Who is brewing this coming weekend?

[luckyeddie]

Going for a Belgian-style Dark Strong Ale tomorrow (got to put that kilo of Amber Candi Sugar I made last week to some use).

Basically I'm using a 50:50 mix of Pilsner and Maris Otter with a dash of choccy, cara-pils, crystal and a few other bits I love (e.g. a couple of hundred grams of flaked oats).

The WLP550 has been on the go for a week - I've now got the best part of 3 litres of 'starter' in a carboy. Going for one final split today, will keep 2 litres in Grolsch bottles in the fridge for 'next time' and pitch the rest tomorrow. I've also harvested a Duvel yeast this week, but I think I need to grow that on a fair chunk before I use that.

Today's project is to drink two bottles of Westmalle tripel and harvest the yeast from that. It's a hard life, but somebody's got to do it. I understand that Westvleteren use the Westmalle yeast, so when I brew again in a fortnight, I shall split the wort 3 ways and pitch the 3 different yeasts for comparison.

 

[phettebs]

Mmmmmm. Westmalle....... :thumb:

Change of plans for me. We are supposed to get a winter storm tomorrow. Was going to run tomorrow and brew today. Will be running this morning and either brewing this afternoon or tonight. Or just getting it done during the storm tomorrow!

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[BigYin]

My brew day is well under way. Mash is about done, fly sparge about to start - as soon as I've got some lunch in me :lol:

 

[phettebs]

I ended up brewing last night. Made my Cascade Pale Ale as planned. I didn't get any pictures though. It was a LONG day and I just wanted to get it completed.

Bubbling nicely in the FV this morning though!

 

[BigYin]

Took a bit longer to do mine than usual as I was faffing about a bit doing other odds and sods in between, but it's done now, and tucked up safely in the fermenter :mrgreen:

 

[dan_loves_beer]

Brew day finally over, phew. First time using pump, new immersion chiller and stand. Air was drawn into pump and pump stuck, too much sparge water went into mash and would have lowered the gravity far too low. I boiled heavily for 2.5 hours and got the volume and gravity back on target. New chiller worked a dream as did stand, 2/3 isn't too bad I guess. Can't wait to get it all dialed next time, cheers everyone :

 

[BigYin]

A quick brewporn fix from my brew day :mrgreen:

The mix of grains

gravity fed fly sparging

getting the boil underway

a gentle rolling boil

imerssion chiller in place, all quiet while the aroma hops steep in the hot beer

running the sanitiser from the now clean fermenter into the pressure barrel - waste not, want not!

Inside the fermenter - the 'paint paddle' will make light work of stirring the wort before the yeast is added.

the hops are left behind in the boiler

fermenter is getting rather full...

stirring the wort the easy way! - need a slower drill though - the splashes give away just how effective the paddle is :shock:

And that was the day - all that was left after that was to add in the yeast, fix the lid, tidy up, and open a beer :drink: :drink:

 

[mr_spin]

I ended up brewing a cheeky 12L experimental batch of London Pride.. Wasn't really planned but I got up early this morning and thought - feck it lets use up some of the old stuff... I got just over 12L into the FV at an OG of 1.043 - nearly enough spot on and no astringency this time!

Here is my schedule that I followed:


Type: All Grain
Date: 20/02/2011
Batch Size: 12.00 L
Boil Size: 17.06 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Equipment: 20_litre_stainless_stockpots
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00

Water Treatment:
16ML CRS - to reduce CAC03 from measured 183 PPM to 40 PPM
4gm DLS added to grist


Ingredients:

Grain:
2024.00 gm Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 85.58 %
208.00 gm Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 8.79 %
70.00 gm Cara-Pils/Dextrine (3.9 EBC) Grain 2.96 %
63.00 gm Corn, Flaked (2.6 EBC) Grain 2.66 %

Hops:
4.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (90 min) Hops 6.4 IBU
4.00 gm Northdown [8.50 %] (90 min) Hops 7.3 IBU
6.00 gm Target [11.00 %] (90 min) Hops 14.1 IBU
5.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (15 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
2.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (5 min) Hops 0.4 IBU

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Full Body
Total Grain Weight: 2365.00 gm
Sparge Water: 11.65 L
Grain Temperature: 15.0 C
Sparge Temperature: 75.6 C
TunTemperature: 70.0 C
Mash PH: 5.2 PH

90 min Mash In
Add 8.28 L of strike water at 73 C
mash temp 66.5 C

Yeast - Brewlabs Thames Valley 3

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Just bottled this weekend.2 gallons of TC and a couple of gallons of Pear cider. i was going to brew in anticipation for a beer festival here in Dronfield but my supplier has no grain in. So next week I will be brewing a honey pale ale that I do.

4kg of pale malt
200gramms of torrified wheat
bit of salts and gypsum

challenger and cascade hops

1kg of honey during boil

about 25l brewlength 1050 og as a rule

nice easy recepie to tryout the new false botton (many thanks Barnsey Brewer). Also bought one of those little solar pumps etc.

I am going camping with loads of friends at the end of May so need some insperation for that