Continuous hopping.

[SuperBroo]

Has anyone on the forum tried continuous hopping, where the hops are added over the whole boil time ?

I heard of this recently, where you add your hops at say 1 minute intervals, evenly over the whole boil time.

If nobody has done this, it would be interesting to do the experiment.

cheers,
Chris.

[rotten]

Make sure pot is close to glass refill point!
Cheers

[earle]

I get one sore leg from continuous hopping.

[drsmurto]

Dogfish Head 60, 90 and 120 min IPAs are made this way.

I don't know anyone who has done this although a few have done additions every 5 mins.

[earle]

In reality, would you not get more benefit from continuous hopping over the last 20-30 minutes than a 60 or 90 boil. I guess I'm basing this on this graph http://www.brewsupplies.com/hop_characteristics.htm. Just thinking out loud.

[SuperBroo]

Thanks for the replies, PMSL,
yes here I am, hopping around on one leg, close to the tap, trying not to spill any...

Doc, yes I heard that on a http://www.basicbrewing.com podcast (arent they awesome for a long drive), I heard about the dogfish head 60, 90 and 120 beers, and thats prompted me to ask here.

Did anything bad happen when you did 5 minute intervals ?
Did you do equal amounts for all additions ?

For anyone who hasnt heard the podcasts, they are free, and great listening, theres a few hundred hours of them.

cheers,
chris

[drsmurto]

I've never done this style of hopping, i stick with multiple additions in the last 20 mins if i want the beer to be all about hops.

I have tasted the 60 and 120 min IPAs and have a bottle of the 90 min still to taste. The 60 min is bursting with hop flavour/aroma, the 120 min isn't beer, it's more like a heavily hopped malt liquor (20+% from memory).

If you want a hug burst of flavour/aroma have a look at Philip's 10 min IPA on AHB - Link

He has done a few now and they involve a single addition of hops at 10 mins. The amarillo version had something like 200g of amarillo all dumped in at 10 mins, not bittering addition. Gorgeous beer.

[SuperBroo]

200g of amarillo all dumped in at 10 mins.

Hells Bells, that must be hoppy, I might try say 50g at 10 mins and see what it does, and go from there.

Cheers

[drsmurto]

50g at 10 mins wont give you many IBUs unless you use a very high AA% hop.

200g of Amarillo (8.0AA%) is 60 IBU in a 23L batch (on my system)

50g would only give 15 IBU.

I mentioned this as you were talking about continuous hopping which produces highly hopped beers.

All i can suggest is pulling up the socks and going for it. You have to taste a beer like this and fresh to appreciate it. A lot of the highly hopped american beers that make it to Australia have lost the freshness.

I'll be doing a few of these beers later in the year as an excuse to clear out some hops which will give me the excuse i need to buy more!

[SuperBroo]

Love your thinking Doc,

Yes, freshness.
I must say that since going all grain, and using kegs, drinking beer that fresh is lovely.
Since you inspired me to get a filter, its even better. I've filtered 2 kegs now, and loving the results.

I made a light beer which I filtered and kegged Thursday afternoon, force carbonated until one of my arms actually did fall off. On friday morning using my remaing arm, i gave it a good shake again, then backed the pressure off.

On Friday night, I sampled this light beer (3.5%), and it is bloody beautiful.
The keg is now only 1/2 full, unlike me who got quite full.

My point is, the beer was really nice after only 1 day out of the fermenter.
This beer could possibly improve with some age, but I am quite happy to drink the beer that fresh, it really is nice.
It might also lose some of its freshness over time as you say, so for now, I'm getting into it fast, its not worth the risk

Will post the recipe, even though its really basic...

Cheers,
Chris

[bullfrog]

Most of the APA's that I brew are done with 5 minute additions starting from around the 40-30 minute mark. Always get a crapload of flavour from them. Never done 1 minute additions, more out of laziness than anything else, but I definitely recommend the many-addition method if you want something really hop-driven!

[SuperBroo]

Thanks Bullfrog,
I will give the 5 minute addition method a go shortly,

[Trough Lolly]

I've done a pils with 200g of 3.6% Tettnanger flowers at 15 mins....it tasted great!

Cheers,
TL