Tonight I kegged up my IPA and I have to say, it’s the best IPA I’ve made. To make something good even better, I added two ounces of whole leaf hops that I grew in my back yard into the keg for a nice dry hop.
The picture below is a little comtraption I came up with to try and keep the hops from clogging up the keg. It’s a stainless steal strainer that I poked a hole in to allow the stem through. If I am lucky, this will keep the hops out of my glass. We’ll see if it works, but it seemed like as good an idea as I have had for dealing with this.
The dry hops are cascade. The brew is already plenty bitter, so I would love to get some great grapefruit flavors and a huge hops aroma. Cheers.
Make sure to let us know how it turns out. Looks like it is off to a killer start!
Hey I was wondering where you get your IPA in NYC? Know any good bars for it? Its my favorite brew, but I’m having trouble bar hunting. Had some luck with a site called http://www.nookout.com though. They had a deal for The Abbey Pub on the Upper West Side and it had some excellent IPA (deal’s here if you wanna check it out: http://www.nookout.com/new-york/preview-deal.php?id=NzQx). Anywhere else you might know?
Good question! In my experience there were a whole bunch of great bars, they just were not all that well advertised as beer spots. I would recommend getting a subscription to Draft Mag, they cover a lot of the NYC brew scene