Anyone brewing this weekend? August 9th - ?

Brewing a hoppy Brown Ale Sunday with Simcoe and Fuggle hops. Transferring my Citra IPA into my secondary with Makers soaked oak chips.

 

A dark bitter, using lots of homemade brewers syrup

 

Brewing an extract ipa tomorrow.

8lbs extra pale lme
12oz crystal 20l
60 min 1oz magnum
15 min 1oz/1oz citra/Polaris
10 min .5/.5 citra/Polaris
5 min .5/.5 citra/Polaris
0 min .5/.5 citra/Polaris
Dh .5/.5 citra/Polaris

 

Let me know when it's ready

 

I am going to brew 10 gallons of IPA. I am calling it "Times are tough but this beer is hard."
Looks like OG60 with 125 IBU of Chinook/Columbus late in the boil with just a smidgen at 60.

 

Brewed 5 gallons munich citra smash on friday. May try to squeeze in an other batch this week before the weekend if possible. Gotta catch up! An empty fermentation freezer is a terrible thing.

 

Double IPA inspired by Great Lakes Alchemy Hour and a hoppy porter inspired by Three Floyds Snow Weasel. Also bottled Simcoe and Chinook IPAs yesterday.

 

2-Row/Simcoe smash currently mashing. I'm a little nervous for my first AG batch. Once the boil starts I'll relax with a homebrew. I've already got my hops measured out and my kitchen smells AMAZING.

 

Ahhh, anticipation of what is to come . . . the foreplay of homebrewing.

 

If foreplay took 4-5 weeks the overwhelming majority of relationships would fail.

 

Went to brew a weizenbock yesterday and had my first ever failed brew attempt. I had the stuck sparge from hell, and between falling a couple gallons short of my pre-boil gravity and the fact that I had probably gotten a good bit of grain in the wort from stirring the mash to try and get better flow, I decided to just scrap it all together. I'll save the yeast and hops and re-order the grain bill and try again soon. I've been meaning to re-build the braid for my mash tun as it was beat up anyway, and now I just have a reason to do it this week.

 

I'm kegging my rauchbock and then racking a smoked rye beer onto the yeast cake. I intensely smoke the malt for these 2 beers with pecan wood, they've smelled and tasted smoky from the mash on. They will both lager until Oktoberfest where they will be tapped and consumed.

 

I made MO/simcoe smash, it was fabulous. Yours will be too.

 

rice hulls...

 

Almost 40 batches and I've never needed them, as I've never had any issues with a stuck sparge. Definitely going to use them in some of my brews going forward though.

 

Cleaned out almost all of my grain this weekend with a kitchen sink APA, split 10 gallon batch between Conan and Pacman yeasts. I still have a pound of coffee malt and 6 ounces of Roasted Barley, might be time for a big porter (winter is coming).