[klickitat jim]

Mashed in my German Helles Exportbier. I will be using my 2352 propogated from a slant (first attempt at this, so far so good). Second brew today is a summer pils with Sorachi Ace and Crystal.


Ignored these for 21 days. The GHE finished at 1.011 as expected. The summer pils finished at 1.005! That was 90% best pils and 10% carahell mashed at 148f for 90. Don't fear the carahell!

Just dry hopped the summer pils, crash regimen begins in a couple days. Keg them up Tuesday

[brewinhard]

2-row with up to 8% carared.


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Cool.

[beersk]

Bavarian hefeweizen on Saturday morning. I usually do one sooner as right about now is when I want to start drinking that style.

[HoosierBrew]

No brewing this weekend. Did keg a kolsch after emptying a pretty good keg of helles. Now comes some cold conditioning and fining to clear out the 2565. 

[pete b]

I'm taking tomorrow (Friday) off for a brew day then tending to the garden, orchard, and hop yard over the weekend proper.
Tomorrow's plan: brew an American IPA, nap, go to Treehouse Brewing and buy as much as they let me, have a nice dinner out with my girlfriend, come home and try a beer or two and chill.

[Footballandhops]

I'm taking tomorrow (Friday) off for a brew day then tending to the garden, orchard, and hop yard over the weekend proper.
Tomorrow's plan: brew an American IPA, nap, go to Treehouse Brewing and buy as much as they let me, have a nice dinner out with my girlfriend, come home and try a beer or two and chill.

That sounds like a pretty damn good weekend

[pete b]

I'm taking tomorrow (Friday) off for a brew day then tending to the garden, orchard, and hop yard over the weekend proper.
Tomorrow's plan: brew an American IPA, nap, go to Treehouse Brewing and buy as much as they let me, have a nice dinner out with my girlfriend, come home and try a beer or two and chill.

That sounds like a pretty damn good weekend

Yep. Add to that the fact that I picked a great day to play hooky: sunny and 75 degrees. We're going for a hike after I brew, before the nap. Putting supers on the hive today too.

[Iliff Ave]

Haven't brewed a relatively higher gravity beer in a while so I am trying to squeeze in a Kottbusser inspired beer fashioned after Grimm Brothers Snow Drop.

48.1% Pilsner
38.4% Wheat
7.7% Flaked Oats
3.9% Honey
1.3% Molasses

1.068
K97

[tommymorris]

Haven't brewed a relatively higher gravity beer in a while so I am trying to squeeze in a Kottbusser inspired beer fashioned after Grimm Brothers Snow Drop.

48.1% Pilsner
38.4% Wheat
7.7% Flaked Oats
3.9% Honey
1.3% Molasses

1.068
K97

I finally came to the conclusion I don't like K97 at least not for beers that need to be clean flavored. I made a blonde ale with k97 that had a mild spicy phenolic flavor that really came through after a couple weeks lagering in the keg. I concluded that spicy taste would be fine for wheat beers and maybe other more complex brews, but, the blonde didn't have any other dominate flavor ingredient so  the spice/phenol was the dominate flavor.

[Iliff Ave]

Haven't brewed a relatively higher gravity beer in a while so I am trying to squeeze in a Kottbusser inspired beer fashioned after Grimm Brothers Snow Drop.

48.1% Pilsner
38.4% Wheat
7.7% Flaked Oats
3.9% Honey
1.3% Molasses

1.068
K97

I finally came to the conclusion I don't like K97 at least not for beers that need to be clean flavored. I made a blonde ale with k97 that had a mild spicy phenolic flavor that really came through after a couple weeks lagering in the keg. I concluded that spicy taste would be fine for wheat beers and maybe other more complex brews, but, the blonde didn't have any other dominate flavor ingredient so  the spice/phenol was the dominate flavor.

Interesting. I haven't noticed that yet but have not really tried it in cleaner beer styles. In the beers I have used it in I couldn't detect much of a difference between it and US05 other than maybe a bit more mouthfeel since it attenuates less for me. What temps do you run it at? I think I am normally around 62F.

[69franx]

2 3.5g batches planned for Saturday: first is a dortmunder recipe from Hoosierbrew Jon and the second is a Pilsner recipe from Brulosopher. Both will be second pitches of WLP835. Just bottled the first 2 batches with that yesterday: 2 different versions of WortHog's North German Pilsner. Final batches with 835 will be another Pilsner(Bluesman's from the wiki on here), a traditional Bock, and finally a Doppelbock from Denny. No thoughts on the 835 yet, but the samples from first batches were tasty and crystal clear after 18 days total in primary, including a 6 day rest at 65ish.

[denny]

I brewed back to back batches of German pils this week to test Brewtan B.  The next batch will be #500 and I'm trying to decide when that's gonna happen.

[blair.streit]

I planned a double brew day back in April and only got one brew finished that day. Now I'm sitting on a sealed plastic bag of milled grains for a Kolsch that have been making me feel guilty every time I go to the closet. At this point I think I'll wait for the next Experimental Brewing podcast so I can decide whether the results will alleviate my guilt or suggest that I toss the bag and buy new grains.

On the upside, this mistake did finally prompt me to put a paper calendar in my brewing binder and pencil in the schedule. I was doing this on the computer before, but for me there's something about a paper-based calendar that is so much more effective for long-term planning.

[HoosierBrew]

2 3.5g batches planned for Saturday: first is a dortmunder recipe from Hoosierbrew Jon and the second is a Pilsner recipe from Brulosopher. Both will be second pitches of WLP835. Just bottled the first 2 batches with that yesterday: 2 different versions of WortHog's North German Pilsner. Final batches with 835 will be another Pilsner(Bluesman's from the wiki on here), a traditional Bock, and finally a Doppelbock from Denny. No thoughts on the 835 yet, but the samples from first batches were tasty and crystal clear after 18 days total in primary, including a 6 day rest at 65ish.

Sounds good, Frank. Curious to see how you like the Dort!

[69franx]

I'll be sure to let you know Jon. As far as the double brew day, this will be my second attempt. For this day, I hope to have 2 mash tuns set up and functioning, last time it was with just one tun and really stretched out my brew day. With these smaller batches, only 3.5 gallons into the fermenter, I am trying to add more variety to my brewing and experiment with some new styles. Fingers crossed that tomorrow goes better than the last double brew day