Will you wash and sanitise the NEIPA bucket or put it straight on top? I ask as in the past I've done similar and dropped the new brew straight onto the yeast cake and it was fine.
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I’ll clean and sanitise first. My bitter uses an English ale yeast that produces nice English ale esters and has good flocculation for clarity. The verdant yeast used in the NEIPA wouldn’t give me the same flavour profile and is designed to produce hazy beers - see next post
The NEIPA is kegged along with some keg hops and a good dose of ascorbic acid. The final gravity is 1.012 giving me an abv of 7.1%. This one is definitely more hazy!
The bitter is done now and just over 20 litres is tucked up in the fermentation cabinet. There’s nothing happening on the brewing front tomorrow (apart from dry hopping my Butterfly Effect APA) but on Friday I’ll keg the Brown Ale and I might get another Czech lager on the go.
I dry hopped that American Pale this morning and then decided I ought to replace the silicon tube on my recirculation/transfer pipes and clean the stainless quick disconnects. It’s probably a bit odd but clean pipes make me feel happy. 
I didn’t get round to kegging that Brown Ale yesterday because we went out in the morning to Folkestone and again in the afternoon at the pub. I did keg it this morning though and it’s hopefully a good one. The colour is right, the aroma is right, and from what I can tell out of the fermenter the flavour is good. I might have to brew another batch to see how well it works on cask.
First taste of my revised NEIPA and after just 3 days in the keg this one is more in line with what I wanted. My wife thinks it looks like grapefruit juice and tastes like grapefruit juice! She does have a point but there is a lot more going on, the aroma is bursting with juicy tropical fruit (and grapefruit). It might actually be very close to Faith although that wasn’t my intention at all.
Same hops and hop schedule as your previous NEIPA recipe @Hazelwood Brewery ?
No, I just used up some hops I’d been given as competition prizes with the first batch. This one uses some of my favourite hops - Citra, Mosaic, Cascade.
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