{"id":286,"date":"2006-08-29T09:04:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-12-21T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:44:24","slug":"fresh-hop-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Hop Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/theoriginalgravity.blogspot.com\">Joe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/erasingthevoid.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/hop-madness.html\">Lindsay<\/a> for snagging some fresh hops for me while at hop madness this year. They brought me 3 bags and a small tub of Willamette and Crystal hops.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I picked the remaining hops (which were about to lose their &#8220;fresh&#8221; status) and brewed up a low gravity pale. Because of the ingredients (a mix of stuff lying around, borrowed stuff, and wet hops), an exact, replicable recipe is impossible, but here&#8217;s the gist:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fresh1.jpg\" title=\"Picking fresh hops\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fresh1.jpg\" alt=\"Picking fresh hops\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grain bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4.5 lbs LME<\/li>\n<li>2 lbs organic 2-row<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hops:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 oz fresh Willamette @ 60 min. (4.5% aa)<\/li>\n<li>8.5 oz fresh Willamette @ 10 min. (4.5% aa)<\/li>\n<li>13 oz fresh Willamette @ 5 min.<\/li>\n<li>11 oz Crystal @ 2 min. (5.7% aa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Misc:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fermentis us-58 dry yeast (lazily pitched into cooled wort)<\/li>\n<li>Irish Moss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yup &#8211; that&#8217;s 34 ounces of fresh hops &#8211; almost all under 10 minutes. The kettle got rather difficult to stir by that point, but I made sure to turn the hops into the boil to extract their precious lupalin.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fresh2.jpg\" title=\"Fresh hops in the boil\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fresh2.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh hops in the boil\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the boil, I had some trouble cooling the wort efficiently &#8211; even with an immersion wort chiller &#8211; because the hops were holding so much of the wort. Because of the heat (I&#8217;m guessing), one of my chiller fittings had loosened up enough to let some tap water in to the kettle. I stopped it early before it turned the beer into hop tea.<\/p>\n<p>The last part of the brew included slinging around my week-old daughter. She slept through it, but I&#8217;m still giving her assistant brewer credits.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fresh3.jpg\" title=\"Ella the assistant brewer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/fresh3.jpg\" alt=\"Ella the assistant brewer\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I racked the wort into a poly fermenter to try it out again. I also failed to make a started so I sprinkled dry Fermentis yeast (it says you can do it on the packet) onto the wort. Krausen isn&#8217;t exactly rapid, but I think there&#8217;s a leak in the bucket around the airlock letting CO2 out. I suspect this because the corner of the kitchen with the bucket smells absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge thanks to Joe and Lindsay for snagging some fresh hops for me while at hop madness this year. They brought me 3 bags and a small tub of Willamette and Crystal hops. Yesterday I picked the remaining hops (which were about to lose their &#8220;fresh&#8221; status) and brewed up a low gravity pale. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fresh Hop Beer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}