Brewing up my house IPA for an early December party during a public brew day at my LHBS this Sunday, weather permitting. If its a nasty day I’ll be hunkered down in my garage brewing. Pretty pumped about the brew day. Looks like we’ll have 5 to 10 people setting up for the day.
No brewing… But I will be “unbottling” this year’s pumpkin ale with some friends. Next brew day is possibly Nov 5. I have to do some temperature testing in my guest bathroom where I do all my fermenting. I’ve turned the heat on and it’s probably a little warmer in there than when the AC was on in the summer. Think I might need to employ the swamp cooler again.
plans changed - didn’t realize I had maybe 3/4 of a pint of IPA left, so gotta get some in the fermentors before the on deck keg goes!
I’m going to smoke some malt this weekend for a brew session in a couple of weeks. I went to Portland last weekend and picked up a sack of Best Wheat Malt, Crisp MO, and GW Washington Select. I’ll smoke some of the MO, probably with apple or alder. I’ll probably also transfer a Flanders red to secondary so my wife will stop bugging me about the cherries in the freezer. Some kegging and cleaning to do too . . . I don’t know how much I’ll get done.
man I was so disapointed. I called GW about the california select and asked where it was malted and they said it was transported up to washington for malting. I was hoping to reduce my footprint with that stuff but it would actually be a smaller footprint if I ordered the washington select as that only have to come down coast to CA rather than up and then down. grrr.
Just brewed my 2nd batch of beer, first one that is not a kit. It is a Christmas Ale. Just purchased a nice big chest freezer Keezer along with 5 kegs and 5# and 20# CO2 tanks, hoses, etc… so will be going whole hog with kegging this one. Currently using it as a fermentation chamber since I have nothing to keg yet. Hoping to enjoy the Christmas Ale a lot sooner than waiting for bottle conditioning.
I have a Best Bitter in my plans using WY-1469. Hope I can dial in on Landlord!
Yeah, I had to go to OR to get it. No one around here carries it, or the Crisp MO or Best Wheat either. But I’m not including the travel to and from Portland in the cost, we were going to visit family anyway. It was 18 minutes door to door from their house to Brew Bothers.
That sounds delish. I want to try my first pumpkin ale. It all depends on homework and birthday events though so we’ll see.
Fish on!
I was going to ask where you bought your grain in Portland. Brew Brothers has a great selection and they move a lot of product so I’m confident most is pretty fresh. They get really busy though so that’s part of the reason I finally got a grain mill last week. Now I can get in, get out and get on to brewing.
They opened at 10 Saturday, I was there by 10:15. Not busy at all 
I’ll probably go back next time (or every time) I’m in Portland, it’s a short enough trip from my inlaws’ house that any time I need anything it will be worth it. I’ll probably need at least some MO by Christmas, maybe some pils malt too. We’ll see what I get brewed in the meantime. Good store though, nice people.
Just bottle-washing, organizing my brewing shelves, and perhaps a wee bit of “research.”
Such a great yeast. I’ll be using it in a few weeks for a nut brown and then the TTL after that.
In an effort to use up some odds and ends, I picked up 9 lbs. of base malt and a sachet of US-05. I’m looking forward to doing something that isn’t as meticulously planned out as usual. It will probably be in the vicinity of a hoppy American amber.
Well I have grown up a good starter of WLP 940 and got the Negra Modelo wanna be
blues out…so in the mornin, I will proceed toward those ends…(hopefully)
I keep telling myself lager just is NOT worth the extra work…but who knows, this may be
the bell ringer that keeps me doing lagers…
Edit:. 1.052 og
Cooling down to lager pitch temps at this time looks nice ;D
Cranberries were on sale at Publix for $.99 /12 oz. It’s just a simple wheat beer with the cranberries, oranges and honey.
Whatever is left, put on the bugs for a lambic. ;D
kegged an IPA last night. Brewed the Roll In Ze Hay Hefeweizen today and tomorrow I’ll brew Nachtmare Schwarzbier.
Kegged my OctoberFiesta (used WLP Mexican Lager) and am brewed another OctoberFiesta today. Getting the beer down to lager temp before I pitch the slurry.
Brewing a Belgian Porter/Winter Saison - going to throw in some dark candy syrup and ferment with White Labs Saison II