BeerBorg

The pipeline is getting pretty thin at the house. Kegged another batch of Smooth Rye'd IPA last night. The hydrometer sample was delicious... I transferred the beer into a secondary last week for a dry-hop with Amarilllo & Simcoe hops.

Just brewed a 2.5 gal BIAB Blonde Ale in an LBK the yeast are doing a outstanding job.

joechianti wrote:I enjoyed the Founders Breakfast Stout I recently discovered so much, so I tried to recreate it from stuff I had on hand. Really looking forward to this one. Tomorrow, a gallon of wine will join it as cooler roommates.

That was going to be my previous project until I realized I just didnt have the time/ingredients so brewed my CHAOS IPA instead. Let me know how it turns out as I love that stuff (as does the oldest).

Made a batch of hard cider. Only my 2nd one but it's my first one in a long time. I read online about using Tettnanger hops in a cider and since I had only about a quarter ounce of some left, I figured I would use them up with this.

Mashed in on Saison d'Olivia! Zest of one blood orange went into the mash

Working on washing my saison yeast so I can run it up on the stir plate again. Hopefully I will have enough for a 5 gallon batch first of the week.

FrozenInTime wrote:Working on washing my saison yeast so I can run it up on the stir plate again. Hopefully I will have enough for a 5 gallon batch first of the week.

did you brew that dupont clone?!

Heating the strike water for a 5er of my MPA

I'm brewing up another 1.5 gallon batch of my "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" imperial stout. But I revisited the recipe that I stole mine from and am starting from scratch with the "tweaks" that I have made. And I am officially all done using spigots in my brew and bottling buckets. They're just too hard to get clean and I think that in the attempt to get them as clean as I feel they need to be I have put some scratches in them and they are causing my beers to become infected. So from now on I am using my auto siphon with a bottling wand at the end of it to bottle my beers. It might take a little getting use to but I'm sick and tired of dumping beers.

I bottled the Tennessee Cream Ale this morning, then went to the LHBS to pick up the ingredients for tomorrow's batch of Bit O' Bitter. I decided to switch the amounts of Maris Otter and 2-Row, hoping to make the recipe a little different, and maybe more English, who knows? It's a good recipe, and I'll have a nice, light, flavorful session beer out of it. That much I know.

Kegged 15 g batch of my NORTH PORT PILS. Used 1/2 barrel sanke, what a pain to fill, it's converted to ball locks, tried thru beer side and gas side w/o the check valve, finally gave up and pulled the spear and used racking cane.

Just bottled 5 gallons of a Jalapeño Pale Ale. It was an attempt to clone a local brewery's magnificent version (Birdsong Brewing Jalapeno Pale Ale). The hydro sample was outstanding. Fingers crossed that it tastes just as good, or better, after a few weeks of conditioning...

racked Saison d'Olivia onto blood orange juice. pretty nifty pinkish red color goin on now!

I bottled a batch of my Bengal in the Rye that I added half a lb. of light oak chips and left for 12 days. from the sample the CC is as I expected however not as oaky as I'd hoped. This was a 2.5 gal batch done in an LBK. I am hopeful that the oak flavor will come thru after conditioning a while. Is it a "forlorn hope"?

since the Borg will be down tomorrow , I'll be brewing a 2.5 gal batch of my CC