Holy roly-poly, Batman! There are leaves in my beer!
Monday we used the most loose-leaf hops (which is actually a flower) we’ve ever used during a boil. Usually we use a lot of hop pellets in the boil and reserve loose-leaf for dry-hopping. Things were going great. Joel was even keeping his nose out of everything so that the grown-ups could work.
So then we had to cool the wort and get it into fermenters. So… that actually posed a problem. See that strainer full of spinach-type-stuff? There were about four strainers of the same stuff in the beer. Holy flower power, Batman! There’s a clog in my pipe!
Jonathan, Joel & Jeff
June 27th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Petals! There are flowers in beer: http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2007/april/morebeerpoetry
June 28th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Yeah, isn’t it fun! Actually it was a lot of hard work. I decided to go with all whole hops for a Czech Pilsner. When I got the hops in the mail, they were only 2%aa. So I had to up the amounts. In all there was 13 ounces in a 6 gallon batch. A real armful. We had to let it come to a boil, then stir in the 2-3 inch layer of hops above the wort line, and repeat this over and over. Chilling was a bear too. But it was worth it. It came out smooth and hoppy and great. Just thought I’d share my hoppy story. You can read more about it at my journal. Cheers.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I much prefer whole hops, but the supply determines what I get to use. We just did a Czech pils as well using whole hops, and even dry hopped with 2 ounces, which really cut in to our final volume.