Recent content by beethirtyone

I made mine with the 1762, seemed like an unlikely yeast for a hopped up American Ale but it worked really well and rivaled any of the strong IPA's I've made before. I substituted some Willamette and Cascade because it's what I had on hand and it was good, it needed something though...possibly...

Hey how did your IRA clone work out? I'm considering doing the same, I live in Hood River but I never get tired of drinking that beautiful IRA.

I did this about a year ago with a christmas ale. I boiled some hops (I just used the 'feel' method, I felt how much I should use and added that much) in a french press for 60 minutes then added the water directly to the keg. It had the desired effect, the beer lost its cloying sweetness and...

I am in the same predicament as the original poster. I'm surprised that there is no difinitive answer yet but it sounds like a good way to go would be to use 1 gallon boil volume, add some DME and boil the hops for 60 minutes? I don't want to add a lot of extra gravity to my already sweet...