What's in your fermenter??

[Don]

Tried to lighten up my Old Ale
Taste good but needs some more body in the next batch
This is a clean, easy drinking English beer.
With some spices could be a good Christmas Beer.
Heres's the latest 5 gal recipe

A06 Test, New Type Old Ale Lite
Brewer: Don Heisler
Style: Old Ale (lite)
TYPE: All Grain
Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 8.34 gal
Post Boil Volume: 5.72 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.25 gal
Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal
Color: 14.9 SRM
IBU: 42.1 IBUs
ABV: 7.5%
OG:1.07
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type %/IBU
1/2 RO / Home Filtered Hard Water Water
13 lbs 4.0 oz UK Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 81.6 %
2 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 12.3 %
8.0 oz Caramel Malt - 60L 6-Row (Briess) (60.0 Grain 3.1 %
4.8 oz Oats, Golden Naked (Simpsons) (10.0 SRM) Grain 1.8 %
3.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 1.2 %
2.00 oz Willamette [5.30 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 34.1 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)
1.00 oz Fuggles [5.40 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 8.0 IBUs
0.50 tsp Wyeast Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 mins)
1.00 oz Fuggles [5.40 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg NB NeoBritannia (Wyeast Labs #1945) Yeast
(276 Billion yeast cells needed)
Mash
154.0 F 70 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 5.25 gal water buffered 5.8pH

Notes:
Yeast is 4 months old, making several small starters over 5 days.
Ended up with 300 Billion yeast cells.

Added Chocolate malt last 10 min of mash

70 Min Mash; 90 Min Boil
Keep in fermintator (or use a secondary until all the yeast drops out)

Condition min of 30 days.

[Don]

Maybe I used a little too much in this test 1/2 gal batch
https://vimeo.com/117672862

[JohnD]

Oktoberfest

[sirgiovanni]

10 gallons of dark strong @ 9.5%.
Captain crush smoked through the grain bill. Definitely worth the cash. There's your bag challenge.

[maddox]

Right now we have several things in carboys either aging or fermenting:

Beers -
5.5 gallons Rye IPA - aging in secondary fermentation until I have an empty keg
3 gallons "The kitchen sink (now with more wormwood)" - aging until I get the guts to try it again. 1/2 ounce of Wormwood for 3 gallons may have been too much
5.5 gallons 120 minute IPA - racking into secondary this evening. Will be dry hopped in secondary and then bottle aged for several months
5.5 gallons - Maddox Pell ell (Pale Ale) - in the boil pot while I type this up

Wine, Cider, Mead -
6 gallons Blueberry Cider - primary fermentation
1 gallon Rose hips wine - clearing in secondary
1 gallon Elderberry wine - clearing in secondary
1 gallon Apple cherry wine - clearing in secondary
6 gallons Candy can wine - finishing fermentation
4 gallons Coffee wine - clearing/aging in tertiary
1 gallon Mojito Mead - primary fermentation

Bottled wines -
3 different blueberry
Lemon
Tropical fruit
Strawberry/blueberry
Strawberry/cherry/blueberry
Merlot
Peach vanilla


I would be happy to share the recipes for any of these if anyone is interested. Also, some of these will probably make their way to upcoming meetings.

[JohnD]

Flanders Red. Using yeast slurry from last batch brewed Sept, 2012.

[Mike]

Robust Porter

Zombie Dust Clone - brewed yesterday

[Blancaster]

Cream Ale to be kegged this weekend and a Zombie Dust clone that is going to be dry hopped this weekend. , honey blonde being brewed this weekend.

Maddox, you guys are off the hook! Wow you have quite a large selection going on there! I would like to learn about making small wine batches from you sometime!


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[cmajeff]

Hard Cider 2.5 gallons

Citris Mead

Grapefruit Mead

Black IPA

[KennyPurcell]

Dry stout

[Dwayne_Delaney]

With this lousy weather, I really envy you guys with a place inside to brew.

[msjulian]

10 gallons of Kolsch... Hopefully ready in time for the AHA competition

[JohnD]

Rauchbier

[Mike]

Cream Ale
Brewing my first lager on Saturday

[Dwayne_Delaney]

Dubbel with the new Safbrew Abbaye dry yeast.