Do I need Hops at all?

thehipone · Post by **thehipone** » Wednesday Oct 12, 2005 7:46 pm

It will all settle out fine. I dry hop frequently and take no preventative measures, just chuck the pellets right into secondary. AS long as you dont shake the fermenter up too much, you wont get hop particles in the bottles.

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Wednesday Oct 12, 2005 7:50 pm

do you have a secondary you can rack into ?

If not, panic not brainface.

Bunnings have 25lt screw top containers that double quite effectively as a secondary.

Buy one, get down to HBS and get 1.5mtr of food grade hose, some spare grommets and an air lock.
Drill a 12mm hole in the lid of your new secondary, fit the grommet and air lock, sanitise and rack away...

Plenty of info on racking if you search here.

hope this helps
yardglass

Brainface · Post by **Brainface** » Wednesday Oct 12, 2005 8:15 pm

sweet.

thank christ. I thought Id just wasted a good batch. ( I probably would have drunken it anyway )

I dont reckon i'll bother with the secondary...........sounds like work.
I'll just give it a couple more days than usual.

Cheers fellas.

Post by **Oliver** » Thursday Oct 13, 2005 12:32 am

Brainface,

The hops should settle out.

However, when you go to bottle you might find the little bottler gets clogged. If so, just turn off the tap and remove the little bottler. Dismantle, rinse and reassemble it. Put it back onto the tap and away you go again.

Cheers,

Oliver

Ilike'emfizzy · Post by **Ilike'emfizzy** » Thursday Oct 13, 2005 8:04 am

yeah, I was thinking that the bottler would get clogged.

Cheers Oliver.

First time using hops, and the smell from the pellets is unbelievably strong. I only steeped about 15g.
Hopefully the taste isnt too overpowering, becasue the bubbles coming out of the fermenter smell nothing like the pale ale i just bottled.

Anyway, not to worry.

Tyberious Funk · Thursday Oct 13, 2005 10:25 am

Ilike'emfizzy wrote:First time using hops, and the smell from the pellets is unbelievably strong. I only steeped about 15g.
Hopefully the taste isnt too overpowering, becasue the bubbles coming out of the fermenter smell nothing like the pale ale i just bottled.

The hops taste will mature over time. Some lagers I made several months ago are finally settling into a mature, rounded flavour... previously their hoppy flavour was a bit overpowering. So I wouldn't worry about it. Steeped hops don't really add much flavour anyway... just aroma, so it makes sense that the smell is overpowering.