Recent content by SDbrewerJake

As a hop head..... What about the hoptimum???

My sculpin clone has been priming for about a week and some bottles taste like a nice ipa when others taste like caramel. All extract, us 05, 8 different hop variants. No hydro readings. Just want to see if anyone knows what's up. Everything was clean and sanitized before hand.

Isn't that even harder to get ahold of? I've read about it before and would be willing to do a trade.

Well if you enjoy sculpin I would suggest you to stay clear of it. The balance of the extreme hops and mellow malt in heady almost killed sculpin for me. I still enjoy it but ht threw the curve off of how I rate ipas. Pliny is over rated but ht is something special.

Yeah PB is nice until you have kids. Haha. Well shoot even though living in a craft brew city like San Diego you have heady topper right next door. Got a sixer of that stuff and long the day until we meet again. If you ever need any sd brews for heady. I'm your guy!!!

Dude your deck area... What a sight. I live in San Diego and we don't have trees like that. Sure I have a palm tree in my front yard... But a forest... That's awesome. Probably makes the beer taste better.

The flash made it look darker. The scent was super fruity and the first couple drinks tasted like a delicious ipa. The yeast started to come through dt I put it in the freezer for an hr and didn't let it settle all the way. I put a ton in my fridge so tonight I will be able to enjoy the...

This brew is exact to the op. Bottling on Sunday and will crack one open on thursday and do a side by side picture and comparison on this thread.

They don't have the hops on there but they say its 7 lbs lme and 2 lbs dme(light on both im sure) with steeping grains. Not sure what steeping grains but nonetheless you can get that for dirt cheap on more beer as well. Maybe check some of the other guys' ag kits they used on this thread for...

Just checked that site out. You can buy all their ingredients and hops, caps, yeast etc... From more beer for way less than 60. I'm getting all the ingredients with an extra bucket, caps, starsan, and tons of extra hops based off this recipe for only 77 and that is free shipping.

Where are you located?

Right on man. I'm fixing to make the extract clone in the op to a T and wanted to do a side by side. Take a picture of your final product. Sculpin>Pliny Yeah... I said it.

Just had a Pliny the elder and it was good. Just feel the hype was too much and I was expecting something special to happen. I would drink a sculpin over pte any day.

Try it out. If your looking for a strong coffee flavor I'm sure that would do the trick. This is the fun thing about home brewing. Let us know how it turns out.

Some people just throw some strong brewed coffee in it as a dry hop.