Just found this community and happy to see it semi active as lemmy is a pretty quiet place for the niches I tend to frequent.

I started brewing a couple of years ago with a simple stovetop extract kit and a plastic barrel fermenter, but after only a couple of brews that way I went straight to all grain and a fermzilla.

I have 24L of a not-quite Neipa in the fermenter at the moment, should be ready to keg in a week, I say not quite neipa as I generally do them in the 6.5-7.5% range with tonnes of oats and wheat, rolled and whole malted, Golden naked oats (try it), chit and cara, lots of lactose and hop loads in the 7-10g/l range, etc, bit heavy dense things. but this one is much more down to earth at 5.8%ish (we will see when its done) and a more restrained form of my usual hazy grain bill. starting gravity was 1063 and expected FG is ~1017-1020, higher FG is by design as it is lighter in ABV than the ~8% recipe it is based on so it should balance out.

Should be pretty tasty, Golden promise, wheat malt, chit, carahell, golden naked oats, rolled oats and a bit of lactose has been my go-to for big neipas for the last few brews, just been playing with the hop bill and timings, and a few different yeasts, this one is more diluted overall (24L vs 21L) and more base malt in the ratio. still expecting a very hazy beer but not not to the extent of it looking like a milkshake or orange juice this time.

Image Here’s a picture just as it was starting to take off. will update once it has cold crashed and I can put a nice sample in a glass. It will clear out and lighten a fair bit but still be a bit cloudy.