If I brew a small beer to use the yeast for a bigger beer, do I add hops?

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I need to make a small beer to use the yeast for a Dopplebock. Do I add hops to the small beer?
 
Are you going to drink the smaller beer? If not, no need.

More importantly, who's in your profile pic?!? :eek:
 
General rule is that you want to make sure you're stepping up, as in a lighter beer to a darker beer, less hops to more hops, lower gravity to higher gravity.
 
Yes, hop it if you want to drink it. I've done a 2 gallon pils with 1.040 OG and about 15IBU Mt Hood and used the cake for a dopplebock, for example. The pils was drinkable, but I took my time and fermented it out and crash cooled before racking to keg and dumping my doppelbock wort on the cake in my 5gal carboy.
 
pdxal said:
Yes, hop it if you want to drink it. I've done a 2 gallon pils with 1.040 OG and about 15IBU Mt Hood and used the cake for a dopplebock, for example. The pils was drinkable, but I took my time and fermented it out and crash cooled before racking to keg and dumping my doppelbock wort on the cake in my 5gal carboy.
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What yeast did you use? I want to use WLP833 German Bock Lager Yeast for the Dopplebock.
 

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