What's in your fermenter?

IntotheLabyrinth · 08-27-09, 11:07

Seems like I've seen a similar thread around here on the Topia someplace, but i couldn't find it. So here is a new one, let us all know what you got fermenting! This is an Irish Red Ale i've had going since Monday. Mmmmm.

plantman21 · 08-27-09, 11:22

I've got one of blackberry, one of blackberry & watermelon, and one of grape. I like a little variety in my life

. So far all is going well.
Plantman

Hippie3 · 08-27-09, 19:45

gonna start some watermelon wine

FredTheSilly · 08-27-09, 23:17

Got 5 gallons of graff, and 5 gallons of apfelwien.

Fred

Edit: Added the link to the graff recipe, if any are interested.

lysergic · 08-28-09, 00:23

Nothing at the moment

waylitjim · 08-28-09, 02:05

West Coast IPA with homegrown hops....Mmmm

kattertjie · 08-28-09, 05:16

I've got my second ever beer in the works. It is a orange spice witbier (it has orange peel and coriander in it). Right now we are just following instructions from the local homebrew shop using malt extract and specialty grains.

Fruit wines sound tasty though especially with all of the good stuff in season.

afg · 08-28-09, 05:17

Got a lot of brewing related stuff to do this weekend:
transfer a Chilean Malbec to secondary
start an Italian Trebbiano
stabilize & back sweeten a Port
bottle a sweet mead

next week: brew a brown ale of some sort
plotting for the future: 10g batch of Imp Stout

IntotheLabyrinth · 08-28-09, 11:27

kattertjie: Witbier is awesome! I brewed one last year and it was very nice, think Wittekerke.

waylitjim: Home grown hops!! awesome!! i gave it a thought this year, but my time is spread thin, maybe next year.

FredTheSilly: That Graff sounds interesting, there is an orchard very close to me that sells un-pasteurized apple cider, I was thinking it might be nice to use that. Hmmm....

Hippie: Nice Melons! I bet thats not the fist time you've heard that!

afg: Dude you are a busy man! Do you bottle everything, or do you have a keg setup as well? I've been looking into that it would be awesome for streamlining the process, but a tad bit pricey as compared to just recycling bottles.

DRAGONFLY · 08-28-09, 13:36

That Irish red ale sure does look tasty!! I bet the watermelon wine will be pretty good to. Unfortunetly I don't know how to make the stuff but I do know how to drink it!

afg · 08-29-09, 04:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by IntotheLabyrinth

afg: Dude you are a busy man! Do you bottle everything, or do you have a keg setup as well? I've been looking into that it would be awesome for streamlining the process, but a tad bit pricey as compared to just recycling bottles.

I tend to go on brewing binges were I try to get all my fermenters full... then I don't have to brew again for a few months. But yea, I bottle my wines & meads and keg my beers. Kegging is great, but between the equipment then an extra fridge and whatnot it's pricey to get into.

whippet · 09-03-09, 13:32

Wicked thread...am proper into my winemaking..yet to try my hand at brewing beer (but soon)

Currently on teh go,

3 gallons of blackberry wine
2 gallons elderberry wine
1 gallon elderberry, blackcurrant and sloe wine
1 gallon Gorseflower wine
2 gallons Rasberry wine
X amount gallons WGC / Lychee wine

red_lenses · 09-05-09, 05:20

Nothing but DUST!
I need to get the spiced holiday barley wine goin !!!

aumbrellaforainydays · 09-05-09, 14:36

kombucha

waylitjim · 09-06-09, 11:47

Just brewed a hoppy brown. (India Brown Ale)

Similar to this one
http://www.beertools.com/html/recipe.php?view=7071

red_lenses · 09-06-09, 12:02

Looks good WLJ !
Did you bottle it or keg?

Red

waylitjim · 09-09-09, 11:59

Quote:

Looks good WLJ !
Did you bottle it or keg?

Gonna transfer to a 5 gallon keg this weekend.
I'm currently dry hopping with 2 ounces of centennial.
Smells great!

red_lenses · 09-09-09, 12:22

I love dry hopping!
I dry hopped my last batch of nut-brown with 2 oz.of homegrown cascades,It turned out very good.
I love watching the "storm" in the fermenter lol
And the floral smell was amazing!

Red

afg · 09-10-09, 05:37

a reply:
For a sweet mead using lalvin 71b don't use 24 lbs honey in 5.5 gallons. Sure she likes it(and that was the point, so maybee thats ok) finishing at 1.048, but man... it's sweet... definately a dessert mead.
I got nothing other constructive for this thread except:
I like Centennials too!
Yup I"ll have another one for you!
I'm drunk!
don't sample meads on a work night. I should go to bed.

lovesshrooms · 09-27-09, 08:01

Hey long time no post...

Anyway i have a batch of Ringwood bitter in my fermenter about 19L i expect to lose a litre of that to trub etc. though. Will be tasting today as last weekend it was still a bit green so hopefully it will taste a bit better today

http://www.ringwoodbrewery.co.uk/best-bitter.asp
Oh and if any of you are into english ale i must reccomend Graham Wheelers book.

bear · 10-05-09, 10:14

English Style Ale
Amber Malt
2-3 oz Cluster
1 oz Kent Goldings

Joric · 10-05-09, 10:21

A friend and I are brewing two different clone recipe lagers: "Lonestar" and "Kirin". Both of these require a secondary fermenter and refrigerated temperatures. I think we have a couple of weeks to go as they've already been moved to their secondary fermenters and the refrigerator in the garage.

brax · 10-05-09, 10:30

On Tap- 3068 Brown Sugar Apfelwein, IPA Light
Just Bottled- Clementine Wheat

Ready to Go (cellaring)- Belgium Trippel, Pomegranate/Cherry Apfelwein, Delerium Clone, Raspberry Ketone Molasses Stout

Next Brew-Gumballhead Clone, 5-gallon Kombucha

IntotheLabyrinth · 10-05-09, 14:37

I just bottled a dunkel yesterday! It was tasty at bottling, can't wait for next week.

Coughing_Anon · 11-02-09, 21:07

I just racked a pumpkin ale into secondary yesterday.
Next on the list is a rice ale (with Japanese Sorachi Ace hops: 14% ALA

)
The rice ale will be my first real mini-mash, anyone have any experience with rice flakes as an adjunct?

I dispensed about 2 gallons of Oatmeal Stout at a party this past weekend. Everyone loved it. It had an odd amino acid taste, kinda like a good fresh soy sauce. One group of people called it "Miso Soup Beer".
Everyone loved it anyway.

lysergic · 11-02-09, 22:02

Got a St. Paul Porter from NB going right now.
We also have "mystery" ale made from a bunch of random old ingredients my roommate had.

Fresh Brewed · 11-02-09, 22:17

American Pale ale in the secondary, and a cream ale in the primary(it was on sale at the local brew store: 20.00).

copelandiaKidd · 11-03-09, 01:52

woot, second here on the kombucha!!!!!!!!!!

DarkLestor · 11-03-09, 14:32

SPICED PUMPKIN ALE!!!

i prefer to drink my thanksgiving pumpkin pie

Oblivion · 11-04-09, 09:17

Pineapple, grape(10 gallon), plum, and pear. 25 gallon in total.

waylitjim · 11-04-09, 19:41

11% Imperial Stout

- with vanilla bean, molasses, licorice root, and bourbon soaked oak chips

CoyoteMesc · 11-04-09, 19:59

mmm, just polished off some Stout that was a 10.

I hope yours turn out just as nice waylit.

I have some kolsch and summer style ale going now.
Ready to bottle, Ive just been lazy.

I have some strawberry wine ready to come out of the fermenter also.

Fresh Brewed · 11-04-09, 20:34

Have been eyeing that "Lord FatBottom" stout in the N. brewer catalog...anybody try it?

lysergic · 11-05-09, 21:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fresh Brewed

Have been eyeing that "Lord FatBottom" stout in the N. brewer catalog...anybody try it?

Been eyeing that myself.
Looks like a good one

firerat · 11-06-09, 10:09

Fermentor: Ed Wort's Apfelwein

Bottled: West Coast Pale Ale (tasted like crap at bottling but we'll see what happens)

Up next: Canadian High Country Draught and a different variation of the Afflewein using ale yeast and a booster pack from a Mr. Beer mix kit.

Just got into brewing. Great hobby!! (like I don't have enough projects going on

)

Tennessee Jed · 11-16-09, 20:09

6 gal. strawberry wine, just finished fermenting
6 gal. crabapple/white grape, still fermenting. Both the crab and the strawberry were Mehu Liisa juiced.
just bottled 6 gal of welsh's grape juice wine and 6 gal. Mehu Liisa juiced concord grape wine.
currently drinking 1 1/2yr old Old Orchard red grape wine and 1 yr old O.O. white grape juice wine.
Hittin' on a gallon of 'shine too.

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08-27-09, 11:07	#1 (permalink)
IntotheLabyrinth Lost Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 103	What's in your fermenter? Seems like I've seen a similar thread around here on the Topia someplace, but i couldn't find it. So here is a new one, let us all know what you got fermenting! This is an Irish Red Ale i've had going since Monday. Mmmmm. __________________ A child's rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. I've spent so many years in question to find I've known this all along.

08-27-09, 11:22	#2 (permalink)
plantman21 Mycotopiate Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 384	I've got one of blackberry, one of blackberry & watermelon, and one of grape. I like a little variety in my life. So far all is going well. Plantman

08-27-09, 19:45	#3 (permalink)
Hippie3 DUNG DEALER Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 43,266	gonna start some watermelon wine __________________ visit dial-a-hippie .

08-28-09, 00:23	#5 (permalink)
lysergic Down on the Pharm Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,961	Nothing at the moment __________________ Lefty: They should ban idiots not drugs

08-27-09, 23:17	#4 (permalink)
FredTheSilly Mycophiliac Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 207	Got 5 gallons of graff, and 5 gallons of apfelwien. Fred Edit: Added the link to the graff recipe, if any are interested.

08-28-09, 02:05	#6 (permalink)
waylitjim A Mirror Image Join Date: Sep 1972 Posts: 4,232	West Coast IPA with homegrown hops....Mmmm __________________ *Waylit's Exotic Roundup - a collection of sexy threads*

08-28-09, 05:16	#7 (permalink)
kattertjie Mycophiliac Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 39	I've got my second ever beer in the works. It is a orange spice witbier (it has orange peel and coriander in it). Right now we are just following instructions from the local homebrew shop using malt extract and specialty grains. Fruit wines sound tasty though especially with all of the good stuff in season.

08-28-09, 05:17	#8 (permalink)
afg Mycophiliac Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 14	Got a lot of brewing related stuff to do this weekend: transfer a Chilean Malbec to secondary start an Italian Trebbiano stabilize & back sweeten a Port bottle a sweet mead next week: brew a brown ale of some sort plotting for the future: 10g batch of Imp Stout

08-28-09, 11:27	#9 (permalink)
IntotheLabyrinth Lost Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 103	kattertjie: Witbier is awesome! I brewed one last year and it was very nice, think Wittekerke. waylitjim: Home grown hops!! awesome!! i gave it a thought this year, but my time is spread thin, maybe next year. FredTheSilly: That Graff sounds interesting, there is an orchard very close to me that sells un-pasteurized apple cider, I was thinking it might be nice to use that. Hmmm.... Hippie: Nice Melons! I bet thats not the fist time you've heard that! afg: Dude you are a busy man! Do you bottle everything, or do you have a keg setup as well? I've been looking into that it would be awesome for streamlining the process, but a tad bit pricey as compared to just recycling bottles. __________________ A child's rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. I've spent so many years in question to find I've known this all along.

08-28-09, 13:36	#10 (permalink)
DRAGONFLY Mycophiliac Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 51	That Irish red ale sure does look tasty!! I bet the watermelon wine will be pretty good to. Unfortunetly I don't know how to make the stuff but I do know how to drink it! __________________ Teonanacatl

09-03-09, 13:32	#12 (permalink)
whippet Mycophiliac Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3	Wicked thread...am proper into my winemaking..yet to try my hand at brewing beer (but soon) Currently on teh go, 3 gallons of blackberry wine 2 gallons elderberry wine 1 gallon elderberry, blackcurrant and sloe wine 1 gallon Gorseflower wine 2 gallons Rasberry wine X amount gallons WGC / Lychee wine

09-05-09, 05:20	#13 (permalink)
red_lenses Pandoras Box Is Open Join Date: Feb 1973 Posts: 372	DUST!!! Nothing but DUST! I need to get the spiced holiday barley wine goin !!! Attached Thumbnails __________________ I'm looking for me,You're looking for you. We're looking in at each other and we don't know what to do. They call me the seeker...

09-05-09, 14:36	#14 (permalink)
aumbrellaforainydays Mycotopiate Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,329	kombucha __________________ We are all born free and equal.

09-06-09, 11:47	#15 (permalink)
waylitjim A Mirror Image Join Date: Sep 1972 Posts: 4,232	Just brewed a hoppy brown. (India Brown Ale) Similar to this one http://www.beertools.com/html/recipe.php?view=7071 __________________ *Waylit's Exotic Roundup - a collection of sexy threads*

11-03-09, 01:52	#28 (permalink)
copelandiaKidd Void Of Boundaries Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 578	woot, second here on the kombucha!!!!!!!!!! __________________ "LEARN THE RULES SO YOU CAN BREAK THEM PROPERLY" -The Dali lama "i don't care if it eats my cat, as long as the damn thing fruits"~ prism

09-06-09, 12:02	#16 (permalink)
red_lenses Pandoras Box Is Open Join Date: Feb 1973 Posts: 372	Looks good WLJ ! Did you bottle it or keg? Red

09-09-09, 12:22	#18 (permalink)
red_lenses Pandoras Box Is Open Join Date: Feb 1973 Posts: 372	I love dry hopping! I dry hopped my last batch of nut-brown with 2 oz.of homegrown cascades,It turned out very good. I love watching the "storm" in the fermenter lol And the floral smell was amazing! Red __________________ I'm looking for me,You're looking for you. We're looking in at each other and we don't know what to do. They call me the seeker...

09-10-09, 05:37	#19 (permalink)
afg Mycophiliac Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 14	a reply: For a sweet mead using lalvin 71b don't use 24 lbs honey in 5.5 gallons. Sure she likes it(and that was the point, so maybee thats ok) finishing at 1.048, but man... it's sweet... definately a dessert mead. I got nothing other constructive for this thread except: I like Centennials too! Yup I"ll have another one for you! I'm drunk! don't sample meads on a work night. I should go to bed.

09-27-09, 08:01	#20 (permalink)
lovesshrooms Mycophiliac Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 66	Hey long time no post... Anyway i have a batch of Ringwood bitter in my fermenter about 19L i expect to lose a litre of that to trub etc. though. Will be tasting today as last weekend it was still a bit green so hopefully it will taste a bit better today http://www.ringwoodbrewery.co.uk/best-bitter.asp Oh and if any of you are into english ale i must reccomend Graham Wheelers book.

10-05-09, 10:14	#21 (permalink)
bear Silly Animal Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 875	English Style Ale Amber Malt 2-3 oz Cluster 1 oz Kent Goldings __________________ i would be lion if you weren't and i wasnt a bear Per aspera ad astra

10-05-09, 10:21	#22 (permalink)
Joric Kikuchiyo Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 51	A friend and I are brewing two different clone recipe lagers: "Lonestar" and "Kirin". Both of these require a secondary fermenter and refrigerated temperatures. I think we have a couple of weeks to go as they've already been moved to their secondary fermenters and the refrigerator in the garage. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "Think for yourself and feel the walls... become sand beneath your feet." Last edited by Joric; 10-05-09 at 12:10. Reason: adding picture

10-05-09, 10:30	#23 (permalink)
brax Mycophiliac Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 27	On Tap- 3068 Brown Sugar Apfelwein, IPA Light Just Bottled- Clementine Wheat Ready to Go (cellaring)- Belgium Trippel, Pomegranate/Cherry Apfelwein, Delerium Clone, Raspberry Ketone Molasses Stout Next Brew-Gumballhead Clone, 5-gallon Kombucha

10-05-09, 14:37	#24 (permalink)
IntotheLabyrinth Lost Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 103	I just bottled a dunkel yesterday! It was tasty at bottling, can't wait for next week. __________________ A child's rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. I've spent so many years in question to find I've known this all along.

11-02-09, 21:07	#25 (permalink)
Coughing_Anon Mycophage Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 218	I just racked a pumpkin ale into secondary yesterday. Next on the list is a rice ale (with Japanese Sorachi Ace hops: 14% ALA ) The rice ale will be my first real mini-mash, anyone have any experience with rice flakes as an adjunct? I dispensed about 2 gallons of Oatmeal Stout at a party this past weekend. Everyone loved it. It had an odd amino acid taste, kinda like a good fresh soy sauce. One group of people called it "Miso Soup Beer". Everyone loved it anyway.

11-02-09, 22:02	#26 (permalink)
lysergic Down on the Pharm Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,961	Got a St. Paul Porter from NB going right now. We also have "mystery" ale made from a bunch of random old ingredients my roommate had. __________________ Lefty: They should ban idiots not drugs

11-02-09, 22:17	#27 (permalink)
Fresh Brewed Mycotopiate Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,047	American Pale ale in the secondary, and a cream ale in the primary(it was on sale at the local brew store: 20.00). Attached Thumbnails __________________ Life is a collection of routines and habits some more interesting than others.

11-03-09, 14:32	#29 (permalink)
DarkLestor Listening not speaking... Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 208	SPICED PUMPKIN ALE!!! i prefer to drink my thanksgiving pumpkin pie __________________ Science isn't an exact science...

11-04-09, 09:17	#30 (permalink)
Oblivion Join me there Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,622	Pineapple, grape(10 gallon), plum, and pear. 25 gallon in total. __________________ Delivery from ignorance is bliss.

11-04-09, 19:41	#31 (permalink)
waylitjim A Mirror Image Join Date: Sep 1972 Posts: 4,232	11% Imperial Stout - with vanilla bean, molasses, licorice root, and bourbon soaked oak chips __________________ *Waylit's Exotic Roundup - a collection of sexy threads*

11-04-09, 19:59	#32 (permalink)
CoyoteMesc howling mad Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,045	mmm, just polished off some Stout that was a 10. I hope yours turn out just as nice waylit. I have some kolsch and summer style ale going now. Ready to bottle, Ive just been lazy. I have some strawberry wine ready to come out of the fermenter also. __________________ WOODY: Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you. NORM: I know. If she calls, I'm not here.[ (Cheers)

11-04-09, 20:34	#33 (permalink)
Fresh Brewed Mycotopiate Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,047	Have been eyeing that "Lord FatBottom" stout in the N. brewer catalog...anybody try it? __________________ Life is a collection of routines and habits some more interesting than others.

11-06-09, 10:09	#35 (permalink)
firerat Hose Lord Moderator Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,742	Fermentor: Ed Wort's Apfelwein Bottled: West Coast Pale Ale (tasted like crap at bottling but we'll see what happens) Up next: Canadian High Country Draught and a different variation of the Afflewein using ale yeast and a booster pack from a Mr. Beer mix kit. Just got into brewing. Great hobby!! (like I don't have enough projects going on ) __________________ When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts" and you put your two cents in . . . what happens to the other penny?

11-16-09, 20:09	#36 (permalink)
Tennessee Jed his Crappieness Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 24	6 gal. strawberry wine, just finished fermenting 6 gal. crabapple/white grape, still fermenting. Both the crab and the strawberry were Mehu Liisa juiced. just bottled 6 gal of welsh's grape juice wine and 6 gal. Mehu Liisa juiced concord grape wine. currently drinking 1 1/2yr old Old Orchard red grape wine and 1 yr old O.O. white grape juice wine. Hittin' on a gallon of 'shine too. __________________ Tennessee..Tennessee..there ain"t no place I'd rather be...

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