Brewing Related Activities 09/14-16

Brewing a robust porter with the hope that it's pretty darn close to Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald in taste.

 

Brewing my first beer! Looking to make an IPA, trying to figure out the hop bill tonight

 

Brewing a low gravity amber/red ale tomorrow.

 

bottling/keggin a RIS I brewed 8 weeks ago, brewing up a low ABV cream ale to enjoy mass quantities of for football this fall.

have a great brewing weekend everyone!

 

Will bottle my saison tonight. Hit a FG of 0.998. Was shooting for about a 4.5% session beer but this one came in at 6.65%.....

 

Good old Saison yeasts... Kegged mine last week; I aimed for a 6.5% export saison and had the beer go all the way down to 0.990 to give me a smooth 8.5% saison.

 

Bottled my latest IPA, my last extract / partial mash beer.

Dry hopping tomorrow my first AG beer, a SMaSH using willamette and MO.

 

Honey IPA is in the first week of fermenting, added the honey on Tuesday. Waiting for that to die down and then taking a crack at dry-hopping.
Girlfriend decided she wants a "Pumpkin Roll" beer, so I'm working on a recipe for that. Weighing the merits of cream cheese flavor extract - maybe just in the bottling bucket after I've already dispensed half.

 

Brewed my first all grain this week, a Rye ale. May just have to brew again this weekend, some sort of pumpkin ale.

 

Also brewing my first all grain this week! Trying to keep things simple- doing a sessionable pale with Simcoe and Citra.

 

Nice! I was a bit intimidated at first, but really it's almost no different from extract brewing with steeping grains. Good luck!

 

I was amazed how smoothly my first all grain day went. I have zero reason to believe that the beer won't come out great. Dry hopping it tomorrow morning before I leave for Schlafly Hop in the City beer festival.

 

Gonna bottle my beastly RIS this weekend. Can't wait to see how this ages!
Then I'm gonna brew a chinook IPA, 100% chinook baby!

 

I brewed a pumpkin ale at 4 am. Couldn't sleep so I did that. Fairly uneventful with no sparing issues with the pumpkin I used. Smelled great going into the fermenter. Repitched BRY-97 so curious how that does with repitching.

 

Getting ready for a couple non-profit brewfests...bottling, cleaning, kegging and drinking mostly commercial right now to make sure I don't run out. berlinerweisse on the horizon

 

I just started a sour mash for a batch of my extract Berliner Weisse. I'll be boiling and fermenting it on sunday night/Monday morning

 

Last IPA of the season. Centennial, Amarillo and some progress for fun, most all in the last 15 min. A good shot of C77 and C40, touch of special B. Not normally what I would do here. But I am looking for a bit more body for the cooler weather. Us05- mash at 150.


Cheers!

DM

 

What's C-77? ... a British C-80?

 

Only if tapping into a recently kegged stout and ipa count as brewing activity.