stephen
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I've these before and, as Jye found, I also found out about pellets - Forget it! As for plugs I have used one plug in the tea ball - mine is about tennis ball size and that's about all you can fit once they swell up. First time I used it with the plug I just put it in secondary. Unfortunately all the crud that settles out covered the tea ball and seemed to stop the infusion of the hop aroma.Just a quick one guys. I have a brew in primary at the moment that was just a partial (not much spare time but not much beer left either!) with 1.7Kg Light Extract, 1.5Kg Wheat extract, 250g steeped crystal. NB @60mins to 33IBU's and 1/2g per Litre Amarillo@ 10 mins and another 1/2g per Litre at flameout.
My question is regarding dry hopping. I am intending on kegging this brew (as the keg is running low!) and thought I might give dry hopping my first try. I wondered what everyones thought would be on using a 'tea ball' like the picture by hooking the chain around the dip tube in the keg and leaving it in there whilst drinking the brew? Has anyone done this before?
Also just on that, if I was to dry hop 18L in the keg using this method, how much of Ross's Amarillo (8.5% I think) would be sufficient? Be gentle.... it's my first time! h34r:
Cheers :beer: ,
JS
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Second time I used some crochet cotton (thin fishing line would suffice) and tied around the grommet for the airlock and let it dangle in the fermenter. This woorked much better in my opinion.
As for placing in the keg, your turn for experimenting and letting the rest of AHB know how it goes.
Cheers
Steve