Hey all,
I've recently come back from a large break from brewing (various reasons..), and thought I'd use up the bulk hop stores I had been lugging around with me (in the freezer) over the years. I read up on the viability of hops and it seems if they're airtight, out of direct sunlight and stored in the freezer they can last quite a while, however you do lose out as time goes on so I've been sure to use larger quantities than originally planned.
After a few quite successful brews using these older hops, I thought I'd do something a little more fragile and go for a British Black IPA.
Saving money to get back into AG, I did a partial mash, but mostly DME:
4kg DME
250g Maris Otter
250g Carafa III
@ 60min
70g EKG
70g Fuggles
@ 5min
100g EKG
100g Fuggles
(I had them, wanted them gone, why not go large?)
Wyeast British Ale II (Washed from my Coffee Porter)
Was supposed to be a 70IBU beer, I kegged it tonight - drinking it young and I'd say it's closer to a 25 IBU
I have a bunch of Chinook, Nugget, and Columbus in the freezer, I'm thinking of doing a Columbus and Chinook
hop tea. How do I go about a hop tea of this calibre? 2-4L water, 30g Columbus, 30g Chinook @ 60 min?
(For reference, Coffee porter was 4kg DME, 250g Maris Otter, 250g Carafa III, 100g Chocolate Wheat, 100g Pale Chocolate Malt, 20g Nugget @ 60min, 15g EKG 15g Fuggles @ 5 min, 9 shots of coffee in the keg and it came out wonderfully)
I've recently come back from a large break from brewing (various reasons..), and thought I'd use up the bulk hop stores I had been lugging around with me (in the freezer) over the years. I read up on the viability of hops and it seems if they're airtight, out of direct sunlight and stored in the freezer they can last quite a while, however you do lose out as time goes on so I've been sure to use larger quantities than originally planned.
After a few quite successful brews using these older hops, I thought I'd do something a little more fragile and go for a British Black IPA.
Saving money to get back into AG, I did a partial mash, but mostly DME:
4kg DME
250g Maris Otter
250g Carafa III
@ 60min
70g EKG
70g Fuggles
@ 5min
100g EKG
100g Fuggles
(I had them, wanted them gone, why not go large?)
Wyeast British Ale II (Washed from my Coffee Porter)
Was supposed to be a 70IBU beer, I kegged it tonight - drinking it young and I'd say it's closer to a 25 IBU
I have a bunch of Chinook, Nugget, and Columbus in the freezer, I'm thinking of doing a Columbus and Chinook
hop tea. How do I go about a hop tea of this calibre? 2-4L water, 30g Columbus, 30g Chinook @ 60 min?
(For reference, Coffee porter was 4kg DME, 250g Maris Otter, 250g Carafa III, 100g Chocolate Wheat, 100g Pale Chocolate Malt, 20g Nugget @ 60min, 15g EKG 15g Fuggles @ 5 min, 9 shots of coffee in the keg and it came out wonderfully)