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Awesome. I entered a competition with some friends to clone this that was put on by them. Picked up the ingredients from them (BYO blood orange juice) and they gave a semi step by step procedure so that is where I got the tips from. Got third out of about 20 entries and I was judged by the...

I got some hints from Flying Dog near me who makes an incredible blood orange IPA. The juice and dry hops went in while still in primary near the end of fermentation then just bottled from there. The beer came out great with strong blood orange flavor. What you are doing seems fine as well, I...

Really getting into tasting these now and they have developed wonderfully. They are going to be great for this weekend. I used roughly 1/3C of oak cubes and half a cup of tequila soaking for a bout a week with the zest of two limes added a few days before bottling. Next time I would up the oak...

If you are near downtown, check out Tap & Grind. They usually have a decent amount of Florida beers on tap (heavy on the Miami-area breweries) but also get in a good amount of rare stuff from around the country at unbeatable prices.

Brewed this last night with a somewhat modified recipe from the original. I followed the grist but deviated on the hops and used Mt. Hood instead of Hallertau Mittlefrueh and Styrian Celeia instead of Styrian Goldings. Those were the closest substitutes I could find locally. I had to add a bit...

When bottling hoppy beers on the homebrew scale you are going to face some oxidation but the key is minimizing it and compensating for it. If you need extra late boil hops/dry hops etc then account for that. I have bottled an NE IPA that I was very pleased with after 4 months. Just account for...

If you're really after mouth feel then bump the mash temp up a bit but that will hurt your OG & FG a bit so add a touch more grain. I mash my NE IPA at 153 and feel that gives a good balance between body and fermentability.

I like 2) better, maybe bump the 2-row down a touch more and add in a bit of Honey or a lighter Crystal??

Agree 100%. I haven't found anything in the District to be better than stuff in the out in the burbs.

Love this strain! I use it in a simcoe/citra heavy imperial IPA. Overpitched once, won't make that mistake again! It went crazy.

Yep, it was down to 3.3 so I went ahead with it. Wort had a nice clean sour to it. In the fermenter now US-05 @ 66F. :mug:

I have this souring as we speak with OYL-605. This is my first sour attempt, but all seems okay so far. Mashed last night and quickly realized the Ph test strips are totally useless. I ended up blindly lowering the Ph into the 4.5 range and pitched the culture, no starter. Would have made a...

I think there is a way to take the pump apart to clean it, although I'm not sure. I might contact Grainfather direct and ask what to do.

Once you adjust your batch size to account for half the boil off then I would think you're fine. Don't know if I would do less than hour boil though. I've still stuck with 60min boils for my NE IPA even though it's 98% end of boil hops. Just a habit for me.

How many brews have you done? How do you clean it after a brew day?

To me, their quality started going downhill about a year or so ago. They are actually what inspired me to start sourcing my own ingredients locally. Couldn't be happier now.

Brewed this up last weekend. Still getting a bubble every 5 seconds and I bumped up the temp to 83. OG was 1.076 and as of yesterday at 1.014. Added my dry hops a few days ago. Airlock is smelling great. This is my favorite Belgian IPA, thanks for the recipe!

I made this recipe recently and put it on nitro. I did a side by side with the real deal and found mine much more roasty and less sweet. I adjusted the roasted barley down and the milk sugar up in my recipe. Am going to give it another go later this year. I think you will be fine.

Was your siphon picking up from the very bottom of the fermenter? After dry hopping for 10 days, all hops would definitely have settled out. I've dry hopped with triple that for half the time and never had hop particles still floating around. I would say you introduced a ton of oxygen, I would...

Wow, that's a pretty narrow setting. I still have my mill set at the factory .039 and have thought about narrowing it a bit. Do you find a lot of gains in your kettle? My efficiency has not really gone up after moving from my water cooler/false bottom set up so I am thinking my milling is the issue.