Ornlu said:
Chipotlemonger said:
My dry hop bag came loose from my magnet drop setup, so it ended up dry hopping throughout all fermentation and not for just a select period.
Tell me more about this.
I currently use some 2oz stainless ball bearings inside my nylon sack to keep my dry hop additions from clogging this or becoming bouyant. Could I just clip a powerful magnet to it through the shell, and lift them above the liquid line?
Exactly. Or at least that is the idea. I was tired and wasn't thinking straight when I was shaking the heck out of my bucket to aerate the wort. It dislodged the dry hop bag from the magnet connection.
It's an idea I picked up from either homebrewtalk or Brulosophy, can't exactly recall. I think it could really work well, but you just need to adjust your process for it, and also consider your fermentation vessel. Like for my bucket, I could move the magnet on the outside just up to that "bottom" lip" and not farther up the side. I was making a smaller batch anyways, like 3-3.5 gallons if I remember right, and this wouldn't have mattered if I didn't jack up the magnet connection.
I think it would work really well with a keg fermentation or steel brewbucket setup. The thinner metal walls would likely transmit the magnetic force better than the thick plastic of my bucket.
I hope to get a better fermentation vessel as my next upgrade. I am over glass carboys at the moment, only reason I['d dig it out now to use is either for wine or a long-aged beer. Been using a plastic bucket exclusively for a while now.
It was also fun to brew a NEIPA, but I mainly did it because my wife likes the style and I wanted to see how I could do one. I prefer brewing other styles I think. Not that I don't appreciate a good NEIPA, it's just that having kegs on hand means you are going to be drinking a lot of pours and I think some less "abrasive" beers are nice to have in mass quantity (ambers, browns, blondes, pale ales, saisons, lagers)
