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Oops Brewdemon not beer deamon

Brewing up an Oktoberfest Ale. I don't have the equipment or the patience to do a proper lager, so WLP036 Dusseldorf Alt yeast it is.

Bottled 5 gallons of White House Honey Porter, helped the neighbor bottle his first two - West Coast Pale Ale and Classic American Light, then provided advice while he brewed Bewitched Amber Ale with smooth LME and Northwest Pale Ale. Tomorrow morning I plan on brewing 5 gallons of Mackinac Island Red.

Edit - Mackinac Island Red is in the kegs.

The x-gf of my son, just dropped off the last of his stuff he wasn't able to get upon the departure. (she has to move and doesn't want to haul it around).
She dropped off a gift I got them over a year ago. It was 2 MB kegs, Hydrometer, sample tube, High Country Canadian Draft.
So, as he is camping with the possibly contaminated with chicken pox (which I've never had but been exposed to Long Long ago) grandkidletts, I decided to mix it up... you recall how LONG it takes to do... wait a sec... ok, it's done, for him and let him have a go at it.
I did get lazy tho.. I just made it strait up.. no additions.

15 minute dubbel is bottled. Wish I had kegs. It tasted ready to drink if carbed...

Taking another run at a brown ale I'll be pleased to call Trilby and add to the rotation of house brews. Not a completely revamped recipe, but I scaled a lot of the specialty grains down or else I eliminated them. Trying a new yeast with this; Mangrove Jack's Newcastle Dark Ale yeast. I've used their West Coast yeast for some batches, and I liked it.

Kegged a batch of Double Black IPA while mashing a batch of Amarillo Pale Ale.

Ok, the brew day from HECK. Everything I picked up I dropped, if it wasn't dropped it was because I couldn't find it to begin with, every direction I turned was wrong. The only saving grace was I hit all my numbers. Tried a lot of firsts with my electric system.
First 11 gallon BIAB with this system, first time using my Chugger pump while brewing, first time whirl pooling.

The worts in the fridge, waiting to get to 65*(at 69* now). I'll the oxygenate the heck out of it and pitch a pint of WLP007 slurry into each from the Levitation clone I just transferred to secondary on 2oz of Amarillo.

Sometimes it's crap, sometimes it's not. But in the long run, every brew day is a learning day.
We can only take what we've learned and move on to the next one.

Levitation is next up on my radar.

Here's a few pictures from today. That's my grand dog Erro in the back ground. 11 gallons for the fermenters.

Where's the rum? In the Lowes bucket?

My plan is to ferment the beer out in buckets. Then transfer to the barrel with 6-7 vanilla beans soaked in 2 cups of good rum and add it all to the barrel, age to taste before kegging.

That's the plan anyway. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Sorry to hear about the rough day, but I'm sure all will turn out ok. When I goof on something I just remember that people have been brewing for centuries without the tools and sanitizing that we do now and it worked for them. Of course, most of those civilizations are now gone....hmm......

I'm crashing my 15-minute Marris Otter Pale Ale and will bottle it tomorrow. I haven't bottled in a while now so I'm sure I'm going to f-something up from just being out of practice.

Sunday the plan is to do 11 gallon batch of North Port Pils with ale yeast again for tailgating at Browns games, (since it took a bronze recently and I have none left), also going to throw together a 4.5 g batch of Extractly That!, to try my hand at a lager, while I'm doing the full on brew. It will consist of Amber, Pilsen Light and Muntons Plain Light DME and some steeped carapils not sure which hops yet.

The Question is, with DME does the boil need to be the full 60 minutes or can it be cut back to 45 or so?

Beach Babe Blond recipe from Mr.Beer.