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Ok, no more conspiracy theories or forced organic farming hippyness.  Time to get back to what’s important here, beer.

Brewing Recap:

1. I started brewing extract batches of 5 gallons in partial boils in September of 2008.

2. I “upgraded” to all grain brewing in June of 2009 with a failure of a Belgian Strong Dark Ale. (infection)

3. Since then I have brewed 10 all grain batches, of which 4 were IPA’s or IIPA’s.

I have late hopped, dry hopped, and dry humped my IPA’s into a living death, but cannot seem to achieve the slap in the face hop aroma I crave…  The bitterness is there in spades.  I’ve made them dry with US-O5; rich with Nottigham, and can adjust the feel no problem.  The only other unwanted side effect is a haze that I can’t shake even with cold crashing and long secondary.

I’m not one to quit though, so my next batch will be (you guessed it) an IIPA.  Imperial IPA and I’m going for broke! 100 + IBU’s and a starting gravity of 1.100 or more. All alpha acids, all the time.  Bitterness hops.  Flavor hops. Aroma hops.  Hops hops.  You get the idea.

When I decide on a recipe, I will post it here.  Promise.

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