brewing an English IPA with Wyeast 1968 on Sun 
Just using the 5 gallon system this weekend but, I’m thinking two recipes. An IP Abbey style and maybe a Foreign Style Stout.
I’m traveling next week. No way I can brew this weekend.
Where ya heading Euge?
Heading out to West Texas & Midland to see my folks. Only a short 5.5 hour drive. PITA but I do enjoy the scenery. Most of it anyway. The Permian Basin isn’t all that inspiring to me.
Gives me a chance to listen to all those Brewstrong episodes. Learned a lot on those drives…
I just doughed in with 12 pounds each 2-row pale and wheat, 1 pound Crystal 60 foe my Gumballhead clone attempt. The hops schedule will be 2 oz’s of Amarilo at 60, 20,10,5, and flameout. I’m not an IPA fan but I do love Gumballhead.
Euge, I know how you feel about Midland. I have to go there at least once a week. It’s only 2.5 hours from here but I don’t have the scenery that you have, all I see are pumpjacks and tank batteries.
No brewing for me this weekend. I have a cider to transfer into secondary(still has about 2 points to go) and I have some sampling to do!! Planning a brew for next weekend. Thinking of something appropriate for Black Friday! While the wife is out shopping, I’ll be brewing up a Black IPA or a Big Ol Punkin Porter. Still have a couple days to decide…
Taught my brother how to do all grain brewing but brewing up a 5 gallon batch of a coriander wheat beer, then I’m building his first all grain set up for his christmas gift.
Right on!
Brewed an American Brown, inspired by Tasty’s Janet’s Brown Ale.
Have a great trip Euge and be safe on the road.
I was hoping to get some work done in my beehives today, but the girls let me know that that was not what they wanted, in no uncertain terms. No amount of smoke would calm them. Something had them feeling cranky. I don’t know what. So I spent the morning extracting honey from some supers I pulled earlier in the week.
Now I’m going to watch The Sunshine Challenge awards ceremony live on streaming video.
punatic, what do your bees specialize in? Do you have enough to harvest to do the commercial thing? I remember one of the many times I’ve been to Hawaii, I’ve always come back with a bottle of Macadamia Honey Mead.
Whatever is blooming nearby. Extracting albizia blossom honey now. Also get lehua in the spring. Mac Nut after that.
Doing due diligence/research on the pro thing.
Good Luck! There is allot of value in what is produced in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Just a tiny bit of “research” (at the moment I am quaffing a Pliny the Elder bottled on 11/11/10… the only thing better would be Vinnie coming to my house with a keg), and I’m going to cross my fingers and buy the grain and yeast for an oatmeal stout to brew Thanksgiving morning, since we’re going to a church member’s house so I’m not cooking this year. Ye olde alewife plans to sit on the deck and read while the stout brews.
Why fingers are crossed: I want to toast some of the oatmeal and our oven has been on the fritz for weeks with KitchenAid people delivering the wrong part, blah blah blah. I could do it on the range but I doubt it would be that even. All said and done, I’m glad we had planned to go elsewhere for Turkey Day… I’d be in knots if I were waiting for a working oven!
Back from Portland . . .
I made it to the Hair of the Dog dock sale Saturday morning, picked up some Matt and some Doggie Claws, then went to Horse Brass for a pint and a late breakfast, then Cascade Barrel House for a few samples.
No brewing, but it was a good weekend nonetheless 
Thanks man! I’ll be sure to slow it down around Junction even though the limit is 80 mph… ;D Or is it 85…? Cruise control and Jamil is all I need.
What are Matt and Doggie Claws?
Beers from Hair Of the Dog Brewing CO…me thinks