Blending NEIPA yeasts

abrewer12345 · Jan 8, 2020

VirginiaHops1 said:
Thanks for posting. I've been working my way through yeasts on my hazy IPAs and will have to add pacman to my queue. I'm currently fermenting with WLP east coast ale and was going to do 1272 next.

i love it- i recommend trying to brew the same beer so you can easily compare. working well for us. all citra, 2-row and some oats.

beervoid · Feb 22, 2020

ronniescouten said:
the winner of the first round was Joystick as it was most preferred by people in a blind taste test. Visually, i preferred Juice, but from a flavor, balance and nose standpoint, i preferred joystick. it was more orange for sure too, and a bit clearer too.

Kegging NEEPAH and Dryhop this Saturday. NEEPAH was farmed from a batch of yeast from around end of summer and refrigerated. just from the gravity readings 6-7 days in, the NEEPAH has some diacetyl in it still. think i should be worried about contamination? i'm warming up the carboy right now to try and get a rest going. the Dryhop beer smells fantastic and looks great. same visually as juice vs joystick. NEEPAH is more pale and looks thicker, and dryhop looks more orange and classic NEEPAH. i'll post some pictures here when they're ready to drink.

Great experiment. Got a joystick neipa aging as we speak. Wasn't too impressed with the nose so far. I'll give some feedback after some aging.
What did your hopbill and dry hopping schedule look like?
How long till fermentation finish? Mine seemed to be done on day 5. Attenuation was also higher then with Juice leaving the beer a bit thinner.
Cheers!

Genuine · Feb 22, 2020

Here’s my latest with Imperials Dryhop

brew703 · Feb 22, 2020

Genuine said:
Here’s my latest with Imperials DryhopView attachment 667691

Nice color. Did you use honey malt to get that color?

Genuine · Feb 22, 2020

brew703 said:
Nice color. Did you use honey malt to get that color?

I use honey malt in all of my NEIPA's however that one used 3.7% of Crystal 40 and 3.7% of Honey Malt. According to Brewfather it's an SRM of 7.3. It glows in the sun for sure however it's more of a copper color indoors with low lighting. Also, that beer isn't meant to be hazy and didn't use any adjuncts. 2 oz in the boil, 2 oz whirl pool and 2 oz dryhopped.

abrewer12345 · Feb 27, 2020

beervoid said:
Great experiment. Got a joystick neipa aging as we speak. Wasn't too impressed with the nose so far. I'll give some feedback after some aging.
What did your hopbill and dry hopping schedule look like?
How long till fermentation finish? Mine seemed to be done on day 5. Attenuation was also higher then with Juice leaving the beer a bit thinner.
Cheers!

we really enjoy what joystick does for the beer- definitely not as thick as neepah or juice, but we wanted to lean more on the pale ale side of ipa, so we get a much cleaner flavor from ours. still plenty of body for us, big aroma too. we hit it with 8oz 2 points from terminal.

the beer we use it on currently is a single/double hop series so it was all citra in the attached picture.
.5oz ctz at 60, 2oz of citra at flameout, 20 minute whirlpool at 170 with 4oz, cool and pitch. ferment at 68, ramp up after 4 days to 72, pull yeast and add dry hops just before terminal.