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When you say FWH, you mean adding them during the time it takes to heat my wort to a boil right? Or do you mean the 60min addition?

Be careful on bumping up the crysta that much. Typically IPAs are drier in an effort to showcase the hops. That much crystal will add a lot of sweetness which is contrary to this. I even see people adding corn sugar to dry the beer out

Wow! Thanks for the input. The only reasons I was considering the Chinook was that I have a lot on-hand I need to use, I see EKG paired a lot, and I saw 2 recipes with the combo that claimed to win multiple high ranking awards. But after input from Yooper, I was thinking of going all EKG (all...

The other (supposedly multi award winning) recipe had the Chinook as the first 60min hop addition (but it was 3oz!). Alternatively, your recipe used only EKG. I know you said your was really good. But what do you think about this 'hop bursting' with EKG on top of the typical English IPA hop...

Any last minute feedback? I'm about to place my grain order. Thanks

So after 3-7 you just pop it in the fridge? I have been skipping secondary and going straight to the keg. So if I'm not ready to tap a keg, I should wait till about 7 days before I do tap it to throw in the hops? Sound right?

I don't want to hijack this thread but if you dry hop in a keg, how do you only dry hop for 7 days? I ask because I always keg condition so after 7 days I got some carbing going on in there. Do you just depressure, pop open, pull out bag, then put top back on? No foamy mess? I have been...

Dude, major nerd points for using a data logger to track your ferm chamber temp. I don't want to derail this post so do you explain how you set this up somewhere in this forum? I have done similar stuff for work using a labjack data aq with load cells and LVDT's. At any rate, what do you have...

Don't see how it will get less carbonated with more time. I would refrigerate them all to slow the carbing and then get to drinking!

Ya, things will get a little scary for my wheat (dam you autocorrect!). The recipe I got that much crystal from really said 14.4oz. I guess I decided to make my life a little simpler. What's a 1 1/2 oz amongst friends anyways? And the Chinook dry hop was supposed to be 1.25oz. Don't see...

So I have been reading up on English IPA's. I understand they are more balanced than the American IPA's as far as malt to bitter. I get that part. What I am wondering is what would happen if I jack up the late hop additions and dry hop amount in order to increase aroma and/or hop flavor...

I brewed up a 10 gallon batch Saturday as well. While I mash the BIAB method, I chose to keep the pumpkin out if the mash after seeing how much there were and reading all the stories here. I just threw it all in the fermenter. It all mixed right in so I doubt the bag would have filtered much...

What temp is best to ferment this at? I used white labs English ale yeast. White labs says between 65 and 68 for wlp-002. Better to be on low end or high end?

Can anyone help with some of my questions? Sorry if these were already covered but there sure are a lot of pages in this thread. 1 - I do partial mashing on the stove top in a pot (BIAB method). I usually mash about 7 to 8 total pounds of grain due to the capacity if my pot. Do I just put...

I can't explain why but everytime I try and carb in the keg with the same amount as I use for bottling, I always overcarb the keg. I even got beer backing into my air lines on the last keg. This was due to the pressure in the keg being higher than my planned serving pressure. So I plan on...

So I brewed 2 batches Sunday morning and got them in carboys around midday after pitching a yeast starter in each carboy. I ran out of the 'S' type airlock and only had the cup type left. Well I had it filled with starsan with the lid on but I forgot to put in the internal cup thing that...

Thanks for all the input. I decided to just use citra rather than trying to imitate simcoe with a blend. However, the blending ideas were pretty good as I didn't initially think of doing that. I just switched them out in beersmith and tried to match the total IBUs for the batch. It will...

I am heating my water to mash and I realized I don't have enough simcoe. I have a bunch of other hops and I was curious to see what people think I should sub for the simcoe. Here is the original hop schedule: 0.5oz Chinook - 60 0.5oz Amarillo - 20 0.5oz Simcoe - 20 0.5oz Centennial - 20...

Install a pickup tube.

You got me as well. Had to do a double take. But now mine is gone for some reason. I smell something fishy....