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Sort of crappy brew day today. Making a dark IPA - first of all couldn't get a good boil outside on a windy cool Chicago afternoon. Just weakly roiling without a hot break for over an hour. Eventually brought it inside, started a real boil on the stove, hopped appropriately, cooled, etc, etc...

Hey all- I recently soaked maybe 150 bottles in a dilute ammonia solution to get the labels off, but got sort of busy and let them sit for almost a week. After drying (labels came off great), I noticed that nearly all of them had a deposit of some hazy, powdery stuff on both the inside and...

This is what happens when I have a bunch of hops sitting around. Five varieties with a fairly complex hopping schedule (6 additions!), long boil time mostly because of distractions during the process. Bottled this on 1/11/11, so Five to One IPA (ya know, the Doors' song?) California Ale WLP...

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