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WCIPA bittered with a little Hop-Shot. Mosaic and Simcoe in late-boil, whirlpool, and a dryhop after roughly 36 hours of fermenting. Recipe modeled after Breaking Bud from KneeDeep Brewing. I fermented a bit over 3.5 gallons in a 5 gallon keg which will double as the serving keg with the help...

I chose 22PSI sort of at random on the assumption that there would be zero risk of over-carbonating once I cold crashed to somewhere in the 34-38F range. I do not understand off=gassing, but a bubble every 12 seconds doesn't seem like much to me. Today I removed the spunding valve, crashed to...

The primary is currently a bit over 13 days. I've gone from 1.063 to 1.006.

Bubbles lie! Love it. OK, I will ignore the bubbles. However, I won't be here in three days. I think I will simply cold crash at this point. I still need to figure out what pressure to shoot for once I connect the CO2. I am at 22PSI @69F right now. I am thinking 38F and 8PSI for the nonce.

I am fermenting and serving from the same keg. As for terminal gravity, BeerSmith suggests that is 1.007. I am currently at 1.006, and the occasional bubble suggests I am not all the way there.

Is this one ready to cold crash? Brewed an IPA 13 days ago. Finished the boil with 3.25 gallons at 1.078. Added 3 qts of RO water, which I think means 1.0634. Pitched a very fresh packet of San Diego Super and put a SPUNDit valve on the keg/fermenter. at about 5psi for the first 36 hours...

I am thinking it may be time for me to revisit this beer. I will probably do a 3.5 to 4.0 gallon pressurized fermentation in a five gallon keg and use a HopShot in place of the CTZ if I can find one at my LHBS.

I sent him some follow-up questions. Here are those questions and his replies: no problem... the presentation is online here: http://www.wortsofwisdom.org/how-to-clone-a-commercial-beer-breaking-bud/ you will find that yeast will mutate and can get more aggressive. Since I was trying...

Here is his email that accompanied the PDF which includes a little more info on the water profile: I did brew the beer 3 months in a row. It was decided by the club that the last version was better then the actual Breaking Bud. Personally I attribute that to the bottles of Breaking Bud we...

Quite a bit more input. Just a week after my June 8, 2017 post (above) I finally heard from Dwight Mulcahy. He sent me a PDF (attached) of the "final" version of his clone.

Oh, absolutely. I should have added water to the beer I am drinking now, but winding up with a smaller amount of a tasty DIPA is not really a bad thing. I will fix it next time...

At the risk of sounding pedantic here, if you hit your OG but your volume was low, you didn't really hit your OG. You should be able to add water after the end of the boil to get your volume where it needs to be and still hit your OG. IOW, your OG should be high if your volume is low. If I...

I am one of the lucky few to actually own a Spike grain mill, having ordered early in their pseudo-kickstarter.. If cost and waiting times don't bother you, it is a great choice. But be prepared to wait, and then wait some more.

I think it is EVABarrrier and DuoTight. It has been a while. I think it is 6 or 7 feet and 3/16". It has worked fine in the past, albeit, I've not made a lot of beer in recent years. I also have flow control taps. Reducing the flow close to zero definitely reduces the foam, but I still get...