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Patio grown centennial hops used to dry hop this imperial ipa. Hops clogged the bottle filler and so there was a lot of siphon pumping and consequent aeration of the orange capped bottles. Filled the bottling carboy with co2 to help reduce the oxidation... will taste what happens. Didn't...

Dubbwelsh, thank you for your reply. Also I like your Blog post, and per your experience in dry hopping that resulted in compost flavors, I will not dry hop for too long. Hopefully as you said, the hops color change was caused by the beer and not any reactions with the star san. I don't think...

My brewing adventures

Hello yall, I used my first harvest of patio grown centennial hops to dry hop an imperial ipa. The dry hopping is two days in, and I noticed that half of the star San in my air lock had disappeared, and also that my once verdant hops had turned brown. I proceeded to refill my three piece...