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[hopmonster]

Originally Posted by Sean C

I've got a Tupper's clone that will be going to secondary this Saturday. .8 oz of cascades for 4 weeks and into the keg.

I racked a hard cider onto some applebutter last week. As soon as it clears up, I'm kegging it as well.

Oh.. and I oaked the last few gallons of that porter.

Dry hopping for 4 weeks is a long time. You might want to go shorter and use more.

[Sean C]

Just gonna follow the recipe from the NA clone brew book. What would be more reasonable? 2 weeks? I can just throw in all the cascades I have.

[np0x]

I have heard much shorter from 3-5 days...do it to taste, but always use a fixed duration, just change the qty if redo'ing the beer and wanting to change dry-hop character.

[gman]

I dry hopped my pale ale for about 2 weeks or so. I actually don't remember how much I put in - it was a ziplock bag full of the fresh hops I grew. Not knowing what I was doing, I left them in for the full 2 weeks (maybe more?).

Honestly, they probably could have stayed longer. Or I should have used more. I was hoping for more of that in-your-face aroma. But it still tastes alright.

[Sean C]

I might as well just transfer to keg and dryhop with the ss mesh ball.

I imagine that if you just throw pellets into beer, it'll take a while before they settle out.

[mpilchuk]

Yeah, Don't go there with loose pellets as dry hop.

It's like smoking unfiltered cigarettes.

[webnmar]

Originally Posted by Sean C

That looks like a hazard. How many coolers will that thing melt through?

Here is a link to the heat stick I built.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/heat...03/index6.html post #9 picture

The 90 deg bend should keep me from melting my cooler, first dry run went well. I can't get the water to boil, but I think I can hold the temp once boiled at 175 deg.

So my plan is to boil on my burner, then pump boiling water up to a cooler on a higher shelf with the heat stick in it to help hold at temp. Then run a hose from that cooler into my mash tun for mash and fly sparging.

Might be a go for Saturday 12/12. Still waiting on the pump and hoses.

[scootertig]

pellets in a bag aren't terrible, but I really prefer whole hops for dry hops.

aaron

[Jay]

Well the Hop Rod Red came out very good, IMHO. Opinion givers are welcome to taste, just swing by.

It is a bit over-carb'ed right now. Left if at higher PSI too long, so it will take a little while to settle down. I'm going to bottle some up as well, so I'll get one (or two) to the next meeting, even if I'm not there.

Now it's time to get started on the next one

[brian j]

i just did my first rye beer (denny conn's ripa). after 2 weeks in the bottle its starting to come together. i used wyeast 1450.