Dry hopping with Chamomile?

[MikeRoy]

Anyone have any experience with dry hopping with Chamomile?

usage rates???

Thanks in advance,

[Buckley]

I haven't actually dry hopped using chamomile but instead have made teas for a secondary addition. Depending on how much flavor you want and if you are adding other spices I used 35-45 grams per bbl (about 7g/5gal). Hust pull some wort from primary (enough to cover the spices) and boil for a bit then addd to the vessel you are about to transfer into. If you use the higher amount you will need to let the beer mature a little bit to help mellow out the musty/tincure like flavor from strong chamomile. How did you guys fair the storm that hit NH a while back? And thanks again for the hospitalty while I was on my trip =)

[tariq khan]

Dirty Rig

Sorry to go off topic for a second guys.
..Mike did you happen to watch the "Dirty Rig" show at your pub ? those dudes must have drunk you dry!!
Great Rock n Roll band!!!!
Sorry back to Chamomille...........

Tariq (Dark Star Brewery)

[MikeRoy]

Buckley we faired fine, lost power for about 6-7 hours so didn't open one day but other than that everything survived.

Tariq, I wasn't here that night for Dirty Rig, I hear they had a frontman from a big NYC punk band? I'm sure they tried to drink us dry, but the next day we still had plenty of beer

And now back to chamomile...


I ended up using German Chamomile purchased from a local grocery, i believe the product was from Frontier. I used a little under 2oz for a cask pin (5.4 US gallon) of [German hefeweizen, the flavor was awesome, but a bit overwhelming. In hindsight I would cut it back to 1.3 to 1.5 oz next time and see if the flavor melds better as amore of a contributing flavor than dominating.