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Aim is for a very juicy and creamy NEIPA style - almost getting into a milkshake IPA texture but this will finish dry and without the lactose sweetness and vanilla. Base hops are cryo mosiac and citra with pellet el dorado to round it out Citra and mosaic are classic NEIPA pairing - el dorado adds watermelon and candy dimensions to the tropical burst. Also lengthens flavout on palate. Grist has 30% unmalted grains so sparge could be slow - be worth maybe doing an extra 10mins at 76 to release sugars. Would also sparge slowly as soon as grain tube lifted - don't want the bed to settle too much. Oat hulls used to provide a filter bed - oats can turn to glue and wheat has no husk Try to avoid stuck sparge - is also we using protein rest at 50 - try not to stir the bed if you do get a stuck - don't want to much flour in the beer = astringency. Check final runnings - don't want to go below 1.010 Acidify sparge water to 5.6-5.8 target mash ph is 5.3 Is a high gravity beer - 7% ish - 2 packs of yeast and plenty of oxygen to encourage a good ferment Start at 21-22 for 24 hours and then drop slowly to 20C to complete. Ferment should be pretty much complete in 4-5 days. First dry hop is at high krausen - when a nice big layer of foam in fermenter and ferment active - although a little over peak ferment. Est 36-48 hrs from pitch 2nd dry hop when ferment activity subsides - give it 12-24 hours for yeast to floculate 3rd dry hop 3 days before crash using cryohops which have less plant matter - means less hop material to soak up beer = higher yield and also as big dry hops less hop matter means less vegetal characteristics Is why we only dry hop with el dorado pellets on 3rd dry hop Need to be really careful with oxidation on this beer - will kill the hop pop Purge before each dry hop addition - run co2 into fermenter while lit open. only loosely tighten lid and run co2 for 20-30 secs after to purge also need to be careful on kegging - purge and practice good oxidation managment. This beer may take a week to two to settle in the keg - the hop astringency might be quite brutal at first - this is normal Is a low IBU beer as there will be alot of perceived bitterness from massive dry hop FYI 1g of cryo hop = 2g normal pellet hops. Is about 500g of hop in this beer - yee ha