erockrph:
moving to a more general context
The recent ‘no boil’ NEIPA process is essentially a hop steep, DME, flavor salt additions, and a hazy friendly yeast strain. And for the award winning recipes, the brewer is contributing deep knowledge in hop selection, fermentation temperature control, and packaging.
Is this one of the the brewing processes that could be considered “advanced extract brewing”?
Tangent alert
IMHO, NEIPAs do not require “deep knowledge in hop selection”. Varietal flavor and aroma profiles are pretty much completely washed out at the hopping levels in the style. Saturated hop oil character tastes and smells pretty much the same past a certain point, regardless of whether you used Mosaic, Galaxy, Citra or any other oil-heavy hop to get there.
Now hop format (pellet vs lupulin hop vs various extracts) certainly makes a difference, but nuance in vatietal character is lost beyond a certain hopping rate.
im just completely with you on that. but also, i experience hop burn really badly and without sounding like a wimp felt like i damaged my throat/tongue one night in toronto at a trendy craft bar. barf, that was what really put me off them in all their iterations - DDHIPA/NEIPA/HazyIPA etc
chumley
June 7, 2023, 5:11pm
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If I were to revert back to brewing with malt extract, my chickens would be severely pissed off.