Desert_Sky
Since 1998
Ok, I have 4 brews under my belt. Not a whole lot I know, but with each of those I have always used a hop bag for adding the hops to the boil. Ive done both whole and pellets. After each time I rinse out the bag and clean for reuse the next time around.
It got me thinking. Is this extra step neccesary? Ive seen a couple videos/pics users have submitted of their boil. Ive seen hop bags used, then pellets and whole hops thrown right into the boil. Now I don't have a hop stopper, or any type of screen to filter them back out. Would thowing pellets into the boil and not being able to pull them back out be a bad thing? Or could I simply let them go into the primary to end up as trub later?
It got me thinking. Is this extra step neccesary? Ive seen a couple videos/pics users have submitted of their boil. Ive seen hop bags used, then pellets and whole hops thrown right into the boil. Now I don't have a hop stopper, or any type of screen to filter them back out. Would thowing pellets into the boil and not being able to pull them back out be a bad thing? Or could I simply let them go into the primary to end up as trub later?