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Your gravity is a little high, my neipas tend to finish 1012-14. Can you get your hands on a Conan strand of liquid yeast or a London ale as mentioned above? I agree with the others, but tend to shy away from the bittering hops in the boil. If I add anything for bittering it’s .5 oz FWH. The one...

This is an awesome argument. Me being a NEIPA nut I concur with force carbing and drinking the beer young. As far as bottling for buddies or taking up a couple of growlers to the cottage I use a blichmann beer gun for this and it generally works well, and is similar to if you showed up to your...

I have only done it once, I did burp it but I used CO2. I don't know if you clear the head space if that will affect the final carbonation of the beer. The CO2 in the beer is developed from the fermentation process so it could result in low carbonation.

What is your a average water to grain ratio? A typical rule of thumb for this is 1.5 qts/lb malt (this ratio is can be between 1.25-2 as required) . So for a ten gallon with 20 lbs of malt you would have 30 qts of water or 7.5 gallons in your mash tun (20*1.5=30). This may or may not help with...

After sending my reply I thought maybe I should take a reading as I normally dry hop on day 4 well my beer has finished out. This was the first time I have used a starter for brewing and man does it ever make a difference. I will dryhop now for a couple of days and prepare for kegging.

I concur with JTK very good beers can be made using the NEIPA methods ie hopstands at 170f and heavy dry hopping early on in fermentation, the use of oats in your recipe ect. There will be no saving of yeast doing this and can be "ugly" some call it juicy. I have been mostly making these lately...

Use some crystal malt 40 or 60. I did a garbage can beer at the begining of the year using everything pretty much from my brew pantry to make a lawnmower variant I used a small amount of crystal 40 which gave the beer a more amber look & a caramel flavour.

Did you dryhop the apa?

I am on the drink them fresh train. I try and turn my iPas around in 14-21 days. When I used to bottle I always found that I thought something was missing usually the fresh hops on the nose and hop flavour profile we crave. I have also started to dryhop during active fermentation with great...

If it were me I would get the bigger brew kettle too. This will give you more room that will help with boil overs. Also you will be able to modify your brews so that you can do a full 5 gallon batch so you will be able to do a batch that includes boil off, and transfer loss resulting in a full 5...

I concur with not aging your IPA. Get that thing into a keg and serve when carbed up. I primarily brew IPA's and regularly have Ipas in the keg and ready to serve in 14ish days. As for dry hopping I dry hop when the beer is around 1020 on my hydrometer trying to follow North Eastern style of...

Hey sorry I read the "packet" part of your post and forgot you mentioned you were using a wyeast product. I associated packet with dry yeast. Good luck with your yeast challenge.

Why not use a PET bottle? And use the rudimentary squeeze test? When I used to bottle I would bottle 3-4 bottles using plastic bottles. Using plastic bottles every 10-12 bottles to know where in the bucket the beer was from. I would be able to check femenation as the bottle would get harder...

If you are going to spend five bucks on dry then why not buy a vial of liquid yeast culture that is similar to the yeast you are using. Make a starter from that then harvest that. That way you have a bunch of happy yeast. Not to steer you away from your current plan, just a suggestion if you...

10 gal apa = 22182.5

Do this https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=255659 Fruit Beer Lemon-Lime Hefe Weizen by SD-Slim Just kegged this up for our week at the cottage. It's a very good recipe and I think it is the #1 recipe used on this site.

11,978 + 10 summer hefe = 11,988

Hey DreBourbon if the offer still stands with Kombat about being able to participate during on of his Brew Days I would. I found I gained tons being able to participate during brew days at my friends place prior to me getting my own system. As well as having the experience there for a brewday of...

5 gallons saison 5 gallons apa with spruce tips New total 11,135

Hey sansnom have you checked out shortfingerbrewing or ontariobeerkegs? Both have a website with reasonable shipping and are also from southern Ontario. I use shortfinger for mostly everything with the exception of blichmann stuff.