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So far they haven't charged me anything except the cost of the malt per BSG.

Make friends with a local brewery and tack sacks onto their orders. You'll get 'em at cost. My most recent order (1 sack each of Crisp MO, Weyermann Pils, and Rahr 2-row) cost me $140 total.

Sure didn't. As a much more experienced brewer (now on batch #173), I might do some stuff differently, but I'm still interested in making it eventually.

Hey, sorry, I'm not here that often so I missed this. I ferment in corny kegs, under pressure (up to about 36 psi with lager), and purge the DH and serving kegs with fermentation gas. Typically I purge the serving keg with the first half of fermentation, then add the DH charge to the DH keg...

Slaps = rips = rules. I did a 4-gallon batch with around 130g total DH, so around 4.6 oz. I DH'd for about 3 days at 55F. I've been slowly dialing back the DH length, generally speaking.

Recently did another take on the Timbo recipe posted upthread and used Mosaic + Elani. Slaps, hard.

You'd be surprised. I've run Verdant under 25 PSI with only 0.5 gal of headspace and had no issues.

Good luck, dude! It's legit.

I've done up to 60 minutes, and at that length (and with pressure ferm, 25PSI for me), I get mousse-like head.

Yeah, mistake by me on the first one. It's an alpha rest.

Personally I'd do about 45mins @ 145 and then 20 each at 154 and 162, but it depends on how patient you want to be. The alpha rest at 162 does a lot to build dextrins and promote lacing/head retention.

Forgot to say I made this last fall and it was fantastic. Highly recommend doing an alpha rest (at least 20 minutes at 162F) and pressure ferm for a nice pillowy head.

I just used it in the one I posted above. It's not bad, but definitely not as good as I remember.

Yeah, next time I'd hit it with a solid dose of Citra or just hop heavier for sure.

Sorry, just coming back to this! On the nose I get mostly lemony/orangey citrus with some green/vegetal and some red berry. On the palate it's surprisingly malt-forward (probably the Vienna, which I might drop next time in favor of 5%ish carahell or C10, or just a 60/40 pils/2-row bill). When...