re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II

My single hop Galaxy IPA

Here's my long aged sour projects. Just ordered some French oak spirals that I'll be boiling and smoking in white wine before I add it to the fermenter in the back. 10 months in the fermenter so far. After sitting on oak for a couple weeks I'll finally bottle with some brett.
I took minimizing carboy space to an extreme with the 2 - 3 gallon batches.

I did not have good luck with a Fantome culture I built up and used in a beer. The Fantome was the basic saison with no hints of band-aid or skunk. Really the perfect Fantome. The starter tasted fantastic, but it quickly soured 5 gallons to the point it was enamel-eating. It also had these weird growths I have never seen before. Looked like little mushrooms. I used 10% in a blend to add some acidity and dumped the rest.

I've probably posted that picture before. Not sure of the pH as my meter is fubar.

Who in here has the Brew Boss system? I'm wondering how it's working now that you've had it for a while.

Just oaked my long aged sour. A few more weeks and this will be bottled. Boiled the stock for 10 minutes then soaked it another 30.

I'll get it to you. I still need to change it out with a new one I bought, but I've been lazy.

Rainy day here, so I think I'm about to start up the burners and brew. Going with a hybrid vienna lager/steam/american amber.

10 lbs vienna
1/2 lb C60
20 IBU bittering (Probably summit)
2 oz Amarillo at flameout
Cal Lager yeast

Planning a NE IPA finally. I have the water profile i want to try out, and the yeast and grain bill, however, i'm unsure of the hop bill. I brewed this beer before i started kegging, last year. The beer was fantastic but lost the hop juice i was looking for. The beer was originally planned to mimic one of the past batches of ghost where i caught a mixture of citrus and dankness to the batch.

The original hop bill last year was as follows:

1.00 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) [15.50 %] - Hop 13 49.3 IBUs
0.50 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) [15.50 %] - Hop 14 17.2 IBUs
1.50 oz Citra [0.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 45.0 m Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Amarillo [0.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 45. Hop 16 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo [5.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 15. Hop 17 1.8 IBUs
0.50 oz Citra [5.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 15.0 m Hop 18 1.8 IBUs
1.0 pkg NorCal Ale #1 (GigaYeast #GY001) Yeast 19 -
1.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 8.0 Days Hop 20 0.0 IBUs
0.75 oz Amarillo [9.20 %] - Dry Hop 8.0 Days Hop 21 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) [15.50 %] - Hop 22 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 4.0 Days Hop 23 0.0 IBUs
0.75 oz Amarillo [9.20 %] - Dry Hop 4.0 Days Hop 24 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) [15.50 %] - Hop 25 0.0 IBUs

The revised hop bill for this year is:

1.50 oz Magnum [12.00 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 12 52.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Amarillo [0.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 25. Hop 13 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Citra [0.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 25.0 m Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [0.00 %] - Steep/Whi Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Galaxy [0.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 25.0 Hop 16 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg London Ale III (Wyeast Labs #1318) [124. Yeast 17 -
2.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 18 0.0 IBUs
1.50 oz Amarillo [9.20 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 19 0.0 IBUs
1.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Dry Hop Hop 20 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Galaxy [14.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 21 0.0 IBUs

This year i was thinking of adding galaxy hops to the hop bill simply because i have them. However, i'm wondering if i may muddle up the hops too much with the galaxy, and if i should just remove it all together and up my other hop qty's. Thoughts?

Looks to be a good combo but like you said, people say galaxy can do that. I am new to magnum. Is that a good bittering hop?

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It's clean, high alpha acid, and i have some in the freezer

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It's a super durable hop too... Loses next to nothing in alpha acid when stored for a few months at room temps.

Not that you should ever keeps your hops at room temps for extended times. ;)