Well my centennial pilsner pale ale went so well in terms of how it came out that I decided to brew the same beer plus a dose of Amarillo over this past weekend. Overall the brew day went well. I’d intended the gravity to be 1.064 rather than than the 1.070 it came out to be. I added an extra pound of grain thinking I’d just run it off real fast in a batch sparge and save some time. Ended up I couldn’t do this. There was a washer on the end of the dip tube in my mash tun. I’d removed it because it looks corroded and it smells metallic now so I don’t trust it to touch my beer anymore. Well turns out the Blichmann kettle won’t run clear without it. So after much engineering trying to improvise a screen with the spoon over that hole and using a muslin bag to filter wort going in to the kettle it took a lot longer and had to be done more slowly.

Flash forward 1 week to today. 12/4/2014. The beer is on day 3 of dry hop schedule and it tastes excellent. The terminal gravity reads around 1.02 but the beer tastes very dry so I’m perplexed by that one a big. I guess we’ll see what it hits when I move it to a keg this weekend. Should be a wonderful beer for the holidays and for the competitions at the beginning of the year.

Update 12/11/2014
This beer is excellent. Reminds me of the fine IPA I had while in San Francisco. I need to bottle some for competitions before I drink it all.