knuckledragger
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Just cracked one open. Absolutely amazing beer. This is my 4th batch and I'm extremely happy with the results!
What do you think about adding some honey to dry it out? I was thinking about a nice crisp summer IPA.
Newbie brewer here, I have been reading the boards for awhile and decided to sign up and post on here. THis was my second batch I have ever brewed, so I went with the extract version.
Ran into one problem, I wrote the recipe down wrong before I went to the LHBS. I didnt get any simcoe because they were out, but I told the Darren at the store that the simcoe was only needed to dry hop, so we decided he could get it in by the time it was needed.
We realized this as we were brewing, we had an extra oz. of warrrior so we basically used it inplace of the simcoe. So there is a total of 2oz.'s of warrior in the wort.
We now have the simcoe and will plan to dry hop with it and the amarillo per the recipe.
I understand this will not be the DFH clone but wondering if it is still going to be a tasty beer?!
Thanks to yooper for posting the recipe, I hope to make it the right way next time
Cheers!!!
Did you start after the 101 class recently?
I'm sure it will make really tasty beer no matter what.
Did you start after the 101 class recently?
Are you using leaf or pellet hops, or a mix?
thanks, lyacovett. I'm gonna ride out the dry hops and see how it goes. Got a couple more days conditioning with hops at room temp then off to chill and gas! Man, I can't wait for this one!You can leave the hops in the keg until its empty. The cold temps tend to slow down the process and keep off flavors from developing. I have a IIPA in the fridge for roughly 4 weeks, that still have the hops in it, no grassy flavors.
At keging time I will usually add gelatin and my drop hops, then right in to the fridge on the gas. By the time it carbs up, it crystal clear, and the dry hops have done their thing. It usually works out quite nice.
I used pellet hops, and I plan on dry hopping in the primary. I don't plan on using a secondary at all. Any thoughts on this?
Seems like opinions are mixed on here wether people are using secondaries or not. I would love to hear yoopers thoughts on this ! (it his her recipe!)
XtremeBrew said:Northern Brewer and Rebel Brewer always have the needed items in stock and you usually get your order in 3-4 business days.
I couldn't find simcoe at Northerns site. I live in TN, so there would be tax from Rebel. Any other stores? Or people I could buy from?
Just brewed this today. First time using all my outdoor stuff (propane burner and 12 gallon pot). Must say it makes the brew day so much easier. I decided to add the Warrior every minute and then Simcoe and Amarillo every 2-3 minutes or so. Everything seemed to go fine, but had some trouble cooling it down with the wort chiller. Since I have such a big brew pot and only boiled 2.5 gallons there was only about 2 inches of liquid in the kettle.
Another issue that has me a bit worried is my yeast pitching temp. I put the wort in the fermenter at around 70 degrees, and then topped off with water to about 5 gallons, hit 1.70 OG so was pretty happy, but the temperature of the water was around 55 degrees after all was said and done. Is that too cold to pitch at? I didnt really know how to raise the temperature after everything was in there. I have the bucket near my heater now to try and get the temp back up to about 68 or so. Currently it says 60 on the outside thermometer. Anyone have any insight on whether it was bad to pitch at a cooler temperature like that?
OK, so this is only my second time brewing, but I followed the directions very carefully: steeped 1 lb of crystal malt in 2.5 gal water, discarded grains, added 9.5lb of pale malt extract, continuously hopped for 60 min., chilled, strained it into fermenter, aerated, and topped up to 5 gal w/ bottled water (tap water here is terrible). I "turkey basted" a sample into a cylinder and checked the OG, and it read 1.022 - WAY off from the 1.07 I was expecting from the recipe. This is the first time I've used the hydrometer brewing, but I don't see how I could be so inept as to not be able to read a scale. Is it even possible to have an OG that low after adding 9.5lbs of extract to a 5 gal batch? Was I reading a sample at the inappropriate time? Should I have not strained it? I didn't stir it after adding the water, but I figured the churning action of adding sever gal. of water to the fermenter should have mixed it up. Help!
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