Sunday, September 9, 2012

Quick update!

The hops have been dried and weighed.  The result is just over 6 ounces of dried cascade hops!!  I've already made an IPA and added one ounce of these fresh hops at flame out.  I'll be transferring this to the secondary in a couple of days where I'll dry hop with another ounce!  There is still some hops out on the bines, but not nearly as much as I was expecting.  I think the cool nights we've been experiencing the last two weeks or so have played a role.  I'll be picking the rest of them soon but I don't expect them to amount to much.  Stay tuned for my next project, where I'll show you how to turn a keg into a primary fermentation tank!!  It's extremely cheap and easy to do!  Also I'm hoping that I'll be able to do closed transfer into my corny keg using this method.  That blog should be up in the next couple of weeks!!