Do we need a new "What's Brewing This Weekend?" thread?

Well, I think I might brew, but it depends on the weather. I am daddy to my two girls all weekend, and am not sure if there will be enough time. I figure if I brew it will be a brown ale for my fishing weekend in Flin Flon (named Bomber Brown, look it up non-Flyer fans) over Memorial Day weekend (which isn't a holiday up North).

Otherwise it is the next weekend, where I will be brewing with a friend at a different friend's place, showing a newbie who does canned kits how to do the whole kit and caboodle and make better beer.

 

I will likely dry hop my APA/IPA. I now brew according to my kegerator so as of right now I need to wait another week or two. I need to get more friends to help finish off these kegs!

 

Just brewed two pale ales yesterday. Sounds like a bubbly orchestra right now

 

I am using up the last of my Apollo hops on an IIPA .
All two row with about 5% cane sugar OG around 80. Maybe some flaked oats just for fun.
60IBU at the start, 60 IBU at 15 minutes. Then cool the wort to 160-170F and add 2 more ounces and let it sit a while. 3oz dry hops. WY1728.

 

If I find the time I will be brewing a hibiscus wit beer. I had Blue Moon's Farmhouse Red at the Rockies game and was intrigued to try something similar myself.

 

Brewing up the early summer beers today...one large mash to be split into two batches. A summer wheat for me, a blueberry wheat for the wifey.

 

Dusseldorf Alt on Sunday. bunch of cleaning and sanitizing and then bottling a couple meads will probably fill the rest of my weekend.

 

Brewing "Dank!" on sunday, an all columbus-hopped 1.052 pale ale.

 

Brewing up my first all-grain batch tomorrow! Decided to start with a nice simple hefe using harvested Kellerweis yeast. I'll save the 1.100 OG barleywine for my second attempt...

 

Brewing a specialty ale with the left overs that have accumulated from other brews. It will be kind of a "kitchen sink" batch.

 

If all goes well with shipping I should be brewing an oatmeal stout on Monday. This will be my first partial mash brew so I'm pretty excited.

 

Is this Apollo only?

 

Yes, why do you ask?
When I obtained these I made and all Apollo IPA. When I put it into the keg there was a distinct tropical fruit flavor along with "citrus" but after a day or so the tropical fruit faded. It probably had something to do with not purging the keg with CO2 or something so I am going to go at it again and see if I can get it to stay around this time.

 

Just curious

The descriptions of Apollo hops sound so damn tasty. I just wnated to know how they come across. Pretty citrusy you say?

 

We'll be brewing up 18 gallons of Orval clone and 6 gallons of a stout......not till wednesday tho....

 

Gotta work all weekend but i was able to get in a Belgian Pale ale yesterday. Pilsner base, noble hops on wlp550.

Happy brewing

 

Too many other things taking over my weekend, but I'll brew a black IPA sometime next week.

 

Gonna be doing a simple blonde ale hopped with Sterling and Liberty hops, with the yeast from this batch to fuel yet another IPA in a couple of weeks. Using WY1968, and am trying to give it a shot at making it my 'house' strain. Previous attempts at creating a house strain have not worked out so well for me....

 

Not brewing until next weekend, but I am bottling my Saison this weekend. It got infected w/ Brett and tastes great, thinking of adding the 3/4 gallons of the beer I pulled off and added Lacto/Pedio/Brett to into the original 5 gallons at bottling to give it a little more flare. FG is already fairly low so as long as I don't carbonate high to begin with it should be good to go. Over time it will develop more funky/sour character. Next week is a Wit and a Gumballhead Clone.