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New Black IPA Recipe Kits

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:56:56 GMT

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Having added Sinamar to our Shop offerings back in August, we thought we'd better brew up a Black IPA to showcase the product. It went down so well that we realized we better share the recipe with you fans. To that end, we now present the following:

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Similar to Beachwood’s award-winning Beachwood Hoppa Emeritus, out of Huntingdon Beach CA. That beer has been dubbed “the most evil Black IPA to stalk the earth. Dry hopped with sinister amounts of Citra and Equinox [sic] hops.” This recipe is intended as a showcase for Weyermann’s Sinamar product, a malt extract of intense colour made from their Carafa Special malt. With 8oz of hops between the whirlpool and dry hop, this is a super-fruity aromatic quaff for sure!

We've also taken the opportunity to revamp our existing all-grain �� recipe slightly and to add �� and ��-�� kits of the same.

Kecklin' Corbie

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:13:52 GMT

Kecklin' Corbie Scottish Export Ale - New Recipe Added!

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We've been iterating this recipe since 2017 and are now supremely satisfied with it. Upon sampling, customers have requested we bring this recipe kit to the Shop, so here we now are.

Golden Promise, propper Torrefied Wheat, Crystal malts, and a touch of Roasted Barley. First Gold and Target hops.

Available in both All Grain and Partial Mash versions.

New Session Beers!

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:30:58 GMT

New recipe kits at under 5% ABV

A couple new "session" beers to set you up for February!

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4% �� | 26 �� | 20 �� | 1.035 �� 1.004

Red Rock's Black Bier is a German-style dark lager that is very easy drinking, with medium body and low bitterness. A variety of high-quality German malts and thirty-five days of lagering give this award winning schwarzbier its dark color and extremely smooth flavor. A fantastic black session lager for any time of day or for any season.

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3.4% �� | 30 �� | 4 �� | 1.034 �� 1.008

At 3.4% ABV, Brooklyn 1/2 Ale is a light "table saison" that harkens back to the days when saisons were light, refreshing beers meant for farm workers. Highly aromatic, it drinks much bigger than its actual weight. The trick to the flavor here is relatively high IBUs plus low finishing gravity, avoiding a thin-tasting beer because the aromatics are pronounced and pleasant. Lightly hazy and highly carbonated, this table saison drinks beautifully any time of day or night.

Plus our other existing thirty-or-so kits under 5% ABV !

New Kolsch recipes now available!

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:11:02 GMT

What do you think? Is it too early to start planning your lagered Spring/Summer beers? We think not! �� ̈��-�� : all-grain (1 & 5 gallon), partial mash, and extract versions. Weyermann Pilsner & Vienna malts (or equivalent DME), Perle & Hersbrucker hops. 4.7% abv, 26 IBUs.

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How big is YOUR comfort zone?

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:49:16 GMT

Fifty unique hop products

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It's only just occurred to us, while taking stock of our hops fridge and freezer, that we now carry �� of hops (whether T90 pellets, cryo, or Penticton-grown whole leaf), plus Phantasm powder! Perhaps this is more a sign of a �� , but why shouldn't you benefit, right?

Did you know we monitor twelve other Canadian homebrewing websites for stock ideas and pricing "reasonable-ness"?

It seems, of those 114 varieties, �� (!) �� . So if you're looking to step beyond your comfort zone, �� ℎ�� !

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US Alora

UA Alta

DE Amira

SI Aurora

US Azacca Cryo

UK Bramling

US Bergamot

US Canadian Redvine

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US Chinook Cryo

US Columbus Cryo

US El Dorado Cryo

UK Ernest

UK First Gold

UK Godiva

US Grove

UK Harlequin

DE Herkules

US Idaho 7 Cryo

UK Jester

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NZ Kohatu

UA Ksanta

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US Meridian

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FR Mistral

UK Mystic

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NZ Nelson Sauvin Cryo

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UK Progress

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US Sonnet

NZ Southern Cross

DE Spalt

FR Strisselspalt

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'Tis the Season!

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:04:43 GMT

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Through a Glass Darkly

matt@hopdawgs.ca (Eric Harding) — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:04:53 GMT

LME Sinamar now in stock!

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Have you been playing with the idea of a darker beer but wanting to avoid the issues of too much roasted flavour or bitterness? Let alone futzing around with the added dimension of your darker specialty malts and their bearing on mash pH?

Have you heard about Weyermann's �� ? We now offer you this ��-�� ingredient in 4oz and 8oz options, rather than the whopping 5.9kg previously only available through the big malting houses. We make these amounts available in sanitized, vacuum-sealed, canning jars packaged in-house.

Depending on what you're looking to accomplish, you might use 2 to 4 ounces in a five gallon batch as typically 6g would darken your wort by 1 SRM. Extrapolate your usage from there.

Check out Weyermann's description of the product and the plethora of styles you might play with:

https://www.weyermann.de/en-gb/product/lme-sinamar/

For further reading and ideas...

https://beerandbrewing.com/getting-more-from-less-three.../

https://beerandbrewing.com/recipe-beachwood-american.../

Raspberry Blonde

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:57:10 GMT

Making of a Raspberry Blonde Ale!

With the abundance of fresh fruit available in the Okanagan during the summer, I decided to craft up a Raspberry Blonde Ale. For the base beer, I went with the BierMuncher Centennial Blonde kit as it a crisp, balanced ale... perfect canvas to soak up the fresh fruit.

The brew day went as expected and the wort was finished fermenting in 6 days.

Fruit naturally has yeast and bacteria on it's skin, which is unwanted in most beers. Searching the web I came across many methods of adding the fruit. From simply adding the raspberries directly into the primary to creating a raspberry juice, pasteurizing and then adding to a secondary. I decided to go somewhere in the middle and dunk the raspberries in a pot of water at >180°F for 15s to kill off any wild yeast or bacteria. I also read that freezing the fruit first will break down the cell walls and will allow the fruit juices to escape easier when thawed.

Cheers!

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 03:55:12 GMT

Tighten your belts, we have a lot of work to do!

The Hop Dawgs website has been in desperate need of an overhaul for the past few years as feature become obsolete or broken. We've been researching the pros and cons of all the options available to us and then took the plunge last year. We initially tried the easiest route, which was updating to a newer version of our current platform. Simply export our products, load the new platform, tweak a template and then import the products back in, Easy Peasy. So we contracted out the job to someone who'd done some work on our site in the years past. We paid the contractor half the amount up front to get the ball rolling and after a few weeks they got us a rough sandbox to play in. We were really excited at this point and sent a few emails with changes and questions but those have fallen on deaf ears, leaving us back at square one. After weighing the pros and cons again, we decided to move to a whole new platform that would give us the control to make the website into what we want it to be... simple, straight-forward and support mobile devices.

As we are writing this, the conversion is probably around 30% of the way there. Most of what remaining is importing all the products (man we have a lot!) and then running it through test paces to confirm it's calculating everything the way it should. We've linked the shipping to our Canada Post account to pass along our volume discount directly to you. PayPal will still be used to handle our transactions as they are secure and reliable.

We hope to hear your opinion and how we can make the site fit for home brewers! We see it being an active website for the first while, hopefully getting better with every change.

Cheers!

Matt and Santana

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Most Popular categories in review: 2025

Recipe Category Updated for 2025!

New Black IPA Recipe Kits

Kecklin' Corbie

Kecklin' Corbie Scottish Export Ale - New Recipe Added!

New Session Beers!

New recipe kits at under 5% ABV

Most Popular categories in-review

Recipe Category Updated!

New Kolsch recipes now available!

How big is YOUR comfort zone?

Fifty unique hop products

'Tis the Season!

This is a subtitle for your new post

Through a Glass Darkly

LME Sinamar now in stock!

Raspberry Blonde

Making of a Raspberry Blonde Ale!

Cheers!

Tighten your belts, we have a lot of work to do!