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This is my experience too, I know it's not specific to IPA mind you. My store of ale has quite a variety, and a lot of bottles, and with few exceptions the beers are really really good at 6 months or more. That's not to say they aren't good after say 2 months but they seem to age really well...

Hairy Porter! Lol

Have you considered bulk aging it at all? I've got a Belgian triple going that went from 1.110 to 1.020 over about three weeks or more and I was ready to bottle about a fortnight ago, but it was quite hot with alcohol flavours. Someone mentioned bulk aging to help it mellow which I'm now doing...

I was really happy with some of the kits I made in the earlier days of my brewing journey, I remember thinking how can something this good come out of a blimmin tin, especially as my forays into hb in the late 80s all tasted like boiled *****. But I soon realised with kits, good as some of them...

Siphoned this off into a clean bin last weekend, taste was dominated by lots of hot alcohols so I'm taking advice from earlier in the thread and I'm going to bulk age it for 3 months or more to see how it develops. Was initially a bit miffed but it's all part of the journey, I don't think I've...

I've had 6 boxes of these in recirculating over the past few years and they've been great to be fair, an added bonus is that the crimped base seems to hold on to the sediment much better than glass does. Most of mine have had more than 10 uses and I'm now phasing them out as I drink the beers...

Couple of bottles of my brewdog jackhammer clone, it's a nice DIPA but not a patch on the real thing. A bottle of my proper job clone, the hops completely died in this so it's a nice light Ale but nothing like proper job. A centennial brown Ale I brewed ages ago, that's lovely, nutty, malty...

I stirred one like that back into the brew, looks minging but it's just yeast at the end of the day, it'll drop on its own eventually.

I've had it at 24 for the past week to try and get it over the line, I'll rouse it again tomorrow and see if it's dropped any by the weekend. If not then it's into a clean bucket to condition in the corner for a while, The inside of the FV is disgusting, everything above the beer level including...

2 weeks. Gravity 1.020, tastes very promising indeed. I wonder if it'll go any lower it's looking pretty much finished but that's too high still. 10.76% currently and 79% attenuation, I'd like at least another 5 degrees off it, any suggestions?

Rochefort 10 clone 25litres. Total 966 L

I've 6 dozen 330ml bottles ready and waiting for this one, I'll sample one every 3-4 months but it'll sit for about a year before I start drinking it/passing it round. I expect to have some left in two and three years time, I'll see how it changes and if it's worth maturing. it's not really...

Yep, different system efficiencies different outcomes I guess. Ibu calculations do seem to differ wildly depending which calc is used, I think the best way is a pencil and calculator but generally can't be arsed! Do post your OG when you brew, just out of interest.

Are you thinking of mashing all the grain as normal, then adding the DME before boiling? That's how I'd approach it, it would be ideal. If I was doing it in the gf I'd expect an OG about 1.116 FG about 1.030, for about 11.3%, Your yeast is good for just 9% so you might reconsider that. Also I...

@MagnusTS that's a nice selection but have a tinker around here too https://www.beerwulf.com/ personally found them much better value than BH.

7 days, still chugging away, ramped it to 23 over the last two days to give it the best chance of finishing, it was 1.024 yesterday.

UPS parcel points, usually a local offy or newsagent, handy if you work. Otherwise RM for a quid more direct to your house.

I enjoyed them! https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/m-s-single-hop-styles.64836/ Great for getting to know hop profiles and conveniently ready to buy off the shelf, none of this splitting batches to find out the slow way. In fact once this bloody dry January malarkey is over and done...

@BeerCat thanks for that, bookmarked for the summer! did the oak come through nicely? Will be keeping my eye out for a good price on concentrate and GJ in the meantime.

Saw this on Facebook, 2l flask less than a tenner delivered, 3l less than £12.50 if you get it delivered to your local shop. Billy Bargain, my 2l was £18, and I'd much prefer a 3l one with headroom for a 2l starter. https://www.creamsupplies.co.uk/glass-conical-flask-2000ml-be...