What has your 2012 brewing looked like so far?

Northern Brewer General
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Here is where I am at.

fyi: all all grain

1: Belgian Dubbel 1/15/12
2: Imperial Breakfast Stout 1/21/12
3: Biere de Garde 2/3/12
4: American Amber 2/4/12
5: American Pale Ale 2/17/12
6: Denny’s Rye IPA 2/26/12
7: Bohemian Pils 3/11/12
8: Amber Lager 3/30/12
9: Nugget Imperial Amber 4/13/12
10: Imperial IPA 4/27/12 5/27/12
11: Strawberry Blonde 5/20/12
12: ESB 5/31/12
13: Extra Pale Ale 6/15/12
14: Session CDA 6/29/12
15: American Wheat 7/20/12
16: Oktoberfest 8/3/12

Next three. American Brown, Pumpkin Ale, Helles

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I don’t have all the details, but since April 1st, looks like I will be brewing batch # 18 and 19 tomorrow - My wife brewed all the batches in Jan. - March and all the ones that will be brewed from september- December:)

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2012 will be my first full year brewing. I started late last year and feel like I’ve learned mountains already. I brewed about ten extract batches and am working through the kinks in moving to AG. I have made some delicious beer and a whole bunch of “that’s-not-too-bad” beer. And am thankful for lots of good advice.
Here’s to year two and learning lots of new stuff. Word.

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No details in front of me but

1 American Amber
2 Face Puncher
3 Kate the Great clone
4 Oktoberfest
5 American Amber 2
6 Dry Irish Stout
7 Irish Draught
8 Caribou Slobber
9 Leftover Grain Brew (4.2% mild)
10 Leftover Grain Brew
11 Face Puncher 2
12 American Amber 3
13 Dawson’s Multi Grain
14 Belgian Golden Strong
15 American Amber 4
16 Furious Pro Series
17 Sierra Madre (with Sierra Nevada hop schedule)
18 Christmas Ale

And with that I am probably done for the year. The best beers SO FAR:Dry Irish Stout was awesome, Face Puncher #1

Still conditioning Kate Clone and Belgian Golden but samples of BGolden are really good.
:cheers:

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Irish Red Extract/Specialty Grains
Triple Jump Pilsner All Grain BIAB, Pilsner Lager
Oatmeal Stout Partial Mash
Surly Cynic Partial Mash
Hefeweizen All Grain
I Made Brown All Grain Brown Ale
Honk This All Grain English Bitter on US05 yeast cake
Hefeweizen All Grain
Wheat All Grain on 3333 yeast cake

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Sour Imperial Stout
NB Bitter
Merlot Pyment
Dead Ringer (got the AG bundle!)
some kind of Rye & Wheat ale (gonna brew that one again!)
a few APA’s
Belgian Strong w/ Horehound Candy
Dark Lager w/ German lager yeast
I also made my first port wine. aging in an oak barrel at the moment.

if my PC wasn’t down, I could tell you more. our laptop sucks & I hate it. but I did finally take the AG leap after 13 years of brewing this year! gonna work on decoction mashes.

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Sounds like a match made in Heaven!
:cheers:

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Golden brown and steamy with bits of green.

9

Sounds like we have some people that really do some brewing.

Really putting some batches in.

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1/07 Bitter Bastard - 5.5 Gallons
1/07 Cream Ale - 6 Gallons
1/08 Bitter Bastard 2 - 5.5 Gallons
1/14 Knotty Black & Mild - 6 Gallons
2/18 Two Hearted Clone - 5.5 Gallons
2/26 Belgian Black & Mild - 6 Gallons
3/03 Devil’s Sin Amber IPA - 5 Gallons
3/10 Waldo Lake Amber - 7 Gallons
3/18 Boundry Waters Pale Ale - 6 Gallons
5/02 Brandy Oak Irish Red Ale - 5 Gallons
5/06 Rye IPA - 10.5 Gallons
5/13 Cream Ale - 6 Gallons
5/20 Raspberry Wheat - 6 Gallons
5/22 Dry Dock Pale Ale - 6 Gallons
6/16 Black Metal Imperial Stout - 7.5 Gallons
6/17 Darkness IPA - 10 Gallons
6/28 5¢ IPA (Two Hearted Clone) - 5.5 Gallons
7/22 Agate Lake Amber - 5.5 Gallons
8/04 5 Speed IPA (Racer 5 Clone) - 12 Gallons

Looks like I am at 126.5 gallons for the year, which means I got some more brewing to do this year.

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[quote=“gregscsu”]1/07 Bitter Bastard - 5.5 Gallons

6/16 Black Metal Imperial Stout - 7.5 Gallons

[/quote]
Black Metal ist Kreig!

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I have only done 2 batches and I have to ask what the heck does one do with all that beer from all those brew sessions?

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Drink them, bring them to parties, give some away to friends!

2012 - About average for me so far:

Dormunder
American Dark Lager
American Premium Lager
Rye Lager
Saison
Lambic
Heffenweiss
Fruit Wheat

I’ll likely brew another 1/2 dozen in the fall.

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what doesn’t one do with them? :lol:

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I declare the Winner

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Sorry to say, I have not done one batch this year. I did get my son set up and going on his system but have really been slacking on the brewing. This really sucks since that means I have not been drinking all that much beer either. What the heck is going on?

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Kind of slow this year but I’ve been brewing out of my normal IPA, IPA, IPA trend.

1/1 Broken Resolution - Simcoe IPA
1/9 Last Resort - IPA
2/22 Eleven - Belgian Strong Golden Ale
2/28 Obi Wan Kenobi’s Frisky Porpoise - Imperial stout (the one that tried to kill me)
3/25 Crawfish Pale Ale - APA
4/4 Denny’s BVIP
5/25 Plan B3 - Munich Helles
6/8 Caitlin’s Koelsch - Koelsch

I need to get brewing soon. I’ve got a buddy who wants to sit in on a session but our schedules don’t seem to line up.

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[quote=“gregscsu”]
8/04 5 Speed IPA (Racer 5 Clone) - 12 Gallons[/quote]

What was your hop schedule for this? Loves me some Racer 5 :slight_smile:

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Brewing newbie here, starting with extracts kits from NB.

  1. Car. Slobber -July 2nd- 10 gal. bottled and waiting.
  2. Innkeeper - July 21st - 10 gal. primary week three.
  3. Smashing Pumkin Ale - on Deck !
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Brewed:
1/1/2012 IPA
1/29/2012 Brown Ale
2/18/2012 Porter
3/11/2012 Amarillo Pale Ale
3/24/2012 ESB
4/28/2012 Killer Hay Bale Ale
5/17/2012 Am. Blonde
6/9/2012 Witbier
6/30/2012 IPA
7/28/2012 Citra Hoppy Wheat
8/11/2012 Best Bitter

Planned:
8/31/2012 Am. Pale Ale
9/8/2012 Brown Ale
9/22/2012 Strong-ish Ale
10/6/2012 Porter
10/27/2012 Oatmeal Stout
11/11/2012 White IPA