Oddly smooth green hop brewday
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:42 am
A friend mentioned they had a lot of hops on their doorstep so I popped round Saturday morning and got to foraging. There's no idea what type of hops they are but had some nice visible resin. Took home and put them in the greenhouse to dry out. The next day the top shelf of hops were pretty dry. Made a hop tea and there was a little aroma but definitely bitter present.
Basic batch of ale was promptly thrown on with 4.5kg of pale malt, 250g of crystal and couple of handfuls of rice hulls to assist the mash.
Hop schedule was also basic with 21g of leftover chinook at 60mins then 40g of the fresh hops at 15mins and 40g at flame out with a hop stand. Will probably go with another 25g of dry hopping now more have dried.
Yeast was a Crossmyloof real ale. Came out at 1.051. 24 hours in and solid fermentation with it holding at 18c.
The whole brewday was very unusually a breeze. Controller worked perfectly, mash and sparge were fine and the wort was crystal clear...
Having been brewing for 10 years and there always being a wrinkle I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Basic batch of ale was promptly thrown on with 4.5kg of pale malt, 250g of crystal and couple of handfuls of rice hulls to assist the mash.
Hop schedule was also basic with 21g of leftover chinook at 60mins then 40g of the fresh hops at 15mins and 40g at flame out with a hop stand. Will probably go with another 25g of dry hopping now more have dried.
Yeast was a Crossmyloof real ale. Came out at 1.051. 24 hours in and solid fermentation with it holding at 18c.
The whole brewday was very unusually a breeze. Controller worked perfectly, mash and sparge were fine and the wort was crystal clear...
Having been brewing for 10 years and there always being a wrinkle I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.