What's everyone brewing?

[mcgster]

For the schwarzbier i'm using the bohemian lager strain WY2124, and the Dunkel i went with the german bock yeast WL833.

The 2L is the west yorkshire strain, i'm doing a new version of my english bitter but bumping it up to a special bitter and adding some carared just to try something new.

[GuingesRock]

Sounds like fun.

[mcgster]

I'm hoping they will be ready for the brewnosers comp but it will be tight.

Pitching a massive quantity of yeast to up my chances. I did double starts for both and plan on pitching these 500ml ones directly once they hit peak krausen.

[jacinthebox]

Brewing up a cream ale...for a road trip to Cape Breton in may

[RubberToe]

Brewing a Belgian Dark Strong. I'm using WYeast 3787 as well.

Sent from the brew timer.

[Jimmy]

Brewing a Belgian Dark Strong. I'm using WYeast 3787 as well.

Sent from the brew timer.

I would like to try this beer . I'll likely be brewing one in about a months time.

[LeafMan66_67]

Brewing a Kolsch today. Just mashed in on a (hopefully) quick and easy brew day.

[gm-]

Hoping to brew a light belgian single abbey tonight to act as a starter for a dubbel/trippel soonish. Very simple, pilsner, vienna, bit of sugar. Hops just Styrian goldings for bittering, WLP 500 for yeast.

[kenny10]

Brewing an APA with 2 row, munich, and melanoidan with FF and southern cross hops....southern cross smells awesome...intense lemon and pine.

[mcgster]

Four batches in two days, hopefully they will all be ready for the brewnosers comp

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[mcgster]

The two lagers are a dunkel and a schwarzbier and the ales are a 8B Special Bitter which is a revision of my 8A The Bitter End, and a revision of my Sunday Stout (Dry Irish)

[mumblecrunch]

Had a little adventure with my brew yesterday. I don't know whether I didn't boil as hard with my old burner or what, but after pretty much hitting my pre-boil gravity of 1.054 on about 27.5 L of wort, my Blichmann promptly managed to boil off something like 3 gallons on a 90 minute boil

OG was supposed to be 1.067 on about 21L.

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I ended up with nearly 1.090 and only about 16.5L.

Obviously in order to get any kind of decent volume I was going to have to top up. I boiled a little more than 4L of water for 15 minutes, cooled it and stirred it in before pitching my yeast. Looks like it worked out pretty well:

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There was no traditional bittering charge in this recipe (additions at 30/15/5) so while I will probably have lost some hop flavor, I don't suspect I've lost too much bitterness. There's also a sizable dry-hop later (1oz each Cascade and Citra) so aroma won't suffer too much.

Going to have to do some experimentation to determine a more appropriate boil-off rate. I may just have the burner cranked up too high.

[LeafMan66_67]

If it helps, my boil off rate with Blichman and 20g pot is 6.67L/hr when outside temps are above zero, no wind. Add some wind, or drop the outside temperature to something below zero and I'm at around 6L/hr.

[Jimmy]

If it helps, my boil off rate with Blichman and 20g pot is 6.67L/hr when outside temps are above zero, no wind. Add some wind, or drop the outside temperature to something below zero and I'm at around 6L/hr.

Yeah, 11l in 1.5hrs seems reasonable to me. Maybe a bit on the high end, but still in range.

[mumblecrunch]

If it helps, my boil off rate with Blichman and 20g pot is 6.67L/hr when outside temps are above zero, no wind. Add some wind, or drop the outside temperature to something below zero and I'm at around 6L/hr.

Yeah, 11l in 1.5hrs seems reasonable to me. Maybe a bit on the high end, but still in range.

Thanks guys, the question I forgot to ask was whether that rate was normal. I know it's a lot higher with the same pot (15g from Dave) than my old burner (turkey fryer), but even with the Blichmann dialed way back the boil was more vigorous than I used to have. My only thought is that the heat from the Blichmann is more even across the bottom of the pot, which leads to a more uniform boil at the surface, which leads to additional evaporation. Doesn't really matter why though, just that I need to refactor my calculations. I also forgot to say the Blichmann is fucking awesome

[LiverDance]

Brewed up some ordinary bitter this eve

[Keith]

Just weighed out my grain and hops for the weekend. Brewing 10 gal Porter and 10 gal APA. Been a long while since I brewed. I'm excited.

[bandarker]

Just bought a bag of organic 2 row and am doing my first 10 gallon brew. Thinking APA, IBUs in the 30s, something delicious you can drink lots of. Any recommendations for hop combinations? Nelson Sauvin, Amarillo?

[Jimmy]

Just crushed the grains for a Berliner Weisse that I'll be brewing at some point this weekend.

[jeffsmith]

Just bought a bag of organic 2 row and am doing my first 10 gallon brew. Thinking APA, IBUs in the 30s, something delicious you can drink lots of. Any recommendations for hop combinations? Nelson Sauvin, Amarillo?

I just did a Nelson Sauvin session IPA on Wednesday. One of my favourite hops.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

Just finished up a 10gal IPA from BCS with hops bumped up a bit. Going to do a Flanders red tomorrow or saturday

[bandarker]

I opted to be lazy and not drive out to Dave's, so I did what I could from Noble Grape.

10 gal Pale Ale with Amarillo, going to split to 2x 5 gals. One dry hopped with american ale yeast, the other with ESB yeast.

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[LeafMan66_67]

Will be doing up 10G's of an easy drinking light, yellow, fizzy beer for a non-craft beer crowd party coming up.

[amartin]

Brewing up a sticke alt today, with a bunch of the spalt hops that came in recently. 1.060, 56 IBUs and 6 oz of late hops for a 12 gallon batch.

[Keith]

Knocked out 25 gallons yesterday on a 13 hour start to finish brew day. Wind was a bit much so am going to build a large block before the next brew session.
10 Gallons Funktown APA
10 Gallons Tall Dark & Handsome Robust Porter
5 Gallons Hoppily Ever After, 25.5lbs of hops! Simcoe, Falconers, & Centennial

Still need to tear down the ball locks to give them a good cleaning as last night I just flushed with star san, but other than that it's done.