Recent content by Kye

no protafloc for this as you want it hazy like the real thing! I don't use yeast nutrient, possibly another area where I need to do some experimentation. the most important thing for this brew (well one of them) is an oxygen free transfer. I have given up trying to bottle heavily hopped...

hop stand 80°c. getting to a TIPA; really not sure, the mash would be outrageously thick and/or a massive amount of dextrose. Just had a quick play with brewfather, you'd need a starting gravity of around 1.1 I guess you could do a no sparge brew so you've got a mash that will actually be able...

here's the link to my latest version, hope this works. tbh that 16mg might be wrong, I didn't add any bicarb so it's prob 0. I concentrate on the chloride and sulphate, both absolute amount and ratio to each other. also a bit of sodium in the boil. https://share.brewfather.app/Nn47sXMCXodZyC

totally, after that fermzilla gets closed up there's zero oxygen until I drink it; dry hop thru the purged collection jar and even purge the transfer lines with co2 immediately before the transfer to keg. I reckon a little splashing around is always a good thing when transferring into the...

thanks for the mention of spotless water - had never heard of it! i use an RO filter at home but just discovered there's one of these down the road so went and got my 35 litres for £1.60, bargain!

I stayed with 1 pack. have also brewed clones of unconventional tactics (which was the beer I've been most happy about in 35 brews) and one more PSI also with 1 pack. I think I had poor oxygenation of the wort when I 1st brewed the putty and have since made a bigger effort of getting as much...

thought I'd post about my latest putty batch. this was kegged on weds after a 7 day ferment, crash to 15C, and 3 days with dry hops at 19g per litre which is my biggest dry hop yet. under on OG but down to 1.012 FG and 7.5% ABV. 30psi for 2 days and it's pretty well carbonated. it really...

Verdant Putty clone is nearly gone 😢, what a day for it though. Getting ready to brew another NEIPA this weekend at 6.5% this time, hopped with simcoe, citra, mosaic, and a bit of cascade and amarillo.

I'll have a go please. have a lager in the bottle which should be nicely conditioned by then

thanks for the tips, I didn't make it to mountain view, but managed to get to San Pedro Market when I arrived for a couple of hours. Was on the hunt for Pliny the Elder but couldn't find it on tap. Went to Market Beer Company (highly recommend) that had around 25 beers on tap and a big take...

I'm off to San Jose with work on Monday and have literally about 3 hours of personal time before the pain of work meetings/socials so I'm trying to hit up one or two brewery tap rooms when I get there. It looks like there's a few and just wondered if anyone has been recently and can recommend...

wow that sounds terrible re the broccoli. I did the even sharks recipe with galaxy from geterbrewed and it was really good. this was early 2021 but can't remember if it was a 2019 or 2020 batch. I also did a 'user upper' recipe of a Verdant IPA using the even sharks grain bill and chucked 75g...

interesting, it was 100g from malt Miller and I had a bit from crossmyloof that I threw in for the extra 20g or so that I needed. I'm not sure I could tell if a single hop was bad, how did you know it was so bad (ie was it a single hop brew maybe?) and what did it smell/taste like? I'm really...

Thought I'd post an update on the final result of the Verdant Putty. I'm really pleased, the aroma is almost indistinguishable from the real thing. The mouthfeel is on par, thick and smooth, with mine slightly more carbonated, and the taste is very similar. The real thing is slightly more...