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I brew 5-6 NEIPA's a year and always switch up the hop combinations, but I find that they all taste nearly identical. Certain hops claims to have notes of pineapple, peach, stonefruit, etc. , but I do not get that experience. Is it my process, or are my 43 year old taste buds losing it? In both...

Backstory: I brewed a batch Sunday and as I was cooling, my wort chiller sprung a leak and a thin spray of water made it into the 190F wort for a few seconds. I decided to keep going and used a backup cooler. Fermentation kicked off ~18 hours later and everything was going smooth. This morning...

My stout has finished fermenting and I want to get the cacao nibs in there. I plan on baking around 8-12 oz of nibs and adding them in one of the below ways: 1. Add them commando to my fermenter. After 1-2 weeks, transfer to a keg. My fermenter has a screened floating dip tube so minimal...

I am trying to get a water additions ready for an upcoming brewday of an imperial stout. I am getting close to my numbers except my bicarbonate is through the roof as I needed it to get my pH up. Can anyone help me out? Here's the recipe on BF - I'll take any adjustments you can suggest to the...

I am planning to do an imperial stout in the near future which calls for 20lbs of grain. My original plan was to buy the false bottom linked below and a grain bag and do a BIAB without the malt pipe. This morning I got video on my youtube feed where the guy was doing an imperial in his 10.5 and...

I'm prepping to brew a 6 gallon batch of a 5.5-6.0 abv NEIPA and am looking for advice on my hop schedule. It's my first time using Nectaron and am hoping to not muddy it too much with the Citra and Mosaic. Should I drop the Citra or Mosaic entirely, or will the slightly higher use of Nectaron...

I'm looking to pick up a 10.5 g Foundry soon and would like to upgrade to a better pump right out of the gate and not buy Anvil's $99 recirc kit. Has anyone found a SS tube that can be used for recirc & whirlpool on the foundry? Planning to get this pump...

I found a filter meant for aquariums that I'm considering picking up for homebrew. I read that it does not eliminate chloramine which I figured I could handle with campden. Has anyone else done something similar? Aquatic Life RO Buddie Plus DI Four Stage Reverse Osmosis Deionization Unit 50...

I'm planning to do an imperial stout, using extract, just to make my brew day a little easier. I may switch to all grain as I have base malt already on hand and would just need the specialty grains & hops, but I've never done a recipe with this much grain so I'm a little hesitant. It's $43 vs...

I'm planning to brew a 5g batch of NEIPA tomorrow but can't settle on my hop combo. My last 3 batches were all galaxy, all galaxy, and galaxy/sabro. Not that galaxy is bad, just looking to switch it up. Any ideas are appreciated Here's what I have on hand from a non-bittering hop perspective...

Planning a Galaxy + Sabro NEIPA brew day tomorrow. I've never brewed with Sabro but from what I've read it provides a coconut/cream flavor -- this may not be for everyone but I thought it would be interesting to try. Also planning to add some lactose, but likely will wait until post-fermentation...

I am planning on brewing the below tonight or tomorrow and planned to use Windor yeast as the recipe I found called for. I am now reading negative feedback on Windsor and see others use Nottingham or S-04. Does anyone have experience with LalBrew Windsor? Considering postponing brew day to get...

I've brewed 2 NEIPA's with Voss Kveik and I am probably going to continue to use it as it gets beer in my kegerator super quickly and tastes great. My problem is I am not getting full attenuation. I'm pretty sure it's partly (or fully) because I did not use any temperature control, I bought the...

I am going to brew a batch tomorrow and since I have a ton of Galaxy on hand (almost 2 lbs) I figured I'd do an all Galaxy NEIPA. Can you guys provide any recommendations on how much to add for my whirlpool and dry hop? 4 oz whirlpool, 6 oz dry hop? I am planning on a 30 minute boil with no...

Looking to brew this Sunday and am considering trying a NEIPA without any bittering hop additions. Has anyone tried this, and is it a nice twist for a refreshing beer? Did you reduce or eliminate your boil? Any pointers are appreciated.

Hey guys, After brewing back to back NEIPA's I decided to switch it up and try out a west coast IPA. What are your thoughts on this recipe? Any recommendations/suggestions? Edit: Thank you all for your feedback. I created brewers friend recipe for review...

I am planning to brew another NEIPA this or next weekend. This is the first time building a recipe from scratch and am looking for some feedback before I brew this. I'm attempting to make a nice juicy relatively low-ABV/session NEIPA. I assume I entered the hops correctly. The citra, mosaic, el...

I recently added a 2 tap tower on my kegerator and am looking to replace the crappy faucets that came with the tower. Does anyone have experience with both Nukatap and Intertap ? I like the Intertap appearance as it doesn't have a brand name stamped on it, and doesn't have the weird broken nose...

I am ready to condition a 5 gallon batch of oatmeal stout on 6 vanilla beans, 4-8oz organic cacao nibs, and 3 lbs of organic unsweetened coconut. I scraped the vanilla beans tonight and have the inside stuff and carcasses soaking in just enough bourbon to barely cover them. For cacao nibs I'm...

I recently bought a new tower that came with standard crappy, what appear to be brass, shanks and faucets. I had a Perlick faucet on the original single faucet tower that I now want to get another of so my new tower will have 2 Perlicks. I put the one SS shank with Perlick on the new tower and...