Just-a-Guy
Well-Known Member
Hi Folks,
This is going to sound dumb (like all my questions, I'm afraid). But... I keep coming up against silly problems.
So... I brewed up a True Brew kit for Irish Stout three weeks ago. Strictly by the book. It sat in the bucket primary for three weeks, and tonight I decided to rack it into a secondary with some Cascade hops.
So... after thoroughly cleaning the carboy, I opened the package of hops... and tried to get them in the stupid thing. Um... how do you do this? I probably spilled about 1/4 of them (and that was with great care and a lot of time, trying to pour the stupid things into the carboy opening from the freeze-dried package). I tried a mesh bag last time, and that was an even more ridiculous scene (and was not fun to get OUT of the carboy after bottling, either).
Help?
Also... see the pic below, please. Am I doing something wrong? I got what hops I could into the carboy, then racked the beer in with the auto-siphon, carefully. And now the hops are sitting on top of the beer. Obviously, I'm new at this. Does this look right?
Help?
Mark
This is going to sound dumb (like all my questions, I'm afraid). But... I keep coming up against silly problems.
So... I brewed up a True Brew kit for Irish Stout three weeks ago. Strictly by the book. It sat in the bucket primary for three weeks, and tonight I decided to rack it into a secondary with some Cascade hops.
So... after thoroughly cleaning the carboy, I opened the package of hops... and tried to get them in the stupid thing. Um... how do you do this? I probably spilled about 1/4 of them (and that was with great care and a lot of time, trying to pour the stupid things into the carboy opening from the freeze-dried package). I tried a mesh bag last time, and that was an even more ridiculous scene (and was not fun to get OUT of the carboy after bottling, either).
Help?
Also... see the pic below, please. Am I doing something wrong? I got what hops I could into the carboy, then racked the beer in with the auto-siphon, carefully. And now the hops are sitting on top of the beer. Obviously, I'm new at this. Does this look right?
Help?
Mark