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Question about Citra hops
I happened to have "The homebrewer's companion" on my desk when I read your question, so I quickly checked in it, and it says the following:
Recently the German Society of Hop Research has ...
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What if I accidentally boiled for 90 minutes?
Absolutely not a problem. You will gain just a bit of extra bitterness by boiling longer, but so little that I doubt you could notice it.
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What is a hop bill?
The term "Bill": be it grain or hops is simply the list of that type of ingredient, weight and time or stage schedule and how it's applied to the recipe.
Sample:
2oz Galaxy FWH
( weight, ingredient, ...
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What hop will give me grapefruit-like aroma?
Citra is a good bet for grapefruit aromas. Check this link for a nice tool to help with hopping your beers
https://www.hopunion.com/aroma-wheel/
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Why are hops added at different times during boiling?
Alpha acids, pleasant bitterness you want in your beer, are in inactive form in hops. They need to be isomerized to taste the way it should. This takes time and temperature, around an hour of boil to ...
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Are hops fermentable by beer yeast?
Interestingly, I found a presentation by Thomas H. Shellhammer, professor of fermentation science at OSU, that shows the composition of a typical hop cone:
Cellulose and Lignin: 40-50%
Protein: 15%
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Inserting Amarillo hops after fermentation
What they're referring to is a process called "dry hopping", which is used to promote hop aroma and flavor in the beer. It's very common and has been in use for hundreds of years. You don't need to ...
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Names for when you use hops
From Brewtarget (brewing software):
Mash hopping: adding hop in the mash
First wort: adding hop in the boiling kettle and then lautering the wort in the kettle
Boil: Adding hop when the wort boils, ...
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Beer Brewing: How do I dry fresh hops?
According to the American homebrewer's association, there are 3 main techniques to dry out your hops:
Food dehydrator
Using a food dehydrator is the easiest way to dry out your hops as it ensures ...
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Will Dry Hopping Add Bitterness?
I've had bitter hop flavor come from dry hopping as well.
The quoted text from the OP makes sense to me:
Dry hopping is essentially creating a tincture. Don't believe me? Drop 3 grams of a high alpha ...
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How to approach unknown hops?
Something I've read somewhere and tried myself with a degree of success is this technique:
Go out and buy a six pack of the most bland beer you know of in whatever style you desire (I've used But ...
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Hop material in primary
You've made your bed of hops, now lay in it.
Now is not the time to be messing about in your fermenter. Or, frankly, opening it up to take pictures of it. The beer is very susceptible to infection ...
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Keeping the grain ... While boiling. Is that bad?
Raising the mash above 78 C generally runs the risk of extracting polyphenols, which will add astringency to your beer.
Additionally you'll extract other compounds that will make having a clear ...
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"FV" abbreviation in BrewDog recipe
Apparently it means to add to Fermentation Vessel as you noted.
https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/diy-dog
I'm guessing it means in the primary, as most dry hops are in secondary.
This would be ...
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Is there such a thing as hop terroir?
There absolutely is a difference. You can see it in the natural variability of hop crops from year to year. Growing conditions (moisture, soil composition, nitrogen, sun, pests) can all have a great ...
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Airlock not bubbling
If you didn't pitch yeast from an actively fermenting starter, 24 hours is a perfectly reasonable lag time. But if you really are seeing a thick kräusen atop your beer, it sounds like there's just a ...
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How to approach unknown hops?
Make a tea with the hops (boil a few "cones" in 500 ml water for 15 minutes) and let the tea cool. Then add to a lightly flavoured beer in small amounts until the hops take center stage.
This will ...
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Rapidly moving particles during fermentation?
This is a totally normal active fermentation. It won't be flocculated yeast at this point, so much as break protein and hop material.
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Leaving hops out freezer for an hour
No you won't notice a difference.
While alpha acids and precious volitiles fade with age and air exposure. You won't register any difference with the limited time you're talking about. I would wrap ...
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Are hops fermentable by beer yeast?
While hops may have a very small amount of sugars in them, it's not enough to make any discernible difference in your beer. However, they do appear to have diastatic power which could slightly affect ...
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Build up around top inner rim of fermenting bucket?
Most probably, it's some hops residue. The krausen must have caused it, and in any case it's not touching the wort so I would not worry about it.
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Removing the hops after the boil when no chilling
No chill, slow chill = more IBU from late hop additions
No chill concerns for hops is late additions will continue to isomerize until below 175°F.
Removing the hops will help, but any alpha acids ...
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"Dry hop" etymology
In the absence of facts, be creative...
Building on the idea that "Dry" is an antonym for "Sweet", perhaps "Dry Hopping" is...
The adding of hops after the yeast has consumed most of the sugars, ...
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"Dry hop" etymology
I can't really answer your question, but I've found some interesting information nonetheless.
The phrase "dry hopped" didn't appear until the early 20th century, according to Google's NGram. The ...
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Aroma hops: to bag or not?
I use bags for all whole hop additions. I use muslin bags that have a very open weave. I also account for the theoretical 10% loss when using a bag by using 10% more hops.
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Old Hops; Buy fresh or use leftovers?
It depends on what kind of recipe you are thinking of. For example, some sour beers (lambics) specifically call for old, stale hops. On the other hand if you're hoping to make a bright and citrus-y ...
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Spalter Select Replacement
Spalt, Saaz, Tettnanger, and Hersbrucker hops are all suitable alternatives:1
And according to another resource2, specifically U.S. Saaz and ...
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Hops substitutions for Amber Ale
Using what you have, and me not being a fan of centennial, I would use.
Magnum (bittering) 60min
Willamette (flavor) 30min
Willamette (aroma) 2min
Those should play nicely since Fat Sam seems to ...
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Will dry hopping without a hop bag give me "hop floaties"?
Yeah, it may. If you can chill the before racking to a keg it should drop the hops. If you can' do that, you can just wait til they drop on their own.
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Will dry hopping without a hop bag give me "hop floaties"?
I'm not a fan of using bags in fermentation
The bags usually float giving a perfect media for bacteria on the exposed area to grow on. Expecially in secondary when c02 levels are the lowest. Also in ...
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