What's everyone brewing?

[Jimmy]

Nothing wrong with experimenting.

What is your mill gap set to?

[evanisnor]

Credit card width. The conditioned grain made it pretty difficult to crush

[Celiacbrew]

Made a pale ale with copious amounts of late Amarillo and Simcoe.

I made a DIPA yesterday with roughly the same. I also added citra and centennial. My krauzen looks like the slime from You Can't Do That on Television. Are you going to dry hop yours? Any suggestions for what I should throw in mine?

[Keith]

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slime is right.

[Jimmy]

Looks like yeast, biatch.

[Halifax_Jeff]

I'm trying a few 1 gallon batches with Amarillo, Calypso and Simcoe in each to get a feel for the flavours/aromas. I'm going for a tropical/fruity ipa

I'm using columbus for the bittering and then finishing with each variety. The simcoe last night smelled amazing and the calypso is underway. This is my first experiment like this so I'm looking forward to the results.

All 3 turned out quite nice in their own way.

The Amarillo brew tasted the best, the Simcoe smelled the best, and the calypso was really nice but mellow compared to the other two. All my personal preference of course. Next batch will be a mix of all three.

Am I correct to think that 10 and 5 minute additions add mostly taste and some aroma while the flameout and dry additions are mainly aroma?

[mumblecrunch]

This is the first time conditioning my grain and using a false bottom. I usually use a bag in my sanke for mashing.
I got some feedback from the Garrison competition that my beer tasted grainy. After that I could really notice it. Vourlaufed for 45 minutes today until I was happy. Too much? Clearest wort I've ever pulled by far.

I'll be curious to hear whether your attenuation is affected by the extended mash. Many of my last several batches have overattenuated to the tune of 4-8 points. Some of that can be explained by occasionally missing mash temperatures on the low side, but I also began to wonder whether letting my first runnings sit in a bucket while I sparged (15-20 minutes, usually) was causing additional conversion. The thing is, I don't vorlauf anymore because I've got a bag for my tun so I just open my valve and let 'er rip. Could be that there's enough cooling happen during vorlauf that temps might slip down out of conversion range. The overattentuation definitely happened once when I was still doing a vorlauf, but has been more pronounced since I switched to the bag. Anyways, interested to see what your experience is.

[LeafMan66_67]

Made a pale ale with copious amounts of late Amarillo and Simcoe.

I made a DIPA yesterday with roughly the same. I also added citra and centennial. My krauzen looks like the slime from You Can't Do That on Television. Are you going to dry hop yours? Any suggestions for what I should throw in mine?

I've done the same combination previously in an IPA and dry hopped with citra and Simcoe. Worked for me.

[Jimmy]

Brewing house IPA on US-05 for the first time in a while! Just about to start the boil.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

Brewed a lambic and an Orval clone day before yesterday.

[jeffsmith]

No brewing, but doing some kegging tonite. House IPA.

[LeafMan66_67]

Kegging a Kolsch tonight and harvesting the yeast for another batch. It's out on the back deck to chill down overnight with some gelatin.

[Keith]

Taking Friday off. Kegging Porter, apa and DIPA.

[joe_r_harvie]

All grain Batch # 200!!!! Brown Ale. One of my regulars.

[GasMD30]

All grain Batch # 200!!!! Brown Ale. One of my regulars.

Congrats!

[Lucas]

Brewed a lambic and an Orval clone day before yesterday.

I'd be interested in seeing recipes or general sketches of recipes for both of those.

[McGruff]

A Kolsch and APA and a Mild. Way behind brewing, pipeline is empty.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

Brewed a lambic and an Orval clone day before yesterday.

I'd be interested in seeing recipes or general sketches of recipes for both of those.

honestly, lambic was just the Brewing Classic Styles recipe, and Orval was the main on that comes up when you google orval clone mashed both pretty high (aimed for 156 with lambic, 154 for orval), pitched white labs vials with no starter. I was pretty lax about these batches, so who knows how they will turn out.

[Keith]

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Washing kegs... Well watching them wash. By far my best investment to date.

[jacinthebox]

need one of those

[Keith]

So worth it. Cleaned 9 kegs today and all I had to do was change out the posts and run it for 15 mins. Then do a 2min rinse cycle. Then a quick starsan cycle. I've got my next 4 kegs ready to go.

[Lucas]

Brewed a lambic and an Orval clone day before yesterday.

I'd be interested in seeing recipes or general sketches of recipes for both of those.

honestly, lambic was just the Brewing Classic Styles recipe, and Orval was the main on that comes up when you google orval clone mashed both pretty high (aimed for 156 with lambic, 154 for orval), pitched white labs vials with no starter. I was pretty lax about these batches, so who knows how they will turn out.

Sounds good. I just bottled my Orval clone last week so I will have a bottle to share sometime in the near future.

[dean2k]

2 smaller batches today of SMaSH exchange beer and tweaked my saison recipe

[Keith]

10 gal Porter, 10 gal apa, and 5 gal DIPA in the kegs today. Rocking them now to carbonate.

[spickup]

Is that a marks keg washer?