Brewing Activities May 2016

I'm brewing all of the beer for my brother's wedding in July. Last night I kegged up a saison, a gose and a Shandy i made with a couple gallons of the saison

 

Testing out my recirculating draft line cleaner. It works!!!!!

 

Brewed a Galaxy simcoe ipa last weekend with 2row. Used 2 tsp and 1 tsp cacl in the mash water and sparge water and Conan and imperial house yeasts. yesterday a cascade motueka pale ale. Pilsner and golden promise. With dry English and London ale yeast. Used 4 tsp gypsum and 2 tsp cacl in the mash water and none in the sparge. I noticed using a water chemistry calculator that more cacl helped acidifying my mash without acid malt. Interested to see how these compare. shot for 5% might end up with 6% 20 gallons fermenting and nothing on draft... Saving my keg of Hefeweizen for a party this weekend.

 

I do the same thing! It's so nice/easy to get everything clean. I let it circulate for like 20mins and then follow up the BLC with star-san.

 

Brewing a pretty basic Hefeweizen today. I haven't brewed all month! Can't let that happen again.
Also, finishing setup of recently purchased jockey box.

 

Brewed a saison yesterday with WL 568. We'll see.

 

Brewed American Pale Ale last Friday. Has been happily bubbling away since. Brew day was smooth, let's hope the final product delivers.

 

I follow up my BLC with just water because I've heard acidic stuff can be rough on perlick flow controls (sulfur aromas?).

The only thing I don't love is that my pump seems to be flowing a lot faster than the water is coming out so I periodically need to raise the keg higher to slow the flow.

Cannot find a way to adjust flow on my Eco 264 pump.

 

Brewed a Robust Porter on Sunday. Very, very smooth brew day. Hit my OG on the nose.

Going to save a gallon and dry bean it with some coffee. Anyone have any suggestions on brands of coffee? I have some Portola... but I'm not sure I want to use it.

 

Brewing a DIPA. I was supposed to brew this on my birthday. It was also supposed to have Citra, but it is going to be Azacca as a replacement.The Azacca will couple Nelson as the dry hops and a touch of Galaxy with Nelson and Azacca for the whirlpool. Centennial at 30 for bittering. It's going to be a delicious beast of a beer. Burton yeast instead of London III.

 

Using London III after all.