Well NHC is all but canceled. I’m sure you know why. I’v made several beers since the ones I made for NHC. So let’s catch up.
- 8 Day IPA
- This is basically the Northern Brewer Kama Citra recipe, but I changed this up a bit. If the link still works you can find the original recipe here.
- First change, the original recipe is for a 5 gallon batch with a target ABV 5.3%. I decided to reduce the batch size to 4 gallons and the end result was a 6.3% beer.
- Second, I fermented this beer under pressure using my new Fermentasaurus Snub Nose. The idea here is that fermenting under pressure will help the beer retain more hop aroma and flavor.
- Third, I fermented with SafLager S-23. That’s right this is technically a lager.
- I really like this beer. It’s no longer on tap but I have a few bottles left. I think I’m on to something with making hoppy beers under pressure.
- Social Distance DIPA
- Is another IPA I fermented under pressure. This time I used an Danstar’s Nottingham yeast (one of my favorites).
- This is an all Mosaic hop brew with additions for bittering, flavor, aroma, and dry hop.
- This beer seems to have peaked after about two weeks in the keg. I can a fair amount of Mango / Stonefruit which I’m sure is coming from the Mosaic hops. I’ll have to do more single hop brews…
- End results is a delicious 8% 56 IBU DIPA
- El Hefe 7
- Hefeweizen is one of my favorite styles of beer, hence version #7.
- This is a little different than past El Hefe’s. I’m using German Wheat Malt (Weyermann) & Pislner (BESTMALZ) from a maltsters I haven’t used before.
- I also intentionally brewed this one to rather light at 4.8% ABV.
- Other than that there’s not much to say.
- Galaxy Pale
- Inspired by Social Distance I decided to make another beer with a single hop. This time using Australian Galaxy Hops…
- This brew is cold crashing now and I can’t wait to try it. Some of my favorite IPAs are made with Galaxy hops.
- Galaxy hops are highly aromatic and generally impart intense Citrus and Passionfruit characteristics to your beer.
- I should be trying this one in a few days.
If you want to see these beers you should be able to find them on untappd (I’ve I’m not too lazy to post them).