Recent content by brewhaha_rva

You know, I've never had the pleasure of trying Epic's pale ale, so I looked it up after you posted this. I must say, that is a ton of cascadey deliciousness in a pale ale -- that's hopped like a California IPA. Like whoa. I'd bet its amazing.

Was my first hop as well, in a somewhat misguided Brewers Best Scottish 60/- but I still really enjoyed it. It led to another Scottish strong ale that was aggressively hopped with cascade and it was pretty darned tasty. Really fun beer, I should do that one again :)

You know, it's not super sexy like mosaic, amarillo or citra. It doesn't pack a huge alpha punch like simcoe. But you know what? It's the greatest American hop in my mind. All these new hops come and go, they are up and they are down, but the cascade remains. It's great, versatile hop and if I...

Just prepared a starter of this, looking to get it into a 1.090 quad. Should be awesome. The 1.065 dubbel is brewed with it turned out great and it went off like a bomb. The quad will likely cause damage. Just going to go with a blow-off tube immediately this time.

Oh and on the substance of your question, I didn't really dig the beer that much. I used really cheap 2-row, though, and that may have been the problem. I may not have given the yeast a chance to succeed. I will likely use the Westmalle strain in the future, why mess around. On that note, I...

I think that's an overstatement of splash racking and its effects. It's standard practice in the wine industry to kill sulphur. And when it comes down to it, a little bit of oxidation is way less obnoxious than sulphur, providing you don't get an infection.

I splash racked it, killed the smell. Tell us how the beer turns out!

Did you extract the Orange and coriander in vodka?

I'm so glad this thread was resurrected! I'd been in a bit of a beer rut. I went out and bought a four pack of Hop House and I'm going to get a Blonde going next week. I'm thinking just Pilsner malt, some noble hops and Ommegang. Really see what this puppy can do :)

Overall my Belgian Pale Ale is good. I'm backing off on using this strain again, however. I'm just going to use White Labs 530. The extra $2 makes a world of difference in my book. It's not a bad yeast strain, it's definitely a Belgian. But the word that occurred to me was that it is a joyless...

Yep, I have a terrible habit of wasting a perfectly good beer 10 days or so into bottle conditioning just to see how it's coming along. Beautiful thick lace on the pale ale, tastes green as expected but overall it's way cleaner than I thought it would be. Will update in a week.

Well just bottled the Mosaic Pale Ale. First time using either the yeast or the hop. It's a fun beer. The Belgian character is there but it's subtle, as I intended. Wanted it to be a background note to the malt and hops -- a fun twist on a fairly standard APA. Mission Accomplished, as Bush might...

I got a lot of sulfer as well, I splash-racked it into the secondary and that dispelled most of it. I dry hopped with two more oz of Mosaic and now I get some phenols, esters and mosaic hops off the airlock. Will report back.

Just pitched this in a Belgo-American pale ale. Buddy of mine opening a brewery and wanted to know if this would be a viable back-up yeast for some of his Belgian styles. I'm going in with an open mind. I will say that I enjoy T-58, it's not the most refined yeast on earth, a little bit of a...

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