The Seaward is churning away in my closet. And by churning away I mean holy CRAP. We ended up using a live yeast slurry from People's Moundbuilder, and yeast nutrient. I got ~ 4 gallons all said and done in my 6.5 gal carboy, and the krausen is getting mighty close to the top. Not only that, but the yeast have established a circulation in the beer, I can watch the chunks of protein moving around in the beer...it is friggin' alive!
We ended up using 1 oz each of crystal, columbus, cluster, cascade, centennial, chinook and citra hops and a grand total of 29(ish) lbs of grain for a ~9 gallon batch. Mash temp was a little low (148ish), so we "only" got 1.056 out of it. Flavor and color were spot on going into the primary.
That is 7 oz of hops in 10ish gallons. And those are all boiled hops, when Sam Adams claim a lb of hops per barrel (~31 gal) for boston lager, most of those are dry hops (which lend essentially zero bitterness or flavor to the beer, mainly aroma). This gets us close to a 1.5 lbs of boiled hops in a barrel, and if I dry hop my share on 1/2 oz of Citra whole leaf (yum!), we're going to be talking ridiculous flavor profile.
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