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Offline hopfenundmalz

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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2014, 12:52:20 pm »
Come back and discuss the results.
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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2014, 06:24:57 pm »
Will do!

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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2014, 05:48:36 pm »
It was much harder than I thought to find Pacific Gem, but I did find some German Hull Melon hops.  This substitution should provide for some interesting flavors. 

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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2014, 06:52:21 pm »
Big +1.  YVH has made a lot of $$ from me too. Great hop site.


EDIT -   Not sure how many lbs for me from there, but my wife would agree it's a substantial number.     ;)
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Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #20 on: October 08, 2014, 06:57:55 pm »
Not sure how many lbs for me from there, but my wife would agree it's a substantial number.     ;)

Yeah, I have about 7 lbs in the freezer right now. 2 lbs go back to 2011 crop and I use them for bittering mainly. I honestly have no idea how much I bought, but I do know my lady hasn't used the freezer door in 3 years. 12 might have been conservative.

Edit - and my roommates before I lived with my understanding lady were frustrated as well. But those were my whole hop days.

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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #21 on: October 08, 2014, 07:38:37 pm »
I'll have to use them in the future.  Thanks

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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2014, 02:16:50 pm »
After smelling the hops I decided to change the boil schedule a bit.  Pearl was removed and 1oz of Hull Melon was used with 15 minutes left in the boil.  I was surprised how good the wort tasted.  Strawberry, honeydew and tropical flavor are coming out really nice already. 

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Re: Experimental IPA, Need a little help
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2014, 02:53:30 pm »
My IPA is finally ready to drink.  It took a little longer than usual to get the flavor I was going for. Now at 6 week's post bottling the flavors have really come together well.  Using hull melon to dry hop gives it a great smell.  I should be popping open the Mosaic/Citra BIPA soon as well.  I will be comparing this beer to my other Belgian IPA and a White IPA in the coming weeks.  I will post impressions and images of all of these as well.