I’ve got a partigyle on my dance card. First runnings will be a strong belgian wheat wine/super saison with coconut sugar. Gonna land somewhere around 1.116. I’ve got a nice big cake of belgian yeast blend ready to go for that one. sort of a farm mansion beer.
Second runnings will be a non-traditional wit by capping the mash with a few kilos of flaked kamut, a couple more kilos of pale malt, and a lb of crystal 15. that one gets some corriander, black pepper, citrus zest and possible a touch of chamomile.
Putting together a Blonde Ale. Haven’t decided if it will be something more than that. I saw a recipe for a Citrus Blonde that sounded good. Still working out the details. But brew I will.
Nothing. Need to spend some quality time elbow deep in delabeling and cleaning a stack of bottles. Also, cleaning and rebuilding kegs and kegging two beers. Next weekend is looking ok.
Edit - Future in-laws will be in town. So no brewing. Entertaining them is good as well. Taking them to see Cowboys Stadium and Rangers Park.
This weekend has a my brother’s backyard brew off competition ;D
It’s less of a competition than it is sibling rivarly over who has the better beer. I’ll end up buy grain etc for another beer that is yet to be planned out so I can brew later in the week.
I’m thinking something like: All Pils, All Mandarina Bavaria hops, and Bell’s Oberon Yeast. Should have a nice orangeyness to it that should be pleasant in July.
The big beer fell a few points short and only came up 1.102 that’s hardly gonna get me drunk at all! pretty sure I just overshot my volumes and left a bit more in the kettle than I meant to. If I had boiled longer I would have hit my numbers I suspect. But it was a long enough day already and I wanted to get going on the boil for the small beer. I should perhaps acquire a second burner some day. I was impressed with the color contribution from 1.9 kg of coconut sugar.
Small beer was a bit of footloose and fancy free brew as it turned out. I got kumquats as my citrus, and I think that will be fine although I wish I’d had more judging by the gravity sample. hit it with a few grams of corriander and few of black pepper we well. This one I overshot my gravity by a bit.
finally got them both chilled down to 63 by 4:00 this morning and pitched appropriately large slurries into each (about 500ml thick slurry for the big beer and 200ml for the small).
that’s hardly gonna get me drunk at all! pretty sure I just overshot my volumes and left a bit more in the kettle than I meant to. If I had boiled longer I would have hit my numbers I suspect. But it was a long enough day already and I wanted to get going on the boil for the small beer. I should perhaps acquire a second burner some day. I was impressed with the color contribution from 1.9 kg of coconut sugar.