Hello everyone,
I am planning on brewing a beer with Lemon Thyme (recipe here: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/249885/lemon-thyme-saison ), and the recipe calls for "dry hopping " with Lemon Thyme. Let's call it Dry Herbing. I did a bit of research, and can't really find a straight answer, so... Does anyone know if you'd need to give it a quick boil before dry hopping with fresh lemon thyme, or fresh or dry herbs in general? I figured that if you don't, well, you could end up with an infection, perhaps especially with fresh herbs picked straight from the plant? But if you do boil it, well I guess you'd loke a lot of the benefits of "dry herbing", since a lot of the aroma might be boiled off. So, I roughly see 3 scenarios:
1) don't boil, just add the fresh herbs, and pray.
2) Boil, and add.
3) give it a quick boil, say 5 minutes, then add cold water to lower the temperature very fast, and add it all to the wort, together with your hops in a bag if you are dry hopping as well.
What do you guys think? If anyone has any experience with this, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Have a good day everyone,
cheers!
I am planning on brewing a beer with Lemon Thyme (recipe here: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/249885/lemon-thyme-saison ), and the recipe calls for "dry hopping " with Lemon Thyme. Let's call it Dry Herbing. I did a bit of research, and can't really find a straight answer, so... Does anyone know if you'd need to give it a quick boil before dry hopping with fresh lemon thyme, or fresh or dry herbs in general? I figured that if you don't, well, you could end up with an infection, perhaps especially with fresh herbs picked straight from the plant? But if you do boil it, well I guess you'd loke a lot of the benefits of "dry herbing", since a lot of the aroma might be boiled off. So, I roughly see 3 scenarios:
1) don't boil, just add the fresh herbs, and pray.
2) Boil, and add.
3) give it a quick boil, say 5 minutes, then add cold water to lower the temperature very fast, and add it all to the wort, together with your hops in a bag if you are dry hopping as well.
What do you guys think? If anyone has any experience with this, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Have a good day everyone,
cheers!