What's everybody doing for National home brew day

[onetoeddogbrewery]

This Saturday is national home brew day. Anybody got anything special planned?


prestige worldwide, bungs and holes

 

[tarpit]

Drinking homebrew before my best buddies wedding.


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[LLBeanJ]

I'll be brewing a Traditional Bock and consuming a fair amount homebrew.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

LHBS is having a competition/tasting and a few brewers on hand.
First competition, looking forward to it. Should be fun.

 

[mtnagel]

Brewing with my home brew club at our local brewery. Have done it the last couple years. They give us pre-acidified, preheated mashing water and free yeast. Good times.

 

[Homercidal]

Flipping pancakes for my daughter's High School Band Boosters' Annual Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser. Come on out!

After that, at about noon, I'll be driving to a nearby town to brew beer and eat food and drink homebrew with the starting members of our local homebrew club.

Not sure if I'll be brewing my own beer this time. I've been very busy lately and might not have time to formulate a recipe and get everything together. It would make a nice opp. to brew, though.

Eh, maybe I'll try putting a recipe together at work today and see how it goes.

 

[bigken462]

Sadly tomorrow I will be missing it all. But I do get to work on my Birthday while seeing everyone else talk about National Homebrew Day. lol

Ya'll have fun. Enjoy a few cold pints for me. :-(

 

[unionrdr]

I'll be brewing an ESB if I can get some more spring water today. Got the jugs sanitized & ready to go after I take my son to work.

 

[boydster]

I'm brewing a dry stout and another batch of my Lawnmower Blonde. My oldest son wants to help out and learn the process, should be fun.

 

[Beer-lord]

Can't brew this weekend but I certainly can drink so that's how I'll be celebrating.

 

[vikingbrewer70]

Gonna be brewing a light American ale with my girlfriend who loves this brewing thing


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[ShineOn]

Was planning to brew up a nice Summer Ale but THAT got poopcanned

Going to be tearing down a screen building from around my sister's pool and drinking some of my Wheat Ale

 

[unionrdr]

Heated steeping water,but 1 gallon boiled in 15 minutes. gotta wait for it to coll down now. Brewing an ESB today.

 

[Snowden]

Going to transfer a batch of cider to a secondary, and organize my brewing equipment per SWMBO's orders!


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[Sock]

My very first Pilsner, of the German variety! WOOT

 

[onetoeddogbrewery]

My first time brewing away from home at the lhbs with the guys from karbach brewery who donating the yeast and 2 row malt. Great day so far


prestige worldwide, bungs and holes

 

[unionrdr]

Getting close to time for my flavor & aroma hop additions on my ESB. I'll have both fermenters full,albeit a week apart this evening. :rockin:

 

[Hoppity]

My ESB is waiting to pitch. Driveway clear and car in garage. Best part of Brew Day: clean up is done!

 

[onetoeddogbrewery]

So brewery brought 165 gallons of water @ 160*ish water for everybody to use. Fastest brew day ever/ easiest clean up ever. Cleaned up equipment in record time. All in all great national homebrew day.


prestige worldwide, bungs and holes

 

[chuckcomm]

Brewed an extract Weizen....sure looks and smells tasty

 

[kaconga]

Just finished sparging my wee heavy! Hit all my numbers so far. About to switch over propane tanks I think.

 

[Zuljin]

Well shoot. I mean, if it's "the" day and all, and I've got yeast from Nor Cal, guess I'll brew a sour.

 

[brewkinger]

5.5 gallons of SNPA clone

5.5 gallons of Regal Pale Ale (AHA recipe)

1.5 gallons of final runnings from other 2 batches and some light DME to bring gravity up to par. (Can't waste good sugars RIGHT??)

Had fun and made beer... (to be concluded in about 5 wks)

 

[Zuljin]

Is that a Grackle?

 

[bob1852]

It's May 7th already?

 

[masskrug]

I was up at 5 AM Eastern brewing a Golden Ale:


Golden Ale - American IPA (14B)
Date 5/3/14
Batch Size 5.813 gal Boil Size 6.938 gal
Boil Time 60.000 min Efficiency 80%
OG 15.1 P FG 3.9 P
ABV 6.0% Bitterness 54.8 IBU (Tinseth)
Color 5.0 srm (Morey) Calories (per 12 oz.) 204
Fermentables

Total grain: 11.875 lb
Name Type Amount Mashed Late Yield Color
Briess - 2 Row Brewers Malt Grain 10.000 lb Yes No 80% 2.0 srm
Sugar, Table (Sucrose) Sugar 10.000 oz No Yes 100% 1.0 srm
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L Grain 8.000 oz Yes No 75% 20.0 srm
Cara-Pils/Dextrine Grain 8.000 oz Yes No 72% 2.0 srm
Weyermann - Acidulated Malt Grain 4.000 oz Yes No 80% 3.2 srm
Hops

Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU
Cascade 6.0% 0.500 oz Boil 60.000 min Pellet 9.2
Centennial 10.5% 0.500 oz Boil 60.000 min Pellet 16.0
Cascade 6.0% 1.500 oz Boil 10.000 min Pellet 10.0
Centennial 10.5% 1.500 oz Boil 10.000 min Pellet 17.4
Cascade 6.0% 1.000 oz Boil 1.000 min Pellet 0.8
Centennial 10.5% 1.000 oz Boil 1.000 min Pellet 1.4
Chinook 13.0% 2.000 oz Dry Hop 7.000 day Pellet 0.0
Misc

Name Type Use Amount Time
Whirlfloc Fining Boil 0.000 tsp 5.000 min
Campden Tablet Water Agent Mash 0.000 tsp 0.000 s
Gypsum Water Agent Mash 0.359 cup 0.000 s

Yeast
Name Type Form Amount Stage
Safale S-05 Ale Dry 2.232 tsp Primary

Mash
Name Type Amount Temp Target Temp Time
Conversion Step, 68C Infusion 5.000 gal 169.543 F 152.000 F 8.000 hr
Final Batch Sparge Infusion 4.500 gal 186.264 F 170.000 F 15.000 min
Instructions

Add 10.000 lb Briess - 2 Row Brewers Malt, 8.000 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine, 4.000 oz Weyermann - Acidulated Malt, 8.000 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L, to the mash tun.
Bring 5.000 gal water to 169.543 F, 4.500 gal water to 186.264 F for upcoming infusions.
Add 5.000 gal water at 169.543 F to mash to bring it to 152.000 F. Hold for 8.000 hr.
Add 4.500 gal water at 186.264 F to mash to bring it to 170.000 F. Hold for 15.000 min.
Bring the wort to a boil and hold for 60.000 min.
Put 0.500 oz Centennial into boil for 60.000 min.
Put 0.500 oz Cascade into boil for 60.000 min.
Put 1.500 oz Centennial into boil for 10.000 min.
Put 1.500 oz Cascade into boil for 10.000 min.
Put 0.000 tsp Whirlfloc into boil for 5.000 min.
Put 1.000 oz Centennial into boil for 1.000 min.
Put 1.000 oz Cascade into boil for 1.000 min.
Add 10.000 oz Sugar, Table (Sucrose), to the boil at knockout.
Stop boiling the wort.
You should have 5.891 gal wort post-boil. You anticipate losing 2.000 cup to trub and chiller loss. The final volume in the primary is 5.766 gal.
Cool wort and pitch Safale S-05 Ale yeast, to the primary.
Let ferment until FG is 1.015.
Put 2.000 oz Chinook into fermenter for 7.000 day.

 

[GrogNerd]

finally brewing my Grodziskie, 1/2way thru the 2-hour boil, just added 1st of 2 hops additions

several blow-outs in my immersion chiller, so we're going no-chill on this one, pitch in the morning

 

[dbcbrews]

Brewing 2 batches of IPA with my daughter and grandson.


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[bnairuni87]

Brewed a sour IPA

 

[boydster]

Finished the boil on the stout about 10 minutes ago. I now have a blonde ale in a bucket and the stout in the kettle. Both will no-chill tonight and I'll pitch yeast tomorrow. Good brew day. My son got his feet wet and seems like he enjoyed the process.

 

[brewkinger]

Is that a Grackle?

Brewer's Blackbird

 

[Hello]

Brewed my first IPA at my LHBS. Went well even though I didn't come away with as much beer as I had hoped.

 

[brewkinger]

I almost forgot... The first shipment of the Bubba's Barrels / Big Poppa Smoker came today.

It is finally sinking in that I won this amazing prize.

Thanks again HBT and all the great sponsors!! This place rocks!


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[unionrdr]

I got my ESB in the fermenter last night. The re-hydrated S-04 started fermenting sometime in the wee hours overnight. My Irish red's been in the FV a week today,& is finishing up with the occasional bubble. Nice to have both fermenters full again! And having my new bottling table set up will definitely speed things up on bottling day soon.

 

[dbcbrews]

Brewing 2 batches of IPA with my daughter and grandson.


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