No hops during boil, only dry-hopped?
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flyangler18
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You'd have a cloyingly sweet beer with hop aroma and absolutely no hop bitterness. The bittering charge is absolutely crucial to balance the malty sweetness.
Ben25
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You'd have hop flavor but overall it would probably be pretty sweet with no bitterness. That being said, no I've never tried it. If I did, it would probably be on a 1 gal batch.
big supper
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+1 you need some
Extremely bad idea. I made an IPA, left out just the aroma hops, and massively dry hopped it. Really disappointing. The aroma was very simple and lacked any depth or staying power. If you are looking for huge hop flavor/aroma without excessive bittering, you can double up on the bittering hops, but make the add at 25 minutes instead of 60.
If my memory serves me right Brian Hunt from Moonlight Brewing talked about doing just that on an episode of the Sunday Session on the brewing network. I cannot remember what he said about it but here is the link. http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/...-Sunday-Session-10-30-05-Moonlight-Brewing-Co
Mike
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