Sunday will brew 5 Gal. Mid Summer Xmas Ale for Xmas in July at our campgrounds. Have a start but need to finalize QBrew for the ingredients in the morning for trip to LHBS, so far this is what I have
1 can Mr Beer Winter Dark
6 lbs UK Pale malt
1 lb Caramel 60
.5 LB Wheat malt
1 LB Honey Malt
.5 Carapils
.25 Roasted Barley
.25 Chocalate Malt
1 oz Cascade @ 60
1 oz Hallertau @ 20
2 cinnamon sticks @ 60
.5 oz Fresh Ginger @ 20
.5 oz Orange peel @ 20
1 sachet of Notty rehydrated cause I read the instructions never used before
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Currently Conditioning:
Cherry Mead
California Moscato
Currently enjoying:
Hardly Apple Cider on tap
Hardly Cherry Lime-Aid on tap
Oktoberfestive-Ale on tap
PGA Cider (Pear, Ginger, Apple) on tap 3rd Founders Cup 2016 King Of The Mountain on tap
Bottoms Up Brown on tap GOLD 2016 Ohio Brew Week Silver 2016 Ohio State Fair Silver 2016 Son of Brewzilla, Silver 2015 Son of Brewzilla, Bronze 2015 King Of The Mountain on tap
NITWIT BELGIAN STRONG ALE Banjo-Dawg RCE bottled
DAWG LB PALE ALE bottled
CITRA SLAPPED AMBER ALE bottle
MO FREEDOM SMaSH bottle
HOP TO IT IMPERIAL IPA bottle
Funny you post that Ron, I was thinking to myself yesterday that it's time to brew it again.
Hoping today to keg a cider that I made back in September. OG was 1.067? or a little higher (hydrometer bottomed out in the tube, got lazy and didn't get the other one), FG is at 0.996. So it's north of 9% is scary smooth and drinks like slight apple flavored water.
Also checked the FG on my RIS I brewed two weeks ago. OG of 1.105 and it's at 1.028 as of yesterday, so about 10%. I'll check it next week and if it's still there I'll rack it to a keg for extensive secondary conditioning until December or later. If the sample I tasted is an indication of the finished product, it's gonna be pretty darn good.
Naked Cat Brewery On Tap
Yazoo Sue Smoked Porter
Octoberfest
Le Petite Saison
Czech Pale Lager
A Toast to Big Fuzzy Russian Imperial Stout at 10%
Belgian Blond
Flower Power IPA
4 Kilts Clueless Belgian Strong
One Wort Two Yeast with Wyeast 2206
One Wort Two Yeast with WLP940
Shipwreck Saison
Up Next: FedoraDave's American Ale Fermenting/Conditioning Natural 20 Pale Ale -- Bull Terrier Best Bitter -- King Duncan's Porter -- Schöenwald Schwarzbier -- Littlejohn's Ale Drinking: Crown Top Pale Ale
Just finished brewing up a batch of Saison with ginger. Kinda different, 3 step mash (109 F, 143 F, then 153 F), and many additions late in the boil of freshly grated ginger. Once it's cooled down a bit more, gonna pitch my last pack of Danstar Belle Saison yeast in the fermenter.
Drinking: Columbus Double India Pale Ale Bottled/Conditioning: Trippel Fermenting: Columbus Double India Pale Ale, Trippel
Fermenting
Nothing Conditioning
Nothing Drinking 58. Choco Brown 60. Etcitra, Etcitra 61. Bubs' Pale Wheat Xtra 62. Ottoberfest Brew Queue
ROAR! Bacon
Bombay
Saint Sebastian Tripel
Bubs' Pale Ale
Well I brought my second Berliner to a boil Friday evening, it's fermenting away. I'm so stupid though, forgot to take an OG lol, that's what I get for inviting my buddy over to help brew and having a couple of beers during the process.
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is you can never be sure if they are true." - Walt Whitman
2nd generation batch of MB Quiet Kreek Kolsch...1.0482 OG @ 2.5 gallons. I enjoyed the first batch & so did SWMBO, so this one is for her. Should be a nice 4.8% lawnmower beer come July or August.
L8r T8r
Fermenting: Quiet Kreek Kolsch Deaux, First Pitch Pilsner Ale Trois
Conditioning: Nut Brown Vienna Lager Ale, PilotHouse Pilsner, Johnny Silk's ESB 4th gen, Blue Moon Clone Trois, Fallen Friar Deaux, Arizona Country Canadian Draft Deaux
Drinking & Sharing: Rose's Rambling Red, Blue Moon Deaux, Ruck & Maul Red, American Devil Indian Pale Ale, Quiet Creek Kolsch, Northwest Pale Ale, Golden Czech Pils, Beach Babe Blonde, Grand Bohemian Czech Pils Trois, Diablo IPA+, Columbus Cascading Amber Ale, High Country Gold Lager Ale,
Just finished bottling a 5er of my Bengal in the Rye
"Filled with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain
-- Quaintest thoughts -- Queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
Who cares how time advances?
I am drinking ale today."
Bottling up the summer seasonal (yes, from 2013). Then, while the wife is on vacation, will be brewing up an all grain version of my Clutter Buster all nugget brew to use up some hops poundage I've acquired. Reason I have waited this long to try it as an all grain is it is one of SWMBOs favorites, so if I mess it up I can just call it something different and replace it with a quickie extract batch. Shhhhhhhh....
Silverleaf Vineyard & Winery / Old Mission Hops Exchange / Porchside Vineyard / The North York Brewing Company
Since I have some Wyeast 1007, Pilsener, 6-row, Munich and Chocolate malts, I think I might put together a Northern German Altbier... Probably have some Horizon I could use for bittering... Might lay a touch of Saaz or Tettenager in near the end just to give it a bit more character...
