u/MemeBeamBeanz

As the title says I just made and drank my first go at a juicy IPA with my friends and family and they loved it! I also actually think I made my first beer that I personally would buy a lot of in a craftbeer-bar.

Link to how it looked today: https://imgur.com/gallery/PGpml8A

It is a 7,2% ABV

70% 2-row + 15% oat + 15% flaked oat

Bitterhopped with Citra and whirlpooled with Citra

Dryhopped once at high krausen with galaxy

Chemistry:

A bit of ascorbic acid

150 mg/l chloride

60 mg/l sulfate

It was dryhopped with magnets so no oxygen exposure doing fermentation and bottled with tablets and capped as fast as possible. NO BEERGUN or CO2!!!

So to y'all cheap / starter brewers out there. Just try! Give it a go. It can be done and taste great!

Cheers

Link to pic of my beer now on day 14 of bottle condition in a glass:

https://imgur.com/gallery/GqEqTif

Link to pic of the beer at day 7 of fermentation:

https://imgur.com/gallery/HJLeunO

So the first time I taste tested the sample from the fermenter it was so juicy and like an orange juice haze.

The second time day 11 it tasted more mildly and was a bit less hazy. Here I'm thinking the us-05 yeast cleaning up the haze (idk)

The pic of the beer in glass tasted like a fine IPA in my humble opinion. It was just.... Not a juicy one I expected after bottling it. It had note of sweetness over it and strong IPA bitterness. Honestly somewhat like a West coast IPA. It smelled juicy tho and had the water profile of a NEIPA. Will definantly drink the whole batch, but I'm also kinda bummed about maybe oxydizing my beer :/

(I dryhopped with magnets, didn't open the fermenter once, used ascorbic acid, bottled asap)