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No longer a virgin

Well I brewed my first batch of beer ever so I guess I am no longer a homebrew virgin. I brewed "Windriver Brewing's - Old Glory American Pale Ale". They just moved to my neck of the woods from Minneapolis.

I only had one mishap. The strainer in my funnel would not stay in place so I still have the hops in the brew. I didn't have any cheesecloth or any thing fine enough for the pellets. I didn't think it would be that much of a problem based on some of the postings on here about "dry hopping" as well I plan to put in a secondary after 7-10 days. Will this result in a beer that is too bitter? Please correct me if I am wrong and tell me if I messed up or not. Other than that everything went smooth and it smells good.

Reply to
Walter Venables
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Not a bid deal.

It won't effect the bitterness. Extracting the bitterness (aka isomerizing the alpha acids) is dependent on the heat and action of a rolling boil. Once that has occured, the left over hops are basically already used up and won't really have much of an effect on the beer. Basically, consider them to be benign. They won't hurt anything.

You're fine. Don't worry about it.

John.

Reply to
John 'Shaggy' Kolesar

Do you mean that you couldn't strain the hops out of the boil? If so, don't worry about it. I don't and I know a lot of people that don't fuss about that. If you're putting them in the primary or something, then I wouldn't know (aka "trust Shaggy").

Reply to
Adam Preble

Remember virginity is renewable. You are still a virgin for every other style of beer.

Worry not - racking minimizes most evils. Also unlike in-laws, many beer get better with age.

Dick

Reply to
Dick Adams

Congrats on your first brew. There's really no problem with what you did but I "whirlpool" after my boil and use a racking cane to transfer to the fermenter so that I can leave as much of the pellet droppings behind as possible. Then when I rack to secondary I leave almost everything behind.

Mark R

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Mark R

Well I would like to thank everyone. It is good to know I didn't mess up .

Reply to
Walter Venables

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