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Grog
10-08-2005, 10:41 PM
I had a hell of a brew day today. Brewed an all grain English IPA, Ord. Bitter, and an extract No. Brown Ale with some extra run off.

I started at 5am and finished at 2 pm. The WGV hops I bought and have been chomping-at-the-bit to use (one whole freaking pound of them) where too old to use (brown and no aroma) and I had to toss them. The Target hop pellets in the IPA clogged my filter and stopped the run off into the primary cold (I had to scoop the wort into the primary with a ladle and thru a funnel. Took almost an hour and 1.5 gallons of the primary is filled with trub and pellet debris.) I also flooded the basement because I was filling the primary with SaniClean and running the hose to the wort chiller at the same time.

Sometimes your the windsheild...

BTW - I now have three 6.5 gallon primaries happlily bubbling away as I type. I don't put myself thru this crap for nuttin' ;)
wortchillergoal
10-08-2005, 10:59 PM
Way to stick with it. I am sure you will be rewarded for your efforts.
zoom6zoom
10-09-2005, 07:55 AM
isn't there a beer style that uses aged hops?
brewmonkey
10-09-2005, 09:17 AM
Originally posted by zoom6zoom
isn't there a beer style that uses aged hops?

Lambics.
chazwicke
10-09-2005, 06:04 PM
Originally posted by brewmonkey
Lambics.

You beat me to it.
brewmonkey
10-10-2005, 09:03 AM
Originally posted by chazwicke
You beat me to it.

I have some awesome Hallertau Mittlefruh given to me by a buddy. He had them in his garage, unsealed at ambient temps for about 2 years. They smelled like they had been stored in a dirty soak used to filter cheese. :D
YamahaXS
10-10-2005, 09:49 AM
At least you have the satisfaction of 3 bubbling airlocks.

Sounds like a serious brewday!
Grog
10-10-2005, 06:51 PM
What's the old saying, my worst day brewing, is better than my best day...

The major bummer was the old hops, everything was just a PITA.
danno
10-10-2005, 10:53 PM
Originally posted by brewmonkey
I have some awesome Hallertau Mittlefruh given to me by a buddy. He had them in his garage, unsealed at ambient temps for about 2 years. They smelled like they had been stored in a dirty soak used to filter cheese. lol... sounds like we have differing views of "awesome" :D I was in a "holistic" store with my wife about a month ago, they had all kinds of herbs and stuff for "healing", and in the selection they had hops. so I think "hmm, I wonder what variety they used?", take a big whiff, and urk, gag. they use nasty, rancid spoiled hops... eww...