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When's the Comp? Let us know how you do!

Just got all my ingredients in to make this this weekend. Got the yeast starter going and looking forward to a delicious lager for summer (it's practically summer already here in FL).

If you look for used kettles on Amazon you can sometimes get great deals. I got a 40 gallon aluminum for $100 and a 20 gallon for about $60.

How long was your mash? Did you sparge? I've found doing 90 minutes I can get higher efficiency without sparging.

Sounds good. I am hearing lots of good things about Conan and getting hop flavors through. I will have to try it. Thanks for the info!

That's about what I aim for. 1/3 each of husk, dust and grain chunks. My last brew's efficiency was 78%.

I took and chilled a small sample. It's been dry hopping for a day now. I'm getting lots of mango aroma and fruit flavor.

Thanks! I'll post some up when I keg it on Monday or Tuesday. [emoji106]🏻

Just a quick update, I did a simple 2 gallon almost SMaSH IPA to test these out. I used only the Ella for hops, both bittering and flavor/aroma. I just took a gravity sample and it's about done fermenting and the sample tasted great! A lot of mango, passion/juicy fruit flavors come through...

No one, huh? Well, maybe I'll post my results after making and testing. Care to share your recipes for a good hop taste test beer?

Hey everyone, I've got some Ella hops in recently and am thinking about making an ipa/apa with them. After a bunch of research, it doesn't seem to be a popular hop as of yet, and there's not a lot of posted experience with them. Anyone here have some experience with these hops? The descriptors...

New Port Richey...

For future reference: If you have it, I've found that gelatin removes the white floaters within a few hours. It did in my stout and my centennial blonde.

Beat me to it. ^This