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Great article. Couple more questions. When do you add your water treatment additions and what is the starting PH of the reverse osmosis water you used for the american IPA in scenario 1?

I made this beer 2 summers ago and I think I let the temp get to high. It had pretty strong esters and banana flavors. Just bought some of the real beer fresh and its pretty crisp with minimal belgian influences which blend really well with the hops and bitterness. I'm going to control the...

I brewed the BYO clone before which is adding coffee at flameout and the lower IBUs. I wouldn't add the coffee at flameout again as it can add acidity and bitterness, so I'd use hops to bump up my IBUs closer to 60 and just add the cold brewed coffee into secondary.

Are you a pressure cooker salesman?

I think because he only has one keg? Not sure how you'll get 3 batches bottled if you only own one keg unless you have a lot of empty bottles to fill with the bottling gun.

Getting their **** together might mean still perfecting the recipes to get the great flavors they are achieving now.

Brewed this up again this year and made some hop modifications. Transferred to keg last night and the sample tasted fantastic. Method: Extract Style: American Brown Ale Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 6.25 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.064 (recipe...

Going to need more details, how many gallons was the batch, what did you use for malts, how many oz did you add to the hop stand?

I dont get much onion from columbus, but definitely a huge dank and resiny taste. Its a very powerful hop that can easily dominate any other hops in the batch if used too much.

Northern Brewer has a Heady style kit. I have no experience with it though. http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/recipe-kits/extract-kits/off-the-topper-iipa-homebrew-kit

So does your beer clear up after its been in the keg for awhile. Mines been in the keg over a month now and everything has dropped out as far as haziness. Not a bad thing, just wondering if this is normal for the "new england" style ipas.

yeah, a water softener. I'd love to see the recipe you are planning. Also, it seems it needed a little age and now its getting juicier. Not crazy bright and vibrant like some tree house beers, but getting a little more like what i intended. I think the water test and then adjusting my...

The hop spider is large, 5 gallon paint bag so it fits them all. When I dry hop with small hop sacks i usually only put 2 ounces in, so the 4 oz final keg hop went in 2 hop sacks.

I used tap water, but it water is run through a salt purifier do I really should get a water test done. During the boil my hops were in a hop spider. In dry hop and keg hop, they were muslin bags

So I brewed this beer thinking it would be a juice bomb, but the hop flavors are actually a little muddled and tough to pick flavors out of it. Was this just a bad hop combo (I've had citra and amarillo before in a delicious homebrew) or can anyone notice anything else that might be out of...

Next time, I would use some brewing recipe software. Since you have the intended IBUs based on the hop additions, you can enter in the full boil and then adjust your hops to get the same IBU additions from each hop add.

I just clean my wort chiller and sanitize it in my fermenting bucket. Then drop it in the kettle when I'm ready to chill

Both actually, as a fundraiser for charity Stone is having other breweries brew Arrogant Bastard and it will be released on tap. Maine Beer Company brewed a batch a few weeks ago. http://road.arrogantbastard.com

Think they use Azacca at all in Julius? I brewed with it Friday and the hops smelt really citrus with a preference towards orange. I've also had some beers with azacca added like Stone Old Guardian extra hoppy with gave it a candied orange flavor..

Had a family cookout with all the in laws coming over. Tapped a keg of hoppy wheat during the week before and keg was gone early evening that Saturday. Loved the success of the beer especially with most of the people happy drinking pumpkin heads and bud lights.