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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do you need to boil un-hopped extract?
All brewing extracts were boiled wort and achieved a hot break at some point and have been reduced to the extract by a couple methods. Generally like you would thicken a sauce by simmering.
That ...
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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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Bad food in the fridge! keep the hops or toss them?
Hops stored in a sealed packet in a fridge should be alright to use - even if the rest of the fridge is "crawling" with bugs. I say this because the hops grew in the open air and since picking have ...
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Storing leftover hops using water displacement method
Yeah sure, I don't see why not. The hops are probably not sinking as easy as the steak, but it will still work if you be careful enough.
But also I'm thinking that you won't notice a difference ...
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Storing leftover hops using water displacement method
Actually using plastic bags period is bad, because they are permeable (small molecules can pass through)
So even submerging the bag to vacate air really won't do much good.
You're better off ...
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No Starting Hops - Do I need a 60 min boil?
DMS is pretty much a non issue these days, so a short boil is fine. I often do batches with a 20 min. mash and 20 min. boil The beer turns out fine, with no hint of DMS.
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Any hop recommendations for a single hop PA out of these options
For an American Pale Ale, I'd stick with American hops.
Saaz is the classic Czech Pilsner hop, Hallertau is a German noble hop. If you use those, you may end up with something between a Pale Ale and ...
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Co2 shut-off valve
You have a leak. As long as your connections and lines and kegs are sealed up tight, you don't have to turn off the main valve because there's nowhere for the gas to go. You can spray Star San (or ...
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Is using a large amount of low alpha hops for bittering a bad idea?
Its possible that the added vegetal material will be an issue in a style as delicate as Kölsch. But like you mention, I too have loaded up beers with more than twice your proposed amount and been OK (...
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Has anyone brewed hop-free beer?
Norwegian Farmhouse Ales mostly use Juniper as their anti-bacterial/bitter flavoring. They have been doing this for hundreds of years and well before hops were established as the go to bittering agent....
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