02/11/10 - APA

[Bobba]

Nice one! That recipe looks ace Glad it worked out

[coatesg]

Just tried this one before the final racking to corny - it's got subtle hop flavour and a good malt backbone, but I think I'm gonna dry hop this as the hop aroma seems to have faded away a fair amount (even in the bottles). So I'm gonna get a few tea infuser balls, and put in 14g each of centennial and summit. It'll then have two weeks to sit around before I get to serve it out!

[WishboneBrewery]

I'm going to have to try dry Hopping with pellets at some point, the tea balls need weighting down with something and I've not got anything convenient thats easy to sanitise.

[coatesg]

Pellets tend to have the disadvantage of needing something very fine to stop them going into the dip tube in a keg though - doing it in the fermenter/secondary with pellets is the way forward I think. I actually managed to fit them in my hop bag (thought it was much smaller), which of course floats, but in a very full corny that matters less as the lid keeps it in the beer. Plus the odd gentle roll around won't do it harm either.

Other than that, large stainless nuts, or marbles or a heavy shot glass (all boiled) should help hold down hops for dry hopping.

[bosium]

I've just dry hopped my IPA in the primary, using pellets for the first time. Definitely looks like I'll lose a lot less beer, also they disintegrated really quickly and the aroma is already strongly evident after a few days. Definitely the way forward imo, just a shame they have to be bought from places like H&G for twice the price as the malt miller

Never tried dry hopping in the keg but I hear it works well..

[coatesg]

I'm hoping it'll work out in the keg - the beer will probably be finished in one night (2 weeks away) so it shouldn't get to the point where I need to fish them out.

I was hoping to get away without having to dry hop, but there's just not quite as much aroma as I wanted. Perhaps if I'd brewed it closer to the party date, it would have been closer, but then, all my hoses are frozen solid, so I would have had have no chance of re-doing it anyway I also wonder if the cold conditioning it has had (in the garage - no other option!) has helped or hindered

Those Summit hops have an amazing grapefruit aroma by the way. The centennial is pretty tasty too.

[WishboneBrewery]

I've already got an entire bag of marbles but its not enough to sink a bag of hops with 70g in it! Might try and procure some stainless nuts or bigger marbles.

[coatesg]

I struggle to get 70g of hops in a hop sack (it takes an ounce happily though) - need to find myself a larger hop sack!

[WishboneBrewery]

I let the hops free in the fermenter, last time and siphon racked with a tea ball on the end but you do end up picking up a lot of fine particles.

[bosium]

All this talk of sacks and balls...

[WishboneBrewery]

Clean and well sanitised though

[coatesg]

Good stuff, have you used summit before? Any opinions on the flavour?

Verdict, based on the overall recipe: Pink Grapefruit. Lots.

[adm]

Good stuff, have you used summit before? Any opinions on the flavour?

Verdict, based on the overall recipe: Pink Grapefruit. Lots.

Lovely. I might give this a go myself as I love grapefruit........and being on statins, I'm not allowed to eat them right now.

[coatesg]

I might try a Summit pale ale next year - it may come out as a grapefruit bomb I had underdone the hopping on this one for the target audience, but I would usually have doubled the flavour hopping for my own consumption only!

TBH, I'm not a massive fan of grapefruit usually, but this is very light and refreshing. If I'd rebrew, I'd drop the summit down and up the centennial (balance them 25/75% or something). If anything, I would brew it for summer and not December!

[dedken]

Reading this, you're making me want to put in an order before there's a massive surge and they all get sold out!