Do hops grow in Texas? - Homebrew Talk Hop geneticist Al Haunold on growing hops in S Texas Latitude 31 degrees is a bit out of the normal ecological range for hops It is the daylength rather than the temperature, the latter could be overcome with sufficient watering (drip irrigation should work fine)
Hop Varieties for Pilsners - Homebrew Talk It would seem that Saaz is "the" hop for Czech and American pilsners I don't have any Saaz on hand and was wondering what else people have used and like in Pilsners I want to make an example of the Pilsner style but don't necessarily need it to be Czech, American, or german Ive got a lot of
Hop Stand temperatures and times - Homebrew Talk Here's the short version: how long should a hop stand be at two hundred degrees? How long at 175? Which is better (or how do the results differ)? One of the things that I'm trying to do this year is stabilize all my processes and then manipulate my beers through ingredients and temperatures
Hop stand only vs. dry hop only - Homebrew Talk You can hop a beer in so many ways: first wort, bittering, hop burst, hop stand, dry hop, etc I'm wondering if total hops added matters more than when they're added (on the hot side at least)
Best practice for purging headspace during after dry hop I ferment and dry hop in a corny keg with a floating dip tube I'm planning to make a beer with 24 oz of hops (12 oz hop stand and 12 oz dry hop), so I REALLY don't want to mess it up with oxidation My plan is to continuously purge the headspace with CO2 while adding the dry hops, then do more
Hop bags? Do you use them? - Homebrew Talk I dry hop in the keg, so I use muslin hop bags, and just throw them away when done I got tired of smelling all that great hop aroma escaping the fermenter so I'm thinking that by dry hopping in the keg, I'm keeping all that aroma in the beer
LOB Alternative To Dry Hopping: Making A Hop Tea or DIY Hop Extract . . . Hot water, say putting the hops into the coffee hopper and making a pot of hop "coffee" would extract unwanted bitterness However, with the cold brewing process we'd extract the desired hop essence we seek This is an interesting idea and I need to research it
To Get a Hop Spider or Not? - Homebrew Talk The hop spider can restrict flow similar to using a screened funnel when transferring wort to a carboy for instance Not nearly as much as there is more surface area on the cylinder vs the flat screen
When to dry-hop while pressure fermenting - Homebrew Talk Brewed morebeers hop blonde yesterday, all grain for the first time I think it went okay My question was on the timing of dry hop additions while pressure fermenting Recipe states to dry hop in secondary fermentation, 3-5 days I'm keg fermenting and don't plan on doing a secondary
Best technique or time to add hops for flavor - Homebrew Talk As far as quality hop flavor aroma goes, dry hopping and whirlpool hopstand whatever you want to call it are the best ways to go Whether or not you add bittering hops at the beginning of the boil is up to you (and may be guided by style) For west coast IPAs, I like to get about 30 ibus from a 60 minute addition, and the rest from flameout