Warning: Don't dry hop a carb'd keg!!

[Homercidal]

Just a quick note here. I did not get around to putting dry hops in the keg. Sometimes I just don't do everything when it should be done.

But, I entered into two competitions. The first was an open comp my club put on. I entered it just to increase the relatively low number of entries and and see how it would fair as an American IPA without dry-hopping. It scored a 42 from the brewmaster. He's normally a pretty critical judge. It went to the BOS round but I don't know how it ended up out of those 4 beers.

The next comp was a club comp JUST for American IPAs. It came in second and lost by 1 vote.

Frankly I'm amazed that a beer that was not dry hopped could score so high. There is a noticeable lack of fresh hop aroma when compared to most of the other entries.

I'm almost kicking myself for not getting the dry hop addition in there!

(almost...)

 

[CapnHook]

Get a straw...quick!

Thanks for the cautionary tale. Nucleation* is not our friend.

/.

* except in our beer glasses!

 

[dubbwelsh]

I've had much better luck using whole leaf at serving temps (think nucleation points again), to punch life into a brew that had gone boring. They also end up clearer, but probably not a high priority at this point. Having said that, not all hops are available whole leaf.