Yes it worked out great, no issues with the beer when I came to bottle it.
Mostly I liked the idea of not adding additional sediment to the beer and also apparently using hop tea rather than dry hopping you get more of an intense aroma from the hops.
Going to make a hop tea for my late hop additions. Thought I would use the beer from the fermenting vessel to steep the hops in when making the tea instead of water.
As I am only heating the liquid up to under 70c (155 F) and alcohol evaporates at 78 C(172f) I wont be loosing any alcohol and...
Great thanks all.
Are you adjusting late hop additions for the No chill method. Found this schedule.
Not sure what FWH 30 IBU means though..
No-Chill Hop Schedule - BIABrewer.info
It has the tap it came fitted with so assume that it wont be suitable to do the transfer... I havent done the ball value mod yet.
Ok thanks for the responses, think I will do as suggested just throw them in and let it settle with the help of the protofloc.
About to do my first brew this weekend. An all grain American Amber ale on a burco boiler using BIAB method.
I have my brewday plan all typed up just have one question.
There are two hop additions, one at 60 and then one late addition at 5 min. Is it better to put them in a hop sock or does...
About to get setup for my first brew. Just a couple of questions before I start getting equipment.
Initially I am looking to so smaller batch brews of around 11 litres.
Two questions:
Is it ok to ferment a small batch of 11 litres in a 23 litre bucket considering the extra oxygen in the space...
Hi All
New to beer brewing and joined the site to be part of the brewing community and hopefully get some questions answered. Been reading and watching loads of vids on it so just about ready to get going.