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Awesome, well informed reply and description of your process, as usual! Thank you. Recently, I have been doing no sparge, all mineral/acid additions for all my beers. I have also been adding MORE of my trub into the fermentors and my beers have gotten clearer!

That pilsner looks amazing! Mind sharing your recipe?? I'm planning a Vienna lager next as well as a Vienna malt NE IPA

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Great info! Thanks! My local homebrew store does not have first golds... I really want to try them

Yeah I have made EKG only IPAs and I think the EKG (current and recent crops) need other hops to really make it shine and bring complexity. Once again the national bjcp judges thought my British golden had citra in it lol.. similar experience as last years competition. The difference is last...

So I did make this again with a few tweaks. I used fullers strain so it would drop clear, and dropped the abv to 4.5% and then I naturally carbed it in a keg for "real ale" bjcp burp competition. I still used the hopping schedule of NE IPA and the NE IPA water profile. I am happy to report that...

At home I mash high- 156-160 and dry hop on day 1-2. My last NE pale was actually with British hops, and Scott Janish actually tried and enjoyed it. No harsh burn. it flocked well. Only dry hopped with 4 oz tho

I think the length of time beer stays in brites is different at every brewery. For example, at the I work for, nothing stays in the Brite for longer then 3 days.

This looks awesome. Will do some research on this

Lol!! How depressing

Scott Janish, @ScottJanish came to one of my home brew clubs last night to talk about some of the latest in NE IPAs! One of the things that caught my interest was the IBU/dry hop relationship. He said that he did a dry hop only beer and did something like 3 ounces of hops and 4 additions (12...

I really want to get my hands on first gold, as well as some of the other hops you have mentioned. I used American yeast, "flagship" from IMperial organic. I used a NE IPA grain and water profile too. Just a splash of American hops to blend with it

So for kicks I just make a NE pale and used British Target hops in the WP and dry hop.... the flavor is bracingly strong British flavors: earth, spicy, floral, herby, and sage! Glad I did it, probably won't do it again. Will use Goldings next time

That's pretty cool. I want to hear about the results

Gas line hooked up to the cap? Like 1 psi?

100% clean that valve each time. At my brewery, after a 30 min clean and place cycle, with caustic or pbw, I'm still amazed how much gunk/trub/yeast I find in the valves, elbows, thermowells, and gaskets! After a cycle, we soak all the small parts in a bucket of pbw, while we clean the...

I want to echo what had already been said. Yes you can make an extract NE IPA, and yes it does taste good! I have done a few, also because of time constraints. For a 6 gallon batch I have used 6lbs of DME with 6-7 gallons of RO water. However I have not tried one with wheat dme. That will be...

The flocculation of the yeast you use, and how early you add dry hops (for example, high krausen) will determine how many small hop flakes you have In solution. The hop bits will def cause a burn/green/grass flavor that will go away will cold conditioning/finings. I find that a high flocking...

Looks great! I have done this style a few times with extract for fun. They all came out delicious. Did you use 6 pounds of wheat dme? Any steeping grain?

I do something similar with my full volume mashing (no sparge) I heat 10 gallons of water to 160f, add my salts, add grain, and it will be around 154-158f