I am brewing a Bohemian Pilsner right now. Sparging at the moment

I'll be doing a pale ale to use up some of last year's Cascade harvest.

Sounds good Denny. How many diff varieties of hops do you grow? I have never tried as I kill every plant I touch.

Just Cascades and I'm damn glad that's all I've got to deal with! I harvested 27 lb. wet from one plant last year and it looks like I'll have at least that much this year. Well, I do also have a Nugget plant that I neglect because I want it to die, but the sucker just keeps on going!

Planning a Witbier, By the time it's ready, our second daughter should be here and my wife will be able to drink again. She loves the wheat beers for some reason.

ESB, with Halcyon malt (trying it for the first time).

This weekend I'm going to continue to step up a series of starters for my Ridiculous Russian Imperial Stout. The RRIS will be brewed on July 11th. Est OG is 1.158.

Denny- Killing the Nugget in a hop shortage?

I just don't like Nuggets, hop shortage or not. No point making beer if ya don't like what ya make, huh?

I guess, how about as a bitter hop? I like nugget in my american stout.

It's just not worth the effort. I planted them in a bad spot originally, so even if I let them grow I'd get a poor yield. And I just don't need them. My single Cascade plant yields more than I can use in a year.

Cool, just wanted to give a bad time for killing hops

Making a RyeIPA saturday. Brew #2 on the new set up. I'll be with about twenty friends, all brewing. We should put out over fifty gallons if everyone shows.

Won't do the same hops as Denny's. I have a few pounds of hops to use up......lots of Horizon, Cascades, few pounds of EKGs, Saaz and Styrian Goldings. Gonna get a gallon of slurry from the brewery tomorrow.

TimO

Brewing an APA tomorrow with a few friends.

16 minutes left in the boil. Always relaxing to brew on a day off from work and enjoy some tasters during the brew session!

i;m brewing this 4 day weekend but just don't know what i'm going to brew yet. It depends on if my lastest specialty grains get here for Dennys Rye IPA or if I decide to do a belgian.

Just picked up a sack of Belgian Pils. Next Saturday gonna brew up a BDSA and who knows what after that. Definitely a few saisons to get me thru the summer.

Thinking about doing a CAP... We'll see how the weekend goes...

Brewing an IPA tomorrow, and hopefully a Cream ale and APA before the end of the weekend.

Denny, I read your post and laughed because mine sounds very similar. I am trying my first all grain APA with the last of my cascades I grew last year ( I have about 8 oz left). I am also kegging/bottling a Wit that I made several weeks ago.

Brewing Denny's RyeIPA this weekend. Got all the extra stuff I needed in the mail today.

I'll work up a pale with some 2-row and munich and like others, using up the excess homegrown hops from the freezer. I recently downloaded the promash trial so I'll play with that to come up with a recipe that sounds good given the malts I currently have in stock.

Just putting together a Pale ale recipe for tomorrow.

Planning on another American Hopped ESB and a light/traditional Saison this weekend.

mnstorm99, haven't used Halcyon in an ESB but it did very well in the 80/- I made so it should do alright, not quite as flavorful as MO but still a good British malt.

american lager in the morning. got it all set up tonight so all i have to do is wake up, itch my sack and light the burner...sounds like a 1980s yuban coffee commercial.

happy brewing boys.

I'm doing my first 10 gal batch in my new larger cooler MT and Keggle. Using the Biergarten Pilsner recipe from Mayfair Court with a Czech Pilsner yeast in one carboy and going with a German Pilsner yeast in the other. Now if I just had another stir plate for both starters, I wouldn't have to alternate.

got up at 5am this morning and i'm now rocking the jason f. boil down. and let me tell you, there's nothing like the smell of unadorned base malt bubbling away over a hot flame.

it's going to be a scorcher here in portland today and the SWMBO is going to be pissed that i heated up the house by doing the boil down in the kitchen. a price i'm willing to pay.

happy independence day fellas!

Brewed Nearly Nirvana Yesterday.. one hop addition in the recipe called for .5 oz at FO. Being me.. I couldnt see any reason why it shouldnt be 1 full rounded eyeballed ounce
I have some Oberon yeast culturing up for Tuesdays brew.

Dedication Brew to my almost-late Grandmother-In-Law. Very ill....

Making this ->

60% Pils Malt
20% Rye
20% Munich

Hops - Columbus for bitter/flavor/aroma, Amarillo Dry...

Beer to be light in color, flowery, with some spice.

Thoughts?

Happy 4th Yall!

--FB

Almost the same grain bill as the IPA I'm drinking right now (I used Belgian Pale instead of Pils) and it's pretty solid. Zeus for bittering, then a ton of Cascade and Centennial spread over the last 15 minutes, one keg got Zeus + Amarillo (I think this is my favorite keg hop combo now) the other I'm drinking now got Cascade. So, I think your plan sounds pretty good, sorry about your Grandmother-In-Law.

Well, I got called into work today, so no brewing for me like I'd planned.

Thanks Boonie, she was called in at around 18:15 EDT. Quick viewing today, now brewing tomorrow evening.

Never tried Zeus, very interested in the results.

Frank, Zeus and Columbus are the same hop by a different name. Identical DNA.

No brewing for me, but I did do some beer related stuff.
1: Kegged 10 Gallons of smoked Helles Lager
2: Moved 10 Gallons of Westcoast Dubbel
3: Racked 10 Gallons of DC's RyeIPA
Sad to think that I am now out of room