weighing down nylon hop bag

[Clint]

100g... therapeutic....some on here must be comatosed.

 

[pms67]

My hop threshold rises with every brew.
James Morton’s book Brew has recipes with 500g if hops in them but I’m too skint to even try one

 

[Clint]

500g....you could make 100 pints of Carling with that much...

 

[stevey]

I mainly use leaf hops, and just chuck 'em in when dry hopping. There's never any dry cones when I keg and my beer tastes hoppy, and as they float there's not much hop debris in the keg.

 

[pms67]

I’m a 100% pellet convert
I used to use leaf but found the taste and aroma from the pellets stood out more, the sludge is a bit of a pain I guess but hey ho

 

[Ghillie]

ahh.. I don't let my beer play outside until it's bottled.

Yeah ideally you want as much ***** out of your beer before it gets bottled. So all that remains is a tiny film of dead yeast.

Before I started begging and force carbing, I had the process dialled in well enough so that all the remaining sediment could be caught in the neck of the bottle. i.e. there was virtually no waste when pouring into a glass.

 

[pms67]

Yeah ideally you want as much ***** out of your beer before it gets bottled. So all that remains is a tiny film of dead yeast.

Before I started begging and force carbing, I had the process dialled in well enough so that all the remaining sediment could be caught in the neck of the bottle. i.e. there was virtually no waste when pouring into a glass.

Begging is no fun

 

[Ghillie]

Begging is no fun

This new laptop does auto-correct and I need to work out how to turn it off.

I'll not edit the original post because it's hilarious.

**kegging**

 

[SteveWTBD]

I tied the hop bag to a sterilised tea cup, which seemed to work as an anchor - the bag still floats up, but it is a bit like an iceberg.

 

[pms67]

I tied the hop bag to a sterilised tea cup, which seemed to work as an anchor - the bag still floats up, but it is a bit like an iceberg.

Just throw them in loose, go on, you know you want to

 

[bobukbrewer]

weigh em down with gobstopper marbles

 

[Clint]

Spoons I tell ya! Spoons!

 

[Banbeer]

Spoons I tell ya! Spoons!

worked well for me

 

[David Heath]

Marbles are perfect. Easy to clean and sterilize.
This is what I use. Cheap also :)

 

[Llamaman]

+1 for marbles.

The only tip I can offer is, use a bigger bag than you think you need. Otherwise the pellets swell up and split the bag open (this might have happened to someone I know...)

 

[gazzza123]

Chuck em in loose then stick a hop bag over the end of the siphon to filter when you keg...

Simples!

 

[pms67]

Chuck em in loose then stick a hop bag over the end of the siphon to filter when you keg...

Simples!

Feeling of freedom throwing them in and I honestly believe a lot more hop profile

 

[GerritT]

500g....you could make 100 pints of Carling with that much...

You miss-spelled 'gallons'.

 

[phildo79]

I don’t use secondary at all and it works.

Cold crash your beer if you can and you’ll be grand.

Nor do I. I used to when I was bottling though. Straight from the primary and into a corny, no cold crashing. Never had an issue with clarity or floaty bits (except for the first and last pour, obviously).

 

[Slid]

I rather expect that 500g of hops might make closer to 1,000 than 100 pints of whatever liquid product suggested. 100 pints is only 2.5 batches and 200g of hops in a 40 pint batch is the sort of extravagance James Morton suggests.