Hi All,
Usually do kits, but I had a go at extract stuff last night for the first time. Generally all went swimmingly, but I realised that I hadn't considered when to take OUT my various bags of hops in my wort.
Did a low volume of water, with about 1/3 of my DME, and boiled it for 70 mins. I had hops to add after 10mins, 40mins, 60mins (I know that you count back, I just found it easier on my recipe sheet).
I also had my aroma hops to add (flameout, is that the term), but I waited until it got down to about 80degC before adding those, as I'd read.
So... what I realised... At what point do I actually take out the boiling hops, and at what point do I take out my aroma hops? I took the boiling hops out once I'd turned off the heat, and I took the aroma hops out once I was in my FV topping up with cold water, about to pitch my yeast.
I also found that I made a bit of a meal of the cooling stage of it. Whereas next time, just putting 2kg of ice into the wort, and putting the pan in a sink of cold water probably was about what was needed, especially given i'm going to add almost twice the volume of cold water to it in a few moments.
Usually do kits, but I had a go at extract stuff last night for the first time. Generally all went swimmingly, but I realised that I hadn't considered when to take OUT my various bags of hops in my wort.
Did a low volume of water, with about 1/3 of my DME, and boiled it for 70 mins. I had hops to add after 10mins, 40mins, 60mins (I know that you count back, I just found it easier on my recipe sheet).
I also had my aroma hops to add (flameout, is that the term), but I waited until it got down to about 80degC before adding those, as I'd read.
So... what I realised... At what point do I actually take out the boiling hops, and at what point do I take out my aroma hops? I took the boiling hops out once I'd turned off the heat, and I took the aroma hops out once I was in my FV topping up with cold water, about to pitch my yeast.
I also found that I made a bit of a meal of the cooling stage of it. Whereas next time, just putting 2kg of ice into the wort, and putting the pan in a sink of cold water probably was about what was needed, especially given i'm going to add almost twice the volume of cold water to it in a few moments.