What's Brewing This Weekend - 4/29 Edition

Nothing on my side of the fence, I have to go to Southern California Homebrewer’s Festival!

Was planning on picking up ingredients for 2 batches, a cream stout and a porter, my first 2 all-grain brews!

Another batch of the ESB for me.

No brewing, but dry-hopping an English barleywine, bottle-washing, and a little “research” (plus I expect Gordon’s book will arrive by then for some real research)

A Belgian Wit!!

SSoS. Gonna work it in between fishing for walleye, the river’s loaded up. Yum!

It’s a triple decocted Bo-Pils on Saturday for the Pilsner Urquell Master Homebrewer Competition on August 8th at The Big Apple.

I’ll be wearing my brewing shoes on Saturday.  ;)

I will be sampling my blonde and scotch ales and racking my golden belgian to a secondary.

American Brown Ale

Going to brew a Kolsch tomorrow morning.

Today:
-Taste-testing my strawberry cider - I think it’s gonna need more extract. 
-Sorting/categorizing several hundred bottles/entries for the Puget Sound Pro-Am homebrew competition.

Friday:
-Judging at the Puget Sound Pro-Am at Larry’s Brewing Supply in Kent, WA.

Saturday:
-More judging & possibly trying to meet w/ a few board members of the Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery in Seattle.

Sunday:
-Brewing an Imperial IPA & kegging my Chamomile Ale to let it start conditioning.

Brewing  a cali common. First attempt at converting an extract recipe to all grain. Going to be first brew I keg as well.

No brewing…again :(  I’ll be recalibrating my boil kettle volume to see where I lost on the test run batch 2 weeks ago.  Speaking of…I’ll be taking the initial gravity reading on that 1.  It should go to kegs around the middle of next week.  O’fest brew day is coming up 5/8. 
-J.K.L.

Right now I’m boiling wort for a 1.100 Burton ale that is destined to go into a used up bourbon barrel (with similar beers brewed by other club members) to be aged for a year.

You have to?  :)  You lucky guy!

I’ll be sleeping most of the day on Sat. getting ready for what looks to be a 24 hour work shift on Sun.

Double decocted Bavarian hefeweizen. The first in a series.  8)

Nothing for me. Waiting for my first batch to bottle-condition.

Brewing an Irish stout Friday.

Not brewing, but going to Toer de Gueze! Also anxiously watching the shipping status of my HopRocket: http://www.spedpoint.com/customers/dhl/dhl_status.jsp?consignmentNo=6066349470

O’fest has hit TG so kegging that to start it lagering.  Dry hoping an English IPA and running around like a maniac for my Son’s  first tournament of the spring season.  I think I heard the wife mention something about “yard work” but I have no idea what she is talking about!