Nat Geo made a series of three docos that show case big breweries. The other two are Heineken and Corona.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs8bod_national-geographic-megafactories-heineken_tech
https://vimeo.com/75679513
Not all American IPAs are truly the same style. Most of the IPAs we have been weened on are West Coast IPAs that are very much hop forward, bitter and dry. So when you describe a west coast ipa as being balanced... well they really aren't . East Coast IPAs, such as DFH's offering are more of a...
I believe DFH's propriety yeast that they call "Doggie" was acquired from the Weihenstephan yeast bank according to the flavor profile that Sam was looking for when they amped up their operation and moved production into the cannery that they call home now. Word on the street is that 1187 is one...
I found that my hop filter is pretty ineffective. With 50 grams of hops (pellets) the filter clogged up pretty quickly and then started pulling through the debris during the cooling. I had to syphon rack the wort into another FV once the hops settled. This inevitably led to a bit of extra loss...
I got mine on order so I'm pretty excited to get it and give it a go. My biggest concern is the sparging method. Once you lift the malt basket out do you let it completely drain before adding your sparge water or do you keep the grains soaked for the whole process? Have you had any...