Recent content by spersichilli

I get to that without malto in mine, I mash at 156ish for my single NEIPAs, I mash at 158 to 160 for NE Pale ales to get 1.018-1.022

Got a chance to brew again after a little hiatus. New NEIPA on the docket. Was fortunate to get some Freestyle Nelson from a pro brewer buddy, so doing a single hop nelson NEIPA. These hops are bonkers, definitely the best I've had a chance to get. 1.074 OG, 6 gallons into the fermenter 50%...

I’ve never necessarily tried to “push” ester character from it. I always do a very healthy pitch and ferment at 68 before the D rest. In my experience the esters usually take a back seat the way I normally use it and the hop character is up front. I can see what you mean as far as beers with...

Exclusively LAIII (usually from Wyeast). Lays the best canvas for hop expression and gives it the softness I look for.

In my experience it’s WAY too dry. You want these to be super soft and not spritzy at all. One of the best things about LAIII is how plush it leaves the beer

I think there might have been an oxidation issue on the cans and maybe there was significantly more particulate in my cans vs the kegs.

I had a can of Headroom the other day and it was low key a mess. Just a whisper of that old school galaxy and then it faded to a **** ton of grassy astringency. Basically felt like chewing on a hop pellet.

yeah someone here needs to be the guinea pig!!! Trillium finally put headroom out again so I'm assuming that means that they're finally happy with the galaxy they got

where'd you get the galaxy from? Any notes of "bad galaxy" (plastic/peanuts/extreme astrigency) or were you pretty happy with the lot you got?

I don't use gelatin because I'm vegetarian but I've biofined my NEIPAs before and had minimal reduction in haze, most of them stayed completely turbid actually.

it's very hard in practice to get tannins from the grains. If this astringency isn't present in any of their other beers that is definitely not the issue. I've seen judges note sparge related issues on scoresheets with hop related astringency and it drives me crazy because it's obviously not the...

why not push the beer into a second keg? Getting the beer off the hop ensures you don't pick up any grassiness and help have the hop character brighter.

maybe consider natural carbonating your been in the keg instead of gas. You're going to need some refermentation in order to have the yeast to uptake the diacetyl

Looking to buy a used can seamer. Not particularly picky but oktober is preferred. Must be able to ship to FL (or be local in SWFL or the SF Bay Area).

Still available?