Dashing through the snow in a one keg powered sleigh…
What’s the situation this week?
Just finished brewing a bitter!!
Birthday Barleywine
For my first child due in June!
I’m bringing spring in early with a nice bright IPA. Also bottling my Brown Porter type beer that I plan on using for a wassail.
Also glaring at my cider, cause I don’t know whether it will be done in time… Definitely need to do 15 gallons next apple season… 2.5 isn’t going to last till february.
hoping to brew an ordinary bitter recipe but with saison yeast (need the starter for a big beer later on) we will see how that turns out!
kegging a porter and brewing an american amber ale - still deciding on cascade or columbus for the flameout hops - might have to flip a coin.
I might brew a weizen, but I have some brewery tasks to accomplish (cleaning, kegging, etc).
On the list to brew are a Doppelbock, and a big old English Barleywine Thomas Hardy type thingy to use all the 1028 yeast cake from a SSoS.
Probably keg my None More Black IPA on Sunday, but gotta clear out one of my taps before I can do that, preferably. That shouldn’t be a problem as there’s not much left of it. I had a sample of it and it’s kinda bitter. I accidently added 2 oz of fwh instead of 3/4 of an ounce so I had to adjust the rest of my hop schedule so it wouldn’t be bitter as sh!t. But apparently that didn’t work. It was a blend of Simcoe, Chinook, and Cascade.
I also added debittered black at the end of the mash before taking first runnings. Would the bitterness of debittered black malt come out more if I ground it to a powder?
Going to make a semi-sweet mead with California orange blossom honey. Also going to keg an alt.
I might get around to a Rye IPA. My LHBS finally got in some Rye Malt.
I would think so. small particles = more surface area = more extraction of bitterness
We may have bitten off more than we can chew, but we will give it a shot.
1. Bottle an Irish Ale
2. Make 3 gallons of mead
3. Brew an American Ale
4. Smoke Chickens
5. Have a beer and a cigar and relax and enjoy the warm weather.
Brewing up 5 gallons of White Sage Wit for the wifey. Kegging 10 gallons of a Black IPA. Kegging 1/2 of a sweet mead made using our honey harvest from this year and putting the other 1/2 on 12 pounds of pears and 1.5 oz of ginger.
I’ll be bottling some beer to make room in my chest freezer. I’m also still trying to organize the beer cellar. I might try to brew an AAA on Sunday.
Paul…I just realized you changed your name…What’s up with that?
Blatz no likey.
Nothing brewing again this weekend. Will be getting some of the BVIP into bottles for holiday giveaways and sampling the ESB, which is the last of the holiday six pack beer to be bottled. Also kicking off a starter for a CAP next weekend.
Even if I don’t get around to brewing a lager this weekend, I will be cleaning kegs and moving beer from lagering/conditioning kegs into fresh ones. I am bring 5 kegs of homebrew to the company open house next Thursday, and I’d like to minimize the amount of yeast that comes with the beer to the office. Got Rochefort 8 clone, bo-pils, and Scottish ale all carbed and ready to go, black IPA is carbing, and hefe is finishing in the primary today or tomorrow.
some sort of bitter with WY1469, and need to get an oatmeal stout going.
cheers–
–Michael
got a day off on monday so i’ll be brewing perhaps an IPA, maybe also a Barleywine next week,. thinking in winter and cold days in Febraury and March