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Just curious, were these brews you did single hop or did you mix them up? Specifically I'm wondering what your thoughts, as well as others, were regarding calypso? I'm about to bottle up an IPA that I used calypso in for the first time and I'm definitely getting a strong earthy flavor. I see...

It's hard to say and probably depends a lot on what you're trying to achieve. If you were to pitch just the dregs straight from the bottle that would be very different from building them up into a good sized starter first. Even then your starter may take awhile before it acquires much acidity as...

Yep, they can kinda control the bacteria in their different beers by the level of ibu's in the beer. With it being an IPA the bacteria don't really get a chance to have much impact. Potentially though, if given enough time, as those ibu's start to fade the bacteria could start to go to work and...

They use the same house culture in all their beers. When they first started they were using specific strains in specific beers. They have since moved to a mixed culture of some of those original sacc strains and various wild yeast and bacteria that they cultured up from around their brewery. So...

Ha it was largely your post beergolf that inspired me to try this in the first place. Thanks for the replies everyone, I actually just stepped it up into a larger volume so we'll see how it turns out.

So I recently attempted to capture some wild yeast and or bacteria. I put out 3 jars of 1.020 unhopped wort made from Pilsner dme on a cool windy afternoon. It's now been a few weeks and they have all shown signs of fermentation and there is one that I am particularly interested in. It has a...

Thanks for all the replies, looks like it's the hops. Not terribly surprising especially since I brewed this on 12/1 so it's still super young. I got the hops right before I brewed at Austin Homebrew but I don't recall what the date was on the package.

Thanks for the replies everybody. Looks like it's the hops based on what everyone is saying which is what I was suspecting. Makes sense too because this thing is super young since I was trying to get a quick turn around on it. Brewed on 12/1 bottled 12/8 and just tried it the other day.

So are you implying that this character is most likely due to the Citra hops then? And don't get me wrong I love the beer it just maybe isn't what I have in my mind for an end goal. If it is hop derived I'm thinking adding in some different hop varieties next time will help tone it down a little...

So I made a "Northeast style" IPA after gathering inspiration from various threads here as well as a couple of brews by The Mad Fermentationist. My recipe: Type- All grain batch sparge Ending Kettle- 3.5 gallons Boil volume- 4 gallons Boil- 30 minutes Efficiency (ending kettle)- 73%...