I'm curious about this as I use floating dip tubes with silicon tubing and have also noticed it doesn't get clear after a PBW soak (not that any silicon really does). I've also had some issues with my NEIPAs not being up to my standard lately but nothing has changed process-wise so I wonder... However, I use the floating dip tubes for all my beers and have served plenty of clean lagers with them and didn't notice any weird hop flavors coming through so find it hard to believe that could be the cause. Anybody else think this is an issue?
First time using whole hops in a neipa dry hop. What is the current recommendation for extraction time?
So something like this would work? And by super strength Star San are you just not dilluting it as much? What is the purpose of super-strengthing it?Option 1: Change the hoses every few months. It is cheap if bought from amazon.
Option 2: More general recommendation. Yes it happened to me too I have floating diptubes in all 10 kegs. I never determined the cause. I did the following and it went away. In my opinion - PBW needs more "oomph" to clean non-stainless surfaces (i.e. hoses and plastic fermentors). PBW is mostly just oxiclean with a boost agent (Sodium Metasilicate). I started using a true caustic agent every couple of months or so to deep clean. I have a 15gal BK - fill to 12gal add 4tbsp PBW & 4tbsp Lye, I throw in all of my silicone hoses and attachments heat temp to 175 for 20mins. The silicone hoses get squeaky clean, the amount of biofilm (?) that ends up floating in the water is shocking - even though I use PBW after every brew. Coincidentally this is why I also stopped using a CFC chiller and switched to Jaded Hydra.... I then pour the hot water into my fermentors to sit for 20-30min. After rinsing good, spray all SS with super strength StarSan, air dry over night
Caution: Use chemical resistant gloves, rubber boots, goggles and other protective gear. DO NOT allow contact with skin
I was wondering about this too, it would be simple to test (have to do this myself).
Just take some coloured tubing and soak it in some water for a while and taste the water afterwards.
My kegs are occupied atm but if you do test this please share the results.
Option 1: Change the hoses every few months. It is cheap if bought from amazon.
Option 2: More general recommendation. Yes it happened to me too I have floating diptubes in all 10 kegs. I never determined the cause. I did the following and it went away. In my opinion - PBW needs more "oomph" to clean non-stainless surfaces (i.e. hoses and plastic fermentors). PBW is mostly just oxiclean with a boost agent (Sodium Metasilicate). I started using a true caustic agent every couple of months or so to deep clean. I have a 15gal BK - fill to 12gal add 4tbsp PBW & 4tbsp Lye, I throw in all of my silicone hoses and attachments heat temp to 175 for 20mins. The silicone hoses get squeaky clean, the amount of biofilm (?) that ends up floating in the water is shocking - even though I use PBW after every brew. Coincidentally this is why I also stopped using a CFC chiller and switched to Jaded Hydra.... I then pour the hot water into my fermentors to sit for 20-30min. After rinsing good, spray all SS with super strength StarSan, air dry over night
Caution: Use chemical resistant gloves, rubber boots, goggles and other protective gear. DO NOT allow contact with skin
I was going to add them to a SS dry hop canister and purge as best as possible. Only reason I was going to use them was to get idaho7 in the DH and that's the only form I have them in. Maybe I just skip it or suck it up and buy some pellets even though I have a 12oz of whole leaf. It's good for WP at least.
What’s the name of the strain? It can’t be “Loki” since that’s s Voss isolated strain. But yeah you’re LHBS is correct. You only want to pitch 1/2 the pouch or even 1/4. Over build s starter with the remaining yeast and store it in sanitized mason jars for future use. It’s a great summer yeast to work with since tap water temps are high and make cooling lengthy. You can pitch a 95-100 if you’d like
Could you share some more on that chamber?If you purge them in the dry hop chamber with adequate pressure and enough cycles, you should be fine from an O2 perspective as long as you have a way to get them into the fermenter without exposing them to O2. I'm building a dry hop chamber right now. I can't wait to start using it.
Could you share some more on that chamber?
What kind of device are you building?
Idk how efficient the crushing will actually will be to minimize o2. To me the nitrogen purged pellets from Yakima chief and even Yakima valley hops seem like better options than crushing the hops and exposing more of the hop material to oxygen.ziploc bags them selves can have flaws and after pulverizing the pellets in the bag youre bound to put holes in the bag. Seems like a lot of work for a possibility of more o2 pickup.On guy in my brew club recommended pre-crushing all the pellets, putting them in a ziplock bag, this way you can squeeze the 02 out without any voids of O2 between the pellets, purging ziplock bag with CO2, then purging your FV so a layer of CO2 is on top of you brew before adding hops. Then dumping them in. Close up the FV and purge again.
Just got home and Dgallo you were right. It’s fermenting like crazy.
Idk how efficient the crushing will actually will be to minimize o2. To me the nitrogen purged pellets from Yakima chief and even Yakima valley hops seem like better options than crushing the hops and exposing more of the hop material to oxygen.ziploc bags them selves can have flaws and after pulverizing the pellets in the bag youre bound to put holes in the bag. Seems like a lot of work for a possibility of more o2 pickup.
So something like this would work? And by super strength Star San are you just not dilluting it as much? What is the purpose of super-strengthing it?
https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Hydro...la-492676623295&ref=&adgrpid=62022137216&th=1
When you say that it happened to you too, do you mean you got off-flavors you suspect were from re-using the silicone tubing? Or just that you got the visual ugly stains? If it was off flavors, how would you describe the off flavor?
Thanks for the cleaning suggestion - depending how cheap I can find the silicon tubing, I'm not sure that it's worth the hassle to go through all that just for the CBDS, but I'm sure that process would help for some other plastic and silicon parts that are susceptible to staining and retaining aromas.
Another data point I used A24 for the first time on a brew. Oxygenated wort and pitched (without starter) yesterday AM and it was not active until this morning. Seems that without a starter it can have a sluggish start.
Starter is standard for me, but I was rushed on this one so skipped it. In hindsight as long as it took to get the wort down to pitching temp in my ferm chamber I could have made a starter post brew and had it ready to pitch yesterday AM!
Chilling is a total PITA with the warm tap water temps this time of year.
On guy in my brew club recommended pre-crushing all the pellets, putting them in a ziplock bag, this way you can squeeze the 02 out without any voids of O2 between the pellets, purging ziplock bag with CO2, then purging your FV so a layer of CO2 is on top of you brew before adding hops. Then dumping them in. Close up the FV and purge again.
Idk how efficient the crushing will actually will be to minimize o2. To me the nitrogen purged pellets from Yakima chief and even Yakima valley hops seem like better options than crushing the hops and exposing more of the hop material to oxygen.ziploc bags them selves can have flaws and after pulverizing the pellets in the bag youre bound to put holes in the bag. Seems like a lot of work for a possibility of more o2 pickup.
Where did you pick yours up? I dont see it at morebeer which is closest, and nb is bit expensive with shipping.The name of the strain is Kveiking check it out
https://www.imperialyeast.com/organic-yeast-strains/yeast-types/seasonal/kveiking/
Where did you pick yours up? I dont see it at morebeer which is closest, and nb is bit expensive with shipping.
Sharing one of the best recipes I have ever made:
6gallon to fermentor
70% 2R
18% Crisp Malted Oats (hulless)
9% Chit
3% Honey Malt (I am shocked how such a small amount affects SRM)
1.062 SG
1.012 FG
~6.5%
Water profile: RO water - treated to 66 CA, 22 MG, 20 Na, 88 SO4, 150 Cl
Bittering: 30min Bravo 0.75oz (~25 ibus)
WP: 2oz each Idaho7, Mosaic, Moteuka
Dryhop@ FG after soft crash to 58* for 48hrs - 3oz each: Idaho 7, Galaxy, Vic Secret (1.5oz per gal)
Yeast: Conan (Barbarian A04 Gen 3)
- Day 1-5 68*
- Day 6-8 72*
- Day 9-10 75*
- Day 11-13 58*, Day 12 added dryhops
- Day 14 kegged
Photos at Day 21
So 9 ounces dry hops 48 hours before kegging? And 3 ounces were Galaxy? I got gigantic hop burn and astringency when I used 2 ounces before bottling, so I have been scared of Galaxy and high DH rates ever since. But maybe it wasnt the late DH and Galaxy? I need to figure this out bc I would like to be more aggressive with dh amounts....
I put CBDS in all my kegs a few years ago between that and soft crashing before dryhopping AND only dryhopping for 48hrs I have not experienced astigency or hop burn since. The last part I think is the most important
CBDS?
I put CBDS in all my kegs a few years ago between that and soft crashing before dryhopping AND only dryhopping for 48hrs I have not experienced astigency or hop burn since. The last part I think is the most important
Clear beer draft system, aka a floating dip tube.
Oh. What does that do to help reduce burn/astringency?
Oh. What does that do to help reduce burn/astringency?
i'd like to know from people more experienced with cold crashing...is it possible to have hop burn if you cold crash? since i started cold crashing again i have had very smooth IPAs right from the start. i don't think you can get hop burn if you drop out the excess yeast (with a soft crash) and and then drop out the hop particulate with a cold crash...
Within 48hrs of 40ish temps in the keezer the hop particles have fallen out of suspension to the bottom of the keg. This system pulls beer from the top of the keg rather than the bottom with traditional diptubes, thereby avoiding the hop particulate that has precipitated out of solution - and thus avoid the burn / astrigency. (as mentioned earlier - soft crash before dryhop, dryhop 48 hrs, cold crash then keg will greatly reduce the burn / astrigency)
http://www.clearbeerdraughtsystem.com/info.html
Here is the knockoff version used in fermentasaurus. I have five of these and six CBDS. All work the same. I actually prefer the knockoff as it gets more beer out at the end.
https://www.morebeer.com/products/r...t-60-cm-silicone-dip-tube-fermentasaurus.html
Just switch to kegging already brother. You’ll be astounded by the quality increase when you doThanks. Makes sense. I also will try the soft and cold crash. I am still pushing for more aroma, but worried about going over the top on dry hop amounts. I think the double crash will help.
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