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Tonight while brewing a hoppy American Wheat - Resilience IPA Sierra Nevada, Homebrew Rye IPA, and now Homebrew Munich Dunkel. Whirlpooling now...

Making my own water profile from distilled fixed my exact problem you're having. I could make good malty beers, but could never get that delicious aroma and crispness from my IPA's until I got into water chemistry.

I'd say go ahead and make a starter. I've used that yeast a few times in NEIPA (fermented around 65f) and still get light fruity esters with a healthy pitch rate. Water profile is huge with this style too, so maybe look into that as well before brew day. Hop combo sounds great. Good luck!

So, I just completed my first fermentation with my new glycol chiller and FTSS setup for 7 gallon Brew Buckets, and have a question for those with similar setups. What is your process for disconnecting the glycol lines from the hose barbs/getting glycol out of the chiller coil without losing a...

Ditto - after getting good processes down for the basics and still making meh beer, having more precise temp control and building water profiles from scratch for every beer changed everything.

Buddy and I bought a used extract kit off of craigslist about 5-6 years ago. Made a couple batches of terrible beer before starting to do some research and slowly improving process. Friend not brewing anymore, but I just got my first BOS in a BJCP comp!

I would guess you'll be fine with 2 packs, assuming all other conditions are optimal and the yeast is relatively fresh. Bit of an underpitch, but you'll still make beer!

+5 = 5564. First time brewing this style, fermenting vigorously as I type this. Can't wait to try it.

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