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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by berley » Wed Jun 26, 2013 5:44 pm

Barr wrote:Brewing a light lager with a little honey malt. I find that these light beers are great practice because there is no place for imperfections to hide like in those hoppy or dark beers. No my favourite to drink but I'm sure it won't go to waste. Summer is coming eventually isn't it?
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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by jtmwhyte » Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:01 pm

I just mashed in on my Rye'd The Walrus Pale Ale. Hoping for an early brewday tomorrow so I can convince the wife that I should brew 10G of lawnmower beer on Saturday :rockin:
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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by Tim Gregory » Fri Jun 28, 2013 7:57 am

Hoping to brew an american wheat and an oatmeal stout sometime this weekend if the rain cooperates.

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Post by canuck » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:31 am

Brewing up a RIS.

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:05 pm

Hoping to get through three brews with the family away this weekend. A mystery mild using up some miscellaneous grains, Everyday IPA and the Bees Knees Pale Ale. Hoping for a little cooperation from the weather.


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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:10 am

Weather hasn't really cooperated so far this weekend. Mild and IPA were done in the downpours on Saturday. Just mashed in for Bees Knees Pale Ale - hoping for a little better weather today.

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Post by ethier.sc » Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:15 am

LeafMan66_67 wrote:Weather hasn't really cooperated so far this weekend. Mild and IPA were done in the downpours on Saturday. Just mashed in for Bees Knees Pale Ale - hoping for a little better weather today.

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by pet lion » Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:54 am

I grabbed grains, hops and yeast at Noble Grape yesterday without preparing a recipe before hand. Got to plug them in to BrewTarget today to get a nice summer pale ale. Hoppy but not too bitter. Cascade, Citra and Amarillo for the hops. 2-Row with a bit of Maris Otter and Crystal 30 for the grains.
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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:15 am

pet lion wrote:I grabbed grains, hops and yeast at Noble Grape yesterday without preparing a recipe before hand. Got to plug them in to BrewTarget today to get a nice summer pale ale. Hoppy but not too bitter. Cascade, Citra and Amarillo for the hops. 2-Row with a bit of Maris Otter and Crystal 30 for the grains.
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Post by jacinthebox » Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:41 am

Fri...Brewed a Belgian Blonde

Sat...Brewed a Roggenbier (German Rye Beer), and a Vanilla Porter

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by JohnnyMac » Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:16 am

Just started the protein rest on an old school Vienna lager.
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Post by dean2k » Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:58 am

Spruce tip pale ale
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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by Tony L » Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:43 am

Looks good guys, wish I were brewing also.
Hell, I just wish I could have a beer. ( on call ) :(

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by gm- » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:08 am

Brewed up SN Torpedo IPA clone yesterday.

O.G. ended up at 1.076 (a bit too high), IBU estimated to be 74.

Grain bill
6 kg Pale malt (2 row)
0.5 kg Crystal malt 40L
0.20 kg Munich malt
0.10 kg Carafoam

Hops
30 g Magnum whole leaf hops at 60 min
20 g Magnum whole leaf hops at 30 min
40 g Citra at 5 min
40 g Magnum pellets at 5 min
40 g Crystal at 5 min

Going to dry hop for 7 days with
20 g Citra
20 g Crystal
20 g Magnum

Yeast
17 g US-05

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On tap: Nelson dry hopped Berliner/ Scottish Heavy 70-/ NE IPA

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:40 am

simple 6gal wheat recipe... going to split it up after fermentation and do a different fruit in each half
planning: beer for my cousin's wedding
Fermenting: black ipa
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Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by GAM » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:46 am

Pale ale.

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by dexter » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:52 pm

Friday was a little American ale with nothing but sorachi, Saturday was an English ipa , Sunday was a American wheat and today is a quick little every day ipa from the recipe section here. Been a bitch to brew in this weather tho!

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by jeffsmith » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:24 pm

Actually hoping for a rainy day tomorrow so I don't feel like I should be doing yard work instead of brewing. Going to do up a Centennial based version of the recipe Bee's Knees has morphed into (much simpler grain bill and lower ABV).

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by adams81 » Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:41 pm

Currently mashing my first all-grain batch, an American IPA from Everwood Ave brew shop! :banana:

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by chalmers » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:03 am

Woohoo! How did it go? Living on the edge, doing your first ever mash in the evening. :)

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by adams81 » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:51 am

It went great! The cooler biab system worked well, but I really wish I hadn't exploded my hydrometer while taking a reading off of the mash. This is the third hydrometer I've killed, and this latest one I only had for 4 days.

Still, the reading was good and it smells like beer! Now to see what the yeast think of it.

I see a refractometer in my future. :spilly:

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by chalmers » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:54 am

Great (about the mash, not the broken hydrometer)!

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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by LiverDance » Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:32 pm

Realized that I can't let this beauty of an evening go to waste so I went home at lunch and mashed in on a Kolsch. Giving the full volume mash in a cooler method a try, aka Jimmy's setup :D I'm interested in seeing the results :cheers:
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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by Jimmy » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:27 pm

LiverDance wrote:Realized that I can't let this beauty of an evening go to waste so I went home at lunch and mashed in on a Kolsch. Giving the full volume mash in a cooler method a try, aka Jimmy's setup :D I'm interested in seeing the results :cheers:
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Re: What's everyone making this weekend?

Post by jacinthebox » Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:01 pm

I brewed up a American Lager, and American Wheat this weekend...getting ready for August camping
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