[BrewingReveries]

Christmas beer time!  Making a spiced brown ale (bordering on porter) that I hope I can keep out of until December.  Consider adding apricots, raisins and cranberries, but maybe not.  At least I've got time to mull it over.  Also making a raspberry chocolate stout before it's too hot outside to want it. 

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

[erockrph]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

Tonight I'm (hopefully) going to start the sour wort process for the sour. The plan is to reconstitute Wheat DME in a keg with hot water, drop the pH to 4.5 with lactic acid, and innoculate with some Pils malt. After I pull out the grains, I'll seal and purge the keg and throw it in a cooler with hot water bottles. I'm hoping I can keep it hot enough to get plenty sour by Thursday. Then I'll heat it to 170F or so to kill off the bugs. I'm going to primary with US-05 for a few days before pitching a big starter of Orval dregs that I've stepped up a few times.

[HoosierBrew]

Didn't have time to brew but I kegged a couple today, a 3724 saison and a cream ale.  I used to enter comps a lot and got burned out, but it's been 4 years since I entered one. So judging by how good the samples are I think I'll probably comp these. Should be fun.

[HoosierBrew]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

[erockrph]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

I will definitely post some updates once this is ready. If it works out, then I'll definitely stash away some bottles for the next beer swap.

I will say that the pyment must smelled an tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I was shooting for something in the Auslese/Eiswein realm, and so far it seems like I'm right on target.

[HoosierBrew]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

I will definitely post some updates once this is ready. If it works out, then I'll definitely stash away some bottles for the next beer swap.

I will say that the pyment must smelled an tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I was shooting for something in the Auslese/Eiswein realm, and so far it seems like I'm right on target.

Actually all three of those sound awesome.  Somebody shared a Belgian lambic with me (obscure, don't remember the brewery) a few years back that had IIRC Muscat must - it was funky and fantastic. For the saison/must I'm gonna brew, I was torn between Muscat and Riesling must, but obviously Gewurztraminer is a no-brainer, too. I'll be curious to see how the saison/must attenuates as compared to normal. Pretty thoroughly I'd guess.

[erockrph]

I'm using 3711 so I don't even know if I'd be able to tell the difference in attenuation. That yeast finishes in the mid single digits every time. I also did a small hopstand with Nelson and Motueka, so that will be interesting to see how it goes with the wine must.

[homoeccentricus]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

I will definitely post some updates once this is ready. If it works out, then I'll definitely stash away some bottles for the next beer swap.

I will say that the pyment must smelled an tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I was shooting for something in the Auslese/Eiswein realm, and so far it seems like I'm right on target.

Actually all three of those sound awesome.  Somebody shared a Belgian lambic with me (obscure, don't remember the brewery) a few years back that had IIRC Muscat must - it was funky and fantastic. For the saison/must I'm gonna brew, I was torn between Muscat and Riesling must, but obviously Gewurztraminer is a no-brainer, too. I'll be curious to see how the saison/must attenuates as compared to normal. Pretty thoroughly I'd guess.

Must have been Cantillon Vigneronne. I feel slightly offended about the "obscure" descriptor.

[homoeccentricus]

 Brewed Drew's blood orange Saison. Will add frozen blood orange juice later this week. Plus maybe some of my own blood, to make sure the beer will be deep red.

[HoosierBrew]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

I will definitely post some updates once this is ready. If it works out, then I'll definitely stash away some bottles for the next beer swap.

I will say that the pyment must smelled an tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I was shooting for something in the Auslese/Eiswein realm, and so far it seems like I'm right on target.

Actually all three of those sound awesome.  Somebody shared a Belgian lambic with me (obscure, don't remember the brewery) a few years back that had IIRC Muscat must - it was funky and fantastic. For the saison/must I'm gonna brew, I was torn between Muscat and Riesling must, but obviously Gewurztraminer is a no-brainer, too. I'll be curious to see how the saison/must attenuates as compared to normal. Pretty thoroughly I'd guess.

Must have been Cantillon Vigneronne. I feel slightly offended about the "obscure" descriptor.

Except it wasn't Cantillon, which is consistently great.I don't consider Cantillon obscure,either.

[homoeccentricus]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

I will definitely post some updates once this is ready. If it works out, then I'll definitely stash away some bottles for the next beer swap.

I will say that the pyment must smelled an tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I was shooting for something in the Auslese/Eiswein realm, and so far it seems like I'm right on target.

Actually all three of those sound awesome.  Somebody shared a Belgian lambic with me (obscure, don't remember the brewery) a few years back that had IIRC Muscat must - it was funky and fantastic. For the saison/must I'm gonna brew, I was torn between Muscat and Riesling must, but obviously Gewurztraminer is a no-brainer, too. I'll be curious to see how the saison/must attenuates as compared to normal. Pretty thoroughly I'd guess.

Must have been Cantillon Vigneronne. I feel slightly offended about the "obscure" descriptor.

Except it wasn't Cantillon, which is consistently great.I don't consider Cantillon obscure,either.

Hmm, was it Belgian or Belgian-style?

[HoosierBrew]

I have a big triple brewday planned for Thursday. I'm planning on making a Saison, a Pyment and a Lambic-style sour - all using Gerwurztraminer must from a wine kit.

I look forward to hearing how the saison/must beer comes out. I'm still planning to use Muscat juice in a saison probably summer/fall ish. Just didn't order it in time to brew when I wanted to this time.

I will definitely post some updates once this is ready. If it works out, then I'll definitely stash away some bottles for the next beer swap.

I will say that the pyment must smelled an tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I was shooting for something in the Auslese/Eiswein realm, and so far it seems like I'm right on target.

Actually all three of those sound awesome.  Somebody shared a Belgian lambic with me (obscure, don't remember the brewery) a few years back that had IIRC Muscat must - it was funky and fantastic. For the saison/must I'm gonna brew, I was torn between Muscat and Riesling must, but obviously Gewurztraminer is a no-brainer, too. I'll be curious to see how the saison/must attenuates as compared to normal. Pretty thoroughly I'd guess.

Must have been Cantillon Vigneronne. I feel slightly offended about the "obscure" descriptor.

Except it wasn't Cantillon, which is consistently great.I don't consider Cantillon obscure,either.

Hmm, was it Belgian or Belgian-style?

It was from Belgium. I'd never seen or heard of it. I've had a ton of Belgian imports, but nowhere near the numbers as you I'm sure.

[homoeccentricus]

I never import Belgian beer B-)

[narcout]

I brewed this last night: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-LaPetiteOrange.pdf

I haven't brewed beer from a "kit" for a couple of years, but this one sounded really good to me. I did sub 3787 for the 1214 though.

[69franx]

I brewed a recipe I saw on here in the thread "Blondie's Ale" Should be a great summertime brew: mostly 2 row with a touch of Honey malt abd Biscuit. Bittered with Willamette,  and I am using rehydrate 05. Also bottled 4.4 gallons of German IPA. Checked gravity on my pilsner: 830&833 both down from 1.053 to 1.010 after 15 days, just need to find a day to bottle 9 gallons of that. Busy beer weekend