Can't believe it's taken me this long to see this thread. Brewed a few batches of NE style IPA, ended up with a happy malt base because the LBSH was out of the wheat I wanted and ended up using red wheat.
11lb 2-row
1/2 lb C 60
1 1/2 Red Flaked Wheat
4 oz honey malt
Vermont Ale Yeast (Conan)
I've switched up the hops each batch for fun. Last batch was Simcoe, Cirta, Mosaic
30 min
0.5 Simcoe
Flame out
1.5oz Simceo
2oz Cirta
2oz Mosaic
Dry hop 5-7 days
2oz Cirta
2oz Mosaic
Before kegging:
From the tap, and a bit too much carbonation:
Pretty happy with it, next batch is replaces mosaic with amarillo. Ispeakforthetrees and balesfc have been fans so far.
Keg kicked last weekend. Dry hopping the new batch Sunday.I'd crush it tonight bruh
There is really no reason to make a 'modern' IPA if you can't keg. Even kegging, DO on most homebrew is through the roof.Very cool reading all the tips here. Really need to stop farting around and start kegging.
Bigger DO due to pressure/force carbing or simply due to a singular, large steel vessel?*There is really no reason to make a 'modern' IPA if you can't keg. Even kegging, DO on most homebrew is through the roof.
More oxygen bottling than kegging, but both pick up a lot of oxygen with standard homebrew practices.Bigger DO due to pressure/force carbing or simply due to a singular, large steel vessel?*
*Homebrew n00b and I haven't scienced in awhile.
I think I may have gone a little too Hoof Hearted with this one, it'll be on the gas for the next few days...
2row, white wheat, flaked wheat, carapils, magnum, galaxy, mosaic, citra, and Y1318
A little premature (story of my life) sample of the NE Pale Ale tastes fuggin great. I'll probably tweak the recipe here and there for clarity's sake but I dig it for my first try.I think I may have gone a little too Hoof Hearted with this one, it'll be on the gas for the next few days...
2row, white wheat, flaked wheat, carapils, magnum, galaxy, mosaic, citra, and Y1318
A little premature (story of my life) sample of the NE Pale Ale tastes fuggin great. I'll probably tweak the recipe here and there for clarity's sake but I dig it for my first try.
With the assist from HevvyMetalHippie I'll be calling this "Tub Fart" which is sort of an tip of the hat to the Hoof Hearted haziness this guy has
I've been periodically giving thought to what I could do to improve mine in the future. One thing that I didn't like about it is that, after the first few days post-kegging where it had a nice vibrant golden color, it took on a noticeable "brownness". Here's a somewhat more recent pic:
As a point of comparison, the earlier one:
Yeah different glassware, lighting, etc. but this is something that we've all noticed with our own eyes.
One thought I had, and I could be completely out to lunch here, is that I should be putting the hops in a bag (or some other contraption) during the boil and in the dry-hop stages to keep out hop particulate. Is that potentially what's creating that color? I normally just throw my pellets straight into the kettle/fermenter.
Could be oxidation
Did you transfer under pressure into a purged keg?
^My guess too.Could be oxidation
Did you transfer under pressure into a purged keg?
Not sure how you're handling your dry hop additions, but this may help if you're not doing it already:No. Getting the equipment to do this is on my list of upgrades to make to my system.
And you're quite likely correct, or at least that's likely part of the problem.
Not sure how you're handling your dry hop additions, but this may help if you're not doing it already:
Add your hops to empty keg (in paint strainer bag or whatever you use), then purge w co2 before transferring beer from fermenter.
When your dry hop period is over, transfer your beer off the hops into a new purged keg using a jumper as in the pic below. Just a small section of beer line with a liquid out disconnect on each end
Yup. Open the relief valve on keg 2 once you have gas pushing on keg 1.Awesome, thanks for the pic! Was wondering about this. So push CO2 into the keg with the beer/hops, and the beer will be pushed through the out/out connections into the second, empty keg?
ISOThe new APA came out great- really similar to Tree House this time around. 7.5 - 8 gallons total beer packaged into the kegs- one on Citra and Nelson, the other on Mosaic and Galaxy. Double batching delicious crusher beers is definitely going to be a thing this summer.
Nice! Yeah I have wanted to do the full on set up like that for some time but do not yet want to sacrifice fermenting in glass. I don't know why, but glass just seems better to me even though I believe the plastic is inert. I think I will need to go there soon though.I love racking with c02 and have seen a big improvement in my hoppy beer because of it.
Items needed:
Orange carboy cap
stainless steel racking cane (plastic is an option, but stainless is nice and will last ~forever)
5-7 feet of gas tubing
2- 1/4" nut to 5/16 barb https://www.morebeer.com/products/14-nut-516-barb.html
1- 1/4" male flare to 1/4" barb https://www.morebeer.com/products/flare-fitting-14-male-barb.html
hose clamps to tighten barbs into the gas line and the barb that goes into the one side port of the carboy cap.
Appropriate size tubing for the racking cane(5-8ft), and a ball lock/hose clamp for on the end that will attach to the kegs LO post.
pretty simple process wise.
Sanitize the receiving keg, after keg inside is properly sanitized, hit it with some co2, attach ball lock of racking cane assembly allowing sanitizer to flow from the keg throughout the racking cane into your star san storage bucket. Hit the empty sanitized keg with more Co2 pulling the PRV a few times to purge the keg.
Insert the sanitized racking cane into the beer getting the orange carboy cap to seal on the lid of the carboy (an optional hose camp can be applied here to ensure a tight fit, but can be dangerous if your siphon was to clog...with hops). Pull the PRV again getting all Co2 out of the keg, and leave the PRV open. Apply 2-5psi to your carboy cap, gas goes in, forcing the beer to escape via the stainless steel racking cane to your kegs LO post via the LO ball lock.
Complete transfer, hit with an optional co2 purge to clear the headspace if your a paranoid freak. Keg as normal.
Something I am kinda fooling around with is a 2nd dose of dry hops in a muslin bag in the receiving keg. Dry hop under 20-25lbs of pressure at room temp for 4 or 5 days before putting keg in kegerator. Higher pressure helps to get the essential oils into the beer, rather than into the headspace. Don't do more than 3 oz of hops per muslin bag, and weigh bag down with sterile marbles, or sterile stainless nuts.
Cheers.
Pat
JulianB - did you guys purge the keg? I know you said no to prior questions about racking under pressure, but I am just curious. I always purge my keg but no longer move the beer into the keg under pressure. I have not noticed any particular oxidizing effects in my beers, which typically don't make it outside of a month by just racking them under a co2 bed right through the top of the keg and then burping.
Other questions - did you guys thoroughly burp the keg to rid it of oxygen in the headspace after racking?
Tell me about your kegging process. I have heard anecdotally that using the auto-siphon like I do will allow for a lot of dissolved O2 in a beer even if it is under a CO2 layer, but I haven't noticed any ill effects I would chalk up to Oxidation, per se.
Awesome- you can get a lot of benefit out of a couple of really small things. two things that pack a big punch process-wise:I don't think so, no (with regards to purging the keg). Which is obviously something I should have been doing, same with "burping" the keg. By this, do you mean opening the PRV with CO2 pumping into the (filled) keg?
I basically just rack using an auto-siphon, but for hoppy beers I'm going to aim for a setup like what psnydez86 has posted. I haven't really noticed any oxidation problems in say, my fruited berliner weisses.
GuzzleMcBrew
I certainly don't advocate co2 racking in glass, as it is very dangerous, but I do it often.
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