Brew Weekend 2/28

General Homebrew Discussion
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As far as the weather goes, February was for the birds, but it was good for brewing. Who’s at it this weekend? I’m brewing the 2015 addition of my Barleywine. I’m keeping the malt the same but switching the hops up a bit.
10 lb two row
10 lb Maris Otter
5.5 lb Munich
1 lb Victory

120 min boil
60 min 2 oz nugget and 1 oz Apollo
30 min 1 oz columbus and 1 oz Centennial
10 min 1.5 oz Cascade, 1 oz Cent, 1 oz Apollo, and 1 oz Equinox
0 min 1.5 oz Cascade, 1 oz Cent, 1 oz Apollo, and 1 oz Equinox

I’ll be racking a session IPA and using it’s yeast cake of WLP 001

Life is good!

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I’ll be brewing a German Pils shortly.

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I’m not brewing today, but I’ll be dry hopping my IPA with some Ahtanum, Amarillo and Huell Melon.

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I’m brewing another kumquat wheat ale (the Zymurgy recipe) for the wife. Gotta get it in before kumquats go out of season. Tomorrow is going to be the warmer day–I know you’re impervious to winter temperatures, Frank, but I’m a bit of a wimp I guess–so it’ll be mash in the kitchen and boil on the porch.

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Frank-
I don’t know how you could be a wimp in Massachusetts? My god have you guys had enough snow yet? My sister lives in Peabody and its just crazy the amount of snow they have. Not sure if i will get a brew in this weekend or not as I have quite a bit of house stock right now.

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German pils for me as well. 6g split with 830 and 833

edited for typo, damn its early

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Ok. Too many Franks on this thread. I’m getting confused lol.

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I hear you!

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Frank-
I don’t know how you could be a wimp in Massachusetts? My god have you guys had enough snow yet? My sister lives in Peabody and its just crazy the amount of snow they have. Not sure if i will get a brew in this weekend or not as I have quite a bit of house stock right now.

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Well, maybe not a complete wimp. Maybe I just don’t have the right hat for the job.  :wink:

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No brewing this weekend, but I’ll grind enough grain to brew at least a couple batches in the Zymatic this week.

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No brewing for me, just finishing up propagating the yeast strains in my fridge so I can keep them going until I have space to brew again. Right now WY2000 is in the flask.

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Not brewing until next weekend. My wife and I are actually getting a date night - dinner at a local German place, then going to a concert after. Probably doing an American amber next weekend.

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ViennaMandar Pale Ale tomorrow - Site Not Found

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Just brewed a Amarillo IPA last night. Snowed in here in Fort Worth (which I know is laughable compared to you northerners) so I utilized the free ice bath.

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No brewing, but I kegged a ton. Made some odd mixtures in the keg that tasted pretty dang good as I tried to get the proportions right. Mixed a sour pumpkin ale with a rye porter, and a touch of oud bruin. Saison braggot got mixed with a very oaky Flanders and some oud bruin, as well as a very hoppy saison. Did a straight five gallons of oud bruin that was aged with gooseberries. Last keg was filled with a German red IPA.

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Not brewing, racked 10 gallons of IPA to a secondary yesterday.  Last time I dry hop in primary by the way.
Kegged it tonight.  Bottling 10 gallons of Imp Stout tomorrow.
 
Brewing next Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  Does that count? Maibock, Ofest, Premium Am Lager.

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We’re taking advantage of the cold and brewing Marzen for our annual Oktoberfest party. We need a total of 16 batches so we start early.

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The “not-so-fun” brew stuff on saturday.
*Did a bad job transferring a couple IPAs to kegs the other day… got a lot of hop material.  So, I moved those to two new kegs after cold crashing for a few days.  That was a mess/adventure trying to jump them between kegs.  Eventually just went for the autosiphon.
*Lots of cleaning
*Bottled beers for NHC and a couple other comps I might send some to.
*Yeast Starters

Today - the fun stuff.
Brewing a batch or maybe two… I have conan starter and 1968.
Thinking a Citra APA/IPA with the conan in the 1.06 range and an APA of some sort in the 1.05 range … just enjoying some coffee and getting the recipes, brun water etc organized now.

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I have been waiting for over a month to have enough time to brew my heady topper inspired DIPA. I used the recipe from Off The Topper, but I subbed golden promise for the pearl.

While I was stirring the mash, I pulled the braid out of the valve.  Luckily I had another tun that I could pour the mash into once I realized why I wasn’t able to collect the first runnings.  The brewday went much more smoothly after that.

Now that I have this batch in the fermenter, I’m kind of itching to brew a batch of Pliny.

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My first brewday in Vermont in a long time tomorrow. Marzen. built a new mash tun cooler, got the ingredients ready, borrowed a burner from a friend. ready to go. supposed to be a balmy 17 degrees at 6:00 tomorrow. fun!