What Hop Crisis Not For A While Anyway

[RabMaxwell]

I now feel a bit better just ordered 5 kg of Challenger Pellets & 5 Kg of Bramling X Pellets & 500g safale 05 yeast from Farms £99 with postage but they are 06 crop but should be good for some time as they are in pellet form. So i will have about 6 kg of Challenger 5 kg of Bramling's nearly 5 kg Golding's about 3kg of Styrian Golding's in the freezer should be ok for ales in 2008 now. I had a bit of hassle getting them to sell me hops at first seems you need to know your account number wrote mine down in a safe place now. Anyway when i was on the phone i asked how good pellets were for dry hopping they replied they were no use. I have only started using pellets & my last couple of beers i have made were dry hopped with Golding's Pellets they turned out very good beers indeed so they can't be that bad

[steve_flack]

Pellets aren't much use for dry hopping in the cask but I've used them in a conical fermenter and they work just fine.

I heard that Faram's aren't supplying to new customers - is that right?

[RabMaxwell]

I did use them in the fermenter with the last couple of beers when the fermentation was nearly over. But i have ordered a few stainless tea balls for my casks why do you say good in the fermenter but not in the keg.Yes they aren't supplying to new customers

[mysterio]

I've ordered from them once before... does that mean they'll still supply to me?

[steve_flack]

why do you say good in the fermenter but not in the keg.

Simply because the bits are harder to stop coming out into the punter's beer. In a cask you'd be using a wire filter designed to filter out whole hop leaves - not pellets.

[RabMaxwell]

Only if you have an account number if you still have the invoice with your last order the number will be on it if it was a while ago they might not have a record of your account. I had to argue with them that i was a customer even though i have bought hops only a few months ago & for years past

[RabMaxwell]

why do you say good in the fermenter but not in the keg.

Simply because the bits are harder to stop coming out into the punter's beer. In a cask you'd be using a wire filter designed to filter out whole hop leaves - not pellets.

I thought stainless tea balls were fine enough to stop pellet hops leaching out that's what i have read anyway. O sugar i hope they are as i have 10 coming i suppose time will tell

[tribs]

I have dry hopped pellets in a corni keg without issue.

However I have modified some of my dip tubes. What I have done is cut off about an inch from the bottom of the dip tube and attached a small length of beer line so the tube curls up the curved bottom of the keg. This sucks the liquid from above rather than sucking up the crud from the bottom.

I actually prefer pellets for dry hopping because you do not tend to get the same grassiness you sometimes get from whole hops, probably from the twigs, seeds and other vegetation than often comes in the package.

[iowalad]

I dump em in the fermenter after fermenation has subsided, usually leave them in for about a week. I have only tried it a couple of times but it has worked well enough.