I’ve noticed that when ever I brew a beer with more than 8oz of hops, I get less beer in the keg. How do you adjust your water volumes in relation to hops?
As a stop gap, I’ve used Cryo hops (which are amazing) but I want to use the new varities that aren’t avalible in cryo. I’ll uasually do a nice bittering charge, then toss in a lot of late additions and whirlpool - between that and dry hopping I can easily use 10oz of hops and end up with way less beer than I want.
If you’re using a recipe calculator you can just adjust your batch size or fermenter losses to account for the extra losses.
Yep - you have to pay the hop tax somehow. Either scale up your batch size by a few quarts, or accept that you will net a smaller amount of finished beer. I used to do the former, now I settle for the latter.
You can add .15 qt. volume for each ounce of pellet hops to your batch size. It will add a few cents worth of grain and hops to your cost, but will give you the full keg you’re looking for. Alternately, you can just settle for a keg that isn’t quite full.