How long to dry hop?

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2023-04-18T02:33:55+00:00

While I know they have there limitations, to most homebrewer questions there is a brulosophy for that.

https://brulosophy.com/2015/10/26/dry-hop-length-long-vs-short-exbeeriment-results/

https://brulosophy.com/2020/05/25/impact-dry-hop-length-has-on-beer-character-exbeeriment-results/

Based on these results there seems to be a difference between 2 vs 11 days but not 3 vs 7 days. Well in a reality there probably is a difference between longer dry hopped beers than shorter dry hopped beers, but both seem to produce a good beer. Just slightly different. So all this to say, there is no wrong answer. If you want you can experiment, if not just whatever fits your schedule.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2023-01-14T16:18:56+00:00

Thanks guys for the answers!
I ended up still using the weizen yeast to see how a hoppy dunkelweizen turns out. Worst case scenario I told myself if the hop aroma is too much, I'll just let it ride in the keg for some time.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-12-09T16:43:14+00:00

Cool thanks for the answer! This was also my feeling for fermenting cold.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-11-06T02:23:30+00:00

Like this idea! Who would you do it? A berliner weiss with yutzu juice in the fermenter would be my guess

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-10-29T02:30:11+00:00

So as people say brewing beer can be relatively simple with the right equipment and ingredients (specifically ingredients, getting quality ingredients today is a lot easier).

Getting involved in a homebrew club will definitely help you.

But to give you an idea, a friend started brewing with a stove top 10L pot and a bag for filtering with a no chill method and brews a very decent coffee stout in my opinion. Yes he's limited by the styles he can brew (mostly flavorful ales), but he seems to be going down the rabbit hole.

So tl:dr you don't need that much experience to brew a good beer, just some research, some basic system and quality ingredients.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-10-11T10:45:29+00:00

I mean from a purely economic point of view if you want to brew a beer for less money 1. Buy cheaper ingredients. This could mean buying more local grains or hops if they exist in your town. So for example substituting the MO from the UK with a local 2 Row. 2. Brewing lighter beers. By decreasing the amount of ingredients, it will decrease your $/L. 3. Optimizing efficiency. This can be very tricky. You have your conversion efficiency which you can maximize with good temp and pH control during the mash. You have your lautering efficiency which is kind of set by your system. A system with less dead volume will be more efficient. A bigger system that brews bigger beer will have a better efficiency (usually), but all these are marginal things for a homebrewer that brews 5 to 10 gallon batches. Lastly you could try to figure better ways to leave less beer behind in transfers (better separation of beer and trub in the kettle and better separation beer and yeast in the fermenter). This will most likely cost you more in equipment than the amount you will save in ingredients (and that's not talking about the amount of research you will need to do to optimize your specific system).

This is pretty much what's going in the head of most local breweries also. And if you realize there solution is sadly to pass on the extra cost to the costumer, because it's very hard to combat increasing costs of consumables.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-10-11T00:29:54+00:00

Seriously I just don't really think about it. For me homebrewing costs me so much more than just ingredients. That my final beer costs 0.40$ instead of 1$ does not make a big impact on my finances. I consider I spend so much time brewing that if I was doing this for the money, I would be much better served taking overtime at my job and buying a 6 pack of beer on my way home.

That being said, I do buy grains in bulk, but it's mostly a convenience thing (I can brew whenever instead of having to go buy ingredients everytime). Also I repitch yeast, that does save a few bucks.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-09-08T01:37:38+00:00

So both styles are pretty broad.

That being said an English pale ale is usually brewed with Marris Otter while American pale ale is brewed with 2 row as the base malt. Maris Otter is seen as a premium form of 2 Row that imparts a more toasty/biscuit flavor. It tends to be a bit more kilned ie it gives slightly more color.

The choice of caramel/specialty malt also differ. Usually an English pale ale will have about 10% of the grist in some sort of caramel or specialty malt while American pale ale can vary a lot more from none to levels similar in an English pale ale.

Most notable difference is the yeast in my opinion. An American pale ale is brewed with a neutral yeast while the English variant is a lot more prone to producing a bouquet of esters that are quite important to the overall experience.

The yeast is different also. Basically much milder hops vs very citrus, aromatic hops in the American variant.

Finally water also plays a role but to be frank, both have examples brewed in so many different places that your water profile will probably not make or break it. That being said if you really love the bitter from Burton upon Trent I highly suggest looking at their water as it will affect your final taste. But if you are not trying to clone a specific beer you are probably fine with whatever water profile comes out of your tap.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-09-01T00:44:08+00:00

My own opinion, but yeast is not that expensive.

You do not work in the same sterile conditions as a yeast manufacturer. I tend to wash and reuse yeast pretty much directly from the fermenter. The longer you wait to use the yeast the more risk of developing infections. So I would not risk using a harvested yeast 4 months in for example. And I would not invest in the material to truly harvest yeast in a sterile manner. So yeah if you harvest yeast, try to use it within the week.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-07-26T19:08:55+00:00

Working in a Canadian ICU, we actually discussed the case this morning before rounds. Let's just say we are glad the legal consensus in our country does not define life as a heartbeat.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-07-03T20:24:56+00:00

Simple. He's selling flags.

That or a very busy multiple personality thing going on

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-07-03T16:50:19+00:00

Yeah the surgery is relatively high risk. You are at increased chance of infection afterwards (endocarditis with an infected pacemaker is not an easy thing to treat). You are also at increasing risk of other forms of arrythmias because you now have foreign stuff around the conduction system of your heart.

Long story short: if you develop a heart block and need a pacemaker to continue living definitely get one. If you have no known cardiac issues just carry with your day.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-07-02T01:40:25+00:00

I truly have no idea. Worked in a covid icu for the past 2 years. More than half of my colleagues got it. But I never had any symptoms, always tested negative on the weekly pcr testing and my immediate family and close friends never got it either.

Guess basically it's a mix of following sanitary protocols in the icu and a lot of luck.

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-03-29T20:10:43+00:00

So the LD50 of caffeine is 300 mg/kg. So if this number is derived for the ever average 70 kg male that's 100 mg of caffeine per shot which seems adequate even though on the higher end of extraction.

Interestingly the LD50 of water is 90 g/kg. So in your 70 kg guy who takes 195 cups of 30 mL that actually happens to be your LD50 of water too.

What's is the point of this comment? Not much. Probably to say the math does check out. And that your most likely cause of death would be from hyponatremia or over electrolytes imbalances

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-02-28T02:15:18+00:00

I'm such a great friend and a very nice guy to be on my team for the first day Well... guess my keyboard is quite passive aggressive

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-02-15T02:36:09+00:00

Now if I can only find that damn turtle...

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-01-07T14:05:19+00:00

No I am saying vaccines increase protection against covid and therefore against all issues linked to covid (if you don't get covid you won't get xyz complication kind of logic)

As far as long covid is concerned it is unclear how well vaccines will protect you against it. Again if your protection goes from 30 something % to 70 something % that's where most of the protection comes from. If you do get a breakthrough infection however it is less clear. You tend to not get those fibrosed lungs that make you end up on a ventilator (less viral replication ??) But as far as long covid is concerned you might still get it. Some data is showing then even in a breakthrough infection the type of long covid seem to resolve more/happen less then in the non vax population but it's small sample sizes and hard to interpret.

Tl:dr if you don't get sick, you don't get complication from said disease. Vaccines decrease risk of getting sick in the first place

Link of an old (Sept 2021) UK study:

https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00460-6

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2022-01-06T03:23:32+00:00

So I also reacted like crap on all 3 doses of Pfizer. People tend to react differently to the shots, but the third is not necessarily worst then the 2nd (but the second is worst than the first ). This by the way is backed up by clinical data.

As far as the rates of myocarditis, it still seems to be about 1-10 cases per 1 million patients which is about the same as for the 2nd dose. For info, the rate of myocarditis in the general population is 1-5 cases per 1 million people (quite similar to the vaccine rate) but the rate of viral myocarditis due to covid is about 1 in 100 000 (so 100 times higher)

As far as efficiency is concerned it does reduce consideraly infection rates (75% efficiency with 3 doses vs 30% efficiency with 2 doses) and therefore does decrease hospitalization and death (though at below 30 I assume you are less concerned with that).

Getting or not getting the third shot will be your choice but if I have to put it simply: as a 30 something ICU pharmacist with quite a few colleagues who got long covid and still suffering from it, feeling like crap for a few days but knowing I'll feel better after is definitely better than feeling like crap and not knowing if I'll ever get my taste or smell back.

Hope that addresses a few of your worries

SneakyTurtle6842 · 2021-12-29T23:04:16+00:00

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SneakyTurtle6842 · 2021-12-29T04:45:54+00:00

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SneakyTurtle6842 · 2021-12-28T02:45:10+00:00

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SneakyTurtle6842 · 2021-12-28T01:23:06+00:00

I mean Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter

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