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Just wondering if anyone has tasted their Rye IPA for the Garrison competition ?

Not yet still won't be able to taste mine for two weeks.

I kegged mine yesterday. Might have the first official taste tonight. It tasted weird coming out of the fermenter.

Tried it last night. Very dry. Needs crystal and hops.

Sandy

bottled mine earlier this week, pretty tasty.

I bottled one batch yesterday. Was happy with it.

I smelled it in the secondary fermenter a few weeks ago, and I couldn't tell it apart from a wheat beer it was sitting next to. So I added too much hops and will bottle it Monday.

I have mine kegged for one week now... pretty tasty. Mine finished at about 1.015, which I think balances well with the hops. Can't really taste the rye, although I've never tasted rye beer before!

Bryan wrote:I have mine kegged for one week now... pretty tasty. Mine finished at about 1.015, which I think balances well with the hops. Can't really taste the rye, although I've never tasted rye beer before!

Just dump a bottle of rye in it!

Mine was pretty malty, it smelled like I could make rye sandwich out of it. Here comes the dry hops

The first one I made tastes great, the rye really came through, but was really hazy. I assume it was a starch haze from the rye combined with a short mash time. I increased the mash time for Batch #2 and I put some irish moss, and it's much clearer.

I royally fucked up one batch, as I think I managed to use an English Ale yeast instead of a lager yeast. Needless to say, it finished extremely high, lol. So I pitched it onto the -05 cake from the batch that finished right and I'm fermenting it in the low 60's/high 50's. Should be done in a few days.

I've had my first batch bottled for a few weeks now and I think its pretty good. My only concern is I may have used too much crystal and may have masked the rye. I used 2 lbs (16%) of rye in this batch. How much did everyone else use?

spears104 wrote:I've had my first batch bottled for a few weeks now and I think its pretty good. My only concern is I may have used too much crystal and may have masked the rye. I used 2 lbs of rye in this batch. How much did everyone else use?

We've got 25% in one batch and 18% in another

I've got 35% rye.

I used 18%.

16% here.

I'll get to taste mine this weekend. I used 15% in both batches

I used 25% rye.

Mine's only 15%.

18% in mine, I plan to rack & dryhop tomorrow or the day after.

15% in our SAAZ group brew. I'll probably rack and have a taste pre-dryhop on the weekend/next week.

I'm drinking the stuff that didn't make up a last bottle. It tastes like hops. So, success? I'm going with that.

amartin wrote:I'm drinking the stuff that didn't make up a last bottle. It tastes like hops. So, success? I'm going with that.

Is that because you hopped it up like crazy or because all the hops settled to the bottom and that was what was left?

Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of that. That's probably part of it.