What's everyone brewing?

Highland Brewer · Post by **Highland Brewer** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 5:44 pm

Great idea using the tupperware bath to control your ferm temps!

mcgster · Post by **mcgster** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:28 pm

I find it makes a huge difference! It was also pretty cheap lol

Bluefin 774 · Post by **Bluefin 774** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:01 pm

mcgster wrote:I find it makes a huge difference! It was also pretty cheap lol

Could you do a post about the Tupperware temperature set up? What type of box did you use for your STC?

Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:53 am

Brewing an English Bitter - wind out of the west is wreaking havoc with burner efficiency today.

McGruff · Post by **McGruff** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 8:08 am

Just mashed in a Blonde Ale. Wife is working so may as well brew something

jacinthebox · Post by **jacinthebox** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 3:08 pm

Today would have been a great brewing day...hold nice outside

McGruff · Post by **McGruff** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 6:49 am

Brewing another Blonde Ale.

malarcus · Post by **malarcus** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 11:47 am

Planning a Belgian ale for tomorrow if the weather cooperate

Marc

sheppard107 · Post by **sheppard107** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:17 pm

Kids are outside playing in the first snow. I'm inside doing a 1gal BIAB American IPA. "First Snow IPA" it is.

mcgster · Post by **mcgster** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:14 pm

I brewed up a triple batch before I left for Bangor and came back to some... Vigorous fermentation.

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Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:36 pm

I see one gummed up airlock and another airlock MIA!

mcgster · Post by **mcgster** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:54 pm

Yah I was shocked since the hefe was only 1.044 and the gose was 1.048 but that German yeast took off.

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jtmwhyte · Post by **jtmwhyte** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:31 pm

I'm going to brew a Gleneagles MO/Mandarina Bavaria SMaSH APA tomorrow as my last brew of 2015!

All laid out:

JohnnyMac · Post by **JohnnyMac** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:21 am

Halfway through the boil on a Northern English Brown, smelling wicked good.

Hobbitfu · Post by **Hobbitfu** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:30 pm

Planning a New Years brew day. An imperial Porter the will age on cocoa nibs and oak cubes soaked in Irish Whiskey. Yeast starter all ready!

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:43 pm

Just finished building the new mashtun. Inaugural brew is going to be the Funktown APA I think.

mumblecrunch · Post by **mumblecrunch** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:20 pm

I've got some Pacman yeast worked up from the dregs of a Rogue Dead Guy and Shakespeare Stout and I'm planning to brew tomorrow, but I'm not sure what.

I'm not feeling any of the actual Rogue brews except maybe Younger's Special Bitter. I want to work through some of the massive overstock of hops I have (lots of Simcoe, Amarillo, Chinook, Columbus and Bramling Cross and lesser amounts of Citra, Cascade, Centennial, Willamette, EKG). Pacman is known to attenuate extremely well to the point where Rogue recipes tend to have significantly more specialty malts than other brews, so it can't be a recipe that's too dry to begin with. I Probably don't want to do an IPA as I have a keg of Dave's Hammerhead ready to go. And a DIPA for the March exchange is probably out as I want a normal-length brewday (and it's probably a little early to be making that).

I do wonder whether it might be a good idea to make a recipe I've already made for comparison (although that would require me to remember what a previous beer tastes like, which may not go so well

). I've thought about doing Keith's Funktown APA with my Simcoe and Amarillo hop schedule but skipping the dextrose. Or maybe try the BCS APA with a different hop schedule?

Anybody got any other suggestions?

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:42 pm

Our Red IPA was really tasty and landed a 39 overall. Want to give that a try? Centennial and Falconer flight are the hops. However Mike and I were planning on a slight adjustment to the grain build.

mumblecrunch · Post by **mumblecrunch** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:32 pm

Keith wrote:Our Red IPA was really tasty and landed a 39 overall. Want to give that a try? Centennial and Falconer flight are the hops. However Mike and I were planning on a slight adjustment to the grain build.

That's a thought but (a) I'm still kicking my keg of Red IPA (wasn't 39 points though) and (b) FF is one hop I don't have. And I can't be buying more hops. I have pounds.

mumblecrunch · Post by **mumblecrunch** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:43 pm

mumblecrunch wrote:I've got some Pacman yeast worked up from the dregs of a Rogue Dead Guy and Shakespeare Stout

Turns out I had no such thing. Pacman is regarded as "powdery" so I guess what I thought was new yeast was apparently chunks of old yeast that broke up after 48 hours on the stir plate. I checked the gravity of the starter wort and it was 1.038, which is right around what it would have been when I made it. Lesson learned. I wish I'd figured it out sooner so I could have worked up an on-hand liquid yeast (e.g., the Yeast Bay Funktown in my fridge) but such is life.

So the batch of Keith's modified Funktown I made today got US-05. It was also about 5 points low in the gravity department and more highly aroma hopped (tried to get rid of some Columbus, so added that to the Simcoe and Amarillo in the flameout addition). Could end up with a drain pour, could end up with a nice almost session APA. Won't know for a couple of weeks I guess. This hobby can be awfully humbling

On the bright side, I did get to finally use my Chugger and free myself of the tyranny of hand-stirring during chilling. And while there was still a ton of break material that went into my fermenter, the hops definitely did not.

jacinthebox · Post by **jacinthebox** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:18 pm

I brewed up a 15 gal batch of apa for superbowl.

We are also brewing up 20 gal of ipa for Garrison tomorrow.

Hobbitfu · Post by **Hobbitfu** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:04 pm

Just finished brewing an imperial Porter that I plan to age on cacao nibs and light oak cubes that have been soaking in Irish Whiskey.

malarcus · Post by **malarcus** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 1:26 am

Planning for a simple American Lager tomorrow morning.

Marc

Tim Gregory · Post by **Tim Gregory** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:59 am

About to get started on an imperial stout.

mackay85 · Post by **mackay85** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:20 pm

Mosaic IPA brought to you by Frozen Balls Brewing

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