Help with a beer like Altamont Dank Row

Commercial brewers ferment in tall conical fermenters; that is very different from a homebrew bucket.

Cheers!

 

That's not what I am saying or asking. From my experience if you want that BIG hop aroma like a treehouse, trillium etc you need more than 2 ounces of dry hops. You said you get just amount of aroma using 2 ounces of dry hops. I am just asking as much aroma as what kind of beers? If you're talking about tree house beers than I am surprised. But if so than that's awesome.....cheers.

 

And if you look at my list above I made zero mention of Tree House and Trillium beers as commercial beers for comparison.

I will be homebrewing a clone of Trilium Fort Point Pale Ale in the near future so that will be something I can comment about when that happens.

Maybe this would be an appropriate time for my old saying: brew the beers you like and brew them the way you like.

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I am lumping HF, Tired Hands and trillium tree house all together. Anyways, we seem to be at a communication roadblock.....cheers!

 

A question for @peter831

Since there aren't many people here that have tasted Dank Row, how would you compare the aromatic intensity of Dank Row to Pliny? More, less or on par?

 

I can't remember Dank Row specifically, but Altamont regularly gets aroma levels at Pliny and above.

 

My suggestions are to chill the wort to 160-170F, add 3-4oz of hops and steep for 30 minutes. Skip the cold crash. It introduces oxygen into solution. Dry hop with 4-6oz split between two bags in the keg at room temperature for 5 days. Purge the keg headspace with co2 after the keg is full and hops are added. Keep Summit out of the late additions and the dry hop unless you like onions. Summit works fine for 60-30 minute additions.

Not using hop bags in the kettle will probably clog your plate chiller, so poke the late hop bags and stir during the steep after 10 and 20 minutes. Sanitize the lid and keep it on during the steep.

This may not get you exactly where you want to be, but it will produce more aroma and flavor than the process your OP described.

 

So the hop oil utilization in your bucket is about 500% as what Firestone Walker gets?

 

to the OP...you may want to consider getting a hop spider through a company like Arbor Fabricating instead of bags. This would allow a bit more vigorous whirlpool...not that you need a truly vigorous whirlpool...but i do like to have some motion for a time before letting the trub settle.