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    Show me your HEAT STICK!

    subbed. Also very interested in this
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    First time with Rye

    perfect. Thanks
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    First time with Rye

    I was considering a dry hop with some left over centennial! We'll see if that gets done. Did you use a simliar % of Rye? How did it come through?
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    First time with Rye

    Looking to brew a quick Rye Pale ale. How's this look? Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: American Pale Ale Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 6 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.042 Efficiency: 72% (brew house) STATS: Original Gravity: 1.050 Final...
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    2014 Midwest Homebrewers Invitational (Formerly Homegrown Homebrewers Fest)

    sub'd. Did this last year and had a blast!! Thanks
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    US-05 and low ferm temp

    i've gotten peach before with US05, but it was setting around 60F maybe even a little less. That was measured beer temp tho.
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    Knights of Columbus!

    Anyone else ever throw this much CTZ into an IPA? Bought a lb last year from Niko and needed to use some up. 14lbs - 2 row 1.75lbs - Munich 10L .075lbs - C40L .5 oz @ FWH - CTZ 1.25 oz - @ 10min - Simcoe 3 oz @ 5min - CTZ 2 oz @ 0min - CTZ 1.75oz @ 0min - Simcoe Plan to dry hop...
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    ISO Nebraska Brewing Company

    i can get ya some tonight! what are you looking for specifically?
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    Yeast rafts or something more sinister?

    another vote for completely normal
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    Beer, meat, veggies and nutrition in general

    Its all bad. Aahhhh@!
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    So what score in a contest would you consider disappointing?

    Yeah I'm just wondering if maybe I can't taste the flaws, if in fact they were there. Mine was also tasted 2ND last in the flight. I'm not saying the beer should be BOS, just curious as to if my beer is as good as I think lol
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    So what score in a contest would you consider disappointing?

    that 68f is a measured 66F on a temp strip so i was figuring a few degrees above for actual beer temp. I know what buttered popcorn smells/tastes like, i've tasted un d-rested lagers and can pick it out as well. I was thinking that same thing about diacetyl for an IPA must be pretty...
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    So what score in a contest would you consider disappointing?

    Just got sheets back from a local comp, my IPA that i love scored a measily 27. Comments said diacetyl present from both judges, watch fermentation temps, etc. Pitched rehydrated 05 and sat at 68F. Now i did rush this a little by getting it in the keg and carbed by day 16... I was a little...
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    2014 Hop rhizome Swap

    +1 to the above. You do realize other places in the world have different climates. Frozen solid ground is hard to work with.
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    Should I dry hop in 7.8 gallon bucket primary or 5 gallon glass carboy secondary?

    i use buckets as well. I just open them up, drop in pellets/whole and leave it be until i'm ready to bottle/keg. No oxidation issues or infection issues to date
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