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I like to use Cocoa powder as well.

I Agee with newsman a small ie computer fan in the fridge to blow cool air up the containment pipe from the fridge. Check out keezer builds for ideas.

OP I applaud your methodical approach to extract sensory testing. It's not easy figuring out the right amount of that stuff. Thanks for the R&D Homebrew style. Prost

Cape very fun read, took me 3 or 4 days. I like the progressive upscale of the brewing system approach. I am one of those lucky guys that is friends with a couple of guys that pulled the trigger on a 15 bbl and have been acting as an "unpaid" help brewer. We have been taking our Homebrew...

Instead of transferring to fermenter you leave a valve open and transfer almost 400G of boiling wort from the kettle to the HLT which still had 50G of water in it. Quick way to lose 20 points of SG and hot side aerate. Don't do that!

This is my current fav.

Sub a # of pale for Munich and now your talking. I use Willamette for bittering and a quart of cherry concentrate for a 5 gallon batch. Little pricy but worth it.

I playoff the name of my home brewery Lakehub Brewing and use actual lake names. Lake Cali the imposter- California common not using NB hops. Lake Nebo- northern English brown. Ect...

Bells 2 hearted is now in cans.

1.Bells 2.Founders 3.Stone 4.Shorts 5.Oscar Blues 6.New Amsterdam (Canadian) 7. Tree Brewing (Canadian) 8.Brooklyn 9.Flying Monkeys (Canadian) 10.New Belgium 11. Dogfish Head

Depends on the hops but I like a sweeter IPA so I like it to finish at around 15.

We brew this very similar recipe at high 60's using S23. Works great and gets the flavours that the lager yeast makes at ale temps. As for the post about hop subs I would go with will as it has some of those earthy tones that NB has.