wyane
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Evening brewers --
What I would like to know is -- other than clarity or harvesting yeast from the FV/bottles, is there any reason to boil or dry-hop using a bag and removing the hops after the boil? Also, do you get substantially more (or wrong) bitterness/flavour/aroma from chuckin em right in the boiler (where they stay and steep during the chill and ferment)?
My hops story: I started adding hops to my K&K brews about a year ago after reading the methods on countrybrewer.com.au - basically infusion; dry hop and toss them into the boil.
Country Brewer says "most of the used hops will sink to the bottom & very rarely end up in the bottle", which is true to a degree -- the last bottle from the FV can have a lot of flakes go in but they settle out and the last bottle never seems any different to the others.
Am now getting some good results (the spreadsheet has been an oracle too), particularly after (generally) bottle conditioning for 4-6 weeks rather than the old 2-3 -- for clarity and more developed (or less grassy) hop characteristics. But it seems from the kits and bits recipes that I use a fair bit less hops than some brewers.
Cheers :beer:
What I would like to know is -- other than clarity or harvesting yeast from the FV/bottles, is there any reason to boil or dry-hop using a bag and removing the hops after the boil? Also, do you get substantially more (or wrong) bitterness/flavour/aroma from chuckin em right in the boiler (where they stay and steep during the chill and ferment)?
My hops story: I started adding hops to my K&K brews about a year ago after reading the methods on countrybrewer.com.au - basically infusion; dry hop and toss them into the boil.
Country Brewer says "most of the used hops will sink to the bottom & very rarely end up in the bottle", which is true to a degree -- the last bottle from the FV can have a lot of flakes go in but they settle out and the last bottle never seems any different to the others.
Am now getting some good results (the spreadsheet has been an oracle too), particularly after (generally) bottle conditioning for 4-6 weeks rather than the old 2-3 -- for clarity and more developed (or less grassy) hop characteristics. But it seems from the kits and bits recipes that I use a fair bit less hops than some brewers.
Cheers :beer: