Parks
wort jockey
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Lately I have been adding more and more flavour hops into my Pale Ales to try to get a stronger hop flavour.
Well, I was kegging a double batch of an All Amarillo APA which I had all sorts of issues filtering. I normally end up crash chilling for up to a week on primary but I was in a hurry to get this one kegged so I crash chilled for 24 hours, polyclar'd and left for 12 hours then filtered. I had to wash the filter out twice but in the end I basically didn't filter the second keg.
I tasted the 2 kegs (now being an unwanted filtered vs non-filtered experiment) today and the hop flavour difference was unbelievable. Now that I have some kegs full I definitely think I'll be trying to clear my beers without the filter.
Time will tell how these 2 kegs mature but... anyway, I know some people have mentioned this before and others have said it was BS.
This is my story
Well, I was kegging a double batch of an All Amarillo APA which I had all sorts of issues filtering. I normally end up crash chilling for up to a week on primary but I was in a hurry to get this one kegged so I crash chilled for 24 hours, polyclar'd and left for 12 hours then filtered. I had to wash the filter out twice but in the end I basically didn't filter the second keg.
I tasted the 2 kegs (now being an unwanted filtered vs non-filtered experiment) today and the hop flavour difference was unbelievable. Now that I have some kegs full I definitely think I'll be trying to clear my beers without the filter.
Time will tell how these 2 kegs mature but... anyway, I know some people have mentioned this before and others have said it was BS.
This is my story