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Date: 31 May 2006 10:26:24
From: Gerard Eberlein
Subject: Straining Wort
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Can straining wort effect the hop flavouring i.e using a mesh nylon sack to
strain the cooled wort into the fermentor. I use the sack to cut down on
some of the floating trub that's in the brewpot and just now thought maybe
that's why the hop flavour in my IPA is a little less than I wanted. Thanx
in advance.
Gerard
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Date: 31 May 2006 14:47:41
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Straining Wort
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:26:24 -0400, <dormouse@charter.net > wrote:
> Can straining wort effect the hop flavouring i.e using a mesh nylon sack to
> strain the cooled wort into the fermentor. I use the sack to cut down on
> some of the floating trub that's in the brewpot and just now thought maybe
> that's why the hop flavour in my IPA is a little less than I wanted. Thanx
> in advance.
No, it shouldn't. At the end of the boil the hops should have already
had their desired effect on the wort. If you want more hop flavor, then
use more hops during the flavor addition (or FWH).
John.
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Date: 31 May 2006 15:01:24
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Straining Wort
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On 31 May 2006 14:47:41 GMT, <spam@shagg.net > wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:26:24 -0400, <dormouse@charter.net> wrote:
>> Can straining wort effect the hop flavouring i.e using a mesh nylon sack to
>> strain the cooled wort into the fermentor. I use the sack to cut down on
>> some of the floating trub that's in the brewpot and just now thought maybe
>> that's why the hop flavour in my IPA is a little less than I wanted. Thanx
>> in advance.
>
> No, it shouldn't. At the end of the boil the hops should have already
> had their desired effect on the wort. If you want more hop flavor, then
> use more hops during the flavor addition (or FWH).
BTW, based on this and your other post about being a little disappointed
in your RIS, I think what you're starting to see is that kit beers in
general tend to be a bit on the generic side. When they make a kit beer
like that, they are usually trying to sell it to the largest number of
people as possible so they aim for the "least common denominator" in the
character of the beer. RISs tend to be not quite as "Imperial" as you
would expect, as well as IPAs not being quite as hoppy. They don't want
to make the kits too extreme.
This goes hand in hand with the reply I made recently to the post asking
about whether or not to boil a "no boil" kit. IE, if you want to make the
exact beer that the kit was intended to make, then it will probably be on
the generic side. What most brewers do (and it sounds like you are on the
verge of taking the next step) is to get to a point where they either start
modifying the kits they buy or else stop buying kit beers and being buying
the ingredients seperately so that they can follow independent recipes. This
gives you the freedom to make the IPA or RIS that *you* like, rather than
the one which Brewer's Best thinks will sell to the largest market.
There is nothing wrong with the kit beers, as long as you understand what they
are trying to accomplish. Many brewers will "graduate" beyond them though,
and start to customize the beers they make to fit their own personal
preference. IMO, this is where the hobby really starts to get fun.
John.
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Date: 31 May 2006 11:34:27
From: Gerard Eberlein
Subject: Re: Straining Wort
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Yea that's what I'm going to try and do...I still have one IPA box kit, not
the same as the one I got going which you could say is a box but they make
the kit up there at a store connected to the brew pub it's cloned from. I
already bought more hops for it and probaly ought to go with a liquid yeast
vs. the dry Nottingham it came with. Had better results with the Wyyeast 100
billion bag I used on the IPA I have going now.
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