What's brewing this weekend 2/5

[bearcat]

11 gallon batch of Maibock to break in the 'lager only season' after a long summer brewing hiatius with some senior members /friends of my HBC to hopefully make sure I haven't forgotten much.  Great benefit of getting to brew with more experienced brewers.  We are going to try the 34/70 dry lager yeast for a later experiment- going to dump a Dopplebock on top when the Maibock is done. 

[dbeechum]

Have you had that one before?  Caldera makes some seriously good beers.

Indeedly I have. Damn tasty. The only one I haven't had out of the can before is the Uncommon Brewers and I've had that one on draft.

[blatz]

As long as I get my yeast in time, I'm doing 12gal of vienna lager with Hugh Baird Vienna  .

woohoo - picked up 2L of fresh slurry last night - Super Bowl Sunday brew is on!

surprised I didn't get any flack for using Hugh Baird Vienna.  I was expecting at least some.

[redbeerman]

As long as I get my yeast in time, I'm doing 12gal of vienna lager with Hugh Baird Vienna  .

woohoo - picked up 2L of fresh slurry last night - Super Bowl Sunday brew is on!

surprised I didn't get any flack for using Hugh Baird Vienna.  I was expecting at least some.

OK I'll bite.  Why aren't you using a continental Vienna?  English Vienna? come on!

[blatz]

OK I'll bite.  Why aren't you using a continental Vienna?  English Vienna? come on!

I was pretty crushed (no pun intended) - when we did our group bulk buy, NCM was out of my favorite Best Vienna, and wouldn't be getting a new shipment for a week so rather than hold up our club's order, I agreed to sub - I asked for MFB but they recommended Hugh Baird based on customer feedback so I ended up with 2 sacks of it.  My pro friend loves HB, so I figured it can't be that bad, but I'm having remorse now!

I included it in my original post as I was hoping someone might have an opinion on it before I dive in head first this weekend.

[akr71]

A Belgian Wit on Sunday before the game.  Its for a style-specific contest sponsored by my favorite local micro-brewery.  The winner gets to work with their brewmaster to scale the recipe for commercial production.

I may shoot myself in the foot, but I'm culturing yeast from Unibroue Blanche de Chambly (wyeast 3864 ?) and may blend with 3068 (Weihenstephan) if I can't get the little fellers to grow quick enough.

[majorvices]

Going to brew a Hellesbock sometime early next week - I also have to keg 40 gallons of beer.

[bissdp]

Gonna try to brew an ESB. Trying to brew the same recipe twice and see if they come out the same.

[skyler]

2 beers this weekend: a Best BItter with American hops (Willamette and Cascade), and my Robust Porter that I have been tweaking for some time (trying it with a higher mash temp and more attenuative yeast strain this time).

[uthristy]

I hadn't planned on brewing today but the wife just called asking `so what are we brewing today
Yep she's a keeper, now I need to find a recipe.

[babalu87]

Columbus IPA
DONE

I've never used those hops, they smell AMAZING!

Baltic Porter on deck for the morning.

[beerrat]

Brewed an american lager; was intended to be a lite lager, but when you use the wrong type of DME and overshoot the gravity, RDWHAHB and restate what you are brewing 

Racked mead to secondary.  Must resist urge to drink as the gravity sample was really nice.

[blatz]

so either the lot analysis sheets were off or I mysteriously got really high efficiency(83% instead of 75) , but my 1.054 expected vienna lager actually came out 1.061 - I adjusted the hops on the fly and shot for an "elliot ness" clone instead, which also happens to be one of my favorite beers anyways, so all was fine.

however, I am about to throw my barleycrusher out...

[redbeerman]

Dortmunder is done and in the fermenter.  Pitched at 47, holding at 48 so far.  Not expecting any real activity until late tomorrow as usual with 34/70. 

[Thirsty_Monk]

however, I am about to throw my barleycrusher out...

Care to elaborate?