Recent content by Kickass

This would be great for single hop associations, I’ll look for it!

Thanks for the responses and WCIPA suggestions, that’s more inline with my personal taste. I’m not necessarily trying to avoid a NEIPA I’m more so trying to find IPA that tightly aligns with more singular descriptor categories, specifically citrus, fruity or pine/dank. I’ve been considering...

Looks like 1am at the club. Yeast are partying hard, right before they go home and crash hard

I don’t drink very much commercial beer these days. Additionally, I feel the IPA space has become convoluted with the sheer amount of fruity hop blasted NEIPA’s. I’d like to “calibrate” my IPA sensory analysis but don’t really know where to start. I’m looking for widely available commercial...

I use a combo of three. I build my recipe with brewersfriend, first. Then I use @VikeMan excel sheet to fine tune everything. His product is very accurate. Finally I run water chemistry with bru n water.

My wife gave up on her climbing roses due to three years of uncontrollable powdery mildew. She asked if I’d put some hops in to climb the garden arbor. Uhhh, yes! I’ve been eyeing Neo Mex from Great Lakes Hop for a while now so I pulled the trigger. Inbound are Neo1 and Amelia! There’s...

I’m thrilled I found this. I’m planning a 50/50, P2R/wheat flour. Cellar Science Monk and lemondrop hops for a “Witbier”. If it turns out good I’m going to brew it again for a beer and wine charity event.

Stabilizing is required before back sweetening. If you don’t stabilize first, the yeast will treat your back sweetening sugar source like it did all the previous sugar and turn it into alcohol. This is unless you use an artificial sweetener, which I have never done. I don’t typically add...

Congrats! I think a lot of people are eagerly waiting to see this beer carbonated and in a glass.

Thank you. My wife is the design brains of the operation. She’ll be responsible for the home brewery/bar remodel.

Any kit that comes with light malt extract or Pilsen extract and uses a restrained amount German hops. Then use lager yeast. My top 3 recommendations are 34/70, Diamond lager or cellar science German lager.

We just got our garden back planted. It was a challenge with a newborn on May 8th. Tomatoes, lettuce, sweet peppers, herbs, squash, zucchini, melons, cucumber, and hot chilies. I’m probably missing a few.

That’s kind of a funny chart. Im going to start referring to my ideal BU/GU as “in the yellow”.

I’ve never used strata but everything else looks like a tasty beer. I love this “style”.