Recent content by DavidSteel

Oh my. That's going to be pretty bitter.

Sorry I don't check up on here very often, but I'd honestly just leave it in the primary and see what happens. What did you end up doing? I'd imagine this would be pretty intense using loose/fresh/whole hops instead of pellets. I batch sparge and I believe I did 3 runnings and ended up taking a...

Pumking is my favorite beer of all time. One of the reasons being on how hard it is to clone. How do they get that perfect pumpkin pie flavor that finishes with a graham cracker crust? Delicious dessert beer.

Sorry for the crazy late response, but yes. I used all pellets. Bought these 3 hops in bulk from hopsdirect a while back. Great, if not, the best use for them yet. You can use a paint-strainer bag if you so desire? I didn't get any hop sludge in my bottling bucket (or racking cane etc.). I don't...

Amarillo in a spicy beer? Whut? lol. Look for a spicy hop and save the amarillo for a different pale ale or IPA :3

Holy crap. I brewed this like 4 months ago as a reason to try something different and it sat in my carboy for 3 1/2 months. Finally gathered the effort to bottle and I'm trying it now. I am blown away. Wayyyyyyyy better than I had ever anticipated/expected. Probably the best IPA I've ever had...

It's been quite a while since I posted this so I'd like to bump it exclaiming that I believe this is the best IPA I've ever had (excluding double IPA's and the like). The hop schedule is one true to Sierra Nevada and this recipe was originally an intent to clone Celebration Ale. Truth be told...

To this response and all the others. It's a good session beer, especially at high carbonation. It tastes like just how it should; my fermentation temps were 72-74 for a little more than 3 weeks. All mashing temps etc. were the exact same as the recipe. Probably the most spot-on temp hits to date...

Wanted to report that the regular caps have come along nicely while the OA caps are a little behind. They are carbing, just a few days behind schedule. So weird. These caps have made some sort of psychological impact on me and I'll avoid them in the future for nonsensical reasons on my part...

Alright, I am reviving this thread to report that I did a batch of Nutbrown and randomly placed regular caps and OA caps on the bottles. The Oxygen Absorbing caps don't have nearly as much carbonation and seem to be less than half way along than the regular caps. Priming sugar was evenly...

Gotta say, been in the bottle only about 2 weeks, but this isn't impressing me at all. My batch is IDENTICAL to the OP. I'll give this a few more weeks and try again. Hopeful that it gets better. Also, nothing wrong with the beer, ingredients used fermentation temps, etc. so don't even comment...

Just wanted to say I bottled this on 1/16. My OG was 1.055 and my FG was either 1.012 or 1.011. Should be fairly spot on to the original posted recipe. I hit all my temp's and I'm pretty happy about that.

Been drinkin' this for the past 2 weeks. It's a great beer. Mine turned out having a nice mouthfeel and 4.7% (instead of the calculated 5% I anticipated). I mashed at 156 and added some malto dextrine. Strangely, my FG was something like 1.018 or something similar. I was let down at first, but...

Brewing 11-12 gallons of this right now. Hit my temps @ 154 and 168. 20 minutes left in the boil right now. I can't wait to try it out. Used Willamette for both hop additions because I'm cheap like that. Hope it compliments the beer well. Edit: do you think I should aim to get this around the...

Leave it be, mang. Should turn out interesting..