Hey all. I've been brewing for about a year and overall things have been pretty good. However, something I've noticed about my beers is that they lack a good hop aroma/hop flavor and I think the problem has to do with how I bottle the beer. I add a decent amount of hops at the end of the boiling process and the beer has a good hop aroma to it after fermentation. However, once I bottle the beer and wait around for a few weeks, when I then open a bottle, there's almost no hop aroma whatsoever. My bottling process is as follows:
Sanitize bottles (which tend to be a mix of 22oz and 12oz), tubing, and racking cane w/ bleach solution, rinsing them off with hot water
Add priming sugar to carboy and very gently stir with racking cane for a minute or two
Siphon beer from carboy into bottles
Once all beer is siphoned, I then cap the bottles with oxygen barrier caps
I then let sit in a cool dark place for a few weeks before drinking
I've got no idea why the hop aroma disappears during this process and I was hoping someone here could shed some light on the subject for me. Thanks a bunch!
TheMad
Sanitize bottles (which tend to be a mix of 22oz and 12oz), tubing, and racking cane w/ bleach solution, rinsing them off with hot water
Add priming sugar to carboy and very gently stir with racking cane for a minute or two
Siphon beer from carboy into bottles
Once all beer is siphoned, I then cap the bottles with oxygen barrier caps
I then let sit in a cool dark place for a few weeks before drinking
I've got no idea why the hop aroma disappears during this process and I was hoping someone here could shed some light on the subject for me. Thanks a bunch!
TheMad