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Posted: 10/17/2011 3:43:57 PM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT Currently have about 30 Gal. of various meads, Just did a Cyser & a couple ciders. The wife is starting to get mad at me as I add yeast to everything before she & the boy can drink it 
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AR-Josh
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Posted: 10/17/2011 3:47:45 PM
Nothing right now. I'm kicking around the idea of a cascade pale ale.
6 lbs light DME 1 lb crystal 60 Then cascade hops in a schedule I have not come up with yet. Got this idea from another forum where basically this recipe only requires a 20 minute boil!!!!!! 
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Posted: 10/17/2011 3:48:12 PM
I've got a hard cider going, as well as a pilsner and an imperial stout.
Brewing up an Irish Red in a few weeks, I'm glad we have this forum now, it'll give me some place to post pictures. |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 3:49:39 PM
Originally Posted By xdoctor: I've got a hard cider going, as well as a pilsner and an imperial stout. Brewing up an Irish Red in a few weeks, I'm glad we have this forum now, it'll give me some place to post pictures. I'd like to do a hoppy red actually. I had forgotten I said I was going to do a red this fall. Dang it, this is gonna cost me.  |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 3:53:51 PM
Originally Posted By xdoctor: I've got a hard cider going, as well as a pilsner and an imperial stout. Brewing up an Irish Red in a few weeks, I'm glad we have this forum now, it'll give me some place to post pictures. 
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Posted: 10/17/2011 4:00:07 PM
I have an Amber Ale that has been fermenting for 3 weeks. I need to get off my ass and bottle it!
I'm looking at a cream stout next. Any suggestions on a good extract kit? |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 4:20:43 PM
[Last Edit: 10/17/2011 4:21:14 PM by Sniper_Wolfe]
1) Bourbon Barrel-Less Stout –– Imperial Stout, gonna add a fifth or so of Jim Beam @ bottling....
2) Honey Orange Belgian Wheat –– crazy big beer the roommate and I dreamed up, should clock in around 9.5%, brewed with 2 lbs of honey, orange peel, and Belgian wit yeast 3) Belgian Strong Dark Ale –– should be about 10.5%, using WLP500 Edit to say: I don't normally make such 'big' beers but winter is coming up and it seems like the right time, as I've already got plenty of 5-6.5% ABV stuff stashed away. |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 6:35:22 PM
Amber ale (should be ready to keg on Wed)
Apfelwien hybrid (ready to keg now!) Cider made from my father in laws apples. Not sure when its going to be ready, its been at high krausen for almost a week. Kegged Cask ale thats been aging for a year Cream ale. Currently have the supplies to make a triple and another amber. |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 7:12:18 PM
Primary: 2 gal Wild Muscadine wine
Primary: 5 gal hard apple cider Primary: 5 gal Oatmeal Stout Bulk aging: 1gal JAOM Bottled: Nothing  |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 7:18:13 PM
[Last Edit: 10/17/2011 7:19:59 PM by Cpt_Kirks]
10 gallons of AG Light Wheat fermenting (brewed Saturday):
- 5 gallons (US-05) will be Lime Wheat (adding some homemade lime extract at kegging). - 5 gallons (Wy3068) will be Light Hefe. Kegged: Light Hefe (getting low) Bavarian Hefeweizen (4 kegs) Belgian Pale Mexican Amber Lager (2 kegs) Amber Ale (4 kegs) Blueberry Wheat (almost gone) Next up: 10 (or 13) more gallons of Light Wheat (got empty kegs) 10 gallons of Amber Lager 10 gallons of Dunkelweiss ???  |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 8:53:09 PM
No beer goin at the moment but have about 66 gallons of wine in process right now.
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Posted: 10/17/2011 8:56:11 PM
I have my very first brews fermenting right now.
2 gallons of Honey Orange Mead (Thanks EasTexan for making it look easy enough to get started) 1 gallon of apple hooch –– cheap juice, added sugar + yeast, just seeing what happens 1 gallon of what I hope will be a proper hard cider - Fresh cider, a little sugar, cinnamon sticks. I've only gotten to sample my mead as I transferred to a secondary, but I think I'm already hooked. I can't get wait to get home from work every day and watch a few bubbles burp through the airlocks. |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 9:07:52 PM
Extra pale ale AG, 2 weeks in the fermenter. Going to be a nice session beer.
Irish Blonde AG I did on the weekend. 11lb 2 row pale, 1lb flaked oats, 1lb flaked barley. 2 oz palisade hops. Should be good. Hopped up red rye is next. |
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Posted: 10/17/2011 10:03:55 PM
Just got my Autumn ale done on Saturday and brewed a cream ale today with hops from the farm.
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Posted: 10/18/2011 3:12:45 AM
Black cherry/cranberry mead in the works
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Posted: 10/18/2011 8:51:06 AM
I'm small time compared to you guys.
1 gal of JAOM First gallon of any brew for me, ever. |
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Posted: 10/18/2011 9:18:24 AM
Primary: empty
Secondary: 5 gallons of mead Bottled: brown ale |
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Posted: 10/18/2011 9:24:19 AM
Originally Posted By hungrymonkey:
Amber ale (should be ready to keg on Wed) Apfelwien hybrid (ready to keg now!) Cider made from my father in laws apples. Not sure when its going to be ready, its been at high krausen for almost a week. Kegged Cask ale thats been aging for a year Cream ale. Currently have the supplies to make a triple and another amber. What exactly are you making? I bottled a cranberry apfelwein recently, and as much as I like it, I only get cranberry aroma and little to no cranberry taste. I took the normal recipe and added a couple of those juice concentrates to it. Oh, and fermented with Nottingham. |
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HUMONGO
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Posted: 10/18/2011 10:22:57 AM
I transferred 2 gallons of mead to secondary last night. Tasted good, needs some age.
I had some issues with my beer last night, though.
I did my first AG last week and split the batch half and half. I was a bit low on my OG, but that was a sparging issue. Anyhow, the wort took 2 days to show any sign of fermentation. One batch fermented like crazy and blew through the blow off tube, the other had 2 inches of kreuzen and that's it. Fast forward to today, the one with active fermentation tasted very off. I did transfer it to secondary to see if another week would help anything but I don't expect it to. The other carboy tasted like I would expect it to. Here's the crazy thing; The first carboy dropped from 1.050 to 1.030. Only 20 points. The other dropped from 1.050 to 1.010. A full 40 points. 
Same yeast (no starter, 2 smack packs). Sanitized EVERYTHING with iodophore. Just one of those things I guess. I may repitch to see if I can get the alcohol content up, then have a friend of mine, who owns a winery/distillery, distill it into whiskey! I'll let y'all know if that works. |
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Posted: 10/18/2011 10:28:47 AM
Primary - 6 gallons of cider & 5 gallons of AHS Alaskan Amber clone
Kegged - 5 gallons of Apfelwein (made with champagne yeast - experiment) and 5 gallons of an Amber which is conditioning still 
This weekend - brewing up 5 gallons of AHS Mack and Jacks, maybe another Alaskan Amber, and probably another 5-10 gallons of Apfelwien; the wife is addicted to the stuff now! |
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Posted: 10/18/2011 11:30:09 AM
Just pumpkin ale right now.
I need to get a coffee beer together. |
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Posted: 10/18/2011 9:53:37 PM
Have 5.5 gals of a Russian Imperial Stout that has been in primary for 6 weeks - going to bottle it next Saturday.
Just brewed 5.5 gals of Pumpkin Ale - This one gave me my first stuck sparge |
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Posted: 10/19/2011 1:37:00 AM
5.5 gallons of Munich Helles with Wyeast 2308 sitting at 48 degrees - brewed monday. I used a 2 liter starter and it kicked off very quickly.
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Posted: 10/19/2011 11:21:20 AM
Originally Posted By TrojanMan:
Just pumpkin ale right now. I need to get a coffee beer together. I'm looking to make a Founder's Breakfast Stout clone (coffee beer), or something similar. Any good recipes? |
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Posted: 10/19/2011 12:33:54 PM
[Last Edit: 10/19/2011 12:34:14 PM by UBB]
Just finished bottling the last of a 30gal batch of apple wine and an apple cyser that my dad had made.
I just started or am starting: 5gal––-Nanking Cherry 5gal––-Plum 5gal––-Apricot 5gal––-Strawberry 6gal–––Blueberry Shiraz(kit) 6gal––-Strawberry Reisling (kit) |
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Posted: 10/20/2011 9:35:52 AM
Nothing.
But our local farmers market has some folks that sell fresh apple cider in nice glass 1/2 gallon glass jugs. They don't want them back, so I have to do something with them. I'm thinking mead. They also sell honey. |
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HUMONGO
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Posted: 10/20/2011 12:35:51 PM
Originally Posted By Spade:
Nothing. But our local farmers market has some folks that sell fresh apple cider in nice glass 1/2 gallon glass jugs. They don't want them back, so I have to do something with them. I'm thinking mead. They also sell honey. Ours too. Amish. I use mine to save yeast. |
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Posted: 10/20/2011 1:46:38 PM
10 gallons of pale ale, 5 kolsch and 5 amber lager. Need to pick up a sack of pils and get busy brewing the winter lagers. |
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Posted: 10/20/2011 8:51:11 PM
I just had a son in March, and I slacked off with 10 gallons of brew in the fridge. It dried up around August... Just brewed up a Saranac Pale Ale clone in my relatively new all grain setup... Should be kegging this weekend.
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Posted: 10/20/2011 8:54:53 PM
Originally Posted By KnuckleSandwich:
I just had a son in March, and I slacked off with 10 gallons of brew in the fridge. It dried up around August... Just brewed up a Saranac Pale Ale clone in my relatively new all grain setup... Should be kegging this weekend. Yeah, I hardly brewed over the summer, it was too hot. I dropped down to under 35 gallons kegged. It was close, but I'm building my pipeline back now.  |
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Posted: 10/20/2011 11:10:29 PM
Have "Third Date IPA" in the secondary, just dry-hopped on Tuesday and will bottle Sunday.
Have bout 36 bottles of "Orange Witty Monk" hanging in the basement. Brewing "Sweet Malty Goodness Marzen" Sunday while bottling the IPA. |
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Posted: 10/20/2011 11:16:10 PM
[Last Edit: 10/20/2011 11:20:33 PM by ToroAzul]
Originally Posted By Sniper_Wolfe:
Originally Posted By TrojanMan:
Just pumpkin ale right now. I need to get a coffee beer together. I'm looking to make a Founder's Breakfast Stout clone (coffee beer), or something similar. Any good recipes? http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipes/porter Good place, luckily they are on the way home for me 
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Posted: 10/29/2011 10:18:05 PM
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5 gal NW Red Ale...now kegged
5 gal NW Nut Brown ale...  " |
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Posted: 10/30/2011 6:14:58 PM
3 gallons of sweet traditional in the secondary (carboy). Used a jug of orange blossom honey for that one. Probably turn out pretty sweet.
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Posted: 10/30/2011 11:05:45 PM
A very basic mead. 2.5lbs of clover honey per gallon of water. A wedged orange, a few raisin. A bit of cinnamon.
It's my second batch ever and am impressed by the results of the first batch using simple cheap products. Next batch will be with higher quality ingredients now that I have an idea what I'm doing. |
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Posted: 10/31/2011 1:34:26 AM
1 gallon berry mead.
1 gallon pineapple mead. 1 limoncello. Will probably make some apple something or other soon. |
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HUMONGO
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Posted: 10/31/2011 8:00:44 AM
I kegged 10 gallons of pumpkin ale yesterday and then made a 5 gallon batch of Apfelwein and 5 gallons of JAOM with WL sweet mead yeast.
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Posted: 10/31/2011 8:26:30 AM
10 gls mead 1 carboy of orange blossom honey and 1 of blackberry concentrate with Sams honey.
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Posted: 10/31/2011 2:31:51 PM
5 Gals of Cream Stout.
Should be my last extract brew. By the tie I brew the next batch of goodness, I should have all of my all grain equipment ready. |
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Posted: 10/31/2011 2:35:50 PM
Update, after this weekend.
10 gallons of Alaskan Amber clone 5 gallons of Mac and Jacks clone 3 gallons of an experiment apfelwein/cider 3 gallons of cider 5 gallons of apfel-mango-peach apfelwein |
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Posted: 10/31/2011 2:41:42 PM
1gal of the Ancient orange mead
1gal of pumpkin mead using the same recipe as the orange just using a can of pumpkin instead 1/2gal of Jalapeno. Yeah. I'm experimenting. |
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Posted: 11/4/2011 3:21:56 PM
Just mashed in a Kolsch. Going to be a long brew day, 90 minute mash, 90 minute boil. |
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Posted: 11/4/2011 4:48:17 PM
Hopefully this weekend I'll get an amarillo hop ale going.
1 lb Crystal 40 (steeped in 6 gal until the water gets to 170 F) 6 lbs Northern Brewer Gold LME (2 lbs added when the steeping grains come out) 1 lb Muntons Extra Light DME (added after the (added when the steeping grains come out) 3 oz Amarillo Hops (AA% = 10.3) 0.3 oz @ 60min 0.4 oz @ 20min 0.3 oz @ 15min 0.3 oz @ 10min 0.4 oz @ 5min 0.3 oz @ 1min 1 oz for dry hopping after 7 days of fermenting. This is my recipe. Hoping it comes out good and really showcasing the Amarillo hop. |
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Posted: 11/4/2011 8:49:33 PM
After this weekend I'll have:
1 gal of JOAM 5 gal Apfelwein 5 gal pumpkin ale 5 gal American amber ale This weekend will be the 1 month anniversary of my first brew. :) Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 11/5/2011 10:34:03 AM
I have air. I haven't recovered from my first batch that didn't come out as well as I had hope.
However, I'm still wanting to try a DFH 60 min clone. I have half the hops aready. |
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Posted: 11/5/2011 5:17:46 PM
Just finished up my first brew––and American Rye Ale. Pretty damn good.
Got an Irish Blonde Ale ready to go...just need to pull the trigger and do it already. |
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Posted: 11/7/2011 8:52:44 PM
My Christmas wine is progressing nicely.
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Posted: 11/7/2011 10:04:07 PM
Just got a 6gal Ale Pail. So I am going get it filled with fresh cider and primary in the pail with maybe a little honey and some S-04 for a few weeks. Then rack into a glass secondary and probably do a beer in the pail.
Have a cider and a cyser in 1 gal secondaries right now. Cider is 3 months old now so I might bottle carb this and see how it turns out. Cyser is only about a month old. |
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Posted: 11/8/2011 8:03:41 PM
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Feel behind schedule
but did start the Nanking Cherry wine tonight. It's a first for me using this cherry. Hopefully it turns out!  |
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Posted: 11/11/2011 2:20:51 PM
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Posted: 11/11/2011 9:32:17 PM
Finally did my amarillo APA. I can't wait. Those hops are so citrusy and aromatic.
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