Boonies LCPA recipe
Sorry about that, I didn't realise it wasn't filled in. Doing it now.
I live in Sandringham, Vic. Which is just south/southwest of the city. I buy my goods at Brewcraft in Oakleigh. I have been meaning to give craftbrewer a try, but I am worrying about storing excess hops, as I don't know how often I will be using each type.
On that point, if someone could tell me, how long will hops last for, and whats the best way of storing them? At the moment, I store and extra's in a ziplock bag (to be airtight) and shove them in the fridge. I even have a saaz hop plug in the back of my fridge somewhere, that I'm too afraid to use because its 6 months old.
I live in Sandringham, Vic. Which is just south/southwest of the city. I buy my goods at Brewcraft in Oakleigh. I have been meaning to give craftbrewer a try, but I am worrying about storing excess hops, as I don't know how often I will be using each type.
On that point, if someone could tell me, how long will hops last for, and whats the best way of storing them? At the moment, I store and extra's in a ziplock bag (to be airtight) and shove them in the fridge. I even have a saaz hop plug in the back of my fridge somewhere, that I'm too afraid to use because its 6 months old.
Actually there is a way to do the vacuum seal pretty well with a drinking straw and ziplock, I guess that is probably where the idea came from.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/521742/ho ... plock_bag/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/521742/ho ... plock_bag/
Alrighty, I think I may just follow the original hopping plan from Boonies LCPA Clone, and have an odd amount of hops left in the fridge.
So now I know how to store the hops.... how do you guys weigh out your hops? The last time I used 12.5g of a hop, I simply pulled out 2 small plastic containers, and put pellets into each until they looked like they had the same amount.
The smallest scale I have looks like this:
And I can definitely say that its not the easiest thing to measure out small amounts on (ie hops). Does anyone have any crazy methods that just so happen to work?
So now I know how to store the hops.... how do you guys weigh out your hops? The last time I used 12.5g of a hop, I simply pulled out 2 small plastic containers, and put pellets into each until they looked like they had the same amount.
The smallest scale I have looks like this:And I can definitely say that its not the easiest thing to measure out small amounts on (ie hops). Does anyone have any crazy methods that just so happen to work?
Hmm. Sounds nice. The price will probably go up into the three digits in the last 5 minutes of the auction. Now I have to pay my ebay fee's to unban my account.Kevnlis wrote:Jewelers Scale of eBay, less than $30.
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You'll find that KMart, target and the like sell digi scales for around the $30-40 which when you take into account postage is on par with evilbay.
Mine are 3kg with a 1g accuracy. On sale i think i paid 29. If you are going to weigh out your own hops you really need something more accurate than scales which i wouldnt use for anything other than a guesstimate.
Cheers
DrSmurto
Mine are 3kg with a 1g accuracy. On sale i think i paid 29. If you are going to weigh out your own hops you really need something more accurate than scales which i wouldnt use for anything other than a guesstimate.
Cheers
DrSmurto
Yea after noticing the 1g accuracy, I realised it wont be as expensive as I thought.drsmurto wrote:You'll find that KMart, target and the like sell digi scales for around the $30-40 which when you take into account postage is on par with evilbay.
Mine are 3kg with a 1g accuracy. On sale i think i paid 29. If you are going to weigh out your own hops you really need something more accurate than scales which i wouldnt use for anything other than a guesstimate.
Cheers
DrSmurto
Are you saying you wouldn't use a 1g accuracy digital scale for weighing hops? Or are you talking about other scales? Im a bit lost. Im not too worried if I want 21g of hops, and the scales give me 21.5g due to accuracy errors.