weighing down nylon hop bag

[Drunkula]

I rather expect that 500g of hops might make closer to 1,000 than 100 pints

On Inside the Factory the other week they showed that 56,000 litres of Carling uses 21kg of hops. So 1,300 litres for 500g. 2346 pints so 21 milligrams of hops per pint. But each can does have 100% blandness time after time!

 

[Slid]

On Inside the Factory the other week they showed that 56,000 litres of Carling uses 21kg of hops. So 1,300 litres for 500g. 2346 pints so 21 milligrams of hops per pint. But each can does have 100% blandness time after time!

I feel you are being unfair, I make it a full 0.375 grams of hop per litre. There's goodness, as Wackford Squeers might have said. In HB terms that is a whopping 8.625g for a 23L or 40 pint batch. So your maths is correct, except for the decimal point?. I mean, 0.216g per pint is so much more than 0.0216g and a 23L batch with less than one gram of hops might be taking it (i.e. the p!ss) a bit too far.

 

[simon12]

I feel you are being unfair, I make it a full 0.375 grams of hop per litre. There's goodness, as Wackford Squeers might have said. In HB terms that is a whopping 8.625g for a 23L or 40 pint batch. So your maths is correct, except for the decimal point?. I mean, 0.216g per pint is so much more than 0.0216g and a 23L batch with less than one gram of hops might be taking it (i.e. the p!ss) a bit too far.

I get 0.213g per pint from 21/56000*0.568=0.000213kg=0.213g that extra 0.003 would make it carlsberg

 

[Braindead]

I use one of the plug things the wife puts in her bottle of Prosecco

 

[Slid]

I get 0.213g per pint from 21/56000*0.568=0.000213kg=0.213g that extra 0.003 would make it carlsberg

WOW, looks like you adjusted for the volume taken up by the massive hop addition. Respect, mate! :hat:

 

[Ghillie]

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).

I still cold crash, but I don't use secondary FV's.

In the days of bottle conditioning, I would cold crash in primary, rack to a bottling bucket and bottle up.

Kegging, cold crash in primary and then rack to the corny.

 

[Roelie]

I made a horrible mistake, I alway use marbles but the small ones are too light so I decided to use a steel ball bearing. Huge mistake, when I took it out it was black and my beer had a strong metallic tase, so bad I dumped the whole batch. And that was after bottling, because I took a chance but it was bad, so I had to open all the bottles, drain them and wash all the bottles again.

 

[BrewRubha]

I also made a big mistake. I added some fine dinner ware cutlery as a weight and then dumped the muslin bag in the bin forgetting about the ss ware. Not looking forward to next Xmas or another fine dining experience when I have to explain where the missing spoons are!!!!!

 

[SANGER_A2]

I made a horrible mistake, I alway use marbles but the small ones are too light so I decided to use a steel ball bearing. Huge mistake, when I took it out it was black and my beer had a strong metallic tase, so bad I dumped the whole batch. And that was after bottling, because I took a chance but it was bad, so I had to open all the bottles, drain them and wash all the bottles again.

That is very strange. I've been using a stainless steel weight to weigh down my hob bag for ages with no issues. It probably wasn't stainless. I even sterilise it in vwp for 10 minutes before and afterwards with no tarnishing.

As an additional, I sterilise the hop bag too and I tie it to the handles of my fv with sterilised plastic ribbon so the bag sits deep in the water and just the mouth of it sits out of the water. No mess and full hops contact.