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Starting a stupid little homebrew for my stupid little mental health. Haven't done so in *months*, last attempt was that failed Dubbel I attempted. So of course, I'm doing a DNEIPA for a departing colleague, something I've only attempted once without complete success.

Fortunately, despite my rust, things went off without a hitch today. Well, maybe save for the fact that my hop processing now has the entire place smelling like pot. Not an aroma tiger cares for in any appreciable concentration. Strata hops, guh...the final product should be worth it, though!

(I do this before mashing, long story involving a non-traditional setup, quite a bit of math, and slightly hand-wavy timing.)

Latest Adventure in Homebrewing:

The Big DIPA SMaSH - On paper it was planned to be a ~10.5% IPA, but the OG (original gravity) was slightly low - 1.086 instead of 1.105

After 36 hours, fermentation activity is starting to slow & it should level out at around a final gravity of 1.016 for an ABV of ~9.5% with an IBU of ~180.

I have had this bottle of saison sitting in a small tub of oxyclean solution near the garage door to help remove the label from the bottle for a few days. I opened the garage door this morning and the sun shone on it for a while and when I came back from working in the yard the bottle had opened itself so I put it in the freezer to cool down for a while and now I'm drinking it.