gunbrew
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I grew chinok hops last summer.
Have made about 8 batches of beer from them.
Do brew in a bag in a 40 ltr birko.
Usually just throw hop flowers in whole with no hop sock.
Am down to my last 40g of hop flowes sadly.
When the boil was complete I would look at the spent hop flowers and see there was still lumpin in them.
Sometimes I leave the flowers in the fermenter and other times I remove them.
Mainly I wanted that lumpin in my beer not thrown out in the spent flowers.
As an experiment 2 batches were the same grain, mash and hop additions.
1st batch the flowers were added whole.
2nd batch each hop addition had some wert added and was blended with a bamix, pulverising them to small peices like what you see in hop pellets.
Whilst both batches were good the blended hop batch came out with plenty more hop flavour.
The other advantage was no whole hop flowers to clog anything.
It seemes like blending was a good option.
Questions, Comments, Flamings?
Have made about 8 batches of beer from them.
Do brew in a bag in a 40 ltr birko.
Usually just throw hop flowers in whole with no hop sock.
Am down to my last 40g of hop flowes sadly.
When the boil was complete I would look at the spent hop flowers and see there was still lumpin in them.
Sometimes I leave the flowers in the fermenter and other times I remove them.
Mainly I wanted that lumpin in my beer not thrown out in the spent flowers.
As an experiment 2 batches were the same grain, mash and hop additions.
1st batch the flowers were added whole.
2nd batch each hop addition had some wert added and was blended with a bamix, pulverising them to small peices like what you see in hop pellets.
Whilst both batches were good the blended hop batch came out with plenty more hop flavour.
The other advantage was no whole hop flowers to clog anything.
It seemes like blending was a good option.
Questions, Comments, Flamings?