tim.jamison
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While boiling an American Ale kit from morebeer.com last night, I was reading (to keep me on task) C.P.'s the Complete Joy of homebrewing. He said that using a blowoff tube can help get some bitterness down as well as some oils that will lead to headaches.
Well, I am on my 8 or 9th beer and I have never believed that there was enough bitterness in my more hopped beers and I can't figure out why.
So why would I want to use a blowoff tube?
... on a side note, to try to up the bitterness i put only 2.5 gallons into my kettle to try to get a more lively boil. before when i had added around 4 gallons of water my boil would be just a small roll in the middle with not much action. so i am hoping a better boil helped the hop flavor. after cooling my wort down some i pulled my nylon hop bags and placed them into a strainer and then poured the wort through the strainer into cold water. does anyone thank this will help?
Well, I am on my 8 or 9th beer and I have never believed that there was enough bitterness in my more hopped beers and I can't figure out why.
So why would I want to use a blowoff tube?
... on a side note, to try to up the bitterness i put only 2.5 gallons into my kettle to try to get a more lively boil. before when i had added around 4 gallons of water my boil would be just a small roll in the middle with not much action. so i am hoping a better boil helped the hop flavor. after cooling my wort down some i pulled my nylon hop bags and placed them into a strainer and then poured the wort through the strainer into cold water. does anyone thank this will help?