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[Big Nake]

Looks like work is going to dominate today, unfortunately. I also find that I have to help my inlaws move tomorrow but I'm still going to try to keg this helles today and brew tomorrow or keg it tomorrow and brew on Sunday. Where there's a will...

[MyaCullen]

Once again, had plans to brew but it's gonna be in excess of 100F every day for the next week so it's been put off.

I'm going ahead with mine

[Bklmt2000]

Where there's a will...

 

There's a thirst. 

[Big Nake]

I just kegged my "Augustiner Helles" and saved the yeast for the Festbier I want to make this weekend. I have some things to do tomorrow but either later in the day Sat or sometime on Sun should work.

[Bklmt2000]

I just kegged my "Augustiner Helles" and saved the yeast for the Festbier I want to make this weekend. I have some things to do tomorrow but either later in the day Sat or sometime on Sun should work.

 

Priorities, man.  You have them in the right order, IMO. 

 

Hard to concentrate on other stuff when you're thinking, "I could be kegging [batch of beer]", or, "I could be brewing [batch of beer]", ad nauseum.

[Big Nake]

Priorities, man.  You have them in the right order, IMO. 
 
Hard to concentrate on other stuff when you're thinking, "I could be kegging [batch of beer]", or, "I could be brewing [batch of beer]", ad nauseum.

I can't tell you how 'front and center' my brewing ideas are. It's a sickness. Last Sunday we went kayaking on the Chicago River and I had a Vienna Lager carbing that would be done at 9pm. I wasn't sure if we'd be home by then so I took it off before we left so I could make up the 6 or 7 hours of carbing later. I didn't want it to overcarb. My wife actually saw me doing this at the last minute and asked me WHAT'S UP and I'm telling her about being back by 9pm, etc. and she's all "Is it really that precise? Will it blow up or something?". Mmm, the things we do for beer.

[Bklmt2000]

I wouldn't call it a sickness, per se; more like, a way of life.

 

And the things we do for beer pale in comparison to what beer does for us.

[Big Nake]

I wouldn't call it a sickness, per se; more like, a way of life.
 
And the things we do for beer pale in comparison to what beer does for us.

Many, many weekends there is a conversation about this. My wife might say "we're going here on Friday night and don't forget that thing on Saturday and ... " and then she sees my face and I'm noodling with how to sneak in a brew day. The truth is that brewing is at the bottom of the priority list as it [sometimes] should be but at this point in my life I'm usually able to sneak it in.

[Bklmt2000]

My brewdays are almost always on a weekday workday.  Necessity, mother of invention, etc. 

 

Weekends, over the last couple of years, have somehow become non-brewing-friendly in our casa.

 

Since, as Frank Herbert said in Dune, (paraphrasing here): "The beer must flow!", one must do what is needed to ensure a proper supply of beer.

[Big Nake]

My brewdays are almost always on a weekday workday.  Necessity, mother of invention, etc. 
 
Weekends, over the last couple of years, have somehow become non-brewing-friendly in our casa.
 
Since, as Frank Herbert said in Dune, (paraphrasing here): "The beer must flow!", one must do what is needed to ensure a proper supply of beer.

Agreed. I used to be that way when my kids were younger. I could get up early, be relatively quiet, not be disturbed or need to do much of anything else and I could be working by 9 or 10am. I still like to have the house [mostly] to myself when I brew. I don't need someone trying to cook or vacuum or sneeze near the beer so I like it when either no one else is home or traffic is light. But the truth is that I prefer to brew on the weekends, have music on, maybe have a beer on brewday, etc.

[porter]

Going to cook up an IPA some time tomorrow, Sunday or Monday, depending on how things go. Need to keg a batch of unfocused amber lager I made three weeks ago. That was my first batch of homebrew since last October (moved to a new house in December - chaos). I also have some cider and honey I purchased last fall I need to put together for cyser.

[Big Nake]

Festbier in the works right now. 65% Swaen Pils and 35% Avangard Dark Munich, Magnum to bitter to 28 IBUs and the Augustiner yeast. Cheers Beerheads.

[MyaCullen]

Going to cook up an IPA some time tomorrow, Sunday or Monday, depending on how things go. Need to keg a batch of unfocused amber lager I made three weeks ago. That was my first batch of homebrew since last October (moved to a new house in December - chaos). I also have some cider and honey I purchased last fall I need to put together for cyser.

got back on the horse today too, moved into this house on Memorial Weekend

 

rich golden lager,

 

Great Western 2-Row, Acid Malt, 4 oz each of Aromatic and Honey Malt. gravity 1.061

 

1/2 oz of Magnum and 1 oz of Hersbrucker in the First Wort.

1 oz of Hersbrucker @15 minutes

 

60 minute boil

 

2124 yeast

[Big Nake]

got back on the horse today too, moved into this house on Memorial Weekend
 
rich golden lager,
 
Great Western 2-Row, Acid Malt, 4 oz each of Aromatic and Honey Malt. gravity 1.061
 
1/2 oz of Magnum and 1 oz of Hersbrucker in the First Wort.
1 oz of Hersbrucker @15 minutes
 
60 minute boil
 
2124 yeast

That sounds like it will be delicious.

[MyaCullen]

That sounds like it will be delicious.

indeed

[Bklmt2000]

The weather here will be much too nice not to get a brewday in, so brew I must.

 

Brewing Tuesday or Wednesday, an IPA with several late additions of Columbus and Centennial.

 

Also got the fixin's for a batch of hard cider, so I'll throw that together on brewday.

[CarlosM]

Belgian Triple and Brown ale on Monday, teaching a friend to brew. 

[djinkc]

Belgian Triple and Brown ale on Monday, teaching a friend to brew. 

 

Look who's back

 

 

good you still remember how

[HVB]

Belgian Triple and Brown ale on Monday, teaching a friend to brew. 

Just remember to use all the new current trends in brewing!

[CarlosM]

Just remember to use all the new current trends in brewing!

like, use yeast?  no seriously what new trends? that sacrilegious BREW IN A BAG stuff? nope. cooler mashtun and bayou burner lol. 

Look who's back

 

 

good you still remember how

IRonically my gf and I took a winemaking class and she got the bug something awful. 15 gallons of beer 10 gallons of wine and 10 of mead later Im pretty much back in it lol. We just dropped some coin for kegging. Need some serving lines and we are done. Need to start drinking.