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Keep us posted - I bet it will come out great!

I just sent a sample to a beer buddy up in OR. his review on Instagram:

Sounds like a plan. Can't wait to hear how it turns out for both of you!

Any updates? How's it smelling? Have you drawn a sample to taste? We need an update! -Chris

Hey Noslenwerd, I bottled both batches and did not have any issues with carbonation. My one bit of advice (which may seem obvious), is to make sure you know exactly how much beer you have in your bottling bucket before you calculate how much priming sugar to use. I usually add my priming...

I've seen how pissed my wife gets when a fermenting bucket explodes....I couldn't imaging the Fury that would be unleashed if a 5-gal glass carboy nuked our office (or our children). I'll be taking your advice as soon as I get home!

Hello! I've been aging a sour beer in a carboy for about 8 months. I'm ready to bottle it, but it's been sealed in the carboy and seems to have carbonated up some. I imaging the bugs and bacteria were still working and I should have kept an airlock on it instead of a solid bung. I have no...

I think your approach is solid. I'd be afraid to weigh in too much on the extract brewing because I haven't done it that way in quite a while. In theory though, I think that will work fine.

I won't be changing a thing for my next batch. I'll be interested in how the results come out if you add some coconut to the mash. Even if you don't do that, you'll get plenty of coconut flavor and aroma from secondary.

My first batch (71% efficiency) OG was 1.077, FG was 1.013, ~8.4% ABV. My second batch (64% efficiency) OG was 1.071, FG was 1.01 ~8.1%ABV. I recommend aiming for that range (8-8.5% ABV) for it to taste balanced. Adjust according to your efficiency.

I did not sanitize the coconut. I figured the roasting process took care of any bacteria. It literally went from the oven into the brew bucket. Coconut went directly in the bucket, without a bag. It might be worth trying to use a bag so you can keep it contained when you're transferring to...

Sorry for the delay! Here is the recipe I used for my second batch, slightly adjusted from round 1. Fermentables: 14lb 2-row .6lb Crystal 40L .6lb Carapils .75lb white sugar Hops: 60min - 1oz Columbus 30min - .5oz Columbus 5min- .5oz Simcoe 5min - .5oz Mosaic 0min - 1oz Citra...

OMG - I've got this dialed and of my 20+ beers I've brewed, this is my favorite by a mile! I'll post the recipe after I put my kids to bed this evening. Stay tuned....(I just drank one...soooo good!

@BeardedBrews :D I'll keep that under advisement.

Thanks @day_trippr! I hope you're right or I'm going to make one sweet IPA!

Hi All, I'm making a DIPA and just pitched a single dry packet of US-05 into my 1.077 wort on Sunday. Is that enough? I feel like I probably should have used 2 packs. A couple months ago I harvested a mason jar of US-05 from the trub off a previous batch. I rinsed it a couple times, and...

@Ruckusz28 Thanks for the tips! Good idea about the muslin sack. I cut the pieces fairly wide, but I'm sure they'd still stick to the end of a syphon. What was your grain bill like? Were you making an DIPA or a stout? If it was an IPA, how did the lactose come out in the finished product...

Thanks for the insight! I bought the coconuts whole, cracked them open, pulled out the meat, chopped it up and toasted it on a baking sheet....just getting a pound took forever, but I'll do more based on your recommendation.

Hi All, I'm going to be making a Coconut DIPA, loosely based on the Coconut Milk IPA from Fieldworks. According to the description of the beer I'm modeling it after, they use "heaps of milk sugar", but I'm not sure what that translates to for a 5-gal batch. 1lb? 6oz? Please help...