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[strangebrewer]

What no thread this week? Figures it's a weekend I actually am brewing.Today is going to be a good one too. 60 gallons of 1.117 Barley wine is the plan for today. Thankfully I'm not doing it alone . There will be 7 brewers with their rigs contributing to the making. Oh and there will be 1 mead maker standing around pointing out that what we are making doesn't look anything like PBR or icehouse.Anybody else brewing this fine weekend?

[pete maz]

I'm brewing up a Belgian somethingorother tomorrow. Not sure exactly what to call it, but roughly 1/2 pils, 1/2 wheat to around 1.070, maybe a dash of special B for color, WY3787. It'll be around 92F tomorrow, a relatively cool day for what we've had lately, but I'm still starting early.

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

I made a starter of the yeast I harvest from some Rare Vos bottles. That SOB went crazy. It's the first time the foam has actually escaped my 5L flask.

[Big Nake]

Brewed a Festbier on Tuesday and have a batch of MLPA planned for Monday along with a gold lager for later in the week. Beer me!

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

Brewed a Festbier on Tuesday and have a batch of MLPA planned for Monday along with a gold lager for later in the week. Beer me!

where'd you put your chloride:sulfate Ken?

[Big Nake]

where'd you put your chloride:sulfate Ken?

Don't get me started!

[MyaCullen]

Don't get me started!

lol

[BarelyBrews]

I racked my Bo-Pils this weekend.And bought grains at LHBS.Been playing with the beergun.Keep putting brewing off ,I'm wondering if the storms are going to materialize like they say.

[realbeerguy]

Just cleaned up after 5 gal Dirty Blonde, a little darker, a little more bitter than Ken's Bases Loaded. Did 5 gal Berliner Weisse too. Now to the kegerator to rehydrate.

[djinkc]

Added some insulation to my fermentation chamber today that seems to have made a big difference. Tomorrow, 10 gallons - all Pils, Magnum bittering, Marynka flavor/aroma, Spalt at flameout. Wyeast 2112 slurry fermenting in the upper 50's df.

[gnef]

I did 10 gallons of a Belgian Dubbel on Friday. I am looking forward to finishing up my Belgian series, and see how well I did - I haven't really done any Belgians beers besides Wits, so I want to see how they turn out.

[passlaku]

Tried out my new 8 gallon ss pot and brewed an APA.

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

Tried out my new 8 gallon ss pot and brewed an APA.

I need to make an APA...

[ANUSTART]

Back to back high gravity 5 gal batches... I'm exhausted. Where are the pics?ETA, how bout a pic of all the spent grain? Did we come close to 1 cubic yard?

Edited by Odacrem, 26 June 2010 - 10:13 PM.

[DaBearSox]

Kolsch with santiam hops only tom

[strangebrewer]

I've got pics I'll try and post today. I'm going mountain biking this morning though. My 6 cubic foot wheel barrow is overfilled with spent grain, 2 full 5 gallon buckets, and two 20 gallon totes also full of spent grain.Right now both barrels are chugging along.

[DuncanDad]

Brewing a SN Clone, (sorry Basser).22# 2 row2# of 60 Crystal1oz Magnum @601oz Cascade @301oz Cascade @5Safale US-05Mash @ 150 for 60 minutes.*edit* wrong hops listed.*

Edited by DuncanDad, 27 June 2010 - 08:59 AM.

[Jimvy]

I brewed an american wheat with 100% citra hops, a belgian pale ale, and a 100% brett brux beer. Hopefully two of them will be good

[Stout_fan]

The steam starter chipotle is in the kegs, but not picking up as much heat as I wanted.So we brewed Sweet Wheat White ChocolateWhat a horrid day. Completely sober, IronKite and I flubbed our way through the brew. Not to mention 95 degree swamp weather. :(I did remember to defrost the wound fiber and carbon block filters the night before. That's about the only thing that went right.I double milled the Pilsner malt; so I should be hitting 85% efficiency. But left the calcs at 75% when formulating it in promash.Just bumped up the Maltose Falcon's recipe to 13.5 gal. Had to set the mill to it's finest crush to deal with the whole unmalted wheat. Even then I ran through twice; still chunky. :(At least the mill motor didn't overheat.When we underlet the strike water I commented who added the milk to the cereal! :stabby:No kidding, it looked like what I had for breakfast, rolled oats and milk.Guessed for 22°F delta for strike. Turns out we only needed 10°F.So we hit the protein rest 12 degrees high. Guess the thermal mass of the wheat isn't that high.Then I'm looking over the recipe and say "hey over 50% wheat and rolled oats. Not good, need rice hulls."Except I'm out. :angry:We finish the protein rest and raise to scarification rest temp of 149°F. That we got right.I split for the LHBS 45 minutes away. I've two choices, equally far apart. One I have to go down the beltway, which due to construction is now a three lane parking lot to be sure. The other is a "nice" ride through the countryside, and I have a lead foot. :devil:Two lane twisty road and every freakin' bicyclist, rubber necker, supper safe soccer mom and sight seeing tourist is out for a cruise. :banghead:Finally clear road and a container truck pulls out in front of me going up a steep hill. 20 MPH! AAAAAARGH! I get to the shop and a lady is in line and wants a course in meadmaking, which the proprietor gives her.I understand, we can't dis the new customers. But this is a brewmergency dang it!I'm glad the trip back went easier, I was ready to run over people!Threw the pound of hulls into the mash, stirred them in and runoff was a snap.Yes, it was FULLY CONVERTED !!!!!!We goofed on the sparge volume, having 2 gal too much. The gravity was light, and we were leaving sugar in the tun. So a second kettle was placed on the HLT burner and maple syrup time ensued. Total wort was about 16 gal boiled down to 13.The hop and spice dosing went OK.Chilled to 47°F with 32 pounds of ice.4+ gallons in each of 3 cornies via the Alludium Q-36 wort modulator, plus a shot into the yeast flask which went on the stirplate.Lager fridge running at 53°F for the 2035 yeast. Two of the three bubbling in the airlock. Looks good, except OG was supposed to be 1.058. We hit 1.048 with the syrup boil down.So I'm still trying to figure out why we're 12 points or more low. I'm guessing the unmalted wheat is NOT 40 P4G!suggestions guys????besides find a new hobby.