What are you brewing/bottling/kegging?

[John Sand]

A minimash APA and a BIAB Rye Lager brewed today.
Also had a boil over, broke my hydrometer jar, and forgot my one minute hops. It will be beer. Good thing we're having leftovers tonight, because I might mess up dinner too!

[berryman]

A minimash APA and a BIAB Rye Lager brewed today.
Also had a boil over, broke my hydrometer jar, and forgot my one minute hops. It will be beer. Good thing we're having leftovers tonight, because I might mess up dinner too!

Sometimes you will have days like that but you will have beer............

[mashani]

I brewed an ESB like beer to use up various stuff I had here. So it was a mix of Ashburne mild malt, malted oats, English medium crystal, and some brown malt. Mt. Hood for hops. S-04 for yeast.

I bottled this, it's going to be nice. Now I have to decide which of the 3 kits I have laying around to brew. Probably the Irish Red, I can brew the Dunkle when it's warmer, and I think I might take the Pils and turn it into a Belgian of some sort.

[mashani]

Brewed the Austin Homebrew Binky's Irish Red kit.

It came with hops packaged by Northern Brewer. That is weird. I knew that Austin Home Brew and Adventures in Homebrewing were the same umbrella, and I know that Northern Homebrew and Midwest Brewing were under the same umbrella (and they are both ultimately owned by AB-Inbev which is why I rarely buy anything from them anymore, that and their jacked up prices).

But I didn't think those umbrellas were connected. So, I have no idea why there are Northern Brewer packaged hops, unless supply chain issues made them buy hops from AB-Inbev? I don't recall ever getting hops from Northern Brewer in an AIH or Austin kit before.

So that is my mystery of the day.

[bpgreen]

Brewed the Austin Homebrew Binky's Irish Red kit.

It came with hops packaged by Northern Brewer. That is weird. I knew that Austin Home Brew and Adventures in Homebrewing were the same umbrella, and I know that Northern Homebrew and Midwest Brewing were under the same umbrella (and they are both ultimately owned by AB-Inbev which is why I rarely buy anything from them anymore, that and their jacked up prices).

But I didn't think those umbrellas were connected. So, I have no idea why there are Northern Brewer packaged hops, unless supply chain issues made them buy hops from AB-Inbev? I don't recall ever getting hops from Northern Brewer in an AIH or Austin kit before.

So that is my mystery of the day.

I could be mistaken, but I think abinbev spun off nb and midwest and they're independent again. I'll double check.

But with supply chain issues, nothing would surprise me.

[bpgreen]

https://www.inside.beer/news/detail///u ... rn-brewer/

No longer abinbev

[mashani]

No longer abinbev

Ah so a holding company now. Didn't know, but that didn't help them with their crazy prices unfortunately. They offer non-stop 20% off coupons... which typically just brings their price down to the regular prices of places like MoreBeer or AIH/Austin. And their 20% off coupons do not apply so are useless on stuff like base and specialty malts. The only thing "good" about them these days is they have a low free shipping threshold, but it's not very hard to find $20 more to spend to hit the $59 threshold of other places.

[berryman]

Kegged a fresh squeezed IPA clone today, I always drink a sample from the hydro, today drank it all....

[Beer-lord]

Don't you love that part of it? Haven't done that one in a long while. May need to revisit that one.

[berryman]

Don't you love that part of it? Haven't done that one in a long while. May need to revisit that one.

I usually take a little taste on a sample pre- ferment, but all mostly taste close to the same and nothing would want to drink. But on the sample bottling/kegging if it so good flat that you want to keep drinking it, you know it will be a good one carbed..

[Beer-lord]

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Just kegged a tasty IPL using Bootleg Arlingtonesis (I think they've recently changed the name) and some Cascade, Lupo Amarilo Lupo Bru 1 and some old Huell Melon I had laying around. 6.3% and the color with crystal 30 is perfect.
I'm never quite sure about water treatments for IPLs with lower lovibond malts so I pretty much split the difference down the middle. I really didn't want the hops to be too aggressive so I kept the IBU's to a low, for me, 36 which worked well with the water treatment.

[Kealia]

Yesterday I kegged my Pliny The Elder clone. I plan on pulling a pint tomorrow night!

[TonyKZ1]

Today I Brewed Janet's Brown Ale, this is a 5G Extract w/steeping grains recipe from MoreBeer! I've not tried this one before but have heard a lot about it. Apparently it's an American version Brown Ale. It had lots of grain and several ounces of hops too, almost like an IPA.

[Beer-lord]

Do some googling on Tasty McDole who died last year (maybe it was longer) and was very well known and liked in the brewing community. That beer has won a ton of rewards and is supposed to be somewhat hoppy and that's something I know I would like. Keep us posted on how it comes out.

[mashani]

Do some googling on Tasty McDole who died last year (maybe it was longer) and was very well known and liked in the brewing community. That beer has won a ton of rewards and is supposed to be somewhat hoppy and that's something I know I would like. Keep us posted on how it comes out.

FWIW, I believe if you buy that kit from MoreBeer they donate all the proceeds to the Leukemia and Lymphoma foundation in honor of him.