What's everyone brewing?

[whisle pig]

Sun. may be an IPA day with 3 lb of frozen fresh cascade; we'll see!!

[mr x]

Sounds good!

[Tim Gregory]

My Black IPA worked out great, except for one small issue. My sister dropped by to give me some money and somehow between transferring a handful of change from my hand to my pocket a loonie went flying and landed right in my kettle of cooling wort! I dipped my arm in Starsan and went fishing and got it out within a few minutes, so hopefully it won't do too much damage.

Moral is - always keep it covered!

[mr x]

lol. Hilarious.

[JohnnyMac]

Sounds like a new name.....hairy arm loonie IPA.....

[derek]

Sounds like a new name.....hairy arm loonie.....

Wasn't that what they called Alexander Keith?

[whisle pig]

No time today for a new one; but just transfered my imperial Porter too the secondary and added the vanilla, down to 1.036. Needs to drop some more over the next 2 weeks.Flavours are good!

[akr71]

I have an Old Ale planned for Friday using wyeast 9097 'Old Ale Blend' (a sacch/bret blend). I also plan for this brew to be my first attempt at partigyle brewing with the second runnings being an amber or pale ale.

Anticipated first runnings OG ~1.100 which I'll dillute down to 1.08x and hop to about 50IBU (Bullion & Willamette).
Anticipated second runnings OG ~1.050 and hopped to around 30IBU (with what is still up in the air, maybe Magnum or Mt Hood). I'm also thinking that the second runnings beer will be a hop burst, where all the hops are added in the last 20 minutes.

[mr x]

Crazy shit man. How are you calculating your first running efficiency? When I do big beers, my eff goes from 80+ down to the mid 60's. I always need to use a bit of extract to hit my OG.

[akr71]

Crazy shit man. How are you calculating your first running efficiency? When I do big beers, my eff goes from 80+ down to the mid 60's. I always need to use a bit of extract to hit my OG.

Wild Ass Guess! I plugged 67% into Beer Smith and went from there for the base recipe. Then I used this article and the associated tables to guess what my first & second runnings will be based on a 50-50 split and the anticipated OG of the base recipe.

Then for an extra math mind fuck - my recipe has brown sugar in it, so I had to take that out of the recipe and look at the tables again based on that OG. The sugar is only there as a gravity boost for the old ale. I have some extract on hand too, in case my efficiency really goes into the shitter.

[mr x]

Sounds like you got it covered.

[akr71]

Let's hope so! If things go horribly, horribly wrong I'll just mix the 2 before I start the boil and carry on as if it were a normal brew.

[LiverDance]

Brewing up a IIPA and a HobGoblin clone today.

[mr x]

Schwarzbier tomorrow.

http://www.brewnosers.org/forums/viewto ... ?f=4&t=275

[JEH]

I threw together what I hope will be an IPA last night. First time ive not followed a recipe. I hope it turns out, but if its bad I can always just serve it to my friends. Theyre usually just happy to have free beer on tap

[whisle pig]

Just finished off brewing my first attempt at a Belgium Abbey. First time using the 1214 wyeast. OG:1.070. Finished it with a lot of Gr. Hesbrucker, had to use lots at 1.6%AA; Probally a Pilsner next to use some more, stiil have 4lbs of them!

[mr x]

How did you wind up with so many of those hops at that ibu?

[whisle pig]

A friend had got them in a hop order, and they had been sent to him by mistake. They have been around for a year but only opened then restored for about 4 months. he was cleaning out stuff and gave me the 4.5lb that he had left. I'm sure that I'll be sick of them by the time i use them up.

[whisle pig]

Just tried my first Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter from my keg and I am pleasently surprised ;turned out much better then I thought!!

[whisle pig]

Maybe a pilsner today , if time lets me get started soon.

[BBrianBoogie]

Just getting ready to mash in on a Flanders Red. I'll let you know how it turned out in about a year and a half

[mr x]

Sweet. I've got a Munich Dunkel coming up on Wednesday.

[moxie]

Got an empty fermenter, going to use it for a batch of Apfelwein... Anybody got any tips on where to get some good AJ for it? The only good quality stuff I've found preservative free comes in tiny 0.8L containers! Gallon size would be much, much more convenient. Anything larger than a litre, really!

Munich Dunkel... Sounds really good. What yeast are you using?

[mr x]

Using the Rasenmacher VSS strain. Just racked off a schwarzbier, and it was remarkably clean and tasty. I think the yeast will be great for a MD. Using the BCS recipe for this one, and the Narziss fermentation schedule. Seemed to ferment great with no added O2 on the schwarzbier.

Have you tried the AP. I made a bunch years ago in 1 gallon jugs using many types of OJ. Didn't care for nay of it. Maybe it was just my method.

[moxie]

I've done batches of Apfelwein in the past, but it is a real pain in the arse to buy 25+ damn bottles of juice for a batch. Haha. Never tried with OJ or anything like that, just upped the OG a little bit before fermenting out dry with champagne yeast, then either bottle still or prime for a nice smooth draught cider.