Who's brewing this weekend?

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  1. koopa

    koopa Initiate (0) Apr 20, 2008 New Jersey

    I'm going with 10 gallons of Galaxy Pale Ale today!

    I wanted to brew a batch that would be tasty and fairly inexpensive. This one is inspired by Ed Wort's Haus Pale Ale (Homebrewtalk.com) but features Galaxy Hops instead of Cascade and has several other subtle differences.

    Brew In A Bag No Sparge Method

    12.5 gallons Reverse Osmosis water
    7.5g gypsum
    5.5g calcium chloride
    5.5g epsom salt
    1.5g baking soda

    14# Pale Malt
    4# Vienna Malt
    1# Caramel 10

    Mash at 150 - 152F

    collect 11.5 - 11.6 gallons of 1st runnings

    60 Minute Boil

    0.5oz Galaxy @ 60
    1.0oz Galaxy @ 25
    1.5oz Galaxy @ 10

    10.5g post boil batch size

    1.049 OG
    1.011 FG
    5% ABV
    43.7 IBU's

    Pitch 2 packs of Nottingham and ferment at 64F for first 4 days then raise to 68F for another 12 days. (Or US5 @ 67F for 4 days / 72F for another 12 days).

    Then dry hop by adding 5oz of Galaxy to the primary for 4-5 days then keg.

    I've done several beers featuring galaxy with all different dry hop durations and I must say that the shorter dry hop time frame, as well as a pale ale level of IBU's really brings out a red fruit quality out of these hops that I enjoy.
     
    #1 koopa, Jun 8, 2012
  2. ventura78

    ventura78 Pundit (972) Nov 22, 2003 Massachusetts

    I'm brewing next thursday , weather permitting......going to brew up 18 gallons of a la chouffe clone and 6 gallons of a new triple, which will be a cross between our Orval clone and Triple Karmeliet clone....
     
    #2 ventura78, Jun 8, 2012
  3. NiceFly

    NiceFly Initiate (0) Dec 22, 2011 Tajikistan

    Looks like a Columbus IPA for me.
     
    #3 NiceFly, Jun 8, 2012
  4. telejunkie

    telejunkie Savant (1,107) Sep 14, 2007 Vermont

    attempting a black cream ale most likely on sunday...fermenting with anchor's lager yeast, so not exactly an ale
     
    #4 telejunkie, Jun 8, 2012
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  5. SteelieB

    SteelieB Initiate (0) Jan 5, 2008 New Mexico

    Gose using the sour mash technique. I started the sour mash last night.
     
    #5 SteelieB, Jun 8, 2012
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  6. Naugled

    Naugled Pooh-Bah (1,944) Sep 25, 2007 New York
    Pooh-Bah

    Interesting, what's your grain bill?

    No brewing for, but I will be bottling a saison that's been in the fermenter for about 6 weeks now. It took a long time to dry it up, it tastes great too.
     
    #6 Naugled, Jun 8, 2012
  7. nathanjohnson

    nathanjohnson Initiate (0) Aug 5, 2007 Vermont

    No brewing, but cleaning my new Blichmann kettle, and beginning work on a brewstand.
     
    #7 nathanjohnson, Jun 8, 2012
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  8. JrGtr

    JrGtr Pooh-Bah (1,775) Apr 13, 2006 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah

    Yep. Magic Hat Heart of Darkness stout clone recipe.it's my first full size all grain, using a modified BIAB method. We'll see how it works out.
     
    #8 JrGtr, Jun 8, 2012
  9. telejunkie

    telejunkie Savant (1,107) Sep 14, 2007 Vermont

    what i've got right now is
    11g batch
    6#Pils
    6#Pale Ale
    3# Flaked corn
    2# wheat malt
    1# Midnight wheat
    4oz Blackprinz
    (maybe 4oz honey malt?)
    bittered to 15ibus

    You use dupont strain or some other strain on your saison?
     
    #9 telejunkie, Jun 8, 2012
  10. mugs1789

    mugs1789 Zealot (611) Dec 6, 2005 Maryland

    Sessionable Belgian pale ale, to be followed in a few weeks by a stout pitched on the same yeast.
     
    #10 mugs1789, Jun 8, 2012
  11. SFB

    SFB Initiate (0) Nov 5, 2008 Oregon

    Going to brew on Sunday. It will be a single hop pale for summer sipping.
     
    #11 SFB, Jun 8, 2012
  12. jbakajust1

    jbakajust1 Pooh-Bah (2,552) Aug 25, 2009 Oregon
    Pooh-Bah

    No brewing for me. Been watching the FG drop on my big IIPA from last week. OG 1.084, Tuesday morning was 1.034, upped temp from 65*F to 68*F. Down to 1.021 last night, pumped them temp up to 71*F. Hoping to finish out at 1.015 @ 9% ABV. Might do a staggard DH, 3 days Cascade, 3 days Zeus, 3 days Galaxy, w/ some overlap of course, not sure yet. It smells and tastes great as it is. Bottling next week.
     
    #12 jbakajust1, Jun 8, 2012
  13. Naugled

    Naugled Pooh-Bah (1,944) Sep 25, 2007 New York
    Pooh-Bah

    Wyeast 3724, I think that's theDu Pont strain. Ramped up to 90F for the first week, then held for a week, and then dropped to 70F, pitched another strain and let it set.
     
    #13 Naugled, Jun 8, 2012
  14. DNuggs

    DNuggs Initiate (0) Apr 13, 2006 Massachusetts

    No brewing for me this weekend though I did just finish transferring an English IPA to secondary. I think I might relax this weekend and actually drink some of the beers in my fridge.
     
    #14 DNuggs, Jun 8, 2012
  15. randal

    randal Initiate (0) Apr 21, 2004 Colorado

    Are you not adding any more than 12.5 gallons of water?

    I think you will be considerably under your 1st running projection. Based on that amount of grain and water absorption by the grain (generally (lbs of grains) * (.19)) would give you a first running volume of around 9 gallons.

    _Randal
     
    #15 randal, Jun 8, 2012
  16. flexabull

    flexabull Initiate (0) Mar 9, 2006 California

    Brewing for a large summer camping trip on Sunday. It's going to be a bit of a Gumballhead clone.
     
    #16 flexabull, Jun 8, 2012
  17. randal

    randal Initiate (0) Apr 21, 2004 Colorado

    Oh and I am also brewing 40 liters of Munich-style helles this weekend.
     
    #17 randal, Jun 8, 2012
  18. ElPadrone

    ElPadrone Initiate (0) Oct 20, 2009 Texas

    No brewing but am getting the delivery of my new single tier brew stand and 3 new keggles!! Also gonna be transferring a DIPA and dry hopping an imperial!
     
    #18 ElPadrone, Jun 8, 2012
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  19. koopa

    koopa Initiate (0) Apr 20, 2008 New Jersey


    Here is how my math works out:

    19#'s of grain x .18 (my normal absorption rate) / 4 = 0.86 gallons lost to grain absorption.
    12.5 gallons of strike water - 0.86 gallons of grain absorption = 11.64 gallons of wort

    I just finished the brew session and here are my actual results:

    I started with 12.5 gallons of water
    had 11.6 gallons of wort after removing the grain / running off so I was on the money volume wise.

    I wound up hitting 1.050 preboil gravity on that 11.6 gallons of wort (10 points higher than planned), which equals 84.5% mash extraction efficiency (not bad at all for a no sparge BIAB) but since I was looking to finish at 1.049 post boil I topped off my boil kettle with another 1.15 gallons of water which diluted the (now) 12.75 gallons of wort. After a 60 minute boil I was at 1.049 OG and had 11.75 gallons of wort remaining. 11.15 gallons made it into the fermenters (would have been 10 gallons if I hadn't of added the extra 1.15 gallons of water, so again I was on the money volume wise)
     
    #19 koopa, Jun 8, 2012
  20. BigCheese

    BigCheese Initiate (0) Jul 4, 2009 Massachusetts

    Doing my first batch this weekend. WAHOO!
     
    #20 BigCheese, Jun 8, 2012
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