Hop Canister Use

[Rexy53]

Hi Everyone,

Soon I will be brewing a Belgian Tripel and had a question about my hop canister. Will it mess with the taste of the beer if I use the canister during the boil? I know it’s supposed to be used for fermentation to dry hop while limiting effects to clarity. I want to use it to limit the amount of byproduct left over from the the hops, but don’t know if the metal being in the boil would contaminate the beer or ruin the taste. Any thoughts?

 

[LarMoeCur]

Shouldn't ruin the taste but it will affect utilization. The IBUs of the beer will be lower then what the recipe expects. Could make the beer unbalanced if utilization is really low. Boiling in a soup can is not really ideal for great hop flavors or extracting acids. I'd just throw the hops in and not worry about it. OR put the canister over the out tube.

Or clarify the beer in other ways. Like cold crashing or gelatin or Irish moss - all of the above.

 

[Rexy53]

Shouldn't ruin the taste but it will affect utilization. The IBUs of the beer will be lower then what the recipe expects. Could make the beer unbalanced if utilization is really low. Boiling in a soup can is not really ideal for great hop flavors or extracting acids. I'd just throw the hops in and not worry about it. OR put the canister over the out tube.

Or clarify the beer in other ways. Like cold crashing or gelatin or Irish moss - all of the above.

Thank you. I was going to cold crash and use Irish moss anyway. I appreciate it.

 

[Pappers_]

I use a muslin bag hanging from a homemade hop spider for most of my beers needing more than an ounce of hops, for the same reason. It may impact hop utilization some, but you build recipes upon recipes, if the last IPA wasn't quite bitter enough, for the next iteration you add more bittering hops. And I do like keeping the hops debris to a minumum.