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Thanks Wolfy, The problem I am having is that the hop bitterness seems to be increasing over the fermenting period, if I leave the hop residue in the wort when draining in to the fermenter, the bitterness increases. If I use hop bags the bitterness is what I want at the start of fermentation and...

Thanks mje1980, I intend to make an Irish Red Ale again this week(my favourite beer), so I might boil the hops without hop bags, leave the whirlpool to settle for a bit longer at the end of the boil, and it is getting decidedly cooler now so might not have the warm conditioning problems. I will...

Thank you to all who offered assistance yesterday,mje1980,Sammus,Ross,Brad,nickjd, I have taken aboard all of your ideas, and storage may possibly be the answer. I store the conditioning beers in my shed and it can get quite hot in the summer. I have found if I condition for a short time in the...

Thanks Nick JD, I have just spent the last hour looking up various brewing books and most opinion is to not allow the hop residue in to the fermenter. That is possibly why. The break will allow bitter residues in to the fermenter. I always do a primary and secondary fermentation to try and clean...

Thanks Sammus, I am a bit concerned now,what do you think could be happening?. As I replied earlier to the forum bitterness is extracted from the hops at high temperatures and long boiling periods. You would think the hop residue would only add flavour.

Yes this method halts the bittering action during conditoning, but maybe it is something else. You right about the bitterness being extracted during long boiling periods,maybe I am conditioning my beers for too long a period. I need to drink them faster. Cheers

I have made some beautiful beers, only to be ruined by too much bitterness weeks later. Maybe I have missed something here. Cheers

I have been All Grain brewing for a number of years now and have found that filtering the hops from the wort before it goes in to the fermenter is a problem. If I leave the hops in the wort they keep on adding to the bitterness for weeks after increasing the IBU's and sometimes spoiling the...

Would like to purchase 1 of each thank's akroplane. Let me know how to pay you. Cheers