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Had a great Big Brew here in Raleigh, NC. Dozens of people showed up, brewed at/in the brewery, made some Nelson Sauvin IPA.

Got some Hogwild IPA from Aviator, brewed not too far from where I'm sitting...great stuff.

Checked the gravity on my hefeweizen, DIPA and Samuel Smith India Ale clone just now. All get to be bottled soon. Also been working figuring out what barleywine I'll be making soon; it'll be the last batch I'll be able to afford for a while so I want to make something really fun, so been...

Made a Topper clone that's almost gone, so had to make this just a few days ago. Primary fermentation is almost done, going to dry hop soon. I made some changes though. Rounded up some hop amounts so used a solid pound overall. My HBS was also out of Maris Otter, so I used regular 2-Row and...

Ooh goody, I get to learn something. Noob question... I made a farmhouse IPA not long back (drinking it not actually...really damn good) and had this stuff floating in it even after fermentation was complete for days. Looked exactly the same. Was worried at 1st, but assumed it was from the...

Quite gone :cross: and unfortunately my first year hops weren't all that flavorful. Possibly because I'm growing in NC.. I haven't heard a lot of good news about growing hops here. Hopeful next year, once the plants are a lil more mature, I'll get better results. But it was hard to miss the...

I just grew hops for the 1st time this past season and noticed the same thing. The cascade & nugget that was left on the plants until it was almost completely dead smelled fantastic. Tasted pretty good thrown right into my glass of IPA actually :P

Only technically made 1 batch since registering..but 5gal Pliny = 48981

I saw this recipe in the Oct issue and decided to play with it a bit. Couldn't get my hands on Pearl through my lhbs so I used Golden Promise with some Marris Otter as my base. Did some minor changes on the hops (mostly moved around Apollo amounts I think) and fermented with WLP013. No...