As crazy as it may sound, I am not much a social brewer, nor am I a club guy. I have only belonged to one brewing club since I first started to brew in early 1993 and that was short-lived. I do not participate in group buys of anything, nor do I have any interest in group purchases. It is not that I am shy or anti-social. It is just that I like being free to do my own thing outside the confines of a group. I am an introvert who is okay with being an introvert.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I made a 5 gal NE IPA yesterday with 6oz late add pellet hops using a hop screen from Jeff Gaastra’s design in the latest Zymurgy gadget issue. Two spatter screens are stitched together to make what you could call a false bottom. I ended up losing about a quart of volume which isn’t terrible but definitely very clean going into the fermenter. It’s a bit of a pain to clean out the hops that get trapped between the layers but I’ll be using again on brews with a lot of kettle hops.
