Oil for the neck, from TMM

[Ross1974]

Brewed this the other week, and its now fermented out, pretty much bang on where I expected it to be. Yeild was a little down, but I think this isdue to my inexperience of the BrewZilla 4 temperature and mash levels.

First time using the protoflac too, and was amazed at the slightly alien looking fronds left at the bottom of the fermenter. Beer now looks very clear, pending the dry hop and tastes quite ok. Time will hopefully only improve this.

Anyone had any experience with this kit?

 

[Rwilts]

Not tried it , but a fan of the original so look forward to your review

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

I’ve followed the recipe on the CML website using their neck oil blend hops and have been really pleased with the results.

 

[MashBag]

Top up the fermenter next time.

 

[tigertim]

I bought this a few weeks ago and have the ingredients split between my grain box, fridge and freezer and I'm just trying to find a free day to brew it. Really looking forward to it so I'll be interested to hear how yours turns out @Ross1974

 

[Ross1974]

So dry hop has added some expected clouds, but it tastes and smells great. In the corny now for conditioning under Co2.

Fingers crossed

 

[Ross1974]

So I've tried this about 6 weeks ago, and it didnt sit right. Thought I would have another tr of it after " dryish January" and its pleasently surprising. Very hoppy, as neck oil is, i suppose. But its definitely conditioned well.

Quite pleased with myself to be honest and very grateful for all of the advice on here.

 

[aero-spaced-out]

Bit late to the party on this thread but I've just finished this myself tonight and put it into the keg to carb.
Smells lovely and as I was transferring I missed it by a few seconds and some hop debris transferred in. Causing a bitterness in it now that I wasn't expecting. Hoping that the cold will let the debris settle out as I carb so I can draw it off.
Otherwise, Looking forward to this myself

 

[Rwilts]

Bit late to the party on this thread but I've just finished this myself tonight and put it into the keg to carb.
Smells lovely and as I was transferring I missed it by a few seconds and some hop debris transferred in. Causing a bitterness in it now that I wasn't expecting. Hoping that the cold will let the debris settle out as I carb so I can draw it off.
Otherwise, Looking forward to this myself

I wouldn't have thought that a bit of hop during transfer would already be adding to bitterness. More likely that it's already taste that way.. unless I misunderstood your post.

 

[aero-spaced-out]

I wouldn't have thought that a bit of hop during transfer would already be adding to bitterness. More likely that it's already taste that way.. unless I misunderstood your post.

No you've not misunderstood

I done it in a bit of a roundabout way

I fermented it out, then dryhopped in a keg for 3 days
Just transferred out to a clean fermenter keg but after taking my eyes off it
The end of the keg was drawing in all the hop debris.

It smells phenomenal, there are no off smells and I can taste the beers flavour alright but there's just a bitterness there that comes and I'm hoping that it'll mellow out as it conditions. It is about as fresh as it is could be right now and uncarbonated so gonna let it settle for a week or two and give it another go
It's only been 10 days from the grain went into my brew kettle

Edit: it was a clean keg, not fermenter lol