Ahhh, it all makes sense now, I allways wondered why you brewed small beers all the time...
If you borrowed a mash tun you could still boil in your existing kettle, the HLT may be a bit of a pain, but guess it depends how badly you want to get to 1060
But it's all gone ok, did the 1.050, nice 1cm krausen and 16c, probably work it'self up a bit I'd say - and considering I need to think dry hop in a few days, yea ?
I was considering the fabled lint free stockings, being mindful of volume
and loss in the fermenter - worth it or not - could just do the regular rack and dry hop ?
Permalink Reply by vdog on August 9, 2010 at 10:04pm
Won't you lose the same volume whether you dry hop in primary or secondary? Or were you planning to dry hop in the keg?
If you're doing it in primary, you could just chuck the pellets in, then rouse after a few days, crash cool and let the yeast settle the hops out into a nice cake on the bottom. Job done!
Permalink Reply by jt on August 9, 2010 at 10:27pm
Your right, I guess it's more of a 'throw 'em in' or 'lint free stocking' question.
Lint free's were very popular at the start of last year from memory