New process for "dry hopping"
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 09:38 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 10:08 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 10:22 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 10:40 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 10:41 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 11:03 AM
I have a FB in my grant so i can do this very thing. Its not pressurized like some of the hop jacks are but i feel you don't need it to be. The warm wort leaving the kettle into the hop grant via gravity, then it leaves the hop grant via gravity to the pump>chiller>fermenter. I kinda prefer the gentle soaking in the hops vs pressurizing the hot wort thru the hop jack.Sounds more like he's using a grant.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 11:35 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 11:35 AM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 11:59 AM
Yea he actually said the he uses a sanitized 2nd kettle with a false bottom...so he told me to clean and sanitize my mash tun since my 2nd kettles doesnt have a drain...and the brewery that supposedly uses this process rhymes with O (do) tellsI'd be scared to use the mash tun, though. Grains are laco-heaven.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 12:13 PM
A lot of breweries use grants, not just *cough* O'Dells.Yea he actually said the he uses a sanitized 2nd kettle with a false bottom...so he told me to clean and sanitize my mash tun since my 2nd kettles doesnt have a drain...and the brewery that supposedly uses this process rhymes with O (do) tells
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 12:15 PM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 12:20 PM
Well this is the first time Grant is hearing about grants....my new thing for today...A lot of breweries use grants, not just *cough* O'Dells.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 12:57 PM
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 01:03 PM
This is the only way I dry hop anymore. I don't use the muslin bag but what I do amounts to the same thing. I use a Sure Screen over top of the dip tube to keep hop particles out. I've never tried that with pellets (I don't dry hop with pellets anyway) but it works great with whole hops. I've found that the hop aroma can be a little overbearing at first but after several days, it mellows and loses some of the grassiness. And I also agree that despite warnings to the contrary, the beer never developed any funky off-flavors even after being in the keg for a month.ETA: Note that using a grant is a little bit different than dry hopping. Since you're putting hot wort in contact with the hops, the flavor you get is not the same as true dry hopping. And also, as has been pointed out, the act of fermentation will tend to scrub some of that hop aroma out of the beer. Using a grant is more-or-less the same as adding hops at flameout.I just had a beer that seemed a little light in the hop department so I suspended a muslin bag full of Sterling hops (and sanitized marbles) in the keg. It gave the beer an awesome hop aroma and even though the keg took 3-4 weeks to drain, the dry hop profile never got overly funky. 2¢.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 01:44 PM
whole hops or pellets?I just had a beer that seemed a little light in the hop department so I suspended a muslin bag full of Sterling hops (and sanitized marbles) in the keg. It gave the beer an awesome hop aroma and even though the keg took 3-4 weeks to drain, the dry hop profile never got overly funky. 2¢.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 03:34 PM
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