Is the yeast clinging to the side as a layer or actually running all through the beer? I was wondering if you knocked on the side or gave the fermenter a sharp twist does it fall down?
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There is a bit of the more flocculant yeast stuck to the side at the bottom of the cone but there's a yeasty fog running right through it.
Does seem to be settling out slowly
Wow that is really hanging on isn't it. I dropped mine to 2oC for 2 days and I got most of the yeast out. Apart from a clod that just wouldn't let go of the bottom edge of the conical.
The beer is looking quite red. But this was always an experiment using imperial so the look of the beer was always going to be a slight surprise.
Managed to harvest off a good 500ml of yeast for next time.
Dry hopped it last night with a total of 400g mix of mosaic, equinox, calaypso and azzaca.
The beer is looking quite red. But this was always an experiment using imperial so the look of the beer was always going to be a slight surprise.
Managed to harvest off a good 500ml of yeast for next time.
Dry hopped it last night with a total of 400g mix of mosaic, equinox, calaypso and azzaca.
I've got it down at 1C now in an attempt to get it to drop out.
That's a big old dry hop
I've got it down at 1C now in an attempt to get it to drop out.
That's a big old dry hop
Go big or go home I say
Finally got my dry hops in today after warming back up to 19C.
Compared to dry hopping colder over recent brews they have broken up much better and are lingering at the top - falling in a nice slow cascade (especially with a little tap on the side of the FS) so I don't think I'm gonna bother co2 rumbling.
That’s interesting how all of yours have floated, absorbed and then started to sink.
My dry hop did a mixture of that and also just sink. I suspect that the ones that just sank were the less fresh hops and the greenest and freshest floated and then sank.
I too though have a massive green deposit after a 400g dry hop.
I’m currently sat at 15 oC for dry hopping but only because my butterfly valve tends to leak when it’s < 5 oC and I don’t want to lose 500ml of beer every time I replace the collection bottle.
I am though going to co2 rumble mine however. Hops went in Friday night so I will rumble once tonight and then again maybe Thursday before kegging Friday/Saturday ahead of brewing again (NEIPA) Sunday.
I'm never gonna get this carbed by the weekend in time to re-brew with the yeast I saved in a BIPA as I'd planned
EDIT - bit worried my measly 300g dry hop will seem a bit tame in comparison
So that’s the first rumble completed. I did take a picture of the green hop soup that you get directly afterwards but somehow my phone neglected to retain that picture.
Needless to say there was a hop “aroma” in the brew shed afterwards.
I will take a picture on the next rumble which should be about Thursday.
Needless to say there was a hop “aroma” in the brew shed afterwards.
I will take a picture on the next rumble which should be about Thursday.
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Hoddy, are you just pushing CO2 down the floating tube to rouse the hops or doing something else?
No i inject co2 directly up through the bottom butterfly valve to stir the hops and circulate them through and get them all in suspension to get max utilisation.
Means you do get a hop soup looking beer like this though. But it does extract every last aroma drop
This is the contraption
F00b4r
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Cheers Hoddy, that makes a lot more sense and gives a similar setup to those doing it with traditional conicals.
Do you get any issues with spraying from the butterfly valve/bottle when swapping out the bottle if there is pressure in the fv?
Do you get any issues with spraying from the butterfly valve/bottle when swapping out the bottle if there is pressure in the fv?
No not that i have noticed. Only issue i have is the butterfly letting by when its cold (<3oC) but i think i will strip it down and have a look and see if there is anything i can do to fix it.
So I kegged my beer this evening and also filled a few bottles as well. Needless to say the beer smelled pretty fly. So a few weeks of conditioning time will see how it’s all come out. Maybe get a few swaps in with others on the forum too.
I love the colour of this beer with the imperial malt. It looks like a blood grapefruit juice, a deep orange and red.
Can’t wait to see how my beer stacks up against @dan125 in a few weeks.
Got mine packaged today while brewing this BIPA.As always I filled one PET bottle to drink as soon as it warmed up for initial impressions.
Don't think I've got as much character out of the yeast as I'd hoped for, but seem to have avoided any vegetal flavours and reckon I'm finally getting somewhere with the soft mouthfeel.
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Looking forward to it.
I am going to reserve my judgement on mine.
