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My new favorite is Cosmic Punch and Helio Gazer. These are Thiol boosting yeasts and I have made my best NEIPAs with these. I just read about Imperial Capri which is combo of A38 Juice and A43 Loki that I’m excited to try.

I’ve made lots of NEIPAs in the past and tried many different ways of dry hopping. Currently, I do 2 dry hop additions: the first one day 2! Of fermentation for biotransformation The 2nd one is based upon a suggestion from a well known brewer: After fermentation is complete, I soft crash for...

Would love to have one of these! I have several Inkbird products and they all are excellent quality and super dependable!

Where do you get your hops and how do you store them? I switched to Yakima Valley and bought a vacuum sealer. I store my hops, vacuum sealed, in the freezer and that made a huge difference in my IPAs. I used to have muted hops and no aroma. Now I get the expected flavors and great aroma...

In order to get an accurate measure of the beer temperature you should pour a pint in a separate container and then pour another pint and measure that one. The first pour gets the lines and tap cold as they will be slightly warmer than the beer in the keg.

I’ll chime in with my experience as well. I have dry hopped in the keg many times and through the life of the beer have not gotten any grassy flavors. When I used the regular dip tube (now I use floating) I put the hops in a hop sock and tired it to the lid hanging about 1/3 off the way which...

When I first started I had the grains delivered already crushed. However, after a couple brews I decided to but my own mill and I’m glad I did. Grains can be stored much longer not crushed so now I order ahead so I can brew when I want and freshly crush the grains on brew day and control the...

6 gal batch- For me my favorite combo is 60/40 Maris Otter and Pilsner, and 1pound each of flaked oats & flaked wheat

You should be able to replace without any issues as long as you purge a few times. Mine was fairly new too when it failed. I discovered it after I bought a new keg and realized the new one was carbing in about a week at serving pressure. The other one took 3 weeks at higher pressure. Once I...

I once has a similar issue and discovered it was the gas post. I replaced it and now my beers carb in about a week. I assume the poppet was bad but I replaced the entire post.

it doesn’t have to be cloudy just because you do a hop stand. And no hop stands are not just for NEIPA. That was your opinion not a fact. I’ve done many WCIPA all with hop stands that were super clear. In fact here’s a perfect example

Also, for those having flow issues if you want to continue using the fine mesh screen just use a few handfuls of rice hulls. I have used mine for 2 years now with no issues. I crush my grains at about 0.038 (I don’t use feeler gauge - I use credit card as a “feeler”).

In my opinion the best way to reduce alkalinity would be to either dilute your water with Reverse Osmosis or distilled water or use all RO water and build from there.

Wow, what an amazing job!

I was like you, I hated making starters until I found “Propper Starter” from morebeer.com. I was very skeptical to use it at first but I wanted to give it a shot and now that’s all I use. It’s the easiest starter I have ever made. Simply sanitize everything of course, pour in the contents of the...

Now I always use yeast starters for liquid yeast strains.In the past I have just pitched straight from the pkg with no starter for anything less than 1.060 but I will say I like the results much better by using the starter first. I use brefather app and it calculates the amount of starter needed...

Was just wondering how you are able to use commando hops without clogs in the pump? I have had my robobrew for about 1.5 years and if I don’t use hop spider or similar I get clogs in the pump. I did notice the false bottom has just a little space between it and the walls of the unit (maybe 1/8”...

Count me in! Another great giveaway- I love this forum! Here’s a picture of a brew from yesterday - “DropDead RedHead”. A slightly red IPA 😀

Yes I’ve tried to find leaks but didn’t. I have not swapped different lines but am planning to next time I use this keg. It finally got carbed but took 3 days at 40psi. Still stumped unless it’s my secondary regulator. I have 2 so I will try swapping on my next brew. Thanks for the reply and...

Any ideas? I have 2 identical kegs (5 gal). I brewed 10 gallons of an IPA and put 5 into each keg after fermentation (10 days) and crash cooled to 38 degrees for 5 days . I then transferred to the kegs and let them sit overnight at 36 degrees in my keezer. I then set 40 psi on each keg for 18...