Recent content by Mjpetrag

lol yea my wife jars herbs from the garden. Guess we both have our hobbies

Following up on this, 4 days after kegging, hops starting to settle in. Was a lot of burn on days 0-2, now the yeast esters are starting become more prominent. And this wyeast 1272 is much softer, lighter and creamier A24 or A38 like I’m used to using, it almost reminds me of old school Haze...

Update, 2024 YVH galaxy smelled really great in the bag, super fruity. 2023 YVH Nelson on the other hand went in the trash, smelled like grass, no redeeming qualities. Swapped it out with 2 oz of 2023 YVH Citra lupomax

Recipe here: 7.5 gal batch, 6.25 gallons into ferm 1.077 OG 33 IBU 4.8 SRM Mash 12 gal DI water, 7.25 gal mash, 4.75 sparge. 10g CaCl, 2 g NaCl, 2 g CaSO4 6g lactic 88% 5 lb flaked oats 4 lb white wheat 15 lb rahr 2 row Boil 2 lb pilsen DME 0.5 oz simcoe, servomyces, Whirlfloc at 15 2 drops...

dumping the first dry hop of my fidens inspires brew, with a mix of 2023/2024 YVH Citra. It smelled amazing, more so than normal. Second dry hop will be 2023 Nelson and 2024 galaxy. I am hoping the second dry hop doesn’t ruin the batch Also using wyeast 1272 at a 0.5 pitch rate. 1272 is...

Looking for the best Nelson available right now for a hazy. Not sure if I should go with YVH, YCH, or something else. Also crop year too. My preference is to get that slight late harvest flavor where it’s a little diesel but not overwhelming. It will be 10 oz Citra and 8 oz Nelson in the dry...

I recirc my mash with a pump and a false bottom and step mash by turning the burner on when needed. The one thing to note is that if you don’t have a high enough circ flow rate with the burner on, you will get hot spots in your grains. It is not hard to have the bottom part of your mash around...

Awesome. Can’t wait to hear how it turns out.

Where did you get Peacharine?

I’ve done LODO (used to waste a ton of co2 purging the mash tun for 75 minutes of mashing) and non-LODO and haven’t noticed a difference between the two for a NEIPA. Probably about 20 LODO batches and 50 non LODO. I think as long as you aren’t severely oxidizing the wort on the hot side the...

What’s the grain bill on that? That color is perfect

I’ve recently had several beers from Fidens, tired hands, veil, and a few others that were single hopped with mosaic. I’ve never really been a huge mosaic fan, finding it dank and oniony, but for some reason it looks like whatever lots they got recently are killer. Extremely expressive, fruity...

I had it on tap at other half Philly. It was the all Nectaron everything cryo edition. Released 5/29

Going back to this, I had other half’s “all Nectaron everything” last night and it also had this metallic/weird aroma which was unpleasant and exactly the flavor I had in mine. I am not enjoying this hop at all, and I have 2 lbs of it…