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I go fishing in the UP between Iron Mountain and Crystal Falls every summer in August. Any local beers/breweries I should check out next year?

Hope that the city treated you well!

I must have a weak palate! Based on the Morebeer numbers, they were targeting 1.014. When I made that beer I think it ended up around 1.012, but I honestly have no idea what my threshold is for picking up on a gravity change.

Hopleaf is amazing though!

That is on the low end for attenuation for that yeast, but only by a couple of points. I wouldn't think it would be enough to make your beer taste sweet.

@Yooper did you end up taking in any brews around Wrigley?

Did you get a gravity reading before you kegged? What temp did you mash at? Sweetness makes me wonder about attenuation. I am also in the camp of lower fermentation temp is better. I pitch at the low end of the yeast's temp range and then after fermentation starts to slow down (usually about...

Anybody going to FOBAB this weekend? SWMBO and I are going this evening, looking forward to tasting some special brews.

Do you think that 2oz of cryo would be overkill? I was thinking I could try 1oz citra and 1oz simcoe if I went the cryo route.

Congrats! I bet those beers will get better and better over the next few weeks.

Thank you for the advice. It wasn't supposed to be a hop bomb, and I actually doubled the dry hop when I tasted my hydro sample. But I always like when advice is "more hops!" I haven't tried cryo hops yet, do they stay within a mesh bag pretty well?

Awesome, thank you!

I brewed an IPA a couple of weeks ago and it turned out tasting like a blond. If I had to guess, I would say there was maybe 1oz of hops in the entire recipe, not the 7 that I actually added. The beer looks great and has no obvious off flavors, it just tastes like meh though. Recipe is attached...

No harder, but harder than cleaning the outside.

It's a lot harder to clean the inside of an immersion chiller.

So did you measure the gravity with or without the top off water?

+1 for distilled if you are doing an extract batch.

10,532.5 Gallons + 5 Gallons APA + 5 Gallons American Porter = 10,542.5 Gallons

You are going to have less malt and hop flavors, and a boozier hotter beer.

I found a 5+ year old bottle of my first brew a while back, an American porter, it was better than any other bottle I had from the batch.