Who's Brewing This Weekend (15-17 June)

first IIPA. (Father's Day present to myself) I ordered the ingredients earlier today from my LHBS and am going to pick them up on my way home from work.

 

This whole week was pretty productive:
Cold steeped coffee for the first time
Kegged a Mocha Stout (which looks more like a Mocha Brown Ale)
Transfered a DIPA (DH w/ galaxy)
Tonight: yeast starter
Tomorrow: brewing a Cream Ale and Saison

 

Just bottled Orval 2 weeks ago. Should be in the lineup again soon tho

 

Brewing a hopped up wheat (2 oz tettnanger, 2 oz hallertau, dry hop 2 oz cascade).

Not sure if it will be good, but I am excited to find out.

 

Thinking about brewing Denny Conn's Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter to have ready for the fall/winter.

 

30 gallons of a Pale Sour ale to fill up a barrel with. Going to be awesome!

 

10 gallons of Belgian Wit planned for tomorrow. Probably going with the classic indian coriander and dry bitter orange peel (unless I can find some quality fresh oranges and a zester asap) and might throw in some chamomile flowers!

 

WB-342: experimental watermelon PA with HBC-342s

 

Brought this over from the old thread.

Hopefully a Pale Ale with Golden Promise. Dark Munich/Cara Munich. All Amarillo hops. Windsor yeast. Once this is done i have to drink my keezer dry as it will be full! (Not a bad thing) lol

Cheers!

DM

 

Watch the chamomille. I added some in the primary as a tea and now the beer has a very faint citrus and high herbal flavor. It is starting to mellow now, but for the first few weeks it was not very good.

 

Racking 115th Dream Imperial IPA, Brewing Northern Brewers Extra Special Bitter.

 

I'm going to plop out a Simcoe IPA, gonna have a good bit o' booze to it, so hoping I hit my gravity right.

All simcoe, decent grain bill, going to be pretty close to the juicy Sweetwater IPA recipe. Planning on doing that Sunday after a round of golf with my dad who will be in town.

Also going to probably bottle my Pale ale that I dry hopped around 2 weeks ago, and just pulled back 2 bombers of my Imperial IPA I brewed and dry hopped with Citra a few weeks ago. 8.5 ABV, so it's still a bit green.. will be better in a few weeks.

 

Off and running... 12 lbs of grain mashing at 149.

 

May not be brewing...I modified my brew pot with a thermometer and stainless steel ball valve and the male coupling is too short (water drips out of the joint between the 3/4 NPT coupling and the valve-I am glad I tested the setup with boiling water prior to brewing!). If I can't find a longer stainless steel replacement I may have to put my brew day off for a week.

Would I get any off flavors by using a brass coupling once (in the event that the local hardware store does not have the ss fitting)?

 

I'm planning on adding only a 1/2 oz to 10 gallons of wort at flame out. How much did you add?

 

brewing another batch of belgian pale ale, getting things setup now for the morning brew.

 

IMO Brass is fine. I used one for years on my old Keggle before i got a new Pro Grade SS pot.

Cheers!

DM

 

Have you used Falconer's Flight before? The IPA will be great; the Kolsch . . . perhaps questionable. The FF blend is so flabby, so blowsy, so over-ripe. I know low-coho is all the rage, but if I wanted to drink peach nectar, I'd drink peach nectar.

 

10 gallons of imperial porter for a Buffalo Trace Barrel with a few friends... if the first 10 goes well, then probably another 10 later tomorrow.

 

I added 0.15oz to 5.5 gals.