Hey everyone! After we showed our lovely sponsors Lallemand the video they sent us some VERY IN DEPTH thoughts on biotranformation. To summarise, there is no real need to add additional hops during active fermention as the process is already happening anyway thanks to the whirlpool addition. This is especially true of the Verdant Ale yeast, which is high in B-Lyase which helps chop down those flavour compounds into others. Sounds like we need to do a blind taste test....

more home brewing videos!!!!!!!!

The happiness on your face says everything about that homebrewed beer. Cheers and congratulations!

Stoked for this part 2 This is exactly why I love home brew these moments and experiences !

Your look of excitement is awesome. This brew looks amazing!

This is easily the best thing I've seen all week!! So pleased with the result you got. Fair play to verdant too for the great feedback. Fantastic looking beer and a thoroughly brilliant watch. Definately my highlight of the week!!!

Great work, chaps. I’m loving the home brew videos at the moment.

Excellent work Jonny! I love the way Brad looks at you after tasting the beer, bro love and astonishment in his eyes. Great video as always!

Great video, some excellent info and I just love how genuinely excited you guys were when you tried it, and saw James' feedback and reaction. Great stuff!

Love the homebrew series! Johnny, with your micromini CO2 tank, its time to start collecting gas from your ferment. Hook your airlock out to your keg's out post, then send your kegs 'in' post to an airlock bucket. The whole fermentation should produce enough CO2 to dilute your keg's CO2 down to very, very near 0ppm. Once fermentation is done, gravity drain the beer to the keg, but hook the gas out from the keg back to your fermenter as it drains for a completely closed transfer without using ANY external gas!

Some notes I hope will help others to brew this fantastic beer. Firstly, I have a 35L Brewzilla V3 and Brewfather suggested 25.65L of water for the mash of this grain bill. This was at the absolute limit for the little Brewzilla (as I stirred grain leaked through the malt pipe handle holes) so next time I’ll be making a slightly smaller batch. Secondly I skipped the first dry hop, because I used whole hops I had so much hop matter in suspension from the whirlpool additions I didn’t feel I needed to add any biotransformation additions during active fermentation and dumped the whole dry hop in at 15C on day 8, well after fermentation had finished, this appears to be what Verdant were suggesting in the previous video. As an aside, this yeast is nuts, fermentation had finished after 48 hours but I left it for the full 8 days the last 3 of which were at 22C, then chilled to 15C, added all the dry hops and continued to chill to 0C for 3 days. I also have a Fermzilla, so fermentation was at 5PSI and the dry hops were added from the bottom jar after having been thoroughly purged with CO2. Transfer was also completed under pressure into a keg that was first filled to the brim with Starsan and then emptied by flushing out with CO2... and yet I still detected the vaguest hint of oxidation, go figure. Even so, this is the best beer I have ever made and head and shoulders better than most commercially available tinned NEIPA’s, but the hop aroma does fade fast, I would say you need to drink this within 2 weeks, hence why I’m happy to make a slightly smaller batch next time. One change I will be making to the recipe is to add some lactose since this crazy yeast finished a 1.001 leaving this beer a little dry for my taste.

Great job! Glad it worked out so well for you. I will need to check to see if my local store has that yeast. I would have never thought of the co2 trick when adding the hops. That's the type of thing that makes you appreciate expensive equipment made just for such things.

Nice work boys - your ear-to-ear grins say it all. Lallemand are my go-to yeast and I've brewed several NEIPAs with their East Coast variety. Now got hold of this Verdant one and can't wait to get brewing in the next couple of days. Cheers!

Terrific Work gents! Jonny, your reactions to James' critique were priceless! Looks like we'll deserved praise. I've got my first ever brew day coming up in a couple of weeks. Don't think we'll be trying a NEIPA just yet...

The colour of that home brew is Amazing. Proper Hazy. 👌

Sweet Ska brewing shirt! Their hazy and tropical variation are pretty solid examples of the New England style as well!

Loving the homebrew videos. There's nothing better than making your own banging beer. You NEIPA looked lush. Keep them coming.

Congrats on the great beer! I love those homebrewing videos. Please make more of them!

Just took a pour of this one day after kegging. I've been attempting to make NEIPA's since I got into homebrewing and I've always fallen short of what I was shooting for. Put together a recipe similar to yours and what Verdant has published, took care with O2 (pumped CO2 up through spigot during dry hop and also for rousing hops) and I have to say, I think I finally nailed it. Have some hop bite but that's to be expected a day or two into conditioning. This should be amazing in a few more days!

Love this video and watched it several times. You lads are great. A great tip I learned from other Brewers was to put your hops in a mesh bag and suspend them at the top of the fermenter with earth magnets. That way you can lower the hops into the wort at the desired time. This eliminates the need to open the lid and allow O2 in and also avoid any vegetal flavours from having the hops exposed to the work for lengthy period of time.

Epic! Looking forward to trying out a neipa once I have a way to keg my home brews

Loved these two videos chaps 👌🏻 Was sipping a Headband whilst watching this second part, made it all the more exciting 🍻👌🏻

Love it! That made me want to drink a NEIPA immediately. We need more home brewing videos!

Superstar pulls through with the recipe! Cheers very much!

Brilliant! Bring on some more Homebrew vids!

It looks fantastic! It has a great colour. I wish I could taste it!

Well done guys! Looks delicious 😋

Yes!! Thanks a lot. Saturday is Brewday.

Your a true artist my friend.

Just got a sachet from my LHBS. Super stoked to try it out this weekend.

Nice job guys! It looks amazing. Highly recommend one of your famous brewery tour trips to the beer scene here in western New York. Am enjoying a nice Pilsner from the Ellicottville brewing company as I write this. Keep up the good work. You guys are the Lennon and Mcartney of craft beer!

Visually in the glass it looked fantastic.

I learned a great hack from the Apartment Brewer I use magnets and ball bearings I put the bearings in my hop bags then pull the magnets when want to hop the beer..... works everytime

Loved the video! Can’t wait to try the recipe and the process to add CO2 to avoid oxidation.

Fantastic!!!!!!!

Awesome, going to try this recipe when I can get hold of that yeast. Will also try the co2 purging method when dry hopping. Would love to see more of these high quality home brewing videos with input from the pros. Cheers!

I wish I was a test subject of your home brewed beer. Well done with trying this and succeed in it.

Aside from the drums and beers that I'm crazy about, I love your channel Jonny. Big fans ! Cheers and greeting from Bangkok 🍺💙

That "shut up James" bit was well implemented, simple and funny. You hold a truly special post in the beer world, somewhere between actualized professional and plain-out beer fanatic.

I replicated your recipe as best as I could, and was thrilled with the result, absolutely what I’ve been aiming for. Hoping my next attempt does not let me down.

Great these guys. Love the vids. Also the podcast is boss too. Keep up the good work. 🍻

Great video series. I’m new to your channel but was interested in this new yeast. I’m brewing my first batch of NEIPA this weekend and will be pitching the Verdant strain. Looking forward to it.

Can’t wait to try the Verdant yeast. Thanks.

James is so great, I loved his honest and informative feedback on the beer. Shame he didn't get to try it fresh off the keg! Really enjoying the homebrew videos you're doing, but it's super dangerous - all I want to do is buy more kit!

Nice Ska Brewing shirt!! I live pretty close to them, great brewery.

More of that! I’d love to see you brewing a RIS like Luscious from The Alchemist. Winter is Coming!

Well done guys! The oxidation James tasted most likely came from transferring into bottles. The hop burn will subside. Love verdant beer, glad to see my home town represented!

Ultimate dopeness, gents! Now I just have to get my pressure transfer setup. Hope this Lallemand yeast is available Stateside. All the best from DC 👍🏽🍻

Hi John. When I saw your smile on your face the first time you smelled your beer on the couch... A phrase I once heard from a german comedian came into my mind: If he wouldn't have ears his lips would touch at the back of his head. That smile just explained all the taste. HAHAHA.

Oooh I've been looking forward to this vid. More home brewing please

Got the yeast yesterday at LHBS! Can't wait to brew this!

Cheers boys. Thanks for all the hard work! ;-)

Nice work and great video.🍻✋🏻

looks delicious!

Great video, cheers! 🍻🤘

I finish this recipe todays !!! love taste , love hops ! perfect recipe I am happy !!!! thanks for video Long life CBC!

They said this yeast is coming to my country this week, can't wait to try it!

Very interesting water profile. I normally always go for a 2:1 (cl:so4) in NEIPAs, but I’m definitely gonna try keeping the so4 on the low side and bump the Na on my next one 🍻

Some great things to consider for the next time I brew a NEIPA up, thanks fellas!

Amazing 👍👍

Ah yes, was waiting on part II

Great Video I started home brewing occasionally over the last year and I can decide if I want to spend more money on better equipment or if it would be better to just spend it on expensive craft instead.

9:45 - "Haze for days", brilliant.

Great Information Brother 😎✌️😁

awesome results -great vid as usual! well done! send some juice to berlin! :)

How can you get a dude happy. Well brew a real good neipa. Hats off to you, its damn hard to make. And the smile on your face tell enough

the bottling gave it that 10% oxidation for sure

Nice video, really enjoyed the thought put into it and the detail you guys went to - especially with the hop choices. I've noticed a marked improvement in my beers in terms of astringency when I stopped doing the mid-fermentation dry hop. Instead I would 'soft crash' to 14 degrees, drop the yeast then dry hop. I reckon that astringency will be gone in a coupe of weeks. Absolutely no affiliation but something like a Fermzilla would be a really good upgrade to eliminate 02 as much as possible during dry hopping & transfers. Cheers!

Love yours videos

Congrats! Looks great. Send some my way?! 🤷🏻‍♂️

More home brewing videooos!!!!!!!!!! 😁🤗🙌

That method of adding CO2 through the tap is genius but would have absolutely terrified me 😅 new regulators aren't cheap! Glad it went well.

You should definitely do homebrewing videos more often. I really love this two episodes!

Awesome video, will definitely be brewing! Would love to see more about the SodaStream c02 gizmo you briefly showed. Do you have a video on the assembly and parts for that?

Probably time to invest in a Kegland all rounder or something : ) Loved this video btw : ) Cheers

Thanks so much for these two videos. I consider myself an experienced homebrewer, and am always learning. It was fantastic to hear about the 3 hop buckets (I know that was last ep), i'll be using that for my next NEIPA which I plan on brewing soon, as I have felt that my NEIPAS have come out a bit single noted. Your's looked stunning, and i'm keen to attempt to brew the same beer. I just need to get some pineapple.. I mean Bru1.

Great job, mate! The oxidation in the bottle may have been, in part at least, the actual bottling of the beer. If you find yourself bottling quite often for this kind of stuff, which it looks like you do, I would definitely recommend a counter-pressure bottle filler. I use a TapCooler but KegLand has one as well as others. It allows you to easily purge the bottle of oxygen, replace it with pressurized CO2 and fill the bottles with your beer without excessive foaming or introducing any oxygen. Again, nice job on this NEIPA - looked delicious!

love the ska shirt!

Excellent Video & glad it turned out well for you. Question: how did you stop air flowing in to the top of the fermenter when transferring to the keg?

I made a Helles just before that heatwave, that was a stressful fermentation. Congrats on the beer Jonny!

@6:44 this nerdy vibe is priceless

Brewing kombucha tea at the minute and holy crap the peach, mango, pineapple aroma is off the charts. Made me think of watching your previous video in this series.

I'm sure you already know about them, but check out carbonation caps. A nice cheap way to bottle from the keg without oxidation.

4:40 - I've been meaning to search out one of those Sodastream adapters, cool!

Hey man, great video! I like it a lot and really wonder how it tastes. I only have two questions: 1. Do you have an inline filter or something between your fermenter and keg or how do you prevent the hop residue from getting into your keg (and possibly creating astringency/hop burn over time)? 2. Do you also mill the flaked wheat and the flaked oats or only the malted grains? Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!!

That was a very informative series, keen to tackle a NEIPA again. Please can you tell me which bottled water you bought as I struggle with very hard water which isn't great for this style of beer. Thank you!

Great work! Question on transferring into the keg - Did you transfer using the liquid out keg post? I'm assuming you removed the poppet from the post before the transfer?

Is your recipe available in American units? The beer looks amazing and I would absolutely love to give it a go. My mouth was watering watching you pour this beer.

We share the same scales cool. very interesting, but, Faucet? it's a Tap!

Thanks guys I really enjoyed watching that and I am almost on the verge having a go with a NEIPA. The one thing I was hoping to see but it wasn't shown in detail was the closed transfer from fermenter to keg, or have you covered that in a previous video ?

jonny ur expressions are funny.........

So you purged with co2 before opening the lid AND after throwing your hops in? Stupid question maybe but could you explain the purging steps a little bit? The beer looks great btw!

Hi Jonny... great video - congratulations! I was wondering where you got your beer glass with your logo printed on it? Keep the great videos coming!

Noiiice

Love this foray into homebrewing and really enjoying the balance you're keeping between it and your other content. It's also perfectly timed with my foray into homebrew. What's the keg you've got there? Any good?

Well done. Thanks for sharing. Just the way you filled the bottle you created lots of oxidation which the professional maybe noticed and was probably not present in your keg. A stop valve bottle filler to the bottle bottom would've done the job.

Love the video, got me so hyped up to venture on to our first neipa. Would love to see a video describing what you would do differently for the next batch! By the way, would it be easier to ferment this in your corny keg?

Great series. I'm about to brew with this yeast and have a few questions that I don't think were covered in the video. After how many days did you add the first dry hop? How long did you ferment for? How long did the krausen stick around for? What was your batch size and how many grams in total did you dry hop with? I currently don't keg so don't have access to c02 to purge the fermenter when adding my dry hop addition so I'm curious when abouts would be the last day I could add my dry hops. Cheera!

Absolutely loving the tips in this video. Never heard of bubbling co2 from the bottom before but will definitely give this a go! Did you do anything about oxygen during cold crashing or is it not as big a deal as it’s made out to be?

james dose hop at active fermention thers a few videos of there FV allmost exsploding when adding hops to the fv