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A little piece of advice on kegging these beers... It is worth doing a full sanitiser purge of your keg, before then transferring the beer into the closed keg through the liquid dip tube. You have to fill the keg all the way to the brim with sanitiser, then put the lid on and push it all out...

The single most important thing you need to be aware of is your alkalinity, other things matter, but alkalinity more than anything else determines what you'll need to do to your water to get the mash in the right place. From a brief look at your water I am guessing you are in Ipswich? I am also...

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Living a stone's throw from Southwold I drink a lot of Mosaic. It is very variable, sometimes it is generic fruity, sometimes it's like a pint of onions, and sometimes it can be citric, though that is probably the rarest way it comes. I would describe it as dank when it combines its fruity...

Yes, it's one of the great smash hops, along with Citra, Mosaic, Nelson and arguably Amarillo. Depending on harvest it will throw passion fruit, clementine, mango and generic sulphur driven fruitiness.

It all depends on how much of each hop you have, but in an ideal world I wouldn't add a buttering charge, I would do a ratio of 1:1:1 of all three in the whirlpool to get all my IBUs, then dry hop in a ratio of 3:1:1 Galaxy:Columbus:Apollo... And I would use a lot of dry hops... More than the...

My advice for using the more special and expensive aroma hops (Nelson, Galaxy, Mosaic, Citra, Amarillo etc) is to use them predominantly for dry hopping, and otherwise in the whirlpool/hopstand, but even in the whirlpool/hopstand/very late in the boil you'll lose quite a bit of their character.

There is no good single hop substitute for Galaxy, it is too unique. Certainly Citra and Mosaic are the closest, but not all that close. Amarillo and Centennial aren't close at all. I make lots of very hoppy beer, using all sorts of hops, but I adore Galaxy, and the closest I have got to Galaxy...

I've been to 50% on lower abv beers, watch your diastatic power at that point.

I couldn't agree less. It all depends on how they have been stored, and whether they are pellets or cones.

You might well be able to squeeze one into a standard freezer drawer.

Sadly they'll only do the 5kg foils (well, sometimes 10kg also), as that's what they get direct from the US/AUS/UK/German etc distributors - they never break them up, they just stick them in a coldstore until somebody wants them. They mostly sell to micro/craft breweries. For this reason I only...

I sometimes buy a 5kg pack from Simplyhops, they're great quality, even the older ones, as they're kept cold in nitrogen purged foil packs.

Mosaic, Simcoe, Columbus, Summit and probably others can all have a bit of onion or garlic from crop to crop. Appears in part to be related to later harvesting.

I put 600g in the 23l Double NEIPA I just kegged the other day, 200g in at flameout, 400g total dry hop, 3:2:1 ratio of Galaxy:Citra:Columbus... It is pretty great, ended up kegging 17l of beer after the losses, I have no regrets. I buy my hops in bulk, so this ended up being £18 of hops...

That's not quite right unfortunately. The US fluid ounce is defined at 1/16 of a US pint (~473ml), which makes it 29.57ml, which as a weight of water is 29.57g... This means that a US gallon is 3.785 litres.... Not 3.63. It would be easy and so great to be able to assume that a fluid ounce is...

We don't all dry hop with low AA hops...

Bit rude there... With which part do you take issue? Spent grain in an efficient system will have very little left to it, and used whole cones for dry hopping have most of the alpha acid content remaining.

You can't really reuse spent grain for brewing... As for hops, you can reuse dry hops for bittering. To be honest though, I would just get some super-cheap high-alpha hops for bittering and forget about reusing.