The Lagunitas Hoppy Refresher has Nutritional Brewer’s Yeast (and some mystery natural flavors). When would you suggest adding the nutritional brewer’s yeast and what quantity (there’s is listed after the dried hops so less than the hops)

Thanks!

I’VE DONE THIS RECIPe numerous times with different hops. low alpha “citric” hops work best.
styrian golding, tettnang worked well..
azacca ctz summit did not.
i think its hard to dial in the appropriate bitterness on high alpha hops.
grassy non citric hops dont do well either. fuggle was awful! thanks for the recipe!
i want to try huell melon, hallertau blanc and that french one that tastes like cherry (loral?)

What about hop oxidation? Is the co2 carbonation enough to get rid off oxygen?

I used about 1/8 lime per liter to get ph to about 4.2. I used 2 grams whole hops (cascade) for a one liter batch. I hooked a liter bottle to a carbonation cap. Will be doing bigger batches in the future. You could do a lot with this recipe: flavorings, sweeteners, fruit, etc. skies the limit!

Do you hold the temp at 76.7 for the whole 20 mins?

If I was to use fresh hops ,how much do you think is needed per gallon of water ?

Two questions:
• What’s the purpose of boiling the water for 10 min?
• Is the lowered pH for any reason other than flavoring?

Thanks,
Irv

Instead of a ph meter I’m going to use ph paper, and use dry ice (ie. solid carbon dioxide) From the grocery store to carbonate. Just need to carefully figure out how much is needed… lol

Would lime juice work the same as lemon juice? I’d much rather have lime flavor than lemon

Anyone struggling to use lemon juice can use phosphoric acid for a fairly neutral/soda like way to drop ph. This can be bottle carbonated but like any bottle carb, will require a pinch of yeast and priming sugar at bottling and will result in some bottle lees.

The amount of lemon to use varies based on your water profile. Here in Florida my starting ph for filtered water is 7.65. I added 1/8 cup of lemon and it dropped by 1pt. So I added an additional 1/4 cup and got to 4.3-4.4. I used organic pure lemon juice not from concentrate (which didn’t have any extra ingredients- just Lemon. As for hops I used German saphir and had to use 6 grams per gallon to get even the slightest hop presence. The lemon is just too overpowering

I wonder if there is a way to charbonize if I don’t have a co2 machine? Regards from croatia:)

I wonder if there is a way to charbonize if I don’t have a co2 machine? Regards from croatia:)

I made this with 4 grams of hops per gallon instead of 2. I also added the juice of 1/2 of a medium lime. I carbonated it in my Sodastream. It came out nice especially if you like it a little hoppier.

it looks like there are several questions, regarding how much lemon. Go to the 3:50 mark in the video. The just squirt some from a “Plastic lemon,” then measure the PH.

Also curious how much lemon juice to ause

I would also like to know approximately how much lemon juice to add since I don’t have a ph meter. And I’m curious, why does the water need to be cooled to 170? I’m looking forward to making this. Thanks!!