, 1.032 FG, 34 IBUs, 10.7% ABV. APA 1.048 OG, 1.012 FG, 45 IBUs, 4.7% ABV. I will also finish the plumbing on my utility sink in the brewery by installing the drain system.

 

Brewed a Bohemian pilsner and dealt with the bitter cold. The spigot was frozen solid so we had to put the kettle in a snow drift. Woof

 

What is the Anglo portion? I'm intrigued

 

Wyeast 1028 and late hopped with Fuggles. (But dry hopped with amarillo.)

 

Wyeast says: A rich mineral profile that is bold and crisp with some fruitiness. Often used for higher gravity ales and when a high level of attenuation is desired.

Sounds great - is this a recipe you would ferment warm to encourage fruity esters and compliment the fruity amarillo? Or ferment colder to let the late fuggles and DH amarillo shine?

 

Decided saturday will be a long lost rye-PA type thingie we developed here during a thread. With 4 lbs of rye malt, 12 lbs total grains, will 1.5 lbs of rice hulls be enough? Cuz that's what I ordered!

Guess I'll have to look up the old thread, because I can't remember what the hops were sposeda be.

 

This one will be at 68F. But 1028 has always thrown a fair amount of esters for me, at any temp, though I haven't tested super low temps with it. When I made this particular recipe before, the esters and the hops both showed up and didn't clash. And the late fuggles were not overwhelmed by the amarillo DH, which I had been (needlessly) worried about. I only used an ounce of amarillo before, but I'm upping it to 1.5 this time.

 

I brewed an adambier. Small batch but it is the first run of a recipe that I hope to tweak over time into a great recipe.

This weekend if I have the time I plan on brewing my second lambic of the winter. With a turbid mash it's a long, long brew day and the mash requires a lot of attention so it's pretty much all I'll do that day.

 

90 Min IPA clone