Something to mention here: This beer was awesome when it was young, but I made a ROOKIE MISTAKE during fermentation that I totally could have avoided, which caused some hop creep later on (diacetyl related to dry hopping). If you follow this recipe, try to avoid this by doing your second dry hop at a cooler temperature (50s should be fine) and then do a diacetyl rest for a few days after.

I don’t make ANYTHING under 7.0 ABV. 😉😉 I’ll be making this tomorrow. Love the Channel. You’re HIGHLY UNDERRATED!🇺🇸🍺🥩🔫🎸

Tip... If you are getting foam from your floating dip tube shoot CO2 down it .vs. shaking your keg up. I find it's often a build up of yeast or hop material that's clogging up the dip tube which causes turbulence & foaming.

Great video Steve!

Great video! Really liked the side by side comparison at the end! I enjoy tasting my beer next to commercial examples too. Cheers!!!

Nice. I'm gonna do this for sure. I'm just going to do 1 dry hop using hops suspended in a bag and held by a magnet, remove the manet about 7 or 8 days into ferment

Great video. You're highly underrated. Great watch collection as well. Would love a short side video on your watches and any reasons why you like/have them.

Dude the 1.5” tc dry hop struggle is real lol. Especially when the sight glass is packed! One thing that’s helped me is using pressure to push them through and if that doesn’t work I give it a big WACK with the spray bottle 😂 New videos are more 🔥 than ever!

I have a suggestion for oxygen free dry hoping. This is what we do on our conicals at work: -Hook up a blow-off tube to your butterfly valve up top and leave the valve open -Sanitize and hook up CO2 to your oxygen stone port lower on the conical -Set your regulator to 3-5 PSI and begin pushing CO2 through the port -The CO2 will pass through the beer and will drive off any O2 in your conical through the blow-off tube -This will create a CO2 positive pressure environment to prevent O2 from being introduced and since the blow-off valve is open it won't be enough pressure to carbonate your beer -After the CO2 has been going for a second, open the larger 3" triclamp port up top and drop in your hops -Once you're done dry hoping, close the lower port and disconnect the CO2 It's important to leave the butterfly valve open on the blow-off tube the whole time or the conical will build pressure and blow that 3" triclamp in your face when try to open it. Ask me how I know! Leave the blow-off valve open afterwards as well to let any residual pressure out. This wouldn't be ideal for early fermentation bio-transfer hop additions but the beer will be producing it's own CO2 rich positive pressure environment at that point so you shouldn't have to worry about O2 as much.

Based on your description I'd choose your homebrew version. On a beer like that I imagine drinking it at a 4th of july party. The crisp, hoppy beer just sounds so much better when the sun is beating down all day.

I’m glad you mentioned that you have that issue with your floating dip tubes. I have had a similar experience, and wondered if there was any way to avoid that. Love the videos!

Think I'll give this one a go. Thank you

Pale ale is one of my favorite styles as well. Love your video work. Great thorough review of this brew. Cheers!

DUDE!!!!!!! you grabbed some really nice gear! Awesome!!!! Great beer man, perfect for sitting around with some buddies and just chill 👍🏻👍🏻 🍺🍺👍🏻 cheers my man

hey man, great video and great channel. would love to see you brewing a clone of heady topper or pliny the elder

Great video! Waiting to taste a SMASH pale ale with Sorachi hops and making my first Mexican lager tomorrow. Love the informative nature of your videos.

Awesome hop combos los one of my favorites sometimes I interchange Chinook for Columbus. And I have the same problem with the floating tube but in the fermzilla all rounder, Cheers Steve , have a great weekend 🍻🤙🏼

Hey, what you do is really great and inspiring. You've got a viewer as long as you're making content and great beer.

Well done informative video. There are so many variations on a style of beer. Keeps it interesting and fun. So many beer’s to brew! 🍻

Parabéns!! Muito legal seus vídeos!! Um abraço !!!

Awesome video dude, honestly your version sounded better to me. I think over time your brew will mellow out and be more balanced. Would love to see you try this again and nail it!

Nice...... Iron Mike is a decent pale...... look at you with all your new toys 👍 Cheers Steve

Love the side by side comparison. A lot of guts to put your clone beer up against the real mcCoy on camera. Good stuff👍🍺

Just brewed one of these yesterday while listening to the Genus livestream. Great minds think alike. Hahaha

Awesome recipe btw, might try this next!

Hi! I've been watching a lot of your videos while my american amber (2nd ever batch) is fermenting. I'd love to see you go more in depth your recipe design process in a video. Also just ordered my galaxy single hop apa recipe. Keep up the good work :)

Sounds like a tasty beer! Hopefully the boil over did not cost you too much wort. :) Cheers!!

Love the videos! Question regarding Clawhammer brew kit. I have the 20G kit and have noticed what I believe to be low hop utilization - hard to get a target bitterness at times even with large hop additions. I noticed you are using a larger hop spider. Does this help out? Have you noticed any similar issues with the standard Clawhammer hop spider? I've resorted to also using a hop bag to spread things out. Any tips on this? Thanks

Good vid! I think you might have gotten a bit more fruitness and sweetness with a yeast like A15/wlp051. US05 is great, but dries a ton.

American Pale Ale without Pale grain ;) 🍻

Thinking about doing something similar this weekend with one big dry hop post fermentation and ferment with Voss instead of American ale yeast. I've had luck avoiding the hop creep by soft crashing at about 55-60ish before dry hopping

Loose dry hopping is my nemesis! I want the contact and utilization, but I also deal with clogged poppits during closed transfers. I'll be interested to see how you change your process to accommodate for this. I have looked into the Bouncer pro in line filter but wonder if I would end up unclogging the filter just as much as the poppits! For now I've been using a stainless hop spider to contain dry hops.

Preboil 1.049 and postboil 1.051 I think you need to take several measurements with the refractometer because I have had the same issues with having strange numbers. I dont think a 60 min boil will just knock of 2 points even if you have a lid partially on.

Do you recommend using 30 min hop additions in more of my recipes? I usually just do bittering at around 60 then nothing until 15 min or later. Do you think the classic flavour addition at 30 min adds something?

Nice one. Cheers

Why is it you use the grain bag instead of a mash tun?

Great video. Have you ever used one of those in-line filters during a closed keg transfer to prevent clogging? Was thinking of getting one after kegging my first (session) neipa this week. Ball lock connector kept clogging, made the transfer a PITA. May have introduced a small amount of O2, we'll see if it stays stable. A week after keg it's the best beer I've ever made despite that annoyance, but hoping for a solution to closed transfer clogs in the future since I'm hoping to do much more of that style

Do you dump the trub and hop debris oit of your fermentwr from the bottom valve before kegging?

I love your videos, man. I'm a lowly extract brewer at the moment, though I'd love to get into full-grain soon. But I digress: if you were to do this with extract, how would you go about it?

So I tried making an American IPA a few weeks ago. I just tried one last night, turns out it was just a pale ale, but very much so copper hued. More late addition hops next time I suppose 😅

You are not really flushing out oxygen by the method you were showing. Might be better to add a bit of CO2 pressure to the fermentor (if you have a separate connector) and then releasing it through the dry hops.

Looks the same!

What happened right before 8:23 mark? Was there an explosion?

Interesting points about dry hopping later into fermentation. I mostly do WC IPAs and am not looking for a bio transformation, so when is a good time to add my dry hops? Do you ever worry about hop creep when dry hopping for a few days and not giving it a long vdk rest? Like you mentioned, I don’t want to leave the hops in too long so I usually transfer after 3-5 days without much of a vdk rest. One of my last batches had strong diacetyl flavors 😕

Why a 90-minute mash? For greater efficiency?

I gotta ask man, how are you able to brew so often? No way you’re drinking all that beer yourself. Are you bottling some or what?

I will only dry hop in hop socks from now on.

Looks like your wort tried to jump out of the pot at some point.

When you described your water chemistry, I thought it was way too high in sulfates. I also think you dry hopped a little too much for an APA

Could you just put a little more pressure on the top than what was in the fermenter to pop the hops in there, not taking about a bunch of pressure. Like your shit that you do! Cheers!!!

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