[Wort-H.O.G.]

got o"fest boiling right now..not sure what I was thinking. coldest day since last year26F with 17F windchill. 

Yeah, pretty damn winter-y today. We haven't had much of that so far, luckily. Gonna try to brew next weekend.

and one of those days brewing....my grain mill seems to have issue with bearings and needs to be taken apart. and my chiller needs gasket replaced as it was leaking. couple all that with freezing my arse off during boil and cleaning up.....uggh. glad I have home brew to drown my pain. 

edit: oh yeah- almost forgot. my primary gram scale went haywire. luckily had a spare to use, but damn...what a day.

[Frankenbrew]

got o"fest boiling right now..not sure what I was thinking. coldest day since last year26F with 17F windchill. 

Yeah, pretty damn winter-y today. We haven't had much of that so far, luckily. Gonna try to brew next weekend.

and one of those days brewing....my grain mill seems to have issue with bearings and needs to be taken apart. and my chiller needs gasket replaced as it was leaking. couple all that with freezing my arse off during boil and cleaning up.....uggh. glad I have home brew to drown my pain. 

edit: oh yeah- almost forgot. my primary gram scale went haywire. luckily had a spare to use, but damn...what a day.

What have you done to make the brew gods angry with you?

[HoosierBrew]

got o"fest boiling right now..not sure what I was thinking. coldest day since last year26F with 17F windchill. 

Yeah, pretty damn winter-y today. We haven't had much of that so far, luckily. Gonna try to brew next weekend.

and one of those days brewing....my grain mill seems to have issue with bearings and needs to be taken apart. and my chiller needs gasket replaced as it was leaking. couple all that with freezing my arse off during boil and cleaning up.....uggh. glad I have home brew to drown my pain. 

edit: oh yeah- almost forgot. my primary gram scale went haywire. luckily had a spare to use, but damn...what a day.

What have you done to make the brew gods angry with you?

Yeah, that's brutal.

[Wort-H.O.G.]

got o"fest boiling right now..not sure what I was thinking. coldest day since last year26F with 17F windchill. 

Yeah, pretty damn winter-y today. We haven't had much of that so far, luckily. Gonna try to brew next weekend.

and one of those days brewing....my grain mill seems to have issue with bearings and needs to be taken apart. and my chiller needs gasket replaced as it was leaking. couple all that with freezing my arse off during boil and cleaning up.....uggh. glad I have home brew to drown my pain. 

edit: oh yeah- almost forgot. my primary gram scale went haywire. luckily had a spare to use, but damn...what a day.

What have you done to make the brew gods angry with you?

Yeah, that's brutal.

no kidding right?!  anyway, I managed to make what should be a really nice beer....albeit with every bit of difficulty.

[beersk]

Just brewed Best Bitter II.

94.4% Pale
5% Crystal 60
0.6% Chocolate

20 IBU Fuggles @ 60
10 IBU Brewers Gold @ 10
WLP002
Amber malty water
1047 OG

Side note: I widened my mill gap to 0.040" today. No more stuck sparges and still got 77% efficiency into the fermenter.

Wow, that surprises me you got that efficiency. Sounds like a nice beer. Been meaning to brew a string of British styles, just haven't picked up the yeast yet.

It was a tight 40 mils w/feeler gauge. Crush looks good. My drill runs pretty fast so there is some shredding of the malt. Much less at 40 mils.

I was getting 80-81% at 35 mils.

I'm perfectly happy with the 75% efficiency I get, to be honest. I get anywhere between 75 and 80% at .032mm gap (I think, either that or 0.035mm). Either way, I'm perfectly fine with it as long as it's consistent.
I'm brewing a Vienna Lager tomorrow morning. Looking forward to that. Then off to drink beer with my dad all afternoon! Should be one of the better days

[tommymorris]

Just brewed Best Bitter II.

94.4% Pale
5% Crystal 60
0.6% Chocolate

20 IBU Fuggles @ 60
10 IBU Brewers Gold @ 10
WLP002
Amber malty water
1047 OG

Side note: I widened my mill gap to 0.040" today. No more stuck sparges and still got 77% efficiency into the fermenter.

Wow, that surprises me you got that efficiency. Sounds like a nice beer. Been meaning to brew a string of British styles, just haven't picked up the yeast yet.

It was a tight 40 mils w/feeler gauge. Crush looks good. My drill runs pretty fast so there is some shredding of the malt. Much less at 40 mils.

I was getting 80-81% at 35 mils.

I'm perfectly happy with the 75% efficiency I get, to be honest. I get anywhere between 75 and 80% at .032mm gap (I think, either that or 0.035mm). Either way, I'm perfectly fine with it as long as it's consistent.
I'm brewing a Vienna Lager tomorrow morning. Looking forward to that. Then off to drink beer with my dad all afternoon! Should be one of the better days

Definitely. I am not interested in higher. It seems like 70-80% very normal and makes good beer. People with the Picobrew and other automated brew systems seem to get 60-70%. So we're doing good.

[blatz]

Paul, you didn't use Avangard as a base, did you ?  I get an efficiency bump of a few points when I use their pils. Just wondering.

Nah rahr 2 row and weyermann for the Munich and vienna

[BrewBama]

I brewed a Holiday Red Ale last night. I was a cpl degrees shy of my target temp but since I brew outside i'll chalk it up to the cooler ambient temperature lately. 

[hopfenundmalz]

After traveling so much, it is time to brew some beers. Pilsner tomorrow.

[brewinhard]

Cleaned up the garage after all the kids presents were opened today so I can start my lager run.  Munich Dunkel with WY 2308 Munich lager tomorrow, then repitching into a Vienna lager, then Helles (gonna give it a try with 85/15 pils/kolsch malt). Slowly gearing up for spring competition season.

[Wort-H.O.G.]

Cleaned up the garage after all the kids presents were opened today so I can start my lager run.  Munich Dunkel with WY 2308 Munich lager tomorrow, then repitching into a Vienna lager, then Helles (gonna give it a try with 85/15 pils/kolsch malt). Slowly gearing up for spring competition season.

Sounds great. Doing same thing with wlp833- ran it on Helles, o'fest, and dunkel is next. Going to brew up an alt tomorrow.


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[blatz]

Sounds great. Doing same thing with wlp833- ran it on Helles, o'fest, and dunkel is next. Going to brew up an alt tomorrow.


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Kegging an Oktoberfest tomorrow and brewing a helles.

[Wort-H.O.G.]

Sounds great. Doing same thing with wlp833- ran it on Helles, o'fest, and dunkel is next. Going to brew up an alt tomorrow.


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Kegging an Oktoberfest tomorrow and brewing a helles.

Must be 3 great minds syncing


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[morticaixavier]

Hoping to get a Barley wine going tomorrow or the next day. It's finally cold here and we're supposed to get a few inches of snow/ice/sleet tomorrow so maybe Wednesday or Thursday. It's my nearly annual Brew to Celebrate my son who is now 5 so has only 16 more years to wait till he can taste any of it.

[toby]

Brewed a massive Imperial Stout (roughly planned using BCBS as a starting point) that I'm going to barrel age half and 'dry-bean' the other half with Godiva coffee.