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I have found that you can use hop bags successfully, but you can't overload them. I used to throw all the hops in one bag and it didn't leave room for expansion. The hop flavor was lacking big time. Then I started throwing them in loose, and while the flavor was much better, I could not get...

I have settled on a small addition of boil hops, large addition for whirlpool, and large dry hop on day 6. I bottle on day 10, so the dry hop is for the last 4 days. I think my beers have come out better than when adding hops during fermentation. The hop aroma explodes out of the bottle when I...

Buy a 55 lb. bag of 2 row and mill it yourself. Then you only need to get the other grains from the LHBS per recipe. Also buy hops in 1 lb bags online. Vacuum seal and freeze them. And switch to liquid yeast. Overbuild starters and you can reuse it for many generations. That will get the...

I do 2 gallon batches and I don't find it a chore at all. Everything is done in my kitchen. I can do all grain on all but the biggest brews. I use a 5 gallon kettle.

Brewed this a few weeks ago. I used a variation on cantrell00's recipe. OG was 1.120 and FG at 1.050 after 2 weeks. It still may drop a bit more, but the sample I tasted was not sweet so I'm fine either way. It actually was more roasty than I was expecting. I think the roasted barley at the...

I have never tried no boil, but I think my process is different than most because I do 2 gallon batches. So I do everything on my stove with a 5 gallon kettle. The entire contents go through a strainer and into the fermenter. One thing I have noticed is that the yeast sediment adds a lot to...

If you think about it for a moment, the IPAs you get from breweries considered world class (Trillium, etc.) are in cans. They aren't doing anything special to keep oxygen out at canning. So the same can certainly be done at the homebrew level. I also think there would be a big difference...

Bottling is fine if you do it right. I think I have pics I posted earlier in this thread where I post the same batch of beer from grain to glass in 14 days compared to 3 months later in the bottle. Color is exactly the same, although flavor did fade some. My NEIPA's lately have been world...

Denali is the most pineapple hop I've had.

I think IslandLizard is right on the money here. I used to put all my hops in one sack and then I tried adding them in loose. HUGE difference. This last time I tried adding only half an ounce of hops per sack and had good results with that. Had to add a bunch of sacks though lol

Purge with CO2 and bottle from the fermenter and you will be fine.

Pitched my last beer at 90 degrees and it started in a few hours. Beer came out great.

I bottle, and have had my NEIPA's last for 3 months with no visual changes at all. Have not tried longer than that. I purge the bottles with CO2. There is no reason to fear bottling :)

I've been harvesting my yeast. I'm probably on generation 4-5 now for 1318 and it still tastes the same.

Alright guys...I posted a pic a month ago of a batch I made. I bottle, purge with CO2, and am as careful as possible with my bottling setup. I just poured a glass from the same batch I made in my previous post. These were carbonated in PET plastic bottles. Here is the fresh batch (4 days in...

Interesting. So the keg one is darker eh? Do they taste different? I will post up a pic of the last batch I bottled after one month to see if I notice a difference

I use a plastic fermenter and bottle my NEIPA's. Since I started purging the headspace with CO2, they have held up fine. I've went 4-6 weeks with no noticeable change in color. They are all gone by that point so I haven't went longer. Before purging with CO2 they would turn dark, but not in 4...

I have not detected any onion flavors any time I've used Citra.

I have brewed quite a few NEIPA's, but this is the first time I've done this recipe. I pretty much followed Braufessor's recipe exactly, except I came up short on my target gravity at 1.050 (still working on efficiency issues). I also substituted Warrior for Columbus. I did the dry hop of...

Some of my observations: The first beer I made with 1318 did not attenuate well either. It went from about 1.055 to 1.020. I did not use a starter, but used the smack pack and the beer took off quickly within a few hours. For this NEIPA, I had about 20% flaked oats and 20% carapils, so I am not...