So I racked into a secondary...sweet is normal right?

[pjewell]

Nah. Once it's done and in the bottles and has time to condition I bet it won't be nearly as sweet as it tastes now. It'll be sweeter than you might want, but it should be drinkable. Let it ride and get going on your next batch, using what you've learned from this one. Brewing is a fluid thing. One batch leads you into the next and you take things along with you as you go.

Man... that sounds so Zen...

Lol zen is right. I like the consistency of inconsistency lol. well I guess I will do a dry hop just for the heck of it. just to see what it will do. I will run to the HBS tomorrow and see whats up.


Any favorite dry hops you would add?

 

[pjewell]

I also though of this cool way that I could add flavor without a boil. Its a little trick that I know from something else related to hops. I have built an apparatus that can "extract" oil from plant's oil glands. Its uses compressed butane. The butane is an excellent organic solvent for oils. Its far more efficient than water. When the extraction is finished, the butane has a low boiling temperature and evaporates away leaving just the oil. It sounds a bit strange, but if you have any knowledge of organic chemistry you'd agree with me. If fact, dry hopping is similar but less extreme. Im sure you know that when you add the hops to the beer that contains ethanol, the ethanol assists with stripping the hop compounds into the beer.

I know there are no original ideas anymore, so this sounds too good of an idea for it not to been done. Somebody has to have done this before?

Check it out. I knew that there are no more original ideas. https://morebeer.com/view_product/7835/103693/IsoHop_Bitterness_Extract_1_oz

Judging by the name. They use Isopropyl alcohol to extract the hop oils/compounds from the hops and its suspended in ethanol.