What's Brewing? March 2017 Edition

[FTowne1]

I haven't brewed in months, and my saison pipeline is running low. I think I'll finally have a chance to brew again this weekend.

Probably a basic 50/50 Pils and wheat base. Not sure what hops or yeast I'll use. It'll depend on what's available at the HBS when I go shopping on Friday.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I need to get this sour brown brewed to fill my barrel when the second clean beer comes out. That will probably be it for me this month. I brewed and bottled a lot of beer the past four or five months.

 

[smithj21541]

I struggle uploading photos from my phone. But I brewed an IPA that was 20% Rice flakes and no sugar. Hops galaxy, centennial, Amarillo. I re-pitched cal ale from a cream ale that I brewed a week and a half ago. Fingers crossed I'm clean enough in my yeast practices as yeast management is a goal of mine for this year.

 

[nebuck]

I've got a simcoe and citra pale ale about to go on tap around mid-week and a porter wrapping up primary right now. I'll post some pics sometime soon.

 

[doobiegoobie]

Been getting over being super sick and was going a little stir crazy so I brewed a weird saison. Goal is to get something really tropical. 1050 OG from a 2:1 ratio of Belgian pils to white wheat. Had ~5# of a white grape (Gewurztraminer I think?) that I added to primary too. Fermenting with a wine yeast (71B) and grown up JK dregs (I get a nice melon character from them). Added 15 IBUs of rakau and galaxy at end of boil to get a little more tropical character. About even CaCl to CaSO4 ratio to get mouthfeel and also added ~1oz of Hungarian M+ oak for structure since I was a bit worried about it finishing too low. Fermenting now at 62ish (for 71B to do its thing first), and will raise it considerably in a few days. Might not turn out, but it should be interesting regardless. If it works out, I'll probably do a bunch more fruit-in-primary mixed ferment beers to experiment.

 

[axeman91821]

Been getting over being super sick and was going a little stir crazy so I brewed a weird saison. Goal is to get something really tropical. 1050 OG from a 2:1 ratio of Belgian pils to white wheat. Had ~5# of a white grape (Gewurztraminer I think?) that I added to primary too. Fermenting with a wine yeast (71B) and grown up JK dregs (I get a nice melon character from them). Added 15 IBUs of rakau and galaxy at end of boil to get a little more tropical character. About even CaCl to CaSO4 ratio to get mouthfeel and also added ~1oz of Hungarian M+ oak for structure since I was a bit worried about it finishing too low. Fermenting now at 62ish (for 71B to do its thing first), and will raise it considerably in a few days. Might not turn out, but it should be interesting regardless. If it works out, I'll probably do a bunch more fruit-in-primary mixed ferment beers to experiment.

Damn, a lot going on there. Definitely be curious to hear how it turns out.

 

[doobiegoobie]

Damn, a lot going on there. Definitely be curious to hear how it turns out.

Yeah there sure is. I'm curious too so I'll keep yall updated.

 

[JCastle1]

Bought some yeast from Bootleg Biology. Decided to brew a gluten-free farmhouse ale/wine experiment as soon as it arrives. Rauchbier and pilsner coming up too.

 

[anteater1]

Row 2 Hill 56 Clone. First time using gelatin and it came out about as clear as I could have expected. Tastes pretty good for a simple and cheap recipe, but I honestly still haven't found a west coast pale/IPA recipe that I'd re-brew.

 

[smithj21541]

Row 2 Hill 56 Clone. First time using gelatin and it came out about as clear as I could have expected. Tastes pretty good for a simple and cheap recipe, but I honestly still haven't found a west coast pale/IPA recipe that I'd re-brew.

Where did you find the recipe? That is to this day one of the best pale ales I've tried.

 

[axeman91821]

Just mashed in on a DIPA. Using a new hop combo for me, going 3:1 Citra:Mandarina Bavaria all the way through.

 

[anteater1]

Where did you find the recipe? That is to this day one of the best pale ales I've tried.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=369668

 

[rcubed1]

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=369668

I never liked that crystal malt addition in Vinny's recipe.

 

[anteater1]

I never liked that crystal malt addition in Vinny's recipe.

Yeah, its funny. I had Sticky Hands and Pliny side to side for the first time recently, two of the best IPAs out there IMO. From what research I've done, the recipes are actually pretty similar except for the crystal in Pliny. When I tried them back to back, keeping palate fatigue in mind, they tasted like the exact same beer but all I could notice in Pliny was the crystal tootsie roll flavor. I like Sticky Hands better.

 

[smithj21541]

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=369668

Thanks, I don't tend to make it in that category on that forum.

I never liked that crystal malt addition in Vinny's recipe.

I agree, and I've even been eliminating it completely from my recent brews. I may tweak the above and give it a try.

 

[SirDickButts]

8 gallon Kviek + Brett (and fantome dregs) saison with flowers.
gonna rack 3 gallons on top of 2 gallons pear juice and see what happens.

 

[ShawDeuce221]

Racked a blended sour beer on some montmorency cherries a week or so ago and checked it out this past weekend and found some of the cherries suspended in the beer. It looks like an action shot of them bouncing but they are just floating mid-carboy, never seen that before.

Also, I needed to do a carb check on a blueberry sour that I bottled a few weeks ago. Picture taken after a swirl of the glass so it needs a few more weeks.

Kegged a hazy pale ale (galaxy, citra, amarillo, motueka) too but a carb picture would be better than the gravity sample hop chunk picture.

 

[Vogt52]

Brewed up a blonde ale that I brewed for my groomsmen last summer. Gonna be the first beer I keg.

 

[smithj21541]

Knocked out a quick extract lambic today. 3.5gl primary with Wyeast Belgian saison then moving to a 3gl carboy and pitching individual Wyeast microbe packs. Hoping to bottle around Thanksgiving.

 

[jivex5k1]

Well I figured it's time to brew again. Making another saison with some House Sour Blend from the Yeast Bay that I saved. Also throwing in my buddy's old culture, and a fresh vial of Yeast Bay Saison Brett Blend II.

https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/cellarman-friends-clone

 

[SirDickButts]

brewed the flower/honey/tea saison today. cant wait to see how it turns out!

 

[jivex5k1]

Ended up with too much beer last night. Hope the tube is enough, it's just getting started.

 

[axeman91821]

Five gallons of lambic fermenting away from Saturday's brewday. It got Wyeast 3787, the White Labs lambic blend, and hella dregs.

 

[jivex5k1]

Five gallons of lambic fermenting away from Saturday's brewday. It got Wyeast 3787, the White Labs lambic blend, and hella dregs.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

Need to brew a couple sour beers this weekend. One is a pale that will be a base for a fruit beer I've meant to brew for months. The other is an oud bruin for my barrel. Probably overestimating my free time this weekend.

 

[rcubed1]

I want to brew on Friday but I should really bottle up a sour beer instead. Too lazy to do both.

Might I might up getting some apple juice from Costco this weekend and get a cider going.

 

[smithj21541]

What do you do when your 4mo old infant won't sleep after her 4am feeding? You mash in a hoppy pale ale of course!

 

[Vogt52]

Weather is supposed to be beautiful today. Gonna knock out a simple Lambic today. Got a vial of bug county and some dregs that I'll use to inoculate. Eventually will be aged on red wine soaked oak and peaches.

 

[Snarf1]

I'm going to watch a buddy brew this morning as an excuse to get lit before noon. Does that count?

 

[liquiddegenerate]

Brewing 12 gallons of stout today. The wife has decreed the I make her a PB stout so guess half will go towards that.

 

[rcubed1]

Bottled up an blended AWA yesterday. I need to get a bigger bottling bucket so I can blend in more beer. I wasn't able to get an extra gallon of a beer that would have worked great with the six gallons I blended.

 

[Vogt52]

Brewing 12 gallons of stout today. The wife has decreed the I make her a PB stout so guess half will go towards that.

When the queen is happy, there will be peace in the kingdom

 

[smithj21541]

Bottled up an blended AWA yesterday. I need to get a bigger bottling bucket so I can blend in more beer. I wasn't able to get an extra gallon of a beer that would have worked great with the six gallons I blended.

I'm thinking the same thing. I'm going to need something in the 10-15gl range when I'm ready to blend my gueuze in January.

 

[FTowne1]

Bottled up an blended AWA yesterday. I need to get a bigger bottling bucket so I can blend in more beer. I wasn't able to get an extra gallon of a beer that would have worked great with the six gallons I blended.

Blend in a couple of corny kegs and bottle with a picnic tap/bottling wand with a small push of co2.

 

[doobiegoobie]

Bottled up an blended AWA yesterday. I need to get a bigger bottling bucket so I can blend in more beer. I wasn't able to get an extra gallon of a beer that would have worked great with the six gallons I blended.

I'm thinking the same thing. I'm going to need something in the 10-15gl range when I'm ready to blend my gueuze in January.

I use this http://www.austinhomebrew.com/10-Gallon-Primary-Fermenter-and-Lid_p_7076.html. It's pretty decent. Plenty big and great for blending, but the lid doesn't seal at all so I just use it to cover up after sanitizing

 

[smithj21541]

I use this http://www.austinhomebrew.com/10-Gallon-Primary-Fermenter-and-Lid_p_7076.html. It's pretty decent. Plenty big and great for blending, but the lid doesn't seal at all so I just use it to cover up after sanitizing

Funny I saw a similar one on adventures in homebrewing, and was thinking just what you posted. Do you use a dip tube to get every drop?

 

[doobiegoobie]

Funny I saw a similar one on adventures in homebrewing, and was thinking just what you posted. Do you use a dip tube to get every drop?

I actually don't bottle directly from that bucket. I generally blend in it, then split it up in different fermentors on fruit or oak. The plastic on the one I got is a bit thin, but I think you can still get a light dip tube in there. Another option is to ghetto it and just attach a bottling wand to an autosiphon. This bucket is prob not the best option out there, but it's at least an option.

 

[Snarf1]

I'm going to watch a buddy brew this morning as an excuse to get lit before noon. Does that count?

Well that backfired. I forgot I'd been meaning to borrow his paristaltic pump to drain a barrel or two. Hope all that beer is still worth a ****.

RE: Bottling 'buckets'

Cheapest option is those 8 gallon ones at the hb store. I've got a variable capacity wine fermenter I can use for up to 25 gallons bottling, as well as a few other things and it was dirt cheap used and new ones aren't bad. Another option is the oversized corny, but those you have to luck into or pay a ton for.

 

[rcubed1]

I would love to always bottle out of a corny kegd but I only have two set aside for funky beers and they always seem to have beer in them. Going to just get a bigger bucket at some point.

 

[hornydevil]

Just bottled an all Amarillo DIPA with Lallemand CY3079 and English Ale yeast. Anxious for it to carbonate.