sudsmcgee
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I purchased a Brewers Best Imperial Pale Ale extract kit. The kit calls for a 2.5 gallon boil for one hour with the malt added before the first hop addition.
I would like to do a late malt addition and increase the boil to 4 gallons, and I'm looking for help on how to modify the kit.
Here are the ingredients:
6.6 lbs of Breiss CBW non-diastatic unhopped LME
2 lbs of Brewer's Best Light spray dried DME
1 lb of crushed crystal 80L Malt steeping grain
8 oz Crushed Victory Malt steeping grain
4 oz Crushed Carapils Malt steeping grain
2 oz Columbus Bittering Hops pellets AA 14.2%
1 oz Columbus Flavoring Hops AA pellets 14.4 %
1 oz Columbus Aroma Hops AA pellets 14.4%
Estimated OG for this kit is 1.081-1.085.
The kit instructions call for a one hour boil with the following hop schedule: 60 minutes bittering, 20 minutes flavoring, 5 minutes aroma.
The kit instructions claim 65-69 IBUs with early malt addition and a 2.5 gallon boil. Beersmith says this kit will be 54.9 IBUs, so Beersmith appears to under-estimate the IBUs.
Now my questions: If I increase my boil volume to 4 gallons and add half of the malt extract at the start of the boil and the second half at 45 minutes, how should I adjust my hop additions? If I don't change anything else, Beersmith says it will be 147.5 IBU (I used an OG of 1.040 for the calculation to resemble adding half of the malt extract for the first 45 minutes). This IBU is way too high for me, especially considering Beersmith appears to underestimate the IBUs!
So playing with Beersmith I conclude that if I add only 3/4 oz of the bittering hops, 1/2 oz of flavoring hops and 1 oz of aroma hops I will end up with an IBU of around 65.2. This will then leave me with 1.75 oz of hop pellets to possibly use for dry hopping.
Am I on track here? This is only third time brewing and the first time changing the hops schedule.
Would it be OK to use the extra hop pellets for dry hopping?
Edited to ask whether I should add the DME or LME first? I guess I would have to add all of the DME and some of the LME to add 4.3 lbs, right? Or should I add 4.3 lbs of LME to start and add the remainder of the LME and all of the DME at flameout?
Thanks in advance BTW.
I would like to do a late malt addition and increase the boil to 4 gallons, and I'm looking for help on how to modify the kit.
Here are the ingredients:
6.6 lbs of Breiss CBW non-diastatic unhopped LME
2 lbs of Brewer's Best Light spray dried DME
1 lb of crushed crystal 80L Malt steeping grain
8 oz Crushed Victory Malt steeping grain
4 oz Crushed Carapils Malt steeping grain
2 oz Columbus Bittering Hops pellets AA 14.2%
1 oz Columbus Flavoring Hops AA pellets 14.4 %
1 oz Columbus Aroma Hops AA pellets 14.4%
Estimated OG for this kit is 1.081-1.085.
The kit instructions call for a one hour boil with the following hop schedule: 60 minutes bittering, 20 minutes flavoring, 5 minutes aroma.
The kit instructions claim 65-69 IBUs with early malt addition and a 2.5 gallon boil. Beersmith says this kit will be 54.9 IBUs, so Beersmith appears to under-estimate the IBUs.
Now my questions: If I increase my boil volume to 4 gallons and add half of the malt extract at the start of the boil and the second half at 45 minutes, how should I adjust my hop additions? If I don't change anything else, Beersmith says it will be 147.5 IBU (I used an OG of 1.040 for the calculation to resemble adding half of the malt extract for the first 45 minutes). This IBU is way too high for me, especially considering Beersmith appears to underestimate the IBUs!
So playing with Beersmith I conclude that if I add only 3/4 oz of the bittering hops, 1/2 oz of flavoring hops and 1 oz of aroma hops I will end up with an IBU of around 65.2. This will then leave me with 1.75 oz of hop pellets to possibly use for dry hopping.
Am I on track here? This is only third time brewing and the first time changing the hops schedule.
Would it be OK to use the extra hop pellets for dry hopping?
Edited to ask whether I should add the DME or LME first? I guess I would have to add all of the DME and some of the LME to add 4.3 lbs, right? Or should I add 4.3 lbs of LME to start and add the remainder of the LME and all of the DME at flameout?
Thanks in advance BTW.