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#1 CaptRon

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Posted 27 March 2009 - 08:51 AM

I have to say that brewing up CJ's JPA has been the one of the best brewing sessions I've had. I loved everything about brewing this beer, especially the amount of hops that I got to toss into it. :)I really liked that I got to have the smell of hops from the very beginning of filling up the kettle being that I did FWH with 2oz of Centennials. The beer seems to have a great dark amber color - like the color of some dark caramel candy with a tinge of red if I were to describe it. Not sure if that is how it is supposed to look, but that is how mine turned out. :)Now to the strange.. This was my first time using WLP002 yeast. Immediately after pitching it formed what looked like poofy clouds of yeast at the top of the beer. But it kicked off pretty quick and soon I had the stringy strands at the top as shown here:Posted ImageThe aroma burping out of the airlock is fantastic. So this morning, I decided to give it a quick swirl to try and break up the krausen a little to help it fall out. I don't know if it was the yeast clumped together or maybe break material, but there was like clumps of yellowish nickel to quarter sized stuff that was in there. I think it is ok as everything smells really good.I can't wait to try this, if it is as good as i think it is going to be I might have to step up to a 10 gallon batch of it which I assume I can simply double the recipe right?

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Posted 27 March 2009 - 08:58 AM

I've had some yeast do that before as well, had me worried at first but turned out to be a great beer.For simplicity sake you can basically just double the batch. There are slight variations for different efficiencies, less boil off verse total volume ratio, etc.


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