Festa Brew West Coast IPA

[jtmwhyte]

They're Back! Picked one up at Water N' Wine in New Glasgow yesterday.

I wanted to pick one up last year and have since gone completely all-grain. I got one anyway for old time sake. Thinking of dry hopping with some Cascade/Simcoe.

[chalmers]

Sounds like a good plan to me, dry-hopping that will be great.

[mr x]

Does anybody know what the price is at NG?

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[sleepyjamie]

I think they are around $45

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[sleepyjamie]

i dry hopped the besta brew west coast ipa with about 4 oz of hops once. totally different beer.

[derek]

i dry hopped the besta brew west coast ipa with about 4 oz of hops once. totally different beer.

FOUR ounces? Nash, can you taste that? Sheesh, dry-hopping, I start at 4 oz/5 gal and work up. My wife objects to anything less than twice that.

[Stusbrews]

Has anyone tried NG's partial kits? I was tempted yesterday.
Saw one called Best (not West)Coast IPA that said it had 1/2 lb of hops and was $35 I believe.
thought about grabbing it for kicks, but went with the smash. Ive never done a partial tho...

[LeafMan66_67]

The NG kits are good - steeping grains and extract - makes a quick brew.

[Tony L]

Yeah, I was talking to my buddy in Prospect Bay last night and he told me they were at Noble Grape again.
I did love the samples he sent me last year.

[HoweFox]

Not available at Sackville location yet. Was in there yesterday (picked up a wine kit on their 3 day 20% off sale) and they said it would be a couple more weeks before they get the IPA in.

[Graham.C]

I've never done a festa, I jumped strait into PG then AG. Based on your conversation here and the fact I have some extra hops I want to use up in the freezer I ordered one from my local HBS. Gonna give it a hard hit of dry hops and see how it goes.

[Jimmy]

Not available at Sackville location yet. Was in there yesterday (picked up a wine kit on their 3 day 20% off sale) and they said it would be a couple more weeks before they get the IPA in.

They just posted on their facebook page that it's available now...for anyone looking to pick one up

[Jimmy Vaughn]

I know I look forward to getting one on - a buddy of mine raves about them - I want to put one on straight and dry hop another

[jtmwhyte]

Sounds like a good plan to me, dry-hopping that will be great.

Dry hopping with "some" Cascade and Simcoe turned into 6 ounces of blend (5 in Primary after fermentation and 1 in a stainless herb ball in the keg). I regret nothing!

[jacinthebox]

It's really good ...hoppy I brewed it lol

[mr x]

[Graham.C]

Sounds like a good plan to me, dry-hopping that will be great.

Dry hopping with "some" Cascade and Simcoe turned into 6 ounces of blend (5 in Primary after fermentation and 1 in a stainless herb ball in the keg). I regret nothing!

Go man go!

[BenFrank]

Yum!

Kegged my Festa WC IPA Sunday, 30psi for about 30 hours in the kegerator shaking it upright in the keg for about 30 seconds a few times...

Just brought it down to about 8psi for a sample taste - YUM!

Best Festabrew I've ever done.

Skipped secondary too, straight from bucket to keg.

Alittle hazzy but MUCH better than the other kit brews I've done.

I've brought it back up to 30 PSI and will leave it there for maybe another day for more carb.