I also put my dry hops in the bucket after fermentation, works great. I'm going to offer these Pliny Packs for $15, does anyone mind dryhopping with pellets, I usually do it but I don't know others preferences.
Haven't tried yet. I've heard that leaf hops are the better way to dry hop, but I've heard of many others who use pellets. So I'm sure it's OK.
I don't mind doing it.
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Ya in the talk he did he said 5-7 days and when adding the new addition to take out the previous addition.
Why only dry-hopping 2 oz at a time? I've made this recipe twice now and have always plunked in all of the dry hops at once (pellet, no bag) and left them for 12-14 days. At the end they've all sunk to the bottom and I rack off.
Does it do something different if you leave only 2 oz in at once?
My results so far have been phenominal. I loved both batches.
Okay, so I brewed this recipe one month ago to the day. Overall, the whole thing felt like a disaster. It was over 100 degrees here in DC. I mashed at WAYYYY too high a temp. Small boil over. Took over 4 hours to cool down to 90 degrees (in a basement, but with lukewarm water). The wort chiller was leaking water into the wort (about half a gallon total). Yeast packet didn't inflate.
Now, keeping that all in mind, I didn't hit my OG. Not even close. My OG was 1.048. I am sure some of this had to do with the above screwups, especially the addition of water. However, can half a gallon of water make a ~.025 gravity difference? I would assume not. However, I am a brewing noob. Any suggestions? Is it because of the mash being too hot? Addition of water?
The reason I ask is because A) I don't want to screw it up again and B) calculating OG using a book I have, even not screwing it up, the amount of grains do not put the OG at 1.071.
i just ordered the hops pack from Framhouse Brewing. As soon as I have enough empties, I will be doing my 2nd Pliny AG. The first, from AHS, was awesome.
I gotta brew this one soon! I'm subscribing just for a future reminder. I already have half of the hops on hand, so that might motivate me to move it up in the rotation!
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