keat64
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I've recently tried to brew a chocolate orange porter, only there's no reference to any orange in the final result.
It finished brewing around Thuesday last week, and it's still sat in the FV ready for racking off in to a keg, but before I do this I want to try and pep up the orange flavour by using Mandarina Bavaria hops.
Now for obvious reasons, I can't add these to the boil, so I intend to make a hop tea and add this to the keg at the same time as racking.
But how ????
I guess the best method would be to boil sterilise a jug, boil the kettle and allow the water to cool to about 60 - 70 degrees before adding some hops.
It's a 23l brew, so how many hops would you add to the tea, how much water and for how long should I let it steep.
It finished brewing around Thuesday last week, and it's still sat in the FV ready for racking off in to a keg, but before I do this I want to try and pep up the orange flavour by using Mandarina Bavaria hops.
Now for obvious reasons, I can't add these to the boil, so I intend to make a hop tea and add this to the keg at the same time as racking.
But how ????
I guess the best method would be to boil sterilise a jug, boil the kettle and allow the water to cool to about 60 - 70 degrees before adding some hops.
It's a 23l brew, so how many hops would you add to the tea, how much water and for how long should I let it steep.