![]() ![]() There are almost certainly lots of other strains that could work well, like my friend Scott Janish’s California Lager version (delicious!). There are three English-origin strains that ferment most examples of the style ( Whitbread, Boddington’s, and Conan). A good reason not to worry about a few PPM one direction or another in your brewing water. Tree House Alter Ego finishes at 421 chloride and 336 sulfate in comparison (according to an analysis emailed to me). However, finished Heady Topper tested at 339 PPM chloride and 468 PPM sulfate. For example, an observant viewer of this video noted that The Alchemist's water starts around 10 PPM chloride and they adjust to 30 PPM, but target hardness is 750 (requiring a huge gypsum addition). The question is how reliable are the amounts of chloride, sulfate in the finished beer as targets for brewing water? It turns out that the grain are altering the profile considerably. There are some interesting mineral analysis of finished NEIPAs. I bottled one from this batch off tap for a friend and he didn’t have a chance to open it for two weeks… big mistake. For me New England-style IPAs are a good argument to keep homebrewing them because they are so delicate, even compared to West Coast variants! Mike Karnowski of Zebulon Artisan Ales (and the highly informative Homebrewing Beyond the Basics) was speaking about NEIPAs and included pictures of a dramatic darkening with only a few weeks of bottling. While we were talking brewing at the Wicked Weed Funkatorium, he mentioned that he rarely brews IPAs other than to trial new hop varieties because there are so many great IPAs to drink in St. Stan Hieronymus was there speaking about his new book: Brewing Local. It was a fantastic excuse to talk and drink beer with some brilliant brewers. ![]() I was in Asheville, NC for the second annual Asheville Homebrewers Conference this weekend. ![]()
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