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[Stout_fan]

Next week I swear guys!So DagoMike, start this thread early 'cause I'm pulling out an old 1026 Cask Ale smack pack this week for a starter for a 25 gal brew of Fresh Hop Event Horizon JPA!Now to review Graham Sanders points on sterile water yeast storage.

[Kansan]

Got some Weihenstephan 3068 on the stir plate. Going to brew the last batch of hefe for the season today. After reading the Berliner Weise article in the sept BYO I know that'll be my wheat brewing focus for the rest of the year.

[tag]

OMG, I might actually brew Saturday. First batch in like forever. I'm actually formulating a recipe as I type. I stepped up my WLP833 last night to 4L. Still need to setup tonight though. If I can pull that off, it's all downhill from there! Doing a Vienna/amber lager.

Care to share the recipe? My last Vienna lager was all Vienna malt except for one # of Munich 8L. I like WLP 830 for it.Sunday I'm brewing a no-sparge Wee Heavy followed by a no-sparge Old Ale both on yeast cakes.

[dagomike]

Real simple. Basically like 60% Pils and 40% Munich. I don't have Vienna around and a bucket full of Munich. Then I'm using Crystal for hops. I was just going to put a 1/2 ounce in at 10 minute for a little flavor, but their floral goodness inspired me to put add another ounce at flame out. So... last night setting up, I had to clean everything out because many spiders and stuff took up residence. Got everything hooked up, fired up the HERMS to make sure it's all good and all sorts of green crud came out of the copper coil. $^@#! So, drained and cleaned the MLT. Mixed together an acid solution and recirculated through the coil for a half hour. Rinsed, refilled MLT and went to bed. This morning, contents of MLT is on the gaage floor. WTF?! Refilled, tightened everything, no idea what happened. Heated the water go to mill the grains, and the freaken free roller on the mill isn't running. Grrr... Encourage that along finally get my grains milled. Oh, and one of the dogs for some reason desired to run out the door and make a break for it. Caught it and dragged it back into the house swearing up a storm. Then it has a panic attach and pukes and shits in the house.So much goes wrong when you don't use your system...The batch though is now boiling. The show must go on.

[VolFan]

Mine is almost up to temp. I dry ran my system Wednesday night to make sure everything was still in order. Haven't brewed since last October, and ran out of home brew a few weeks back. I brewed consistently 3 yrs + but I don't know what happened. Think I kinda got burnt out and it wasn't fun anymore. This morning has been a real pleasure though.

[EWW]

Doing 11 gallons of Amber Wit today and maybe a rye pale tomorrow

[3rd party JKor]

Real simple. Basically like 60% Pils and 40% Munich. I don't have Vienna around and a bucket full of Munich. Then I'm using Crystal for hops. I was just going to put a 1/2 ounce in at 10 minute for a little flavor, but their floral goodness inspired me to put add another ounce at flame out. So... last night setting up, I had to clean everything out because many spiders and stuff took up residence. Got everything hooked up, fired up the HERMS to make sure it's all good and all sorts of green crud came out of the copper coil. $^@#! So, drained and cleaned the MLT. Mixed together an acid solution and recirculated through the coil for a half hour. Rinsed, refilled MLT and went to bed. This morning, contents of MLT is on the gaage floor. WTF?! Refilled, tightened everything, no idea what happened. Heated the water go to mill the grains, and the freaken free roller on the mill isn't running. Grrr... Encourage that along finally get my grains milled. Oh, and one of the dogs for some reason desired to run out the door and make a break for it. Caught it and dragged it back into the house swearing up a storm. Then it has a panic attach and pukes and shits in the house.So much goes wrong when you don't use your system...The batch though is now boiling. The show must go on.

That'll teach you to take a break from brewing, mister!

[Deerslyr]

Started my brew day at 9:00 a.m. and was all finished and cleaned up in 5 hours. Process included racking the Cream Ale from last week, which was down to 1.010, into another bucket so I could harvest the yeast. Less than 3 hours after finishing up, today's brew is bubbling away pretty vigorously.The sample from last weeks Cream Ale was awesome. I'm looking forward to getting it carbed up and ready to go. I'm hoping todays will be ready for Labor Day weekend too (SWMBO decided last Sunday night AFTER I had an opportunity to brew 10 gallons that we were going to have this party and maybe I should make another keg). If it's not ready by then, well... I'm not gonna complain. I changed up the recipe a bit at the last minute. I used 6.5 pounds of 2 Row and 2 pounds of Maris Otter (I had it on hand and decided I didn't want to break open a new bag of malt today). 2 pounds of rice. .5 ounce of Magnum at 60 minutes and then a half ounce each of Mt. Hood and Willamette at 15 and flame out. Not exactly to style for IBU's, but wanted something a bit different.