Vienna/cascade SMaSH

Burgs said:

Hey there, I had a quick question for you. Considering your stance on doing early bittering additions and then big doses right at the end - do you find that your hop aroma/flavor fades quickly or does it stick around for a while?

I like your mindset and I want to try it with the next pale ale I do (skipping the midboil additions), but I did read some stuff on here the other day where a fellow brewer was saying that the 15,10,5 minute additions were more stable & when they had tried to just do bittering early and a big dose at the end, it was great when first tapped but some of the flavor & aroma changed and faded quickly. Have you had any similar experiences? P.S. love your blog.

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coypoo said:

I did a session beer where I only did a 60 min addition then flame out and dry hop. The hop aroma was amazing at the start, but it did fade after time (about 8-10 weeks IIRC). The thing that I did notice though, was there was not a "smooth" tranistion from the 60 min bittering addition flavors to the flameout/dry hop flavors. I seemed to taste a nice bittering charge and then nothing in the middle, then the late hops. I am going to try to make the same beer again and add just a very small addition at about ~30 min to see if that helps smooth things out

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502Brew said:

I'm going to have to agree. This beer has great bitterness and aroma, but absolutely nothing in the middle

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502Brew said:

I'm still relatively new to homebrewing (this will be batch 5) and I recently discovered this awesome smash idea. I couldn't find any solid recipe on here, so estimating from other recipes I plan to use:
10-15lbs Vienna malt
3-4oz Cascade pellets

How's this rough recipe sound? I plan on using the continuous hopping technique from Yoopers dfh 60 min clone.

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rewster452 said:

If you over dry hop you'll get an asston of aroma, which could be off-putting.

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502Brew said:

Ok. So. . .

12lbs Vienna
2oz cascade 60 min
.5 oz cascade 30 min
2.5 oz cascade 10 min
2 oz cascade dry hop 7 days

Is that enough hops for the dry addition to make a nice hoppy impact?

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