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Ballantine's IPA
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"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Yup, I think. I'll check with the boss.
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Did anything happen here?
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Re: Ballantine's IPA
Nope, but I still have some yeast for you.
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Spears: you said you weren't home later this week. Is there someone that I could drop off the yeast to? Plan is to be there tomorrow and Thursday.
Assuming the yeast is ready to go out the door today.
Assuming the yeast is ready to go out the door today.
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I'm heading to CB Friday returning Sunday if that helps.
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yeast is ready to gochalmers wrote:Spears: you said you weren't home later this week. Is there someone that I could drop off the yeast to? Plan is to be there tomorrow and Thursday.
Assuming the yeast is ready to go out the door today.
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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That would be awesome guys. I will be leaving early tomorrow but my wife will be home. I really appreciate this!
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Can you leave LD a gift pack of homebrew with your wife, I'm sure he'd appreciate that. Please PM me the best time/way to drop by your place. Wed afternoon/evening preferred.
Another option, if you're heading away from CB rather than deeper into it, would be to meet somewhere on the road tomorrow morning. Might be too complicated, though.
Another option, if you're heading away from CB rather than deeper into it, would be to meet somewhere on the road tomorrow morning. Might be too complicated, though.
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No prob with the gift pack. Meeting on the road might be complicated. My wife will be home later Wednesday afternoon and the evening. I'll PM you my address.
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Thanks!
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I'll grab mine at the grain pickup if ld or chalmers can bring it.
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I'll put it on the list of things to bringmr x wrote:I'll grab mine at the grain pickup if ld or chalmers can bring it.
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Thanks again LiverDance! Chalmer's gave me the yeast last night and its now happy in a starter. I'll be sure to ship up some samples when its ready.
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"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Well, I finally brewed this on July 4th. The brew went OK as I missed my target gravity. I wanted to try to hold true to the recipe so I made it up with some DME. The wort tasted great with a lot of bitterness and hop flavour. I was surprised at the flavour considering cluster and brewers gold were the hops. Not what I was expecting.
Tonight I racked to the secondary and dry hopped with EKG per the recipe. The original beer was aged for a year before sold. I was going to do a couple of months. My question is, should I leave the dry hops in for this amount of time? The original beer was "dry hopped" with steam distilled bullion hop oil. Not readily available these days! My worry is that if I leave it on the hops too long, I will get some vegetable qualities added to the beer from the hops breaking down. Opinions? Thanks!
Tonight I racked to the secondary and dry hopped with EKG per the recipe. The original beer was aged for a year before sold. I was going to do a couple of months. My question is, should I leave the dry hops in for this amount of time? The original beer was "dry hopped" with steam distilled bullion hop oil. Not readily available these days! My worry is that if I leave it on the hops too long, I will get some vegetable qualities added to the beer from the hops breaking down. Opinions? Thanks!
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Re: Ballantine's IPA
You could just drop hop it the week before you want to keg or bottle it.
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Re: Ballantine's IPA
Good idea, but unfortunately I already plunked the dry hops in.
Brian: How did you find the Old Newark Ale yeast when you used it? It really chewed through this beer and brought it all the way down to 1.010 from 1.078. I have a bit more alcohol than planned for!
Brian: How did you find the Old Newark Ale yeast when you used it? It really chewed through this beer and brought it all the way down to 1.010 from 1.078. I have a bit more alcohol than planned for!
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I had a similar experience with an IPA last summer. Dried it out to 1.007 if I remember correctly. It was an all Citra IPA.spears104 wrote:Good idea, but unfortunately I already plunked the dry hops in.
Brian: How did you find the Old Newark Ale yeast when you used it? It really chewed through this beer and brought it all the way down to 1.010 from 1.078. I have a bit more alcohol than planned for!
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Re: Ballantine's IPA
I used it on a smaller pale ale and it did a fine job tearing through that. The extra alcohol won't be a problem if you are aging it a bit.
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Yeah. As for the dry hops, I think I'll just leave it for a few days and then bottle. I was going to age the beer in the secondary but going right to bottles will eliminate a racking/oxygen introduction.
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