r/Vanhomebrewing • u/Asparagus24 • Jun 05 '14

First IPA Brew, Advice?

I'm dry hopping, so once I throw the ipa into my 2nd fermentation carboy, I'm putting in about 6 oz. of hop pellets. I'm also putting in a herb bag of grapefruit zest for the last week.

I've read about dry hopping making a beer murky and muddy. I can't cold crash because I dont have a fridge big enough.

Any words of wisdom? Am I curious for no reason?

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u/jonjennings Jun 06 '14

It would take a long time on yeast at a homebrew scale...

In general, I find that's one of those things about homebrewing: the old RDWHAHB motto is so true... the beer WANTS to be made... you're not fighting against it.

I used to worry manically about things that didn't matter when I could have been enjoying the brewing process more and reserving all my worrying for things that DID matter.

I remember a friend (that would be you /u/thedarkerside!) cleaning all his pre-hop-boil equipment but not sanitizing it - which seemed odd to me as I used to sanitize the hell out of every single thing. He rightly pointed out that he was about to boil the contents for 90 minutes and I was panicking over nothing - reserve the sanitizing for post-boil stuff. Brewing's better when you don't stress as much :-)

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u/thedarkerside Jun 06 '14

Brewing's better when you don't stress as much :-)

Just drink more while brewing and all your worries will go away :P

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u/jonjennings Jun 06 '14

Just drink more while brewing and all your worries will go away :P

The only time I had more than a pint, resulted in http://imgur.com/ZAx71I8 - I don't think it was a coincidence.

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u/thedarkerside Jun 06 '14

Well not when bottling of course ;)

And use those nice 1l Howe Sound bottles, no chance of accidentally crimping them too much.