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RE: #BEERSATURDAY 31 Beer Review #2: Farmhouse Ale with Rye, with Massive Nugget Hop Additions
awesome! I might have to look at a German lager next. 😄
awesome! I might have to look at a German lager next. 😄
Yeah, I buy my hops by the 11 lbs bale on https://lupulinexchange.com/ . You've got to have a lot of freezer space, but it is super nice to be able to use them by the handful instead of paying $30/lb and using meager ounces (I know you are on the metric system!). What I'm getting around to saying is that I want to invest in some noble hops, just not familiar with them so I have to make a good selection! I might have to go for whole cone hops so I've got another option to use my dry hoppers in the keg.
Wait until you see my setup. It is a bucket with a false bottom for a mash tun and a 12 gallon copper pot from the side of the road in Mexico (not cheap because of the copper). You could substitute that pot for an aluminum one if you want to and do the exact same thing as I do to make 15 gallon batches (after boiling at least one full vessel worth of water to create a passive oxidization layer to prevent the aluminum from entering your beer). That is literally all I use, along with a few other 5 gallon pots for moving liquid around manually and putting the beer into for chilling in my pond water. Super stone age stuff and you can make great beer doing it that way. I know some Aussies are doing no-chill and I'm sure they do fine too. I want my hops to stop cooking when I say so personally, but that doesn't mean you can't pull it off. If you have say, a 6.5 gallon boil vessel you can pull of 10 gallons of some styles right now by using top off water and adding some sugars after the boil (stouts, Belgians, honey beers, etc).
Your bottleneck is bottling (pun intended). You can brew a whole new batch for the time it takes to bottle 5 gallons. Kegging has got to be a priority for someone who drinks mostly what they brew.
I’m looking forward to the day when Incan brew with all the gear you keep mentioning. My brew kit is incredibly basic right now.