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Fingers Crossed!

2.5 gal of custom APA 40687.5

Yeah. The beer ended up great, but next time I make it it's going to have more spicy hops in it. Nothing but cascade made it a little too citrusy for my taste

I'm going to have to agree. This beer has great bitterness and aroma, but absolutely nothing in the middle

I want it!!!!!

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This beer turned out amazing. Not overly aromatic, bitter, or alcoholic. Easily my best beer to date. Next up, belgian tripel

It's just yeast. I'd recommend pouring all but the last bit into a pint glass, but it tastes like beer anyways so it doesn't make too much of a difference IMO. As far as avoiding it you really can't if you're trying to bottle condition it. You can minimize it by racking to a secondary fermenter...

Aah, very good to know. I definitely need to read up on them more

Just bottled this batch. Yielded 25 bottles and my 2L growler. Ended up dry hopping an ounce in the primary for five days and another ounce in the secondary for another five days. So far this beer tastes AMAZING! I'm pumped for it to carbonate! Ps, my birthday was sunday and my girlfriend got me...

Yeah. ABV is right around 6.5%. So age in a tertiary fermenter or in the bottles?

So I dry hopped an ounce of cascade in the primary, transferred to secondary on top of another ounce of cascade. The sample I took tastes AMAZING. Is there any way to over dry hop? Also, the beer is very cloudy. Is there an easy way to clear it up? I plan on usin Irish moss nex time, but it's...

13,113+ 4gallons Vienna/cascade SMaSH= 13,117 gallons

I got a batch infected when I tried to dry hop with hops in a grain bag. I forgot to sanitize the bag. It apparently had a spider living in it. And trust me, spider ipa does not taste good.

Finally got around to brewing. Everything went great! OG of 1.059 and a hair shy of a four gallon yield, but the beer should be marvelous. Going to rack onto a couple more ounces of cascade as soon as fermentation is almost done.