Hump Day Brew Day Pictorial:

Brewing "Exodus" a Robust Porter
(named after the Great - Bob Marley)
My 5 gallon (graivty fed) brewing set-upCollecting wort from mash/lauter-tun

Sparging

My 2 pot kettle system
(lets me do interesting experiments)

4-gallons of porter deliciousness
(15 hours later w/a nice krausen)

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Hump Day Brew Day!

I have the today and I will celebrate by going on a 2 hr bike ride followed by a 30' run, followed by a Brew session. Which will most likely end with a nice long nap.

I will be brewing a robust porter (I love Porters). Here is the recipe:
4 gallons - OG:1.054 IBU:46 ABV:5.2

GRAINS:
6.2# 2-row
1.6# munich 10L
6oz crystal 40L
4oz crystal 60L
5oz chocolate malt
4oz black patent
2oz roast barley 500L

HOPS:
12 IBU's Nugget (60)
1/2oz East Kent Golding (15)
1/2oz East Kent Golding (0)

YEAST:
White Labs - Premium Bitter

Mash 154 for 50', mash out 168. Boil 90'. Ferment 68F

Roggenbier

Today, I helped a friend brew a roggenbier. This is a new style for me so I was not sure what to expect from rye, as this was the first time I had worked with it. Everything went well, except at run-off. There was a small problem as "my makeshift" false bottom ended up not being very secure which allowed some grain to get underneath and eventually into the run-off valve. That caused some problems and really slowed down the run-off process. Eventually, enough was collected and we turned to the boil and the first hop additions (Liberty). I had to leave mid-boil as I had already made other plans, so I will update you later on how the rest of the brew day went. The beer had the correct color and aroma, and now it is up to the fermentation gods!

Recipe will be up soon.

UPDATE:
Sounds like we collected about 5 1/2 gallons of collected wort and at end boil we had 5g. O.G. was 1.040 we were shooting for 1.044. Now fermentation is going well and will update once we get to taste.

Funny brewday story, DO NOT try to use a trashbag to empty your grains into. We did and the bag "popped"! We had grains all over the ground, HAHAHA! Yeah, it looked like...