Firebat138
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yup... same here... This keg is gonna go quick...
Hi Yooper...Took FG reading tonight (will also be taking tomorrow night). Came out to 1.013. OG for me was 1.051. Being a noob and all, if I take FG again tomorrow night and it's 1.013 again...Should I then dry hop for the next week, and then bottle? Thanks!
I brewed up my 3rd batch of this about a month ago. The other 2 I didn't dry hop because I was buying all the ingredients on a per batch basis and didn't want to buy the extras hops. A lb of cascade pellets solved that problem and i threw about 1.25 oz in my primary about a week ago thinking I would bottle it this weekend. Something came up and I won't be able to bottle it for at least 2 weeks.
Think it will make much difference?
I am a new brewer with 13 batches under my belt and was looking forward to tasting the difference between a dry hopped version and the other versions I brewed.
hey yooper (or anyone else with experience brewing this),
Would this recipe benefit from some head grains, like carapils, flaked barley, oats, etc?
Im gonna brew tomorrow.
thanks all,
HIt
Yooper said:Well, not oats because they are oily and can kill head retention. But if you tend to have a lack of foam, you could try carapils or wheat if you want. It's not really needed with that much crystal malt, though.
Well, not oats because they are oily and can kill head retention. But if you tend to have a lack of foam, you could try carapils or wheat if you want. It's not really needed with that much crystal malt, though.
What yeast do you like to use in this recipe Yooper ? I know its an American Ale but wasn't sure if you used any thing other than 1056
Brewed up another batch of this yesterday. I spilled about 1/2 pound of my grain while mashing in. In an effort to make up some gravity points I threw in .75 lbs of flaked oats I had sitting around from a Blue Moon Clone batch I made last summer. I figured what the hell. I am learning and experimenting anyway. Wound up with 1.054. I also used 1 oz of 10.1 Amarillo for bittering and dropped an ounce of cascade 5.5 pellets in a few at a time the last 30 minutes (dogfish head style)
Finally bottled this last weekend after 5 weeks in the primary. I kept it in there that long due to traveling for work and not being able to package it.
It tasted great out of the bottling bucket.
I couldn't wait another week so I didn't dry hop. As an experiment I bottled half the batch then added a hop tea made by boiling about a quart of water, steeping an ounce of cascade pellets in a paint strainer bag for 20 minutes(off the heat not boiling) and stirring that into the bottling bucket.
I figured since I already messed up the recipe I might as well learn something about a hop tea addition. Doing half the batch will give me a side by side comparison with the same wort as well as my last batch of this dry hopped 2 weeks.
Let us know how the hop tea works out! I'm very curious.
winvarin said:I made this as an APA and it was a huge hit. Really loved the malt profile. I was considering beefing this up into the IPA range, then using it as a test bed for my first try at hop bursting, late hopping, whatever you want to call it. Do you think just scaling it up into the IPA range and keeping the proportions the same would work?
I just got 4 ounces of Falconer's Flight yesterday and am looking for something to do with them.
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