Who's Brewing 8/28-9/3?

Just remember that wet hops weigh 5 to 8 times what dry ones do. I used a five gallon buckets worth of wet hops at flameout recently.

 

Made a weizenbock for local competition. My estimated SG was to be 1.082 but got lazy and instead of a double step batch spurge did a single. Ended up with a 0.5gallon more post boil amount of brew and my SG was 1.68. I plan to add a bit of coriander and orange peel to scondary. Got my tea soaking now. I was thinking of adding some raspberry extract ( just a hint) before kegging. I am not sure if this is overkill with the raspberry or not. Comments welcomed. The laziness came from getting our lines figured out for our keezer which houses a wonderful oatmeal stout, vanilla porter and American pale ale. It takes several samples to ensure if everything is working well. Ironic that the extra effort put into ensuring a proper beverage line length results in less effort during the brewing step.

 

What category do you plan to enter? Assuming this is a BJCP competition, coriander, orange peel, and raspberry, if recognizable, would be out of place in Weizenbock.

 

It's a local club of Brewers. More or less for fun but they probably will be sticklers in this cAse since they actually announced a style vs picking a random ingredient. Thanks. Maybe I will spit the batch and then try it in the portion that stays at home.

 

I was supposed to brew a dubbel tomorrow, but then I killed all my Belgian yeast.

So instead, I'm going to brew an 80/-.

 

Brewed my second stab at a Berliner today. First attempt was sour worted and ended up being a drainpour when it turned brown and smelled like rotten garbage.

Went with no sparge, no boil, no hops, 5lb 2row, 2lb wheat, 1 lb spelt flakes. 1.038 OG. Brett (unknown strain) and Lacto Plantarium cultured from a bottle of Dieu Du Ciel and probiotics respectively.

 

Could you post your recipe for the hard root beer?

 

I'll be alone Friday thru Monday, so the schedual is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, making house pale on Friday, making chocolate stout Saturday, the boys come over on sunday for the ripping Ronnie fresh hop ale party, Monday cleanup and if able making a ipa. Rock n roll

 

Made up a 2L starter of London III last night. Going to brew a GP, Flaked Wheat all Dr. Rudi and Nelson IPA. I have too many hops in the fridge though that I can't decide if I should go with my Mosaic? Simcoe? Amarillo? Equinox? Columbus? Azzaca? I need to brew more... Trying to get up bright and early and finish before my Hawkeyes kickoff at 11 am.

 

Not really "brewing", per se, but I just finished a Joe's Ancient Orange Mead to mark my 12th wedding anniversary, today. Going to let that age and enjoy it on the next anniversary.