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A rigger of this delicious brew. Their 7.2% Bird Dog IPA aged in a Mt Difficulty Wines Chardonnay barrel, which then was filled with Cardrona Distillery gin, and then with said Bird Dog IPA. Ends up with an 8.5% beast of a beer. I queued for 20mins yesterday to get a rigger of this. It's good.

My first attempt at using a lager yeast: Followed by my first attempt at a Black IPA:

I guess we all have compromises in our setups...well, maybe not everyone, but a blow-off valve is not something I've considered I needed before this particular brew... I've brewed most of my beer-experience in the 1.060-1.065 range, several with Nottingham, but all previous were with 1 single...

Hi, After using exactly 1 packet of re-hydrated dry yeast for the first dozen or so extract + steeping grain brews I've done, I decided to use a yeast pitching calculator for a recent batch. It was a Liquorice Stout, SG of 1.065. I was using Nottingham yeast, which I've used before. Headed over...