Good news re: this weekend!

[Steve Killen]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>wrote:

> Steve Killen <steven.f.killen at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > So, I mistakenly went to Athens Drive HS thinking it was my night for
> class, but it's
> > tomorrow night instead. Well, I felt silly, but as I was heading home I
> stopped by the FLHS
> > on a lark and what do you know--they had 2 2oz. packets of whole leaf
> Chinook! According to
> > Eddie, they can be used 1:1 for finishing hops, and apparently you just
> up the hopping by
> > 15% for bittering. I picked both packs up, but that's all the Chinook
> they had at the time.
> > So if they don't have any more by this weekend, will it be enough?
> >
> > Both Citra and Cascade were well in stock, so no worries on those fronts.
>
> I have to see -- this is a continuously hopped ale with a *lot* of
> Chinook and, since whole hops soak up a lot of liquid, we'd have to
> start with more liquid (i.e. might not fit in the kettle, feh ... or I
> have to redo concentration and bitterness calculations and and and ...).
>
> Since we have whole leaf hops we may as well do something with
> them. Supposedly they make filtering the trub out when racking easier.
>