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Let me know how this one turns out. Started using Comet a few months ago ad really love what this one can do.

Since I supplied this keg for poker night I have some feedback. I put this on tap Thursday and it was gone before the end of poker night Friday (4.5 guys can drink a lot of beer) so, It was well received and I like to brag every so often (I'm a modest guy :rockin:).

The comet was excellent and I will be buying a pound of it to replace the 1/2 pound I put into this beer. Yakima Valley Hops is marketing this as "Citra's little sister" I think that's apt. The 3 oz 30 min hopstand gave me a ludicrous amount of citrus flavor that really held its own against the accidentally high abv of 8.5% (bought online and underestimated my efficiency and ended up with less water since I was adjusting things to start fermenting in kegs, side note I hit my numbers perfectly yesterday :ban:). The bitterness was also very smooth and accentuated that classic american grapefruit we've all come to love. Pretty much a solid citrus american hop.

Golden Promise was the perfect choice and by far my favorite single malt I've used. It had a lot of complexity and an excellent sweetness to it without it tasting cloying like crystal malts. All around not as bready as Vienna and sweeter than MO. Again, this is going to make it into more of my recipes.

This SMaSH was a great success.
 
Centennial IPA -- can't let myself run out of this stuff...

Using the 2 Hearted recipe found here on HBT... and hopefully harvested Oberon yeast.
 
Planning on brewing another iteration of my sour saison to pitch onto my last batches yeast cake. This is the third batch on the same cake over the past 5 years. Super solid and consistent culture. Also I have to brew a Flanders red for a second gen Roselare
 
Brewing my rich malty Dunkelweizen tomorrow with Spalter and Santiam hops. Looking forward to this one. I make it bock strength sometimes too and that variation also is well received. Just can't drink as many of those in one sitting.....


John
 
I am getting everything ready to brew a saison tomorrow. My yeast starter looks good and my fermenters are clean. Just have to organize and measure out the ingredients. Oh, and I have yet to clean my mashtun so there is that.
 
Just finished bottling my first partial mash hefe and getting geared up to brew my second. First one was delicious right out of the fermenter so I'm not going to change too much. Simplicity seems, after all, to be best with this style.
 
Me and a friend brewed Yellow Diamond Belgian Pale Ale recipe from Radical Brewing last night. Looking forward to this one plus it's a competition beer for our company homebrew comp!
 
Got started about 7:30 this am but had to do a lot of little stuff I didn't get to yesterday. Weighing ingredients and collecting/heating water and some last minute cleaning.

Anyway, we are brewing! Oh, and it's a saison...
 
Brewing the House IPA on the new brew stand that came home yesterday. Burners need tweaking but overall I'm happy.

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Since I supplied this keg for poker night I have some feedback. I put this on tap Thursday and it was gone before the end of poker night Friday (4.5 guys can drink a lot of beer) so, It was well received and I like to brag every so often (I'm a modest guy :rockin:).

The comet was excellent and I will be buying a pound of it to replace the 1/2 pound I put into this beer. Yakima Valley Hops is marketing this as "Citra's little sister" I think that's apt. The 3 oz 30 min hopstand gave me a ludicrous amount of citrus flavor that really held its own against the accidentally high abv of 8.5% (bought online and underestimated my efficiency and ended up with less water since I was adjusting things to start fermenting in kegs, side note I hit my numbers perfectly yesterday :ban:). The bitterness was also very smooth and accentuated that classic american grapefruit we've all come to love. Pretty much a solid citrus american hop.

Golden Promise was the perfect choice and by far my favorite single malt I've used. It had a lot of complexity and an excellent sweetness to it without it tasting cloying like crystal malts. All around not as bready as Vienna and sweeter than MO. Again, this is going to make it into more of my recipes.

This SMaSH was a great success.

Always looking for new ways to make my house IPA. I love Mosaic but Comet sounds like more of what I'm looking for. Doing my House today with a mix of Simcoe and Mosaic (because that's what I have in stock).
 
Got Cream of Three Crops in the fermenter and thought "I could put everything away, or I could leave it in the garage and just brew next weekend too. So I'm doing that. Nugget/Centennial IPA.
 
Got started about 7:30 this am but had to do a lot of little stuff I didn't get to yesterday. Weighing ingredients and collecting/heating water and some last minute cleaning.

Anyway, we are brewing! Oh, and it's a saison...

Getting a late start was the ONLY hiccup in a (damn near) perfect brew day! Hit all my numbers for temps, times, gravities and anything else today. Poured the cooled wort into the fermenter and didn't spill a single drop. That's a first lol

Collected exactly 5 gal and will pitch in the am before work.
 
After a lovely day in the 80s yesterday I woke up to 50s and drizzle. BREW DAY!
Totally unplanned, decided on a Galaxy APA.
Whipped up a BS2 recipe and a Bru'n Water RO package and got to work.
Et voila! Another 10+ gallons for the pipeline...

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Cheers!
 
Woke up to no power, and 38 degrees. Spent the day babysitting the pellet stove turning it on and off to keep the house semi warm. I swear I have a third world electrical system out here in the boonies of MN! Above 32 degrees I cannot run the pellet stove full time, I have to cycle it.
 
This weekend I have a NE session pale on deck, based on a previous recipe I have done that was incredible (you would never have guessed it was only 4.2% - Crazy aroma/flavor and body as well)… However, changing the hops a bit to some varieties I have not used or have little experience with… Azacca, Belma and Mandaria. This will be a great compliment to the 6.8% NE IPA I will be tapping this weekend which is all Columbus/Galaxy based on Trillium’s DDH Congress Street (my favorite IPA of all time!).
 
Going to a tasting at my lhbs Saturday and get what I need to brew later that day (national homebrew day!)... I have to get my starter going tonight though.

I will ponder the proper recipe tonight also.
 
4:45 this morning started heating my "sanitizing" water... boiling water circulated through all piping and CF chiller. Strike water heated and doughed in by 5:45. 90 minute mash @ 154* Boil underway right now on an Orange APA - Zest of to Tangelos @ 10min; 1oz respectively, Citra/Simcoe/Mosaic @ 5min; 2oz/1.5oz respectively Citra/Simcoe/Mosaic @ 1min. Will dry hop with 4.5 oz of same hops-heavy on the citra.

Cheers!
 
4:45 this morning started heating my "sanitizing" water... boiling water circulated through all piping and CF chiller. Strike water heated and doughed in by 5:45. 90 minute mash @ 154* Boil underway right now on an Orange APA - Zest of to Tangelos @ 10min; 1oz respectively, Citra/Simcoe/Mosaic @ 5min; 2oz/1.5oz respectively Citra/Simcoe/Mosaic @ 1min. Will dry hop with 4.5 oz of same hops-heavy on the citra.

Cheers!

Man that sounds good. On the fence to buy a chest freezer that can hold 10 kegs, your recipe is on the list!
 
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