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If you like IPA I find Fremont's and Two Beers Brewing to be the best in the NW.

DFH's Midas Touch

I just heat the hot mash and sparge water on the stove.

Haha! Super tight lids?

Does the job!

Whew! Thanks for the quick reply! After reading a couple other threads, it sounds like those little fluffy, white bubbles are commonly mistaken for bacteria by us novice home brewers. :)

A couple days after primary fermentation, I noticed my fermentation hose had slipped out of the glass carboy. I'm not sure how long it had been like that. The beer was in our guest bedroom fermenting while my buddy (too drunk to drive home) crashed at our place. So, it could have popped out then...

Sorry for the bad grammar. I'm on my iPhone :p

It was minimal effort. I just put a strainer ofer my fermentation bucket and dumped everything through the strainer. I think the hops actually added an extra filter layer too. Then I looked at all those beautiful hops and thought "if you can still get use out of these at 120 minutes (dogfish...

Here is the hop bill. I ended up throwing about 2 oz of the hops and a shot glass in a hops sack, dumped it in the primary then snapped the lid. I just couldn't stomach throwing away all those whole cone hops! Will these boiled hops impart any undesirable flavors or aromas after being used in...

This week it's Port Brewing's Wipeout IPA and Greenflash's West Coast IPA. The San Diego IPAs are really striking a cord with me these days.

For 20 min that is.

Thanks!! I wonder if boiling simcoe (3 gal) is the breaking point...

Then that is what I shall do. Than you good sir.

How did you use them?