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https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/gambler-ipa-2018-iron-brewer-competition-winner.650344/ That describes the recipe and how I make it.

It depends on your definition of "too fruity". :) Personally, I'm a total hop head. I spent a year trying to clone Bissell Brothers' Swish DIPA and, when I finally nailed it, it took a 7 oz whirlpool and 9 oz of dry hops in two stages for a 5 gallon, 8% beer. I'd do 2 oz of each in the dry hop...

I have a couple Clear Beer Draught System dip tube set ups in my serving kegs that eliminate that problem. You can even dump loose hops in the keg (within reason) and drink it the next day without needing ranch dressing between sips.

The idea is to get the oil into the solution so it depends on how you do it. I almost always dry hop for 5 days but if you agitate the beer regularly you can get away with 3 days. 7 is probably overkill. It won't hurt your beer but why bother when you can be drinking your beer two days earlier?

Amarillo is awesome. Personally, I'd go with Amarillo and Centennial in equal parts and skip the Columbus entirely. I think it's a good hop in the boil but in the dry hop I find it somewhat overpowering and distracting from the fruitiness of Amarillo and Centennial. Also, I'd dry hop in the...

I buy all kinds of hops, some because i know and like them and some because I don't know what they'll do but the description sounds good and I want to try them out. Several are experimental, some of those I have a lot of because they're really good (BRU-1, Exp. Stonefruit) I buy from Farmhouse...

^^^ This I've done early (day 1), late (day 5) and somewhere in the middle and my best results have been to add the hops as close to right after high krausen as possible...usually day 3 or 4. Earlier or later than that still makes a good beer but the aroma, taste and whatever biotransformation...

It will be fine, that's happened to me a couple times. Eventually I started adding a drop of fermcap to my starters to keep the krausen down and it worked great.

I always throw a whirlfloc in the kettle and never had a problem making a hazy beer. I'm guessing some of the haze comes from yeast but I have noticed that some hops, such as Belma, add a TON of haze during a dry hop. Between the Whirlfloc and a trub dam, I have almost perfectly clear wort going...

Try using a drop of Fermcap. I had a starter get close to bubbling over because I forgot it. I added a drop and it knocked the foam way down.

Only thing missing is (IMO) Fiddlehead's Mastermind. :-)

The other side of that argument is if the carbonation is too low the aroma won’t jump out of the glass at you, which is another hallmark of the NEIPA. My favorite of that style, Bissell Brother’s Swish, is pretty fizzy. I took off a pound of grain and added 4 additional oz of corn sugar to my...

Maybe a 50/50 mix of Hallertau Blanc and Denali?

................................................................. 13 lb American 2-row 3 lb Maris Otter Pale Malt 1 lb Flaked oats 1 lb Dextrose Flameout 0.5 oz Vic Secret 60 4 tsp Yeast nutrient 10 1 Whirfloc 10 1 oz Vic Secret...

It's pretty hard to screw up a hop stand and I don't see anything unusual in the schedule. It sounds to me like low quality or old hops.

....................................................................... 11 lb Golden Promise 2 lb Flaked Wheat 1.25 lb Dextrose Flameout Boil addition (all 10 min): 0.25 oz Apollo 1 oz Mosaic 1 oz Simcoe 4 tsp Yeast nutrient 1 Whirlfloc 30 minute steep...

I love Mad Chef. Excellent food, excellent beer, great atmosphere...it reminds me a lot of the places I visit in Portland, ME except it's two miles away. The brewers and the Mad Chef himself are all great guys, I had an absolute blast brewing there. The release date should be about two weeks...

Thanks guys! And you bet if a little is good, more is better! :D

Mark and Greg are both pretty awesome. Greg is the MacGyver of the place. I walked in there one day with two halves of a spunding valve and he managed to find something to connect them. The recipe for Gambler IPA (Swish) is at...

I'm Mark in Lancaster, PA and I've been an avid reader for a couple years but only recently posted my first message concerning Bissell Brother's "Swish". I've been brewing almost every Saturday for 2 1/2 years, more or less, and always brew IPAs since my wife loves them and will never complain...