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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #735 on: January 27, 2016, 06:36:11 pm »
Just started chilling an extract Helles for the challenge for this spring's swap. Wort smells pretty good for an extract brew, I must say.
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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #736 on: January 27, 2016, 07:10:44 pm »
Just started chilling an extract Helles for the challenge for this spring's swap. Wort smells pretty good for an extract brew, I must say.
The "challenge" is going to be not chugging that before spring swap gets here!

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #737 on: January 30, 2016, 06:51:34 am »
another 145F/159F step mash on an all saaz (40ibu) pilsner (47.5% avangard pils, 47.5% weyermann floor malted pils, 5% carahell) planned for this weekend.

great day so far. nailed my target PH as projected in brunwater after adjusting avangard pils to 10srm. step went well, and mash efficiency came out at 99.6% today.
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Serving:        In Process:
Vienna IPA          O'Fest
Dort
Mead                 
Cider                         
Ger'merican Blonde
Amber Ale
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O'Fest

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #738 on: January 30, 2016, 09:58:45 am »
Not quite the weekend but I'm planning a pilsner midweek. I was thinking about doing a three gallon imperial pilsner, but am starting to lean towards bumping it up to four gallons of regular pils and fermenting half as an ale and doing the other half as a lager, giving me some to drink in five weeks and some to drink in ten weeks instead of the 15 weeks that I'd have to wait for the imperial.
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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #739 on: January 30, 2016, 01:19:06 pm »
another 145F/159F step mash on an all saaz (40ibu) pilsner (47.5% avangard pils, 47.5% weyermann floor malted pils, 5% carahell) planned for this weekend.

great day so far. nailed my target PH as projected in brunwater after adjusting avangard pils to 10srm. step went well, and mash efficiency came out at 99.6% today.

You had to adjust their pils malt to 10srm to hit your pH?  That is crazy.

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #740 on: January 30, 2016, 01:20:14 pm »
Beer gunning some entries for an upcoming comp in Ohio.  Kind of using this one as a test for some of my potential NHC entries to see how they fare.

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #741 on: January 30, 2016, 01:29:16 pm »
another 145F/159F step mash on an all saaz (40ibu) pilsner (47.5% avangard pils, 47.5% weyermann floor malted pils, 5% carahell) planned for this weekend.

great day so far. nailed my target PH as projected in brunwater after adjusting avangard pils to 10srm. step went well, and mash efficiency came out at 99.6% today.

You had to adjust their pils malt to 10srm to hit your pH?  That is crazy.

yep. its the only base malt I have to do that with...we hit it on another thread.
Ken- Chagrin Falls, OH
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Serving:        In Process:
Vienna IPA          O'Fest
Dort
Mead                 
Cider                         
Ger'merican Blonde
Amber Ale
Next:
Ger Pils
O'Fest

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #742 on: January 30, 2016, 04:41:47 pm »
Brewed up YABA-14 (Yet another Blonde Ale) today.  Hoping it's worthy of submission to NHC.

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #743 on: January 30, 2016, 07:47:55 pm »
Brewing up a blonde ale tonight as well. Half will stay clean for my dad's birthday and half will be put in secondary on raspberries for my sisters birthday 5 days later.


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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #744 on: January 30, 2016, 09:14:26 pm »
I'm about halfway through the mash on a Belgian Strong Golden.

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #745 on: January 30, 2016, 09:23:26 pm »
Bohemian pilsner in the fermenter, coffee stout in the keg, and a grain bill for a vienna lager on deck for next weekend.
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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #746 on: January 30, 2016, 10:06:39 pm »
Just finished bottling a Vienna lager--tastes great so far. Next weekend I bottle an altbier.
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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #747 on: February 04, 2016, 10:59:18 am »
made my yeast starter for new round of 833 yeast. have Märzen planned and if all goes well, will be performing my first steam infused step mash. likely 145F for 40min, 160F for 60 minutes at around 5.5-5.55PH.
Ken- Chagrin Falls, OH
CPT, U.S.Army
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harveys-Brewhaus/405092862905115

http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Science_of_Mashing

Serving:        In Process:
Vienna IPA          O'Fest
Dort
Mead                 
Cider                         
Ger'merican Blonde
Amber Ale
Next:
Ger Pils
O'Fest

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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #748 on: February 04, 2016, 01:08:10 pm »
Did my first closed transfer from fermentation keg to serving keg last night. I haven't had a chance to shorten my dip tube yet, but I was able to blow out all the yeast and trub from the bottom without an issue. We'll see how the finished product turns out once it finishes carbonating, but so far it is totally worth the investment for a fermentation keg.

Also kegged up my souped-up Mr Beer lite lager kit. Looking forward to that one as well.
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Re: What's Brewing this Weekend? 01/18/2014
« Reply #749 on: February 04, 2016, 07:10:22 pm »
Kegged my Idaho 7/007 IPA. The smell and flavor are pretty terrific. It's gonna be good. I'm dry hopping after gelatin lately, so the hop character only gets better from here.
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