pitt100
Active Member
So, I'm brewing my fourth batch in the garage. It's gonna be a nice english brown. Steeped the grains for 30 minutes- no problem. Add the extract and bringing it up to boil no problem. Getting ready for the hot break. Got my gloves on to pick up the kettle from the heat. Done this before no problem. Hot break starts pick it up a few times and put it back down. Hot break seems to be over. I've read a few times that throwing in the hops will help with the hot break so I take a glove off, open the hops up and start to dump them in. Next thing you know, f****** Mt. St. Helens. Oh s***! I can't see a damn thing cuz my glasses are steamed over. So I have to let the geyser ride out, couldn't find my gloves in time with all the steam. Wonderful. Well I popped my boil over cherry tonight. Funny because I warned my wife about boilovers when she took the dog for a walk and when she came back the garage was covered in sticky wort. She laughed I swore and told her she's lucky I didn't use the stove! Oh well mopped up everything and the boil's just about finished. No idea how much hops I lost or have left. Any ideas about adding hop flavor to this? A tea or dry hopping? Please let me know what you would suggest. Throw the hops in my arse!:cross: