Coff
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This is taking forever, I am so anxious to drink my clone. 2nd stage of dry hops are going in tonight, I hope to have it on tap by the Super Bowl.
Ontario is a virtual craft beer desert.
Thanks. I would definitely owe you! Ontario is a virtual craft beer desert. A guy in my HB club is from *Utah* and still couldn't believe how bad it is here!
When you are making your clones, where do you buy your pearl malt?
i see a couple vendors online but not the ones i usually use
Adam, why won't you ship?
When you are making your clones, where do you buy your pearl malt?
i see a couple vendors online but not the ones i usually use
Actually, it isn't, a few years ago maybe. I suggest you make your way an hour south and check out what the "desert" has to offer. Bellwoods, Indie Alehouse, Bar Hop, Volo, Get Well, and many others are making and/or pouring some pretty tasty beers these days.
I'm going to VT late Feb and will be grabbing a case. I'll send you a can.
Because I don't really trade much. I'll send Heady to people maybe twice per month. Too many people message me on my blog and privately for trades so to advertise would be dangerous. I already get about 10 trade requests a week now through various channels and have to say no to almost everyone. It's just expensive even when people offer to pay shipping, I still have to go up and buy the stuff, buy packing materials and it takes a lot of time to pack and send off beer. Best thing to do is to try and make it to Vermont and drink from the source. Great food, scenery, activities and beer. It's worth it to make the trek and I'd be happy to play tour guide for anyone that comes up.
My UPS bills for 2012 were $2,000 and that's after saying no to almost everyone that asks me to send them Vermont beer. It's just too expensive.
Do you ski?
Snowboard. Want to hit Killington with me? I live 5 minutes from Dartmouth Skiway as well.
Killington is too far south I think. I am flying solo on my annual trip to VT late Feb. Will probably:
-Jay on the 20th
-Hill Farmstead
-Stowe on the 21st
-Alchemist
-MRG/'Bush on the 22nd (depends on snow)
-Lawson's Finest
My travel plans are flexible, but I must end up at the MRG/Sugarbush/Waitsfield area for the last couple of nights as I'm friends with a crotchety old B&B owner that I need to hang out with.
But I always welcome new adventures and new people to show me around mountains and where they hide the good stuff. I'll send ya a PM closer to the date and we'll see if we can work something out. Thanks for the offer.
I'm actually an hour north of Toronto now, so make that 9
I might have possibly gone had I decided to go to NHC this year. I was going to, but after hearing it's in Grand Rapids next year I decided I could wait another year!
A nearby brewery (~30 minutes further north, really the only great or even good brewery in the entire province) makes a pretty good all-citra IPA. They're only a few years old, but I still haven't gone to the actual brewery yet. Maybe I should...
What brewery is that? I'm in Buffalo and open to road-tripping to anything decent...
I live an hour from the brewery...sorry I can't ship you any beer but if anyone does come up to Waterbury, VT PLEASE send me a PM so we can meet up. Prohibition Pig, Blackback Pub and Three Penny Taproom are all 10 minutes from the brewery and are awesome.
Also, drive an extra hour to Hill Farmstead Brewery and get some of the best IPAs you've ever had.
I wrote this blog post back in October detailing 3 of the best VT breweries and how to get their beer. - http://adam-jackson.net/beer/a-beer-lovers-guide-to-vermont-breweries-2012-edition/
Even though I can get Heady whenever I want, I too am interested in a clone.
Vermont is the best, maybe the only state that I would consider packing up and moving to at this point in my life, if the opportunity arose. I'm hoping to make a trip up in the spring, I might have to take you up on that tour guide offer. Can you recommend any good places to camp near the Lawson's / Hill Farmstead / Alchemist Triangle of Beer Perfection?
Flying Monkeys I'd assume. Probably talking about Hoptical Illusion or Smashbomb? Not worth a road trip IMO.
There's also muskoka brewery (IIPA is great) and lake of bays - in fact there's a ton of good breweries in Ontario.
Getting back to the clone attempt. I brewed my 2nd attempt Sunday night and my airlock died off this morning so I just checked the gravity. I'm at 1.015, coming from 1.071 at 63 degrees. Fairly pleased with fermentation this time around. Tasting is much closer to the bitterness I expected and was lacking in the first attempt. It creeps up at the end just like I remember Heady. I attribute this to a little more hopshot and a 10 degree hotter whirlpool. Flavor getting closer, more of a fruit juice this time around, I guess something like Orange, Pineapple, Apricot and a little pine. I will alter my dry hop to get some more pine in there I think, it's pretty fruity now. Final product up to the dry hop though, so far so good.
Yeast has not dropped at all, bottom of the carboy is clear, the entire mixture looks like a pair of khakis.
If the yeast hasn't dropped at all, I would think you'll get a couple more gravity points out of it.
Getting back to the clone attempt. I brewed my 2nd attempt Sunday night and my airlock died off this morning so I just checked the gravity. I'm at 1.015, coming from 1.071 at 63 degrees. Fairly pleased with fermentation this time around. Tasting is much closer to the bitterness I expected and was lacking in the first attempt. It creeps up at the end just like I remember Heady. I attribute this to a little more hopshot and a 10 degree hotter whirlpool. Flavor getting closer, more of a fruit juice this time around, I guess something like Orange, Pineapple, Apricot and a little pine. I will alter my dry hop to get some more pine in there I think, it's pretty fruity now. Final product up to the dry hop though, so far so good.
Yeast has not dropped at all, bottom of the carboy is clear, the entire mixture looks like a pair of khakis.
What was this recipe?
Bwahahahahaha!!! Play fair and go back and read the thread.
See, this is the kind of crap that really pisses me off. I've read ever single page of this, for months. Been subscribed to it. And everyday, I read the freaking updates.
Now all I asked was how his variation 2 was different than variation 1. But if you are going to jump on me , then EXCUSE ME!
Simmer down cheese, Nord was just messing around. I remember when I got on here I was like "where the hell is the recipe assknuckles?" and they were like "We don't have one yet moron" and it's been all good since then. Nobody meant any offense, it's Friday night, lets all just celebrate by drinking whatever awesome beer we can get , even if it isn't Heady.
Question....and I know it's almost sacrilege.....but has anyone let a can of Heady sit for a few weeks and carefully pour it like you would with a bottle conditioned beer? If so, is it clearer than a fresh can, or is it still very cloudy? I'm just wondering if the cloudiness is chill haze. It may be that Heady doesn't chill the wort all that fast in order to let the whirlpool hops steep longer in warm wort. It could also explain the proteins that seem to be in there also. I know they keep it cold in the bright tanks, I just wonder how long they take to get the temp down.
Just throwing it out there.
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