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My suggestion would be to keep the grains of paradise at 2 grams and use .4 oz of coriander. The two blend wonderfully together.

On the surface it seems like a strange choice for an ipa, but it lends itself perfectly to hop forward beers. If you care at all about clear beer, don't use it! It doesn't flocculate very well. I double dry hop all of my hoppy beers. The first dry hop, which allows the hop oils to mingle...

Honestly, I like the 6 oz dry hop, but I'd split it. 3 oz 3 days into fermentation, 3 oz 7 days before packaging. I'd also like to see 10-15 ibu at 60 minutes and wyeast 1318 as your yeast of choice, but it's not my beer! Hahaha! Let us know how it turns out.

Our system is 3 bbl, but will hold about 5 bbl in the kettle, pre-boil. We only fill to 4.2 bbl, though. We keg 3 bbl every time.

Yes, that is correct.

I've always wanted to try your stuff! Maybe I could stop by and visit with you guys sometime?

BRB in Middletown. It's a brewery on an herb farm in the mountains near Front Royal.

Where are you located?

Not sure where you're at, but helping out at a small brewery is anything but impossible. You just have to ask around. I let people join us at the brewery during brew sessions quite often. Probrewer.com is a great website filled with useful people and useful information, you should check it...

You could make a much shorter trip to Richmond. A brewer that used to work with John at the Alchemist and Shawn at Hill Farmstead just opened a brewery there called The Veil. He's serving great NE Style IPAs

Throwing more yeast into a sea of yeast really won't do anything unless you're talking about Brett. Dump it or pitch some Brett or Brett/bacteria and let it ride, that would be my solution.

If you have great patience and use Craigslist you can still find some really good deals. I bought four kegs, from two different sellers, for $20 a piece about a month ago.

Interested in all of them!

I just sanitize a spoon with isopropyl and make a small passage to place my hops in. Works great.

It's fine. Nothing to worry about