McCuckerson
Well-Known Member
You bring up a good point. If you use a hop bag and actually remove it from the wort before transferring to the cube you really don't need to plan on any extra hop utilization (60 becomes 90, 15 becomes 30 yadda yadda...) You still could add a 5 minute addition or a flame-out addition, whirlpool, remove and transfer, yes?I always pull the hop bag out shortly after flame out. The reason I do this is because I use a converted keg for a kettle and it has a dip tube which the hop bags always seem to clog up when I am transferring the wort to my bucket to cool. I also use the same bucket to cool the wort and ferment in and I've been brewing pretty frequently lately so I would run out of hop bags if I left them in.
I was dinged in a competition for HSA in a stout that was NC. Do you think NC had anything to do with that? I did use year old hops though