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Au contraire Rodney 😂. I brew NEIPA regularly and drop 250g of hop pellets into the brew half way through fermentation. Always cold crash all my brews for 3-4 days before transfer to a PB. Works fine for me.

My opinion is that dry hopping will result in additional losses due to absorption. Pellets seem to settle with the yeast during cold crashing, although, to be honest I haven't used whole hops for dry hopping. My instincts tell me that the losses would be greater with whole hops versus pellets...

I'm trying to "perfect" my dry hopping method 😂. I tend to dry hop mostly NEIPAs, so huge quantity of dry hops. So I use pellets rather than whole hops so don't need to be squeezed out. If I'm dry hopping my beer, it doesn't see the atmosphere (air) after it goes into the fermentation bucket...

Second brewery is Finback. Think my son's having a bit of beer envy 😂

Sunday and my son's taking me to a couple of Brooklyn breweries. First up, Other Half brewery... Plenty of choice... The thing is, where to start!

Doing a bit of jazz at The Birdland club in Manhattan... Oh, and enjoying an IPA... Cool 😎 Rounding off the evening with a glass of All Fresh Citra Everything from The Other Half brewery. Weighing in at 8.5% ABV 😲

Visiting my son in Manhattan and he's very kindly got some beers in for his ol' dad. This very pleasant IPA from an all women Brooklyn brewery. Really tasty.

Damn! Why didn't I think of that?! 😂

Will you brew it again?

That good!?

If you do decide to keg hop it, you’ll have go drink it even faster! Cunning plan 😂

Looks great and your description of the flavour and aroma sounds delish. Might try your recipe next time. Dare you fill a bottle to see how long it lasts?

Roughly, in a perfect world 800g of ice will chill 1 litre of water from 100C to 20C (according to my circa 1964 physics 🤔)

Wort has cooled nicely overnight in the brew fridge. Now to pitch the yeast and load up the dry hoppers.. ..with 100g Galaxy and 150g Citra before fitting the fermentation bucket lid... Returned to the brew fridge set at 20C. Plan to dry hop in 9 days time.

Used my syphon method to transfer to "cooled" wort (27C) to my fermentation bucket. Just shy of 5 gallons with very little trub. OG 1.056. Colour looks good. It's in the fridge now to chill it down to 20C ISH and I'll pitch the yeast tomorrow, Verdant IPA.

I have an empty barrel in the shed and an almost empty barrel in my barrelator so it's time for another brew day. NEIPA today. However, due to a slip up in my record keeping I was out of Simcoe hops. Looked up suitable substitutions and decided to use some leftover Cascade and Magum pellets...

Shame! I got mine from Sainsbury's but noticed both Sainsbury's and Tesco's are currently showing it as out of stock. 😔

If you get a chance give this one a try. It's a bit different....in a nice way IMO.

Enjoying a glass of my APA in the afternoon sun in the garden. Hard life 😎

Yep.. And.. Pics courtesy of Google maps. Best view is at the top of the cable car. Enjoyed a meal in the restaurant and a drink al fresco in the bar area 😎