Bumping up my NEIPA Timeline

[muledogus]

I've never cold crashed one of my NEIPAs before but this batch I've dry hopped with more than ever before and it's definitely noticeable in the wort. Do your NEIPAs look like a hop slurry before you cold crash?

 

[Sbe2]

This is what my last batch looks like (1st two pints). I kegged on day four after 2 days of DH. I had about 6 pts left when I kegged. I let it naturally carb and started drinking it day 13. So far my best NEIPA. Only time will tell.

 

[Morrey]

With the new process, which I've stuck with due to great success, here's a flavor timeline:

As noted above, I'm kegging at about a week. I do a 30 psi burst carb for two days (no shaking...just higher pressure), then drop to normal pressure (about 10 psi). It's about 60% carbed at this point, but the hop burn is unbearable. By day 11-14 or so, the hop burn fades and it's fantastic. That holds for about 3 weeks, then it starts to very slowly fade. At 5 weeks it's still very tasty.

Well, I am now a believer....and I cannot believe I brought a 14 day old beer into my main pipeline. Beer is in a Uni tank so I have flexibility of carbing, crashing and pressure fermenting right in the tank. On day 11 (still at 65F) I got a huge hop burn with a greenish cast to the beer. I had already closed off the BO valve so I was naturally carbed to about 10 psi already. When I crashed the beer to 35F, the green cast flocculated overnight (now on day 12) and the hop burn immediately smoothed out. I was totally amazed at the impact of cold crashing and what 1 day could mean in the drinkability of this NE IPA.

So I put on CO2 to balance out the carbonation and let settle out a bit more. I kegged on day 14 and immediately brought one keg inside to put online in my 5 tap kegerator. I am totally blown away that I am drinking a darn awesome beer at 14 days G2G...wow!

I have the second keg (11G batch) lagering in the fermentation chamber, and I hope I don't lose the vibrancy before this first keg kicks.

Day 12 partially carbed

 

[Morrey]

I sure hope this works for me. I decided last minute to brew a batch this past Saturday to hopefully be ready for a fantasy baseball draft on the 24th. That’s two weeks exactly. I used Imperial Juice and it seems to be taking its time but I think it’ll finish up today or tomorrow.

Based on my results just posted, I think you'll sneak right in at the 2 week mark! Hope the yeast cooperates.

 

[muledogus]

Based on my results just posted, I think you'll sneak right in at the 2 week mark! Hope the yeast cooperates.

Started cold crash early yesterday (day 8) and kegged late last night and started to carb. I wasn't feeling great about it based on the aromas I got from the fermenter and some samples I had while testing gravity. I'm so impatient that I pulled a sample about an hour ago and was blown away. The nose was amazing and it tasted spectacular. No hop burn at all, even this early. Maybe the best beer I've made so far. The only thing I noticed was the nose and even some flavor was fading as it sat. I'm hoping that will remain a little longer when it's fully carbed. It was so good that I actually had to hook it back up and take a few more samples. When I try again in a couple of days, I think this will be amazing.

 

[MotoGP1000]

JUst brewed an neipa myself. Day 7 was bottle day for me. Day 5 and 6 were cold crash. Used a 1318 strand and the fermentation seemed to Ben pretty stable so I’m assuming no more gain from waiting. It’s good. Smells good tastes good. A little hop burn but I’m hoping that mellows after time carbing up and then once they’d go cold