New England IPA NEIPA w/ Galaxy, Simcoe & El Doradio

[VirginiaHops1]

When I dry hop in a keg, I put the hops into hop bags and suspend it by use of dental floss. At them moment, I just hang the floss outside of the lid and use the lid to hold it in place. Works well and seal is plenty for a forced transfer. I need to get one of the corny keg lids with the welded tab on the inside so the gasket on the lid is not compromised.

My most recent beer I fermented in carboy, closed transferred to purged keg with (bagged) dry hops, then transferred into water purged serving keg with jumpers when dry hopping was done. Seemed to work great, all smooth transfers. I'm going to try fermenting in a corny next

 

[HopsAreGood]

Correction; I've made a 6% IPA that was all El Dorado in the dry hop and it was an absolute melon bomb. Once again, I think crop variation comes into play here. But I distinctly remember it tasting like a honeydew melon lolly.

I recently made an 8.1% DIPA and used a 3:2:2:1 ratio of citra, mosaic, el dorado, and galaxy. Equal parts whirlpool and dry hop. I really didn't expect much from the el dorado considering the strength of the other hops, but the finished beer had an incredible honeydew melon thing going on that was very strong. It also had some very sweet candy like aspects to it. I have to say I'm torn on how much I liked it but it was definitely very noticeable.

 

[paarman]

I brewed this up about 10 days ago, couldn’t get my hands on galaxy so went citra instead and a little bit of vic secret. Love watching the color shift after a nice dry hop.... still trying to get my gravity to drop a little further, it’s at about 1.022. Usually by day 10 it’s dropped a bit more.

Last Thursday (day 6)

Today (day 10, after 9oz dry hops)

 

[maltyboy]

I brewed this up about 10 days ago, couldn’t get my hands on galaxy so went citra instead and a little bit of vic secret. Love watching the color shift after a nice dry hop.... still trying to get my gravity to drop a little further, it’s at about 1.022. Usually by day 10 it’s dropped a bit more.

Last Thursday (day 6)
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Today (day 10, after 9oz dry hops)
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Looking great, hope it turns out well for you. Would be nice to get it finishing at least down to 1.016, but regardless you'll still have a nice beer on your hand. Let us know how it goes.

 

[iuva]

Looking great, hope it turns out well for you. Would be nice to get it finishing at least down to 1.016, but regardless you'll still have a nice beer on your hand. Let us know how it goes.

Need to measure the pH and final gravity before posting my own experiment

 

[paarman]

So it finished at 1.020. Beer tasted fantastic, I actually think the slight sweetness did well balancing it all out. I've gotten positive feedback on it from everyone I sampled to, so I'll take that as a win.

 

[maltyboy]

So it finished at 1.020. Beer tasted fantastic, I actually think the slight sweetness did well balancing it all out. I've gotten positive feedback on it from everyone I sampled to, so I'll take that as a win.

Post a pic of what it looks like in the glass!

 

[iuva]

OG: 1.060
FG: 1.013
AVB: 6.35% (4g/liter of sugar when bottled)

I used MO instead of pils. Citra instead of Galaxy. Simcoe to compensate Dr Rudy. All in same proportions than your recipe.

Picture at week 8

 

[VirginiaHops1]

So it finished at 1.020. Beer tasted fantastic, I actually think the slight sweetness did well balancing it all out. I've gotten positive feedback on it from everyone I sampled to, so I'll take that as a win.

1.020 is fine for a hazy/NEIPA. I've had several finish there and taste great. I would honestly be surprised if you did a blind taste test with a 1.015 NEIPA vs 1.020 with same recipe and anyone could reliably taste the difference.

 

[paarman]

Post a pic of what it looks like in the glass!

After 2 days in keg: (I double dry hopped, one inside the keg)

After a week:

And just last Friday:

 

[ong]

They do always clear a bit. I have one that’s maybe 3 months old that is getting fairly clear finally (closed transfer really helped ward off staling).

 

[maltyboy]

Looking great guys, need to smash out another batch of this beer again soon. I often experiment with different hop combos but largely stick with the same base recipe. Will provide any feedback when I do.