No brewing, but I will be drinking the BDS I brewed for my birthday.
And perhaps some other libations, as well.
Getting off work here about 30 minutes. Going to head home and brew me an American Stout and then an IPA. After brewing almost every week for 2 months I’ve been a 3 week break, so I am very excited about getting my brew on!
I have 2 in primaries right now and the marching band season starts tonight. The short story here is no brewing for awhile. :-\
Paul
Brewed this:
and kegged the Chocolate Stout.
Notes to the brew day are at:
And some tasting notes for the stout:
No brewing this weekend, but sampling some really good Belgians. I’m also listening to the chorus of airlock activity from my Saison experiment in progress.
Irish Red Ale–>Americanized, of course, w/ Cascade hop additions; so, it is more of a west-coast Red Ale.
OG goal was 1.051 (11 gal), got OG of 1.060 (11.25 gal).
Cream ale yesterday. Bottled a batch too.
Might pick the aroma hops today.
Just started two beverages:
MyFirstMead: 1.114 OG, Basswood honey, US-05 (no Lalvin 71B at the homebrew store).
“Rockin 2-Fast,” a hybrid English/American Brown ale.
OG came out at 1.055. The thought is to have an american hop character, backed up by some of the fantsatic Simpsons Crystal malt, and a nice bready note too. This was a last-minute decision between fermenting with US-05, or some saved Thames Valley-2 in my fridge. Ended up saving the TV-2 for my next batch of bitter, and tossed the US-05 into this one.
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
7 lbs Golden Promise (Simpsons) (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 53.8 %
3 lbs Amber (Crisp) (27.5 SRM) Grain 2 23.1 %
1 lbs Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 3 7.7 %
1 lbs Crystal, Dark (Simpsons) (80.0 SRM) Grain 4 7.7 %
8.0 oz Chocolate Malt, Pale (200.0 SRM) Grain 5 3.8 %
8.0 oz Crystal, Extra Dark (Simpsons) (160.0 SRM) Grain 6 3.8 %
0.50 oz Galena [11.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 22.7 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 8 2.8 IBUs
0.50 oz Galena [14.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 9 4.5 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] - Boil 1.0 min Hop 10 2.3 IBUs
0.50 oz Galena [14.00 %] - Boil 1.0 min Hop 11 3.8 IBUs
It’s a multi-tasking day for me. Just finishing the mash of ten gallons of pecan-smoked amber ale and am on the first of three sacks of grain smoking over alder for my buds at Swamphead Brewery. Later I will keg the IPA that’s been dry hopped for two weeks with amarillo.
boiling 10 gallons of kolsch now and getting ready to transfer an old ale to ‘secondary’ for a couple more months.
just picked up grains for an imperial porter of some sort. gonna bitter with some chinook and use some ahtanam i have for a moderate late addition.
don’t know what it will be and don’t care. that’s half the fun!
cheers.
ryan
brewing a rye IPA, It’ll be the third time I’ve made this yet tweaking the recipe every time.
Picking out color from what I have on hand (left to right, a tea of: Caramunich 45, Carared, Crystal 60, Roasted Barley)
Blending roasted barley into each makes them very close. Going with the Carared + Roasted Barley based on color and flavor, targeting 14 Lovibond.
What did you come up with as your grain bill? I’ve got an Amber in the fermenter right now using CaraMunich with a pinch of Carafa III that is looking more like a Brown Ale right now, although I’m hoping it will look lighter in the glass.
(Edited, added photo)
Well, those images are pre-brewing, I didn’t do the math quite right in the recipe. I did 19.5 lbs total into a 6 gallon batch, hit 1.078. Because recipes of the past have come out tasting “grainy”, I try to go light on adjuncts and see how it turns out - I did 8 oz of Carared and 3 oz of roasted barley.
I’m not sure what it’ll look like in a glass, maybe orangy/red, but it had a lot of brown hue when boiling. My guess that some adjustment is in order.
Anyone have a favorite combination that’s worked well for them?
Since this is still the 8/24 thread, I’ll mention that on Labor Day I bottled 11 gallons of Bavarian Hefeweizen. It went very smoothly considering I was kinda hungover after seeing a Bonnie Raitt concert the night before (awesome concert!!). Luckily, a Quaprupel makes for good hair of the dog (that bit me).