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This is a great idea, good to hear someone's had success with it too. I missed the temp window this year for wild yeast harvesting, but I'm itching to try it in the spring. I'll have to set out a small sample and then harvest wood from the same area — see what different strains I can get...

Thanks, I don't know how I missed Delta. I've definitely read about it before. I added all three of those to the list. Hopefully HBC-342 gets a name soon; those industry code names get confusing. I almost skipped over it thinking it was the same as Mosaic.

I don't know about isohop specifically (never heard of it before, but I've used Hopshots from Northern Brewer), and I think I've read somewhere before that Heady Topper uses hop extract. The cloudiness is probably mostly from it being unfiltered, but I also feel like Heady has some wheat in...

I think this is a running problem that 100% Brett beers face — many people, even accomplished brewers, just don't know what to expect. They think that because it's "100%" that means there's going to be a super intense funk character and they think it's a flaw of the beer when it's not. I'm...

Awesome, please do. I'll keep updating as mine develops as well.

Excellent plan. I will selfishly volunteer to move to Vermont and work for the Alchemist if anyone can convince them to hire me.

I doubt the hops went bad, but there's also a big difference between if you're going to try to brew a big hoppy IPA with them, or just use them to bitter a stout. The yeast is almost certainly fine, it's not like it's the middle of summer, but the best way to make sure is just make a starter...

Yeah, it's doubtful Citra is in it — the Citra character people pick up is probably from Conan. I'm guessing this has a similar hop profile to other great American IPAs, with maybe a curveball or two, but no one seems to have nailed it yet, at least not on here. I think part of the problem we...

I love Flower Power, probably in my top 3 IPAs. I think Heady is a bit fruitier and a few notches more intense, but there's definitely similarities.

Oddly enough, this hit its stride just in the last few weeks, since I started working on my blog writeup. Today is the one year anniversary of when I "brewed" this, and I'm glad I waited this long. It's definitely winning me over. The sweetness and weird syrupy character are starting to turn...

I think the overwhelming fruitiness is what a lot of people, including myself, liked about Trois. Even in a fairly plain beer, it produces a super intense aroma and flavor that's unlike anything else I've experience. I think it really shines when paired with a lot of hops, though... the...

Pretty spot-on description. Just tasted my first hydrometer sample from my Belma Single Hop IPA, and it's got a very nice(but mellow) fruit character, pineapple, citrus, and some kind of funky guava thing, I think. I'm pretty sure I get subtle strawberry and tropical, too. It's promising.

Brewer's Gold has intrigued me for a while, as well as Pacific Gem. I'm planning a black IPA around them to see if I really do get a black currant / blackberry character.

Crazy, I was just working on my blog post about this. I forgot I even made a thread about it. The blog write-up should be posted next week, it'll have lots more details... but basically, it came out much sweeter than I expected, and not all that funky. Interesting, but not great, at this point...

Just finished reading the book, I definitely recommend it. The "history of IPA" section takes up about half the book, but I found that part fascinating. The aging process of historic IPAs means they were probably very, very different from what we think of an IPA today, and Steele speculates (as...

Good catch, thanks for pointing that out. I've updated the whole Hallertau variants section, and added Hallertauer Aroma. German hops aren't my expertise, but my understanding is that Mittelfrüh and Hersbucker are both a subclass of "Hallertauer," so they are technically three distinct hop...

Yeah, I'm sure they probably played up the characteristics that would make it sound similar to Citra, but it's definitely looking like an interesting hop. Your description makes me think of other southern hemisphere hops. I just brewed my own Belma single hop IPA yesterday, so I'll be seeing...

Thanks! Yeah, when I first made the list, I debated for a while whether to include those sort of "regional variations." I didn't want the list to become too massive, but guess I probably should if they're sufficiently different. I'll have to do some more research into those, but thanks to the...

Sorry, listing Galaxy twice like that was a screw-up on my part. Mis-typed my notes, thanks for catching it and letting me know. The @12 - 5 min thing just means that I'm adding that amount of hops incrementally between 12 minutes and 5 minutes... rather than, say, exactly 0.5 oz at 12...

Yeah, I'm going to have to go with this. Three Floyds would be a close second. Both breweries do something in almost every style, so you got the variety, and they do it all uncannily well.