I salvaged a brew which had no aroma whatsoever by making hop tea with around 50g of nelson sauvin, added to a few pints of the beer at 80c and then left cooling. Produced a lot of aroma but my reckoning is at that temp it should have left most of the bitterness behind. So I froze the spent hops thinking I can use them for bittering.
Any thoughts anyone on whether reusing em will screw up the brew?
Tight B...
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EccentricDyslexic
Re: Tight B...
Not from practical experience, but from what i heard those hops will still have bittering in them....actualy i may start to do the same cus the hops in my hop rocket just go in the bin after they have give up thier aroma....
Steve
Steve
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boingy
Re: Tight B...
It won't screw up the brew but it will make the IBU calculation a bit more vague.
And, yes, it does make you a tight ar5e....
And, yes, it does make you a tight ar5e....
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raiderman
Re: Tight B...
I'm from leeds I can cope with being a tight arse!
I shall give it a go, normally I'd throw late hops away but this was a fair sized batch my feeling is to to aim for say 40 ibu and go for a flavour addition of challenger at 30m and late hop heavily, that way if the overall ibu turns out lower the aroma will compensate I can also have a taste before he aroma go in and manually adjust.
I shall give it a go, normally I'd throw late hops away but this was a fair sized batch my feeling is to to aim for say 40 ibu and go for a flavour addition of challenger at 30m and late hop heavily, that way if the overall ibu turns out lower the aroma will compensate I can also have a taste before he aroma go in and manually adjust.