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Shlafly Brewing in St Louis has a Hop Trial beer with Eureka. They used only 2 row malt and Eureka and brewed to 45 IBU.

Just finished a couple of bottles of a hop trial from Schlafly here in St Louis. They used a relatively new hop called Eureka. Fantastic! I can find the hop and order it on line but would like a place to start if any of you have tried this hop.

I found a corner of the basement next to an outside wall that is holding to 46 deg F. I moved the carboy there and will give it two days and then will bottle.

Stepped in it didn't I! I meant to say 39 th week of 1960. That would be around the end of September

Thanks, My garage is currently 34 deg F and my basement is 62. Too cold? Too warm?

I would bet that 3960 means the 39th month of 1960.

I have an IPA in secondary with a muslin bag of hop pellets for dry hopping. It hs been in secondary with the hops for 7 days and I am ready to bottle but before I do so I have a couple of questions. I am an extract brewer and have always struggled to get a light colored beer. This was my first...

I have used it almost exclusively in the 10 batches that I have brewed. Most of my brews have also been pale ales or IPAs. I find it to be quite neutral. even tasting the stuff in the bottom of the bottle, there are no unexpected or unwanted flavors. I have fermented all of my batches between 67...

I only brew 2.75 gallon batches. This gives me a case plus a few. I like to experiment with different beers (build recipies using Beersmith) and 5 gallons is a lot of beer to drink if I don't like it.

I want to follow this till we get the answer!

I did have some steeped Crystal 60L and some pale 2 row in the grain bill for flavor but yeah it is primarily an extract batch. Sounds like it would be worth trying the US-04. I want the heavier mouth feel and extra maltiness for this heavily hopped IPA. Thanks, Jim

Here is a link to a refractometer calculator that takes the alcohol into account when testing a fermenting and or a finished beer. http://www.northernbrewer.com/refractometer-calculator

Thanks, I will probably continue with the same brand of extract making that a constant. So if I wanted it to finish higher I would need a different type, not less yeast? Jim

I Just bottled a batch of IPA using a recipe that I designed in Beersmith. I had 3.3# LME and 1.5# DME in a 2.75 Gal batch. I used a whole pack of US-05 yeast. The program predicted a Starting Gravity of 1.075 and my measured SG was 1.077. The program predicted an FG of 1.020 but I ended up...

Thank you!