Hey curious what everyone thinks here. I'm a newbie to homebrewing and starting to go off recipe a bit. When it comes to dry hopping, I place a hop bag during my secondary fermenting. My q to your all, how long is optimal? How long is too long? I've heard 48 - 72h is the max as after 72h you...
Hop geneticist Al Haunold on growing hops in S. Texas. Latitude 31 degrees is a bit out of the normal ecological range for hops. It is the daylength rather than the temperature, the latter could be overcome with sufficient watering (drip irrigation should work fine).
Brewed morebeers hop blonde yesterday, all grain for the first time. I think it went okay. My question was on the timing of dry hop additions while pressure fermenting. Recipe states to dry hop in secondary fermentation, 3-5 days. I'm keg fermenting and don't plan on doing a secondary...
It would seem that Saaz is "the" hop for Czech and American pilsners. I don't have any Saaz on hand and was wondering what else people have used and like in Pilsners. I want to make an example of the Pilsner style but don't necessarily need it to be Czech, American, or german. Ive got a lot of...
With a hop stand, the wort is chilled to a temperature in the recipe, the hops are added, the temperature is maintained for the recipe stated amount of time, then cool down continues. I don't have the equipment to do whirlpool hop additions. I convert a whirlpool step into a hop stand.
Hey all, About to dry-hop a NEIPA. I've read that dry hopping for 3-4days produces the wanted benefits while avoiding grassy off-flavors from dry hopping for too long. How does cold crashing factor into this? If I dry hop for 4days and then cold crash for 2days, do I risk unwanted flavors...