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gunmetal · 12-18-2012, 03:16 AM

I brewed this using nugget for the bittering additions and simcoe for the middle and late additions. After 7 days in primary, I took a gravity reading and taste. It was at 1.022, and was the best beer I had ever tasted after this short of a time. I was trying to rush this beer through for a holiday beer exchange, and tasting, and since the gravity was so low, I decided to dry hop with the two ounces of simcoe after 7 days. Well, I took another reading at two weeks and it was still at 1.022, which does not bother me too much because I did mash at the 158 temp, which does not give as many fermentables. However, it had a really strong catty taste. I am assuming this is from the dry hop, because this taste was not there at the one week mark, and I know simcoe can give this kind of taste, but just from a dry hop? I also know hop flavor can change after just a couple of days when carbonating in a keg. Has anyone else experienced this, and has the recipe mellowed out over time?

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gunmetal · 12-21-2012, 03:29 AM

Update. After two and a half days of force carbonating, the catty taste went to citrus. I was hoping for this. I bottled using the Biermuncher counter pressure bottle filler, (we don't need no stinking beer gun), and on day 18, had the tasting and beer exchange. I filled the bottles the night before, and filled a 32 oz. Grolsch style flip top, the morning of the exchange, to be used for the tasting. The taste had mellowed out even more, turning from catty to citrus. It still had the bitterness, maybe it will turn a little too sweet over time, but once again I mashed at 158. One thing I will say, this is the clearest beer that I have had out of a keg this early, on day 12, I cold crashed for two days, and this beer really cleared up. I did use a sanitized nylon mesh hop bag on my autosiphon to keep the dry hop material out, maybe that helped a lot.

HomebrewDaddy · 01-01-2013, 08:35 PM

So for 2 long painstaking months I have let this sweet nectar sit and condition in kegs. We tapped it last night and the reception was one of winning a gold medal at the olymipcs. We dubbed it "Liquid Gold" I will be brewing this asap again! Oh, btw..abv: 8.6%! Mmmm

Brian4x4 · 03-14-2013, 08:06 PM

so quick question, I want to brew this beer as I have everything except the right yeast.
I do have 2 viles of WLP007 would they work as good as the whitbread?