BigdogMark
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I'm ready for the flames!!!
Here's the question: we brewed an extract AHS Blonde that turned out very good. Everyone really liked it, especially the wives and other women. That doesnt' happen often. Anyway, I used a fine hop sock from AHS for both the bittering and flavor hops. The resulting brew was very smooth and creamy, that just went down easy.
The next week we brewed another batch of the AHS Blonde but this time we didn't use the hop sock. The resulting beer is quite good, but it is nowhere near the same as the first one. We would like to be able to recreate the first one without the hop sock to have some brew for the ladies, while continuing to brew the later version for our own tastes.
How should we adjust the hop schedule to replicate the effect of the hop sock? I'm hoping someone has some guidelines, otherwise we are going to go blind and do some test brews to see what changes we can effect.
Here's the question: we brewed an extract AHS Blonde that turned out very good. Everyone really liked it, especially the wives and other women. That doesnt' happen often. Anyway, I used a fine hop sock from AHS for both the bittering and flavor hops. The resulting brew was very smooth and creamy, that just went down easy.
The next week we brewed another batch of the AHS Blonde but this time we didn't use the hop sock. The resulting beer is quite good, but it is nowhere near the same as the first one. We would like to be able to recreate the first one without the hop sock to have some brew for the ladies, while continuing to brew the later version for our own tastes.
How should we adjust the hop schedule to replicate the effect of the hop sock? I'm hoping someone has some guidelines, otherwise we are going to go blind and do some test brews to see what changes we can effect.