What's everyone brewing?

[sleepyjamie]

Making my "Good beer for people who like bad beer" tomorrow, beer that I like to have on tap to keep guests happy (and away from my hoppy beers)

45% 2-row
44% pilsner
5% Carahelles
5% dexterose
1% Black malt

30 g Tettnanger at 60
15 g Tettnanger at flameout

US 05 at 18°C.

O.G 1.048, IBUs ~20

Looks decent.

[pet lion]

Half sized batch of pale ale with mystery hops from dgenerrick's neighbour and maybe some from the Halifax Seed bines as well.

[Keith]

Slightly embarassed after seeing what everyone else is brewing, however this weekend I'm putting on my first Partial Grain kit Bee-Man’s Honey Brown Ale and pitching some yeast in a Festabrew West Coast IPA. I'll also bottling 2 favorites, Festabrew Red and Wheat.

Honnestly I must say FB puts together some great beers, and is what got my feet wet in the homebrew process and wanting to try more.

[Keith]

I have a FestaBrew Dry on, a double merlot, and starting an apple riesling tomorrow

The Festabrew Dry is what my Wife and Parents\In-Laws like. All I know is it goes down superfast on those hot summer days when building a patio! Not my goto beer, but definately wasn't disappointed.

[jtmwhyte]

Slightly embarassed after seeing what everyone else is brewing, however this weekend I'm putting on my first Partial Grain kit Bee-Man’s Honey Brown Ale and pitching some yeast in a Festabrew West Coast IPA. I'll also bottling 2 favorites, Festabrew Red and Wheat.

Honnestly I must say FB puts together some great beers, and is what got my feet wet in the homebrew process and wanting to try more.

Don't be embarrassed about putting on FB Kits. I still grab a random one now and then when I need a quick fix. I'm a fan of their Pale kit dry hopped. I've done it with Citra, Cascade, and Centennial and have been impressed each time.

[dexter]

Slightly embarassed after seeing what everyone else is brewing, however this weekend I'm putting on my first Partial Grain kit Bee-Man’s Honey Brown Ale and pitching some yeast in a Festabrew West Coast IPA. I'll also bottling 2 favorites, Festabrew Red and Wheat.

Honnestly I must say FB puts together some great beers, and is what got my feet wet in the homebrew process and wanting to try more.

Don't be embarrassed about putting on FB Kits. I still grab a random one now and then when I need a quick fix. I'm a fan of their Pale kit dry hopped. I've done it with Citra, Cascade, and Centennial and have been impressed each time.

Sometimes a festa is a great choice. when my folks come down to visit I make sure I have something they will drink which is usually half a keg of festa pale, I use the other half like trevor and dry hop with what ever I happen to want to try.

Also sometimes you need quick fix and just dumping premade is so much faster that its worth it.

[Keith]

Also sometimes you need quick fix and just dumping premade is so much faster that its worth it.

It is so much faster, can't wait to get kegging. I hate cleaning 100 bottles for 2 kits. Plus I'm sure my wife will be thrilled for me to offload the 400 bottles I have stacked to the ceiling.

[dexter]

Also sometimes you need quick fix and just dumping premade is so much faster that its worth it.

It is so much faster, can't wait to get kegging. I hate cleaning 100 bottles for 2 kits. Plus I'm sure my wife will be thrilled for me to offload the 400 bottles I have stacked to the ceiling.

Well think at least you get a deposit back that can go towards your kegging system...

[LeafMan66_67]

Nothing wrong with Festa Brew!

[sleepyjamie]

Festa brew ESB was one if my favs

[RubberToe]

I'm about to mash in on an IPA, after I get this pot of coffee going. I crushed the grains, filled and treated the water last night, and set the rig to hold it at strike temp over night so I'd be ready to go early.

[GuingesRock]

I have been also doing that with my BIAB pot. I heat the strike water, the evening before to near boiling, then leave it to cool gradually overnight. The temperature is pretty close in the morning. If it is still too hot, I will scoop out a pot or two and replace with cold. I also crush the grains the night before, and I ALSO wait until I’ve had a coffee. I learnt that one the hard way and made too many mistakes in a half awake stupor.

I prefer doing it this way to doing an overnight mash.

[RubberToe]

Yeah I made myself get some coffee into me first to reduce the stupid forgetful mistakes.

Sent from the brew timer.

[jacinthebox]

we bottled a stout, pale ale, smokey red, irish red, and a cascade red...we also bottled a "pool water" pale ale...that's when a rookie brewer doesn't rinse the ferm bucket well, after cleaning it with the pink powder....rookie mistake, but he will never forget to rinse again lol...
we added vanilla to try to hide the taste...tastes better now, but still smells like a pool

[akr71]

we bottled a stout, pale ale, smokey red, irish red, and a cascade red...we also bottled a "pool water" pale ale...that's when a rookie brewer doesn't rinse the ferm bucket well, after cleaning it with the pink powder....rookie mistake, but he will never forget to rinse again lol...
we added vanilla to try to hide the taste...tastes better now, but still smells like a pool

Dump it - life's too short to drink crappy beer.

[jtmwhyte]

Gonna slap together a 3G batch of Vienna Lager this weekend to grow some yeast/try out decoction mashing for the first time.

[jacinthebox]

we bottled a stout, pale ale, smokey red, irish red, and a cascade red...we also bottled a "pool water" pale ale...that's when a rookie brewer doesn't rinse the ferm bucket well, after cleaning it with the pink powder....rookie mistake, but he will never forget to rinse again lol...
we added vanilla to try to hide the taste...tastes better now, but still smells like a pool

Dump it - life's too short to drink crappy beer.

not my beer...we did a 3 beer run for his 1st time...maybe it was too much for him lol

he has a stout and a red...I told him to bottle and wait...may make a great "stop drinking all of my beer" beer

[pet lion]

Picked apples and pears yesterday and juiced them for perry/cider blend. Going to add a bit of light oak to it.

[LiverDance]

Mashed in at lunch on a pale ale that Chalmers and I are going to use to brew our hop harvest beer this evening.

[benwedge]

There's an American Amber Ale in the tanks from Thursday night and I'm doing 10G of IPA tonight.

[Mkataryn]

Pumpkin ale!

[gordonsbeachbrewer]

Sazzy Rye SMaSH! i've got a bunch of rye malt a bunch of sazz and i'm going to see what i get! (bunch of rice hulls as well) Cornelius is grabbing me some yeast tomorrow so i'll let you know on that, hoping for a german ale ish yeast, something classic from the continent that won't get too mixed in with the intended taste. Wish me luck!

[Keith]

Racked off my Beeman's Honey Brown tonight. Took a sample from the primary. Definately going to be tasty once it is ready. The warmer temps didn't hurt it as they dropped fairly quickly.

This weekend I'll be putting on 2 wine kits, and shopping for a 5 cubic ft freezer.

[Barr]

Sazzy Rye SMaSH! i've got a bunch of rye malt a bunch of sazz and i'm going to see what i get! (bunch of rice hulls as well) Cornelius is grabbing me some yeast tomorrow so i'll let you know on that, hoping for a german ale ish yeast, something classic from the continent that won't get too mixed in with the intended taste. Wish me luck!

Sounds spicy! Let me know how it goes. I really want to brew something like a Rye Whisky mash as an ale. Only ever used rye once in a cherry wheat and it was like 5% I was thinking I would have to add lots of crystal to balance the dry spice of the rye. Sitting here now with a glass of Coors light with a shot of rye in it as an experiment. Finally found a use for that can the father in law left back in May. Haha

[jacinthebox]

Made an Amber Ale last weekend, we are planning to brew a Citra SMaSH Pale Ale (12 gal) and a Wild Bill's SMaSH Pale Ale (wild hop plants we found on our buddy Bill's land)