I present to you Drinky The Beer Pumpkin:


He's just hanging out in the oven right now, getting ready to be put in the mash for my Horseman's Ale:
Ingredients:
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Amount        Item                                      Type         % or IBU     
2.00 lb       Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM)                      Adjunct      16.67 %       
7.00 lb       Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)            Grain        58.33 %       
1.67 lb       Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)     Grain        13.89 %       
1.00 lb       Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM)                   Grain        8.33 %       
0.33 lb       Wheat, Flaked (1.6 SRM)                   Grain        2.78 %       
1.00 oz       Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %]  (80 min)    Hops         19.0 IBU     
1.00 tsp      Cinnamon (ground) (Boil 5.0 min)          Misc                       
1.00 tsp      Pumpkin Pie Spice (Boil 5.0 min)          Misc                       
1 Pkgs        English Ale (White Labs #WLP002) [Starter Yeast-Ale]

Wish me luck!

Good luck. We just gave our last bottle away to our local homebre shop. Our recipe was slightly different. It was actually quite undrinkable until it ages a full month and a half in a bottle.

My current batch of hard cider is going good!

JM

Just got done mashing my imperial chocolate oatmeal stout. That was a pregnant dog. Stuck sparges like crazy. Oh well. Hit my gravity and my volume. This is gonna taste great

I'm apparently rusty as hell at actual brewing... haven't done beer in a while, just cider.

Missed my final volume by about a gallon and a half... which leads me to believe I goofed up on my sparge volumes.  Fits in with the poor efficiency (60%).  Oh well, no chill just means bring the extra water up to boiling and throw it in with the wort. 1.043 OG looking for 1.010 final for about 4.25% ABV.  Good session beer.

But, the good news is that my no-chill batch is in it's jug, nice and sanitary.  Plus, I have a real wort starter going.  Actually took 800cc of the wort to use as a starter.  Big plus for no-chill there!


And, I set my mash tun up with a recirculating pump that I had sitting around.  This is gonna be the CLEAREST beer I have ever brewed.  I will never go back to manually vorlaufing.  So easy!

Hard Cider bubbling away:


JM

Both carboys full. No brewing this weekend.

Pale ale is conditioning in the closet, I don't like using that dried yeast that was recommended but I like the price of it.

Imperial Chocolate Oatmeal stouts is fermenting away. I ended up filling my carboy almost to the neck with the wort, since that damn recipe costed me 60 bucks (all grain) by the time i was done with it, which didn't leave a lot of room to shake and aerate, which may have been a problem. Hoping for the best.

Girlfriends own recipe brown ale is conditioning/carbonating in the corny, 12 more pumpkin ales to give out, half a corny full of a wheat box and about 25 bottles of my last IPA left.

Girlfriend thinks we have too much beer sitting around. I told her it doesn't count if it's not drinkable yet.

I think you should have just told her she was wrong...

He did so.

But in a way that lets him still get laid.

It's diplomacy at work.

Quote from: Buckethead on October 20, 2011, 12:08:27 AM
He did so.

But in a way that lets him still get laid.

It's diplomacy at work.

Winner

Well I'll be damned!

I brewed my stout. Missed my numbers...... Too much volume not enough gravity. Still hit 1.083 (was supposed to be 1.097)

Since I missed my numbers I kinda got pissed and decided to fill my carboy to the neck with as much wort as I could (was an expensive stout recipe). Once I laid down I realized I didn't even shake the carboy for aeration, figured I was make the beast with two backsed.

Watch fermentation from outside of my glass carboy at 60*.... it was fermenting for sure... but it was very subdued.... Figured it wasn't going to complete due to lack of aeration.

Took a sample 5 days later and it's at 1.025. I think's i'm gonna use this rogue least a little more often!

After 2 weeks in the primary, I've racked the Pumpkin Ale to the secondary:


Came out very clear, kinda thin... but really easy to drink.


Carbonation will thicken it out a bit.

Results are:
OG: 1.043
FG: 1.011
ABV: 4.2%
Calories per Pint: 189

Why does it look black? Trick lighting?

No lighting from behind is my guess.  There isn't much in the glass, but it's definitely a chocolate-lab type of brown.

Stout-starter (Pumpkin ale yeast collected and fed stout wort):

No clue what to brew this weekend.....

Maybe an IPA? I dunno... It's getting colder. Maybe another stout....