Dry Hop an XPA at Flamin Galah Brewing Co

[@iamonky]

Thx bro! You have no idea how much you have helped me! ❤

[@IanRossDownham]

Superb, info. Thanks again

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Thank you!

[@jesseandrew3074]

Wicked video man, more brew days would be awesome

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

New brew day video is now up!

[@joshuapinter]

You're quickly becoming one of my favourite brewers. I learn so much from these videos and have a laugh while doing it. I'm just on the home brew scale but a lot of it still applies, and I appreciate your OCD nature of things. Great to see you're guys are making a good go at it and finding some success. Keep it up and thanks. Damn shame I'm way over in Canada, though. Would love to come in for a (few) pints!

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Cheers mate! Too kind! We would love to visit Canada and do a brewery hop. Any brewery recommendations?

[@rfox2014]

Well done mate, learned something new

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Cheers for watching!

[@XkannsenX]

hey excellent video ! In a next video could you talk about the use of rotative/lifting grain rake in the mash/lauter tun (if you use one of course) ? When to use it, how, etc... I work on an old PBC 10HL, and soon will receive a new brewhouse with a rake, so I take every advices I can 😅

[@timwalker4394]

Loving these videos! Quick question I am on a home brewer level and don’t have a conical fermenter. I want to experiment with bio transformation but worried it will be too much contact time with the hops if I have no way of dumping the trub?

[@chrisnewton9788]

Thanks for the informative videos. All very useful to me as I am about to make the move from homebrewer to commercial brewery (nothing like the scale you have, mine will be tiny, initially, hopefully not for too long)

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Sounds exciting, goodluck. Thanks for watching!

[@indiekiduk]

I'm one of those with the unlucky tounges that taste the astringency of fermented hop matter at any grams/L. Biotrans from whirlpool hop oils on the other hand taste amazing but only works if lag time is minimised.

[@anels23]

would have loved to see the word mist come onto the screen when he says it hahahha great job team. So am i right in saying even though you have the blow off valve open the tank seems to stay around the 1 bar in internal pressure inside the uni tank? or does the blowoff valve work like a spunding valve?

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Hi thanks for the questions The tank is under airlock pressure only. The CO2 runs through the spray ball arm, into the tanks headspace, creating a blanket of CO2 over the beer and releasing through the blow off arm into the bucket of sanitiser. It’s positive pressure into the tank so oxygen cannot get in the open hop port while dry hopping. I hope that clears it up for you, if not let us know. Cheers

Hi ! Would you please share what is the machine we see at the end of the video ? The one you are sealing the hop bags with. If you have any link where we can buy the same it would be awesome. Thanks !

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Hey mate. It’s got written on it “MEC constant heat foot sealer” made in Taiwan. Come up when you google it. I think we got ours on eBay. Cheers

[@stevenmcmaster]

why did you keep the tank pressurised for the first dry hop? the hop pellets just explode with the nucleation of disolved CO2. crank up the pressure after dry hop to force hop aroma into the beer. yeh, bigger tanks cant hold alot of pressure, but i wouldnt run pressure on the tank until after dry hop.

[@NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore]

You mean apart from all of the reasons he gave while doing it?

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

Hey Steve, thanks for the question. You may have misunderstood because the tank is not under pressure. As I explained, the CO2 runs through the spray ball arm, creating a blanket of CO2 over the beer (filling the headspace) and then discharging through the blow off arm and bucket with sanitiser in it. The tank is holding slight airlock pressure only, approx 0.2psi to reduce oxygen ingress If the tank were under pressure, when I remove the dry hop port, the port lid would hit the roof and probably take a few of my teeth with it. This beer style is an XPA- extra pale ale, it uses ale yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae) which performs poorly under pressurised fermentation. The tank wouldn’t be pressurised until after fermentation, vdk & diacetyl rest. Cheers

[@EMPERORDEATX]

cheaper to get a hop dropper?in the long run atleast vs co2

[@flamingalahbrewingco]

A hop dropper I think is more appropriate for a home brew set up. Our hop dose in the larger unitanks can be up to 50kg of hops, which is heavy. Then you’d need to purge the hop dropper of oxygen and then use the same method you see in this video. Using more CO2. A hop dropper would require more cleaning too. Hop droppers look cool but not practical for our brewery. Cheers for the question!