I can’t brew this week! My kettles are being used for water baths!
But… I do have to add the pinot noir oak to my ~2 year dark wild ale. Thinking maybe of getting some sour cherry juice for a portion of it. Anyone got a good source?
Also, gotta do the checkin for the Mayfaire competition. Haven’t checked recently, but last I knew we were heading north of 250.
And then Falcons’ Meeting - Spring Beers. - guess I should probably go buy a few.
Looking to do an English IPA. I have a bunch of EKGs to use and keeping with my one German beer and one IPA on tap throughout the summer and having a hefeweizen kegged and a pils ready for lagering, it looks like an IPA is next.
I am hopefully brewing at least 10 gallons of saison some time this week. 5 possibly with with some funky fermenting maple sap. It is starting to smell like bread… Be brave, or be very afraid!
Yippeee! I finally get to post 2010’s first fruits . .
Starting tomorrow through Sunday . . 11 gallons each of an American IPA, Dunkelweizen and a Scottish 80 to get a healthy yeast crop for a subsequent Traquair House clone.
Still awaiting the arrival of my first child, so I have no brewing plans. Kegged my Cascade/Willamette Pale Ale last night, and will try and kill the 2° Below Clone (oh…it is so tasty right now) this weekend so I can get my Baby Brau Kolsch on tap for when friends and family come to visit.
Brewing a Kolsch. I’ll have to take a gravity reading on the mead too, its been chugging along for about a month now, but at last check it was only half way there (~ 1.050 from ~ 1.112). That should keep me busy enough not to mess with the Dunkel - its only been lagering for a little over a week.
Got a saison on tap, a pale ale in the fermenter, and will be brewing my own “Amber by Volume” this weekend. I kick up the base grain and throw in some 6-row to an Alaskan Amber clone recipe. Plus, I like the fairly newly released Sorachi hops.
I’m about to start brewing a new American Amber recipe. This one is going to have some nice caramel/malt undertones with a lighter, crisper palate for summer. It’s like an Amber Cerveza with an American hop profile.