Never dry hop first thing in the morning

FedoraDave · Post by **FedoraDave** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:13 am

I forgot to dry hop the Black Hops last night, but when I woke up today, I remembered, so I resolved to do it first thing. Of course, by the time I got downstairs, I'd forgotten about it already, but then I started making a list of ingredients I need to get at the LHBS this evening, and I remembered that I'd forgotten, then remembered, then forgotten again. Are you following this?

So I get everything I need, including a new foil packet of Cascade. I only need half an ounce, so I cut it open, measure it out, and then tape the packet up again.

And I go downstairs to dry hop. And then I come back upstairs to put the packet of hops away, and I can't find it. I'm baffled, and can't remember if I already put it back in the freezer. I don't think I did, but it's early morning, and I have the long-term memory of a fruit fly anyway. But I start putting stuff away, like the scissors I cut the packet open with, and the roll of Scotch tape, and when I open the drawer to put the tape away, there's the packet of hops.

In the drawer.

Where the tape is supposed to go.

I have absolutely no memory of putting it there.

I wish I could go back to bed.

The_Professor · Post by **The_Professor** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:47 am

I was expecting the story to end with two or more bags of dry hop additions in the fermenter.

RickBeer · Post by **RickBeer** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:58 am

I figured the package of hops would be in the fermenter, and the sack with the hops would be in the drawer...

Dawg LB Steve · Post by **Dawg LB Steve** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:37 am

Or at least before the coffee kicks in!

Foothiller · Post by **Foothiller** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:47 am

I was wondering if coffee would end up in your beer.

mashani · Post by **mashani** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:58 am

I don't do mornings.

Rebel_B · Post by **Rebel_B** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:37 pm

Don't get hurt today Dave!

Brewbirds · Post by **Brewbirds** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:13 pm

I always put my car keys on my hop package.

FedoraDave · Post by **FedoraDave** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 4:12 pm

Thing is, I'm usually a morning person. I'm certainly more productive in the mornings, and tend to veg out in the evenings, especially during the busy season at work, when it's not unusual for me to work 10 - 12 hours a day.

But today was probably just a result of getting out of my usual morning rhythm and sort of doing things by rote.

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