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[HVB]

Ug, i need to keg the pils so i can brew a stout. I hate packaging.

At least you are not bottling!

[SchwanzBrewer]

At least you are not bottling!

Yeah but i have to clean everything for kegging since i havent done it it a year. Lines, keg, coupler, find the co2, everything. Plus i need to go to the store and get a siphon.

[Big Nake]

I have a couple of 'slow' work days and nothing really planned with the fam until we go up to Oshkosh on Friday.  I'm very seriously considering a batch of "blonde" brewed with 2112 and Loral hops on Thursday.  That may or may not happen but it would be great if I could pull it off.  Otherwise, I hope you Beerheads had a great Christmas and have a great NY.  Cheers, Prost, Na Zdravi, Kanpie, Serefe and Salud. 

[Big Nake]

Okay, had a brewday today and the last one of 2018.  I wanted to use this 2112 again and put a recipe together for a "blonde" or "gold beer".  

 

 

The 6 pounds of pale ale malt were actually a clean-out-the-base-malt combination of Rahr Pale Ale malt, Munton's Maris Otter and Simpsons Golden Promise (about 2 pounds of each) and the grist on this batch made a beautiful gold wort with the Vienna thrown in.  This is also the first time I used Loral and they have an excellent aroma... very "super noble" as they're supposed to be.  I was able to get 5.25 gallons of ultra-clear wort into the fermenter and it would be nice if this 2112 lived up to its name and dropped clear.  The smell of the fresh slurry of 2112 hitting the wort was awesome... I haven't used it in a long time.  Cheers Beerheads.

[Bklmt2000]

Looks like a beer I'd enjoy crushing, especially on a hot summer day.

[BarelyBrews]

Fired up here.Mashing . Porter with the 5 minutes to flameout licorice addition. 

[Big Nake]

Looks like a beer I'd enjoy crushing, especially on a hot summer day.

Yeah, I know it's December and this beer will be ready in January but I almost always have a "gold lager" on tap.  Also, I use so many good lager yeasts that I sometimes don't consider 2112 one of them.  But it *is* a lager yeast and it's character is quite nice.  It makes a very nice beer.  My recipe shows "blonde ale" because my brain was just not thinking "lager" at the time. 

 

 

Fired up here.Mashing . Porter with the 5 minutes to flameout licorice addition. 

w00t!  Giddy up beer man.  One more for 2018. 

[Poptop]

My 70/30 Lager shit the bed last night.  All I can pour is Saison.  I gotta keg a Belgian Amber tomorrow and clean some kegs.  

[Big Nake]

My 70/30 Lager shit the bed last night.  All I can pour is Saison.  I gotta keg a Belgian Amber tomorrow and clean some kegs.  

This seems to be a trend with many of us.  I have brewed like a madman over the past month just to try to catch up.  There's a possibility that we're having people over on NYE and some of the kegs in the draft fridges are very light and some of the beers in the on-deck fridge aren't ready to go.      With our busy lives the brewing is always towards the bottom of the priority list.  Throw in a sickness or something and you fall far behind.  But... we will overcome.    Cheers peeps.

[Poptop]

Staro Prague taking a spin, closely guarded by some Roses. Rye Pilsner New Years Eve. Cheers

[positiveContact]

I feeling pretty good.  I might even get a starter going!

[Poptop]

Do it for medical reasons

[jayb151]

I brewed a kind of kitchen sink brown ale last night. Streamed it too!

I also took a mini second runnings to grow up a pitch of omegas Bavarian lager yeast. The wife and I are taking a booze break for January, but I still gotta get stuff on tap for February!

[Poptop]

Just mashed in a rye Pilsner. Boiling around 7am tomorrow

[BarelyBrews]

Just mashed in a rye Pilsner. Boiling around 7am tomorrow

 

Sounds Tasty.Cheese and Crackers might be nice with it.

[SchwanzBrewer]

Ive had so many projects around the house that i havent had time to go get a recipe together!

[positiveContact]

just make something simple.  2-row and a little crystal 40.  maybe a little carapils.  done!

[Poptop]

So the Staro Prague Rye Pilsner is humming away really nicely.  Pitched at low 60's and fermenting at 50.  Took off in under 12 hours.  Very excited to try this one.

 

All that stated.  What should I do with the slurry?  What next?  I'm thinking Vienna Lager but.......

[Big Nake]

So the Staro Prague Rye Pilsner is humming away really nicely.  Pitched at low 60's and fermenting at 50.  Took off in under 12 hours.  Very excited to try this one.

 

All that stated.  What should I do with the slurry?  What next?  I'm thinking Vienna Lager but.......

Vienna Lager is always a good idea.  I just brewed with it today (American Lager) and I pitched about 1pm central.  I made an amber lager, a "gold lager", my Bordertown Dark Lager, a Czech Pils and then the American Lager.  I might stop right there but this yeast looks like it's in good shape so maybe *I* will make a Vienna next.    Cheers.

[Bklmt2000]

Working on a hop schedule for my next batch, something I'm calling "Overhopped Abomination".