a question about hops

[mrjones]

I have just done my 10th all grain brew and still not 100% sure on hops, I was looking at a recipe that had adding hops at flame out, how long do you leave them in the kettle for them to add anything to the brew, and also after flame out how long should I leave my hop bag in the wort, I have just been removing it straight away after flame out, is this correct or am I better to leave it in the wort while chilling?

 

[chumpsteak]

Leave the hops in until you're done or almost done chilling. With flameout hops, turn off the fire and drop in the hops. Letting them chill for 20 minutes before you start to chill seems like the consensus on here.

If you think about it you'd be leaving your hops in for the full chill if you didn't use a hop bag so why pull the hop bag before you chill?

 

[mrjones]

good point, I hadn't thought of that, as I have always used a hop bag so I don't block up my plate chiller, from now on I will leave them in for the full chill,
Thanks

 

[Pie_Man]

For flameout hops, I simply turn off the burner, add the flamout addition hops, and begin to cool. I don't think you have to wait to begin cooling. The point to flameout hops is to add aroma and some flavor with very little contribution to bitterness.

 

[TopherM]

Did it specifically say it was a flameout hop, or was it a 0 minute addition? Some recipes, especially those that come from BeerSmith, label DRY HOP hops as a 0 min. addition. It makes it a bit confusing.

 

[unionrdr]

My 1st pm has been in bottles 3 days now. It was the midwest cascade pale ale pm kit. The instructions had the last hop addition at 2 minutes. I left them to steep after the flame out LME addition for 15 minutes. Nice aroma & fresh hop flavor at bottling time. We'll see on thanksgiving just how well it worked. But from present indications,it'll work out pretty good.

 

[mrjones]

its a beer smith recipe and it does say 0 minutes for the hop addition so hopefully I have the right end of the stick, I may have to do two batches and try both and see which works better, but I don like the idea of just leaving them in through cooling

 

[unionrdr]

From what I smelled/tasted thus far,it may just work fairly well. But the proof,as they say,is in the pudding.

 

[mrjones]

sounds like I just need to do more brewing and test these things out, I must tell the wife of these findings so that she understands that a lot more ber needs to be made,

cheers for the help guys