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I think I will avoid swirling it. I am not sure I would get much more hop oil to the bottom of the beer that way. Next go around I will use a different secondary so I can sink my DH

I am brewing a Belgian Tripel tomorrow and am wondering what time in the boil I should add my DME. The recipe says to add it at the beginning, but I have had some bad experiences boilng DME too long. Off color, and off flavors. Any suggestions? Ingredients below. Ingredients: 3.3 lbs. Pilsen...

I went with the "Free Ball" method this go around. I dont have the ability to cold crash, so I will use the filter mod when transferring this over to the priming bucket next week. This thing smells like full on passion fruit!

Awesome I may give this a try. If you had to choose a better option for filtering the most hop sludge out after the DH, would it be paint strainer or the siphon filter mod. Thanks for the help! Either way I think im in a good spot

Difficult to retrieve from a narrow mouth carboy? I am tossing in 2 oz. of pellets

No spigot, just a basic glass carboy, so I use a siphon. It seems like commando may be the way to go with the carboy I am using. Thanks for the suggestion

Ill be at two weeks in primary when I DH for an additional 7 days, so there are definitely no more bubbles. My narrow mouth carboy may make it difficult to retrieve anything I try to sink in there later, but I may be replacing it with something with a wider mouth as a secondary. From what I am...

That was what I suspected. I hadn't heard of the siphon trick though. This is for a NEIPA so I am not concerned with clarity. I will likely "free ball" this one.

What is a good method for dry hopping with pellets in a carboy?

Here is the steep to convert mash info

Last question. If I add 2 lbs of DME to boost the ABV, do I need to add additional hops to balance bittering/flavor???

I got the brew shop to send me over the "steep to convert" insert, and it corroborates the mash @ 154 F for about 45 min to an hour so that seems right on.

Copy above. so 1/4 oz hops will do enough bittering? interesting.

Copy above. I do top off in the fermenter. 2.5 3.5 gallons in the boil.

I dont have any extra hops on hand, but my brew shop is only 20 min away so I could snag some before I begin the brew. Though for this one I am trying to only lightly hop the batch to see where I land with bitterness, flavor, and aroma. My biggest fear is over- hopping right out the gate.

Copy. I will do that! Thanks for the insight. If I get my water heated to 156F then drop in the specialty stuff, should I kill the heat? keep low to maintain temp? and then just dump this water into my main brew kettle and begin the normal 60 min boil steps?

Copy that. I posted pics of what I have, but I am not sure they will be helpful.

I wish I could. Here is everything I have from my brew shop. I just know its pale grains, flaked oats, pilsen light LME, 2lbs pale dme.

This is what I am doing. I do not have the "steep to convert insert." I am also adding 2lbs. of pale DME to boost ABV. I swapped yeast to Omega OYL-11 British Ale V

The heat from boiling water wont affect the color of my final beer when these specialties steep?