BeerBorg

Nothing... got rained out.

Bottled BrewDemon Evil Pilsner. Actually went smoothly. I used a new autosiphon, a short one, about 14". It works much better in small batches than the big one did.

Love this time of year especially since I started the outdoor brewing. First time I have done 2 in one day. First was a pretty involved Pumpkin Ale that included my firsh mash and a MB recipe for a coffee stout where I added steeping grains.

It feels great to be brewing again. Wanted to brew yesterday but things came up and wasn't able to so finally today got to do a batch after dinner. I did an altered version of jpsherman's "Sara is My Honey Ale" since I had no booster. This was also my first chance to use my new hydrometer and QBrew. They matched each other up perfectly. With the last 2 days being as hectic as they were, I was expecting some problems but had none.

Just bottled my Kentucky common, and had a real heck of a brain fart when I did. I made my priming solution and let it cool. But when I poured it into the beer, I poured it right into the fermenter instead of emptying the fermenter into a bottling bucket and then adding the priming solution to the beer. So some of the beers got a little bit of trub in them, but it's not too bad. I didn't go nuts blending the solution into the beer so the trub didn't break up much (also so as not to aerate it), and I had cold crashed for a few days so most of it was nicely compacted at the bottom.

Now I'm brewing the WheatOberfest, and I just finished the decoction. Temp in the mash tun dropped lower than I wanted so I had to add a quart n a half of boiling water to get it to 150.

I bottled one of my 2 LBC's worth of the WLP500 "patersbier dubbel" I made. The other one I can't say is done yet... need to wait a couple more days and check again.

This is really weird, because I split a 1200ML starter between the two batches. It was a direct pitch right off the stir plate, so the yeast should have been all suspended somewhat equally.

One of them went nuts and the other one fermented in a totally lazy manner.

Just finished brewing some coffee. Later today I will have finished Brewing a Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad clone.

Going to bottle up my 4 Point Pale Ale this afternoon.

Brewed my Yukon Cornelius Winter Warmer today.

Bottled a Great South Bay Blonde Ambition Clone today. It went well.

I brewed a true 2.5 gallon batch of Northern English Brown Ale. With Fuggles. It's in my LBC. We shall see if it explodes, but I think I have enough headspace that I'll be ok.

Bottled a 2.5 gallon batch of BrewDemon's brown ale concoction yesterday, and today I'm gonna brew up the RCE recipe k9dude and I worked out. Pretty simple blonde ale, but should be tasty. It's a 2.5 gallon batch, too, and I'll be doing BIAB, since it's all grain, but smaller.

Old Yeller Blonde Ale
Munich - 5 lb.
Biscuit - 1/4 lb.
Hallertau - 1/4 oz - 60 minutes
Hallertau - 1/2 oz - 22 minutes
Hallertau - 1/4 oz - 7 minutes

Gonna dry hop 1/4 oz later on, too.

I'm also going to rack the South Ferry Steam Beer to a secondary during the 60 minute BIAB rest, so I can dry hop before I bottle it next weekend.

Todays NONG Brew: IPA
AG 60 min boil
2 Row US Pale Malt...10 # Mash
Cara-Pils 8oz ... steep
cara-Hell 8 oz...steep
cara-Munich 1..steep
Citra.... .75oz... 60 min
citra.... .25oz... 20 min
cascade. .5oz .. 20 min
cascade. .5oz.. zero min
Irish moss at 15 min
Lallemand Nottingham Dry Ale yeast (washed...)

Bottled my Pumpkin Ale last night. Really looking forward to it, tasted great out of the fermenter. Will have my first real taste around Thanksgiving.