enohcs
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is this the 1000th reply or is the counter stuck at 999?
Edit: Nope...it was the 1,000th. Wohoo!!!!
Edit: Nope...it was the 1,000th. Wohoo!!!!
Finally had a chance to taste the original while I was in Grove City, PA.
Wow.
Even the wife, definitely not a hophead, wants to try more of it... Thanks Yooper et al, I know what I'm fermenting this time around.
Did you hit up North Country Brewery in Slippery Rock? I hope so, that place rocks and you were only 7 miles north of it!
Dry Hopping this in secondary now. Damn that Simcoe smells amazing.
I love it. I love it so much I decided to eat some.
It does not taste nearly as good as it smells.
I had "bitter mouth" for about a week.
Based on what my LHBS has for hops, I'm thinking of modify to this:
9.5 lbs Golden Light Liquid Extract
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt 40L
1.29 oz Nugget - 14.5% (60 min)
1.3 oz Cascade (35 min)
1.4 oz Northern Brewer (30 min)
1.3 oz Cascade (dry hop)
.7 Norther Brewer (dry hop)
What do you think? Also, I have a 5 gallon carboy, should I cut the recipe down to 4 gallons or go with a spill over tube?
That's the "bad" thing about this recipe. It's really quaffable. But at 7.25+% ABV, it's really not a very good session beer!
My goal lately has been to take the same basic recipe, and turn it into a great 5-6% beer. It wouldn't really be a "clone" anymore, but I'm doing it about once a month to see if I can still get the same flavor and aroma in less ABV. The latest version is 5.75%. It's dryhopping now, so I don't have a final taste yet.
How did your 5.75% version come out? I would think its actually closer to a clone since DFH 60min is 6%. Making next weekend and was trying to decide between your higher % to the lower % version.
OK. Not as great, as it lost much of the malt backbone. But it still was really good.
I'm still working on a way to make this really hoppy but lower ABV IPA and it's not as easy as it sounds!
Pretty happy so far. Brewed the extract version last weekend and hit the OG dead on. Checked it today and I am at 1.016 so I am very happy. The sample tasted very good, even the wife enjoyed it. However it was very cloudy, and I used Irish moss. Right now I am planning on leaving it in the primary another week, then to the secondary to dry hop for a weekish. Do you think that will clear it up? Or is there something else I should do? I am just starting out so I am lacking on equipment to cold crash and such.
When I did the extract version, one thing I didn't do was hit the original gravity. I was quite a bit over (1.082). I made 2 liter yeast starter starting with a 1.040 wort and using the WYeast 1056 American Ale smackpack.
Now, I will admit that when we steeped the grains, we squeezed the hell out of the grain bag at the end to get out as much of the sugars as possible (at the time I didn't know the possible tannin problem of doing that ).
So, otherwise we followed the instructions in the extract version (substituted Columbus because that was all I could get). I then topped it off to 17 liters before adding the yeast starter (whole thing, didn't decant the yeast). Before I added the yeast starter it was around 1.090, then the yeast starter diluted it to 1.082. Do you think I went over because we squeezed the grain bag too much, or could it just be my brand of powdered malt extract, or am I missing some other calculation?
I downloaded his bsm file and opened in beersmith. The color says 5.2, but the actual beer he made, along with dfh 60 looks darker. Is it me or is beersmith off on the color calculation?
Brewing the extract recipe on Saturday.
Just want to be clear on when to add first and final hop additions to the boil. Did anyone use a specific hop schedule?
If local HBS does not have Pacman is White Labs ok?
Thanks Yooper!
Also, can I skip the dry hopping or is it necessary for this IPA?
It's necessary! The dryhopping adds to it, and you can't really get the same aroma/flavor any other way.
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