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Gave this recipe a try. Used grain bill from OP. Nose is awesome! Loaded with mosaic. Taste is a little on the sweet side and came out very dry despite mashing higher than I wanted @ 158. Used distilled water and added additions that someone recommended back on page 16.

Ok, I'll just stick with the gypsum and CaCla. Has anyone attempted this with New Zealand hops. I may brew up another batch this weekend and would like to use some. Just trying to figure out if I should use only New Zealand or mix with other more traditional hops or what... I'd really like to...

So other than the CaCl and gypsum, is there anything else that I can add to my RO to help out? And to the guys asking about adding "dankness". I used Columbus as my bittering hop, had about a half an oz left so I tossed it in with the others in my second dry hop. Added a nice marijuana smell...

Second batch finished. Went with Columbus, Citra, Mosaic and Amarillo. Used Imperial Citrus yeast. Mashed the first batch too low, ~150. Mashed this batch ~159, a little higher than I wanted but came out better than previous batch.

Yeah I added my first dose of dry hops this morning (day 2). So how did your beer turn out?

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So I brewed my latest batch Thursday night, used Imperial Citrus yeast this time. Chilled to 63, pitched my yeast and into my freezer. Friday morning I checked on it and it looked like a carbonated soda! Checked on it again this morning and my krausen has already dropped! I'm still fairly new to...

To my fellow BIABers, if you haven't yet, go grab yourself a Wilser bag. I don't think a single grain got through my bag during mash. Best $20 I've ever spent!

Good question, lol. I was just planning on adding right before I put in my grain

I've never messed with ph before, I'll invest in a nice meter and worry about it then. Thank you!

Appreciate it guys. First batch was straight up RO, so looking forward to seeing how this batch turns out. One other thing, I'm planning on buying a ph meter but for now I just grabbed some test strips from LHBS. If my mash ph is on the low side, should I add more CaCl to raise it up?

I did gently swirl it several times but it didn't seem to help any of the hops get through the krausen. Most just stayed right on top

Gonna be brewing another batch of this later this afternoon and have a couple questions. 1) I do BIAB 3 gallon batches and use 5 gallons of RO with no sparge water. Just to be clear, I should be using 1 tsp of Cacl + 1/2 tsp of gypsum in total to get me in the ballpark, correct? 2) my last...

This is the first homebrew that I can actually drink and enjoy, lol. I have always bottled and after a couple weeks my beer was purple... this is my first ever kegged beer. Thank you Braufessor!

I'll give it a couple more days. Thanks!