What's everyone brewing?

[TJ Brew]

Dopplebock, brew in a bag for tomorrow. Should be an interesting experiment.

[jeffsmith]

New Pale Ale recipe gets its first brew in the morning.

[jtmwhyte]

Nothing Special, just a Festa Brew Wheat until I get the new boiling equipment up and running.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

brewing dark strong belgian. it's mashing at my place while we smoke some meat at my buddy's place

[Jimmy]

Brewing up a raspberry brown tomorrow

[hogie]

Just mashed in Lighter Than Aero. Target 5% 25IBU pale pale ale.

[pet lion]

Giving the 11.5 L all-grain red ale a go.

[pet lion]

I was confused when sparging last night when I realized the water I was using didn't add up to enough to allow for grain absorption. Kept going as this was an experiment with this set up. Ended up adding some more water to the sparge and kettle and even topping up to about 11.5 L I was aiming for in the carboy. To my surprise my OG was 1.060 and the calculated OG was 1.059. I just started looking through my Brewtarget settings and realized it indicated to add 2 L to the BK and another 2 L to the fermenter.

Well, it was a learning experiment.

[Tony L]

Well, it was a learning experiment.

And you had fun and made beer.

Congrats

[akr71]

Brewed up my Gateway Kolsch and doing the Aussie no-chill cuz I still haven't fixed my immersion chiller. Used a pound of my homegrown fresh/frozed Mt. Hood as late additions. Probably too many hops for a Kolsch by style, but fuck it - I still have to drink it, so I'll add what I think it needs.

[derek]

I just finished my first Brew-in-a-bag - successfully, I think. A simple American Pale Ale, because I didn't want to waste too much good stuff if it didn't work.

My brew bag was too small (it's something Marta uses occasionally when wine-making, though I have no idea what for) and rectangular; and my burner stand is way too high (nearly 4' because it was designed as part of a three-tier system). The result was that I couldn't actually raise the brew bag out of the wort on a pulley, because there wasn't enough clearance beneath the rafters, and when I did get it high enough, it drained from both bottom corners, which were just a touch wider than the kettle. I would expect Jimmy's design to drain from the middle of the base.

So, I'll be shortening my burner stand, getting a new brew bag, and then putting 1 burner, two kegs (my HLT and boil kettle) and a pump on the market soon.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

and then putting 1 burner, two kegs (my HLT and boil kettle) and a pump on the market soon.

I know someone who may want those kegs whenever you do decide to get rid of them. keep us posted.

other than the height difficulties, it sounds like you rather liked the simplicity of BIAB?

[Jimmy]

So, I'll be shortening my burner stand, getting a new brew bag, and then putting 1 burner, two kegs (my HLT and boil kettle) and a pump on the market soon.

I feel the same way..though I'm keeping my kegs so I can do multiple batches at once

I can't really see myself doing the 3 vessel setup again though!

[jeffsmith]

So, I'll be shortening my burner stand, getting a new brew bag, and then putting 1 burner, two kegs (my HLT and boil kettle) and a pump on the market soon.

I might be interested in one of those kegs and the pump when you decide to get rid of them.

[derek]

other than the height difficulties, it sounds like you rather liked the simplicity of BIAB?

Definitely. Cleanup is at most half the time. Now, I am used to doing two 40l batches together - mashing the second while boiling the first - and with everything in one kettle I can't do that, but if I want to do 80l in one day, it certainly won't take longer this way than it used to.

[mckay75]

Finally brewed my IIPA today. It went very well...was 0.004 off my target gravity...not bad for my 2nd AG brew! Even managed to get all my bottles cleaned for the Dogfish Head 60 min IPA clone and bottled that after I finished brewing. I used 1056 yeast I harvested from the Dogfish head brew and made a starter for it. Looking forward to how this turns out...hopefully I pitched enough yeast!

[BrooklandBrewer]

Did an All-Grain Peat Smoked Irish Red Ale, tasted amazing going into the carboy! We'll see how it turns out.

[chalmers]

Sounds good, guys! Keep it up.

[hogie]

Wortly and I are brewing a Dunkel double-batch tonight. Building up a stockpile of lagers.

[akr71]

Weather/Time permitting:

Toasted Oat Pale Ale: A while back I toasted some oats to ~20L - made the house smell like oatmeal cookies, I want to see if it adds anything different to a beer than 'regular' oats would.

If I can get than same smell/taste into a beer, the next time I'll hit it with a good dose of biscuit and C120 for an oatmeal raisin cookie beer

[jeffsmith]

Time permitting I'm going to brew a hoppy Brown Ale and throw it on the yeast cake from my Pale Ale.

[XmonikerX]

Hopefully I'll be brewing on Sunday.

Another RIS.

I also have a RIS, Belgian Golden, & Wee Heavy to bottle at somepoint....

[pet lion]

American pale ale with Simcoe and Cascade hops. Using my new custom BIAB I got off Jimmy today for a partial mash.

[LeafMan66_67]

1-Gallon ESB all grain test batch ...

[Tim Gregory]

APA with cascade and amarillo.