I am new to home brewing, done about 6, 5gallon batches.
I use extract and on a few occasions have added dry extract to bump up fermentable sugars for higher ABV. I have done three IPA's including a ruination clone. For those that know that beer it is high on the IBU scale and I love my hoppy bitter flavoring.
so far all the beers have turned out great but the IBU's (bitterness and hoppy flavor) is really low. Also there is always a strong carmel flavor which isnt bad but is getting old with all the beers tasting very similar.
I have read some on making the beer more bitter, more hops, changing the hops, boiling hops later and adding them to the fermentor etc...
in the future I will be using more bittering hops but
what could be the reason for following the recipes nearly perfectly and none of the beers coming out as hoppy or as bitter as they seem they should be?
what hops do you guys and gals like for bittering and really giving your beer a hoppy flavor?
I use extract and on a few occasions have added dry extract to bump up fermentable sugars for higher ABV. I have done three IPA's including a ruination clone. For those that know that beer it is high on the IBU scale and I love my hoppy bitter flavoring.
so far all the beers have turned out great but the IBU's (bitterness and hoppy flavor) is really low. Also there is always a strong carmel flavor which isnt bad but is getting old with all the beers tasting very similar.
I have read some on making the beer more bitter, more hops, changing the hops, boiling hops later and adding them to the fermentor etc...
in the future I will be using more bittering hops but
what could be the reason for following the recipes nearly perfectly and none of the beers coming out as hoppy or as bitter as they seem they should be?
what hops do you guys and gals like for bittering and really giving your beer a hoppy flavor?