Finally, a chance to dust off the mash tun after a 2 month hiatus. I'll be brewing my house pale ale.

I will.

A Northern English brown ale.

Last week was my award winning old ale.

Next week will be an oatmeal stout.

The week after that will be a black IPA.

Been brewing like mad to enjoy the fourth. Made an Am. pale ale for the family,should be close to ready,but the dubbel and oat stout will diffinetly be ready...and all for me!!!

British Bitter and an American Amber Ale. The Black IPA sounds interesting. Is that a regular IPA with some chocolate or patent malt in it to darken it up?

I would use Carafa II for a Black IPA. It's dehusked and is alot smoother than chocolate or patent.

Or Sinamar...it's easier to use becasue you can just pour it in the kettle til you get the color you want.

My first attempt at a rye IPA if I'm not doing anything else.

I'm probably gonna brew an APAish sorta thing using the Hopshot I got from NB.

IPA and American Brown Ale using Denny's yeast.

Unfortunately no, I will be writing an evidence based practice paper on advanced airway techniques...shouldn't have waited to the last minute. But I will be brewing an IPA with Denny's yeast on 7/12!

Denny, please do report on the Hopshot - a couple of guys in our club tried it, and had mixed reviews.

No brewing for me, but I'll be consuming fine craft brews at the Minocqua Brewing Company in the lovely Northwoods of Wisconsin. I might even try to sweet-talk them out of some fresh slurry . . .

My traditional RIS using WL007

Will do, jmo. I'm curious, though....mixed reviews in what sense? Didn't it bitter like it was supposed to?

No brewing for me. I'll be around plenty of alcohol Friday night as the idiots in NW Dallas celebrate the birth of our country by drinking, hitting their wives, shooting guns into the air and crashing into one another. Everybody have a safe fourth and be careful out there.

Thanks dad.

no brewing, only consuming...might help a buddy with a brew in the morning but...

whats a hopshot?

"whats a hopshot?"
Sounds illegal, but really, whats a hopshot?

I will be brewing without a hopshot and I will not shot my guns in the air.

I take it you're working that night Robert? Be careful, hope you're not out on many calls.

Robert, I had my first (and maybe last) experience in Deep Elum last Saturday. I know you said NW, but do you ever work over in that area?

Not on the 4th, but on the 3rd, doing Russian River's house IPA (recipe from Vinnie). Also kegging the much discussed, formerly stuck fermented Pliney clone. Gonna be a good day.

The 4th - going to the Del Mar Fair. MMmmmmm, deep fried twinkies...

Gonna nail out another Rye Wit (Thanks Denny) and a basic pale ale...

Ooohh... I have a vial of Belgian Wit. Recipe please?

Yeah, Deep Ellum used to be great for live music and I think there was also a brewpub down there. Now it's all thug clubs. I worked it on weekends a couple of times just so they'd have some extra manpower down there. Hey Cody, got ant good hospital fireworks stories. I have some about seized fireworks, but gotta wait till the statute of limitations is up on them.

Getting ready for our September Oktoberfest party. Working through 5 beers: Oktoberfest (of course), Kolsch, Amer. Amber, Porter, and Hefe.

Brewed the O-fest last week and hopefully will brew the Kolsch in two weeks.

Eug - do the "Brew Moon" happy dance . . .

6 lbs. 2-row
1.5 lb. white wheat malt
1 lb. honey malt
.5 lb. aromatic
.5 lb. quick oats, pre-cooked

6 whole peppercorns (10 min. left in boil)
.5 oz orange zest (10 min. left in boil)
6 whole peppercorns (FO)
.5 oz orange zest (FO)
(I usually use crushed coriander too, but was fresh out this last time)

1 oz. Spalt pellets (2%) (FWH)
1 oz. Spalt pellets (2%) (60 min.)

WLP400 (1 cup slurry)

mashed @ 151* for 60 min, batch sparged to collect 6 gallons - still chugging away in the low 70's. I've made this about 7 times, and it's the one that gets requested the most.


Denny - yeah, more details would have been helpful. One of the guys tasted the contents of the hopshot (durp) . . . hence the unfavorable review . . . no tasting reports on the final product yet . . . but they did brew identical batches with and without, so I'm anxious for the side-by-side test.

A Hopshot is new product that Northern Brewer is considering carrying, so they sent out samples to a group of people to test. It's a syringe filled with 50 ml. of unisomerized hop extract. Using the whole 50 ml in a 1.050 beer adds 50 IBU to the beer. Can also be used for flavor or aroma.

. . . and, apparently, should not be squirted on your tongue.

Denny,

That will be interesting to see how that turns out. Let us know the results.

I'll be brewing a german hefe and having a new-brewer buddy watch the all-grain process. If I do it right, we'll have another batch sparge brewer out there soon.

Would the hopshot reduce boil times, or is it just a replacement for whole/pellet hops?

It's not isomerized, so your boil time remain the same. Although, going from a 60 min. boil to a 90 min. boil supposedly increases the utilization of it by 10%.

They used to sell hop extract in little bottles from a particuler type of hops. You could use it
they said to bump up your IBUS if you needed or put a drop or two in your glass before pouring your beer. What happen to that stuff, I havent seen it addvertised in many years?

Not brewing over the 4th but will be racking a Tripel tonight.

Going down to the beach for the weekend and definitely will be getting a few growlers full of Pelican for the weekend. Have to leave for SF on Sunday so I wont be brewing again for a couple of weeks.

We'll be brewing a Wit and a Belgian Pale Ale on Sunday. That will probably be the last of the brewing for the summer.

Doing my first Koelsch (if the yeast gets here!)

ordered on Sunday. (along with Denny's favorite) hope to see it soon!

Jim are you going to use 2575 K-II yeast?

If it gets here! Otherwise I'll be using the regular 2765 (?) koelsch yeast

Jim, breack out your blow off tube you are gonna need it,unless you use a bucket. Mine's almost ready for the fridg. Smells yeasty but looks th' part. I did 3 lbs pils(Weyer) and 3.5 Bohemian Pils (weyer the last of the bag, why not?)
And thanks, to Dan and Brewerbob for showing me the real way(or so I've read and don't dout) 3.5 gals. Mittel to bitter and flav
Spaltz to, well 10 mins.
Good brewing Jim,
Matthew

I somehow messed up an American Wheat that I made for my dad, it tastes like strawberries, so maybe I'll enlist his help in a new batch. I'd like to blow some shit up too but I haven't had time to shop for fireworks.

OK thanks jmo! I'll swing by the LHBS an pick up the honey and aromatic or is it essential?

And I got Sterling, Perle and Cascade. Perle would be the logical choice IMHO.

Maybe some rye too...?

Possibly doing my Munich and Simcoe IPA. But I'm definitely cooking ribs and then consuming them all while drinking, so the beer may wait until Saturday.

This past batch was my first try with honey malt - before that, it was regular honey, so I can't comment on the difference, but I'm looking forward to tasting it. I think aromatic was a 'what the hell' that I've just stuck with - it's so small, you probably wouldn't notice if it wasn't there.

I have used Sterling with this recipe with good results - I'm sure the others would be cool. And I like the rye idea . . . I always have flaked rye on hand . . . hmmmmm . . .

I'm going to use some of my left over Orange blossom homey(1lb) from my mead and add it to my
tried and true Kolsch recipe for a Honey Kolsch. Using the Wyeast Kolsch(forgot number). Last
time I used the White Labs product. I'm leaving out the wheat this time and just using 100% Weyermann Pilsner malt.
Everybody in homebrew nation have a fun and safe 4th!!

Peace,
Tom

Matthew, the difference is that the stuff you're talking about is isomerized. The Hopshots are unisomerized and need to be boiled for bitterness.

Yeah I caught that after I posted,Denny. I think I'm gonna start reading posts three times,
twice aint gettin' it

3 times doesn't always work for me!

I'm gonna have myself a California Common going on Friday. Any hints/tips I ought to know about?

"3 times doesn't always work for me!"

Just remember kids, after three times it is just playing with it

Drinking, yes. Brewing, no. Too hot right now in my fermentation area to brew or I would probably get another batch going. I really need to make some room in the garage for a fermentation fridge.

My dubbel is carbonated enough after almost three weeks in the bottle that I'm going to break out some of that at the BBQ I'm going to. It still needs another week or so to fully carbonate but it is close enough to share with others. The BBQ is at the home of a fellow brewer and he has lots of good stuff on tap too.

Brewing yes two stouts and pale I have three days, start early each day so can run my tap at the BBQ
Nothing like Home brew beers /BBQ and night full of fireworks
Happy 4th you all

I haven't worked out a recipe yet but I'm planning on trying to push the limits of my MT this 4th and try a parti-gyle session.

My thought is to try something of a bastard Triple with the first runnings (5 gallons) and the latter as a good old American Steam...er... Californina Common (10 Gallons). Both styles should deal well with the slightly higher temp in my fermentation closet these days.

Bob G, are you sure it's three times?

Just finished about an hour ago. 21 gallons at 1068 of the House IPA in the conical. Phew.

Happy 4th, all.

I brewed 10.5 gallons of "Genesee My Butt" last night. That is one clean looking beer. I split it between 2035 yeast and the new Kolsch yeast.

Mashed in about 15 min. ago.

7 lb. GW 2 row pale
3 lb. GW Munich 10L
3.5 lb. MFB Special Aromatic
.5 lb. crystal 60
Hopshot
.5 oz. Summit 10 min.
1 oz. Summit 0 min.
WY2450

My yeast is still somewhere in Tennessee! Sigh!

Just piddlin around today. Racked my Amarillo Pale Ale into a keg, adding honey into my "honey ale" experiment.

No brewing for me today.

The beer is flowing though. We just finished cleaning up Hayward Field where the Olympic Track Trials are going on in Eugene. It was a nice fund raiser for my kids swim team. Three hours work, 50 people $1,500 bucks.

I hope to be brewing a Belgian Golden Strong in the near future!

Finishing up the boil on my traditional RIS. Smells good. I'll be presenting this beer to the Chico Homebrew Club for possible entry in the competition at the NCHFX . I like the fact that it represents the club and not me....I'm a shy wallflower just ask anybody

I'm serving "American Red Independence Ale" at the family bbq this evening. It's a h oppy red ale, that I should have dryhopped, but that has a great hop flavor.

Brewed an IPA and American Brown Ale yesterday, both with Denny's yeast. Both beers are rocking along. They are fermenting around 62 degrees.

I've got four beers on tap, nine kegs in waiting and my parents are in town for the holiday. Looks like I'll be drinking.

Doug

Did my house Oatmeal Stout, using Denny's yeast for the first time in this recipe. (pint of slurry from the red ale done a couple weeks ago.) After 10 hours it's pushing stuff out of the blow-off tube already. MMMM!
griz

Nothing yesterday but today I brewed up 11 gallons of Flanders Red and 15 of Berliner Weisse. Drinking my first Boon Geuze now that I'm all tired out.

Brewed a Belgian Blonde Ale yesterday, which is feverishly fermenting away, and I am currently mashing in grains for a Dogfish Head Indian Brown Clone.

All the while enjoying some of my Toasted Coconut Porter.

Doesn't get any better than this...

Just finished cleaning up after doing Denny's Rye Wit... Hit all my numbers except what made it into the fermenter, just under .25 Gal short...

If you like Rye and Wit's then you should try this one.... It's been requested for repeat several times now... Once again Thanks DC.