Brewing Weekend 9/21 Edition

Second dose of dry hops in an IPA that I hope to bottle mid-week.

 

This sounds like loads of fun! I hope to read more about it somewhere.

No brewing from me this weekend. I transferred a mild to keg a day ago.

 

I'm planning on starting my first ever homebrew this Sunday! Doing a DIPA, which I know shouldn't be your first batch, but my father grows his own hops, so I'm only out the $ for malt if it sucks. Wish me luck.

 

IPA and a lot of it. Got a ton more hops on order; need to make freezer space.

 

I am trying to burn through as much of my stock of 2012 hops as possible. My fiancee (who loves IPAs) is asking me if I am brewing too many of them recently.

 

Venturing into uncharted territories this week and attempting to brew my first Partial Mash. It will be a Mosaic IPA.

 

Doppelbock for me. It'll be my first double decoction in awhile. The plan is to tap this one X-mas eve.

 

With any luck, tomorrow I'll be brewing an American pale or American brown (still deciding) using fresh cascades (still on the bine).

 

I don't think anything slows 3711 down. I love brewing BdG's. Not a style many people are in to. Your sounds great.

Probably not brewing anything this weekend, stir plate is occupied with some brett. Finally remembered to get some gelatin to try and clear up my Biere de Creme. 25% corn and forgetting to get whirfloc before I brewed made for one cloudy beer.

 

Haha, true, though hoping to get it to stay on the lower side of its attenuation range.

I'm not the hugest fan of many commercial BdG's, as the heavy malt character isn't for me. The more old school farmhouse-inspired BdGs are right up my alley though. Bon Chien, Jolly Pumpkin Biere de Mars, and Hill Farmstead Biere de Norma are absolutely fantastic.

 

Have you tried La Biere de Beloeil from Dupont? It's a less malty BdG, regardless of how it's classified here. Had one last night in fact. Probably my favorite beer from Dupont. There's a huge disconnect between the BdG description on here and the most popular beer's for the category. I think it's pretty funny.

 

Brewing a Belgian Tripel with extra spices (corriander, sour orange, star anise, grains of paradise) to be ready for Thanksgiving. Mixing two Belgian strains, Wyeast 3944 and harvested yeast from The Bruery's Mischief (which I call Poirot) . . . stir plate is a whirring. Bottling a Belgian blonde that was DH'ed with Citra . . . Mmmm. Sending Evil Twin to the CO2 chamber.

 

I like it, but don't love it. I could envision really loving a "straight" BdG, I haven't found anything that's really wowed me.

And yes, the style description on BA is pretty bad, IMO.

 

Talk to ya next week...

 

I've got a club only Imperial Beer competition coming up in January. I have nothing brewed yet, but am thinking Imperial Brown Ale. Not sure if this is the weekend, or next week...but I also have a festival next Saturday. We'll see what happens.

 

It's been such a long time since I've been able to brew anything. But that changes this weekend!

I'm making a hoppy Berliner Weisse. I'm making a liter starter of lacto from some crushed grain, using my sous-vide water bath to keep the starter at 120F. On Sunday, doing the mash, mashing out into a keg, dropping in the starter, and purging w/ C02. I'll try to keep the keg warm either using my ferm wrap or submerging into a hot water bath, again using my sous-vide setup. After it sours, I'm going to bring the temp to 170 to kill the lacto, hop stand either Citra, Galaxy, Falconer's Flight, or some combo thereof. Finally, finish with US-05 and maybe dry hop as well.

I've never sour mashed before and I've never had a hoppy sour, either. Does this sound reasonable?

 

Hoppy sour doesn't sound good to me, but I do have a homebrewed Amarillo Dry Hopped Temptation clone which has an amazing aroma. Hop Stand might be ok, I figured if the aroma isn't good it should fade away.

 

Finally got a day off so I got around to brewing my fresh hop pale, with all Cali ingredients. Found a new base malt called California Select (Cali grown 2 row) at my LHBS and got some Chinook and Cascade my friend grew. Just added the wet Cascades at flameout and currently enjoying a homebrew imperial red while the hopstand chills, happy brewing guys!