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[Deerslyr]

So yesterday at 4:30, SWMBO calls me at work and tells me that the starter is finally doing its thing after more than 48 hours of zero activity. So, without having done any prep work, I decide to go ahead and start brewing last night. Started pulling the equipment out at 6:30 and was cleaned up by 11:30. And that was with a 75 minute mash and a 90 minute boil. I went back to my old garden hose CFC and was pretty pleased with the results. The starter will be ready to pitch by tonight. The wort is cooling in the chest freezer.

[realbeerguy]

Did a basic APA this AM. Had a newbe there to watch & take notes.Think we got another one hooked.

[Sharkman]

Did 10 gallons of wheat.Closest I get to a light beer.

[stlinch]

Got a batch of NB British Bitter going now.

[stlinch]

Did a basic APA this AM. Had a newbe there to watch & take notes.Think we got another one hooked.

Reel him on in!!!

[strangebrewer]

Too bad you got sick, could have squeezed my brew in on your rig this week instead of next weekend.

Seriously. Ruined my weekend. I always have that perfect timing that I get sick on the first day of my 3 day weekends. I might call off work sick tomorrow just to make up for some of the things I really did need to get done. If I have time I might try and sneak in a brew session.

[jayb151]

About to start the mash on my Chinook Vienna SMaSH. Hope it turns out well.

[Jimvy]

I did 10g of wit this morning for my brother, who recently moved into his new house and has an empty kegorator. Pumpkin is up next!

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

I did 10g of wit this morning for my brother, who recently moved into his new house and has an empty kegorator. Pumpkin is up next!

too many chores to do - no time for brewing

[strangebrewer]

I took an extra day to recover from my brush with death this past weekend and since I was feeling fairly well I decided to get my planned brew done. With the idea of getting as much beer made as possible I did my first parti-gyle brew. I didn't get my volumes perfect so I ended up with 4.5 gallons of 1.078 from the first running and 5.5 gallons of 1.042 from the 2nd running. I did a no-sparge brew putting the full volume I wanted out of the mash in each time and extending the mash times to make sure I got complete conversion with such a thin mash.All in all it worked out well and wasn't a whole lot of extra work to brew the 2nd beer. Mostly just time. Both beers are bubbling away happily in the basement. The 1.078 wort went on a a 1099 cake and the 1.042 wort got a fresh dose of some US05.

[ChicagoWaterGuy]

Robust Porter last night split between s-04 and s-05

[MtnBrewer]

I didn't get the Hop Hammer made last weekend so hopefully I'm going to get that done this weekend. I'll drop it on the yeast from the Scarlet Pumpernickel that I made a few weeks ago.

I'm pretty disappointed. I didn't do the Hammer again this past weekend. The weather's been abysmal and there's no end in sight. I'm crossing everything I've got for a Labor Day brew but I'm not optimistic.

[BarelyBrews]

No brewing for me this weekend. I am heading over to Winston Salem NC area (Clemmons NC) for the Great NC Beer Festival Great NC Beer Festival This is slated to be a pretty big festival with many microbreweries and homebrewers alike. I am signed up to serve with my friend/colleague and we are pouring 3 beers on Saturday. American Pale Ale, Belgian Tripel and an India Black Ale all brewed by myself. This is the first year for the festival but I think it will be awesome. We have a great location a tent that is right near the entrance of the fest. We are pouring beers under my homebrewery name of Midnight Marlin Brewery. Logo and all is on the Festival site as well. Really looking forward to it. Progressing to the next level. I will be brewing next weekend though. Cheers guys!!We are pouring 30 gallons of beer

How'd the show go? any pics? we should of had you hand out the web address here.

[ncbeerbrewer]

How'd the show go? any pics? we should of had you hand out the web address here.

Kegdude,It was a good time. I really enjoyed serving my beers and I got a lot of great public feedback too. My Belg Tripel was the most popular of the bunch. I brewed 10 gallon batchs of each three beers and we poured all of them plus an extra half keg of Tripel so roughly 35 gallons in about 4.5 hours. The crap part and people around here were pretty upset but the organizers never told it ahead of time but they sold 15000 tickets and had 19000 people. They only had 40 breweries involved so the lines were so long. We tried to go try some pro brewers but a lot had been done too. It was an interesting time though too. I took a few pics but nothing of much excitement. Here is my website if anyone wants to check it out too. Thanks!! My link