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Oh wow! Upwind to me would be...neighbors haha. I'm NYC adjacent and apartment brewing! Fantastic. Always love reading a success story!

I've had some excellent Nectaron beers, but I do tend to like the dank/diesel notes. Other Half recently did a run of Mosaic+Nectaron and it was pretty stinky, but I appreciate it. I've brewed with Nectaron at the brewery in the past, and in some collabs with Marlowe as well. Not sure where...

Fascinating. It's been a while since I've used STA-1 yeast, but I'm fighting a situation now where my beers turn into garbage in the keg. Going in they're promising, then they tend to thin out, overcarb, but not necessarily drop gravity much more.

How did you end up doing?

Brew day yesterday went…fine lol. It’s been a while since I’ve used a higher percentage of flaked oats, so recirc was slow to non-existent. I guess I need to up my rice hulls next time. Starting at 1.069, hoping to land around 1.018ish. I just kept it simple with a smaller Idaho 7 whirlpool at...

All the love for DOOM in here is making me smile. 🫶

So, I'll be brewing again tomorrow to see if I can make some small tweaks, like I noted. I'm thinking Simcoe, Citra and or Mosaic on the hot-side, and Riwaka / Nelson on the cold side. Anyone want to lend some hop amounts for a ~1.018-1.020 / 6.5%'er? It'll be 80% Sugar Creek Pale and 20%...

Hey, thanks man! When I was with them, and still today, they try really, really hard with the limited means on the farm-space. I'd mostly solo-brew the pales there, and tag-team the bigger hoppy beers with the rest of the small team. Love that crew. Knowing that, as you can tell I'm pretty...

I used to brew for Obercreek in NY for a few years. I now have a much more boring job haha.

I've tried using many different varieties of hops, and even some single-hop beers. I've gone as far in the past to bring some hops home from the brewery as well.

Thanks for the avatar shoutout! Long live the Supervillain. RE: hopping in the serving keg while mitigating O2 exposure : I had a plan for this if I ever had to go this route. Right now I dry-hop through a 2" ferrule I have on my Torpedo Keg fermenter, via a butterfly valve and 2" hop-bong. I...

That said - brew it up! Let us know if you do!

Hey, thanks man! Giving a bit more time is definitely on the agenda for this next batch. I'm thinking of giving it upwards of a full 2 weeks in primary before doing anything (dry-hopping etc). Back in the day, maybe 7-8 years ago, I'd be dry-hopping twice - on day 3 and on maybe day 7, all at...

Also curious about this. Back when I brewed a batch with Steve at Fidens (going back a few years ago), we chatted about homebrewing. He did say that his beers never clicked until he started hopping in a separate keg. I always resisted to it for a few reasons. One - I live and brew in an...

If I'm being 100% honest, I'm not pleased with my other beers either.

With Star San, I'm typically filling a cleaned keg full with water, adding 1oz of Star San, pressurizing/purging the minimal headspace left and rolling/tumbling, shaking it around for a while to make sure it's diluted and spread. Then, I push out with CO2. It's typically freshly mixed Star San...

Thanks for the questions! I do pay attention to pH throughout. I aim for 5.2-5.2 in the mash, 4.6-5.0 for knockout pH. When commercial, we always adjusted to 5.0 pre-whirlpool addition. Water is either my NYC sourced tap-water (as close to RO as you can get from a tap), treated with campden, or...

Yeah, something - somewhere - is making this a whole big thing, and I haven't narrowed it down. If you knew about what equipment I've replaced or changed, you'd be sick to your stomach haha. My thought behind another keg setup is two-fold. I have this current Torpedo keg fermenter set up for...

Well, the cloudy/hazy appearance are coming from two separate things in each style. Using 50/50 wheat and pilsner malt in an IPA won't make it hazy on it's own. You would need the hopping practices, yeast and water chemistry to make it work. Hefe's, given enough time, will drop clear fairly easily.

I used this exact setup around 10-12 years ago. It worked well. Moved onto an SSBT Brewbucket and now a keg setup, pictured below. Interestingly, I never had a problem ever when using the Fermonster haha