I should have thought to put more Fermcap in the carboy to reduce blowoff, oh well. How is the blowoff?
I kegged up mine last night. Not anywhere near as dark as I was trying for. Guess that's what I get for not crushing the Carafa 3.
I almost did not keg it up. The hydo sample did not taste all that good. BUt I figure I may as well give it a go and worst case I dump it next week.
Someone please tell me he's joking!
PTN
hey paul this isn't a utopia he's gonna dump....it's the 3rd runnings from the mash that he dumped 10+oz's of homegrown old hops in that hes refering to. it's what he gets for treating his hops the way he did.
Three beers were created from our 57lb mash.
First runnings=Utopias. That beer is sitting on my bar in primary, listening to "sounds of the rainforest" while being fanned gently with a palm leaf by the mail-order bride I ordered it from the former Soviet Union.
Second runnings=Some concoction Erik pranced around whilst boiling, sprinkling hops in like what, three times?
Third runnings=The beer in question. FSR402 steeped some Carafa, added DME, and hopped it like a beer is supposed to be hopped. I guess astringency is a possibilty here but I take no responsibilty for the adhesive strips he may have added after leaving my property.
1oz amarillo 60min
1/2oz amarillo 45min
1/2oz soriachi ace 30min
1/2oz soriachi ace 15min
1/2oz amarillo flameout
1/2oz soriachi ace flameout
1/2 amarillo dry hop
1/2 soriachi ace dryhop
little more than 3 times boneheads
and leave off my napping
It's like drinking 8%abv hop tea with some smoke.
I'm suprised and pleased that the smoke came through. It was such a small percentage of the grist. Wonder if that's where you got the phenolic character from when you kegged it. Smoky, phenolic IPA doesn't sound that appealing. Is it drinkable?
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