What's everyone brewing?

[CorneliusAlphonse]

I've been thinking on doing a porter with fruit. I had been thinking raspberry's. would need to get the flavour pretty strong to con through.

[Tim Gregory]

I just kegged a raspberry brown for my wife. I brewed the brown like normal, then added a bottle of raspberry oil from the bulk barn. It's supposed to be 4x stronger than regular extract. It comes through pretty well.

[jeffsmith]

I'm just going to be using ~6lbs. of frozen blackberries for my Porter. My brother in law has been freezing loads of them for me since they started ripening.

[Tim Gregory]

Well sure you can use real berries if you want to be authentic. Quick and easy for me (at least when its the wifes beer).lol

[jeffsmith]

Well sure you can use real berries if you want to be authentic. Quick and easy for me (at least when its the wifes beer).lol

Don't blame you at all for taking that route.

[RubberToe]

Here's one for ya, "Hoptoberfest Ale".

I crushed the grains last night, pre heated strike water this morning, came home at lunch to reheat strike water and mash in, mashed all afternoon while I was at work, met Jamie here after work and we did the rest. 44L batch. It's kind of a cross between an Octoberfest and Dusseldorf Altbier. Filtered water plus a small amount of minerals. Dry US-05 yeast.

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 50.0 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 44.0 l
Estimated Color: 10.5 SRM
Estimated IBU: 46.5 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 76.7 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
7.00 g Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 2 -
7.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins Water Agent 3 -
2.00 g Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 4 -
3000.0 g Munich Malt (CMC) (8.0 SRM) Grain 5 29.5 %
2200.0 g Pilsner (2 Row) UK (1.0 SRM) Grain 6 21.6 %
2200.0 g Vienna Malt (Briess) (3.5 SRM) Grain 7 21.6 %
1600.0 g Special Aromatic (MFB) (4.0 SRM) Grain 8 15.7 %
1000.0 g Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 9 9.8 %
180.0 g Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 10 1.8 %
48.0 g Northern Brewer [10.60 %] - First Wort 6 Hop 11 32.2 IBUs
40.0 g Saaz [4.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 12 5.6 IBUs
2.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 13 -
50.0 g Mt. Hood [6.10 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 14 8.7 IBUs
50.0 g Saaz [4.00 %] - Aroma Steep 10.0 min Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
2.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast 16 -

Hit target temperature of 68C (well, 68.4C/155F). Mashed all afternoon so I'm betting it will finish low. OG 1.054, 76.7% eff, fermenting at 18C. We're going to bring a bunch of this to Hoptoberfest, I hope it turns out well.

[canuck]

I'm currently brewing up this Citra Pale Ale.



11 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row)
12.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
8.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine
1.00 oz Citra - Boil 60.0 min
0.50 oz Citra - Boil 30.0 min
0.50 oz Cascade - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 oz Citra - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 oz Cascade - Boil 0.0 min
0.50 oz Citra - Boil 0.0 min
US-05 Yeast
1.00 oz Cascade - Dry Hop 7.0 Days
0.50 oz Citra - Dry Hop 7.0 Days

[LeafMan66_67]

Mash in on another Propeller ESB clone ...

[RubberToe]

Mash in on another Propeller ESB clone ...

Is that recipe in another thread here? Any changes? How happy are you with it?

[Jayme]

We're going to brew a double IPA for Hoptoberfest (same recipe that won gold, with a minor tweak to the hop bill), and a Nelson Sauvin single hop pale ale this weekend. Feels good to get back at it after pretty much not brewing for a month (with the exception of last monday).

[amartin]

I'm making a mild ale this weekend. Poker season is coming up so I need something I can drink a lot of and still be able to count.

[Tim Gregory]

Looks like I'll be doing the hoptoberfest brew tomorrow as well. I had already made one that I planned on bringing, but I was pouring a few pints for some friends and it mysteriously ran dry. Not sure how that could have happened... We've got our best people working on the problem.

[Jayme]

I'm making a mild ale this weekend. Poker season is coming up so I need something I can drink a lot of and still be able to count.

Perhaps you should also consider brewing something extremely strong that is around the same SRM as your mild. That one is for the other players

[jtmwhyte]

Monster simcoe cascade IPA

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[RubberToe]

In the fermentor now I have a 2-row / Nugget SMASH APA. I simmered the wort + FWH for 18 hours @ 182F which gave it some body and colour. Thanks to Nash for this technique. I can't wait to taste this and I'll be dry hopping with some more nugget.

Recipe: Simmer SMASH Nugget
Brewer: RubberToe
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 28.0 l
Post Boil Volume: 22.0 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 21.0 l
Bottling Volume: 20.0 l
Estimated OG: 1.054 SG
Estimated Color: 3.6 SRM (will be darker from the long simmer)
Estimated IBU: 44.9 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 79.90 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
32.0 l APA 1 Water 1 -
8.00 g Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 2 -
8.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins Water Agent 3 -
2.00 g Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 4 -
4900.0 g Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 5 100.0 %
12.0 g Nugget [12.60 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 6 19.2 IBUs
12.0 g Nugget [12.60 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 7 10.6 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 8 -
12.0 g Nugget [12.60 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 9 8.7 IBUs
12.0 g Nugget [12.60 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 10 6.3 IBUs
20.0 g Nugget [12.60 %] - Aroma Steep 10.0 min Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg Nottingham Yeast (Lallemand #-) [23.66 m Yeast 12 -

[pet lion]

Smoked plum old ale is getting started today. Hopefully I'll get the IBA brewed tomorrow (and have ready for Hoptobersfest).

[BBrianBoogie]

Saison for me today

[LiverDance]

I made a Smoked Black Lager, Pumpkin Ale, and India Pale Lager over the weekend with Chalmers.

[HPhunter]

400L of Redneck Red Ale made today. Thanks to my new Glycol chiller I can control this much wort. It was a god brew day, awaiting more things to make it go smoother. Had some trouble with my Monster Mill, will have to figure that out soon. Eff was lower than expected, and since I am out of FermcapS things were interesting for a bit. I thought a 750L kettle wouldn't boil over but apparently I was mistaken. All in all things went well, including the fact the wife brought me 2 meals and never complained.

[mr x]

Awesome... Do you need some fermcap? I have some extra you can have.

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[HPhunter]

Hoping I have some coming. Thanks though for the offer.

[GAM]

I have a couple of oz aswell. Not much but you can have it.


Sandy

[canuck]

Brewing up this Citra IPA today.


9 lbs Maris Otter
1 lb C-45 English crystal
1 lb light munich 7-8L
.5 lb flaked barley

1 oz citra 60min
1 oz citra 20min
1 oz citra 5min
1 oz citra 0min/flame out
1 oz citra dry hop

S-04 Yeast

[BrooklandBrewer]

Just brewed up a Pumpkin Spice Ale. Also brewed up a Vanilla Oatmeal Stout last weekend. Should be interesting!

[Graham.C]

Brewing this SMaSH up tomorrow, hope it turns out ok. Probably not enough hops for most, but I was hoping to be more on the APA side then the IPA side of things. I really want to see what the roasted MO brings.

IBU 35.5
OG 1.051

9 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 90.0 %
1 lbs Oven Roasted Marris Otter (??? SRM) Grain 2 10.0 %
0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [11.30 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 19.1 IBUs
0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [11.30 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 3 14.7 IBUs
0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [11.30 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 4 6.9 IBUs
2.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [11.30 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 5 0.0 IBUs