BrewDey
Well-Known Member
On a recent Pale, I thought I'd get crazy and add loads of Cascades in the last few minutes of the boil. I think that in all, I dumped in 4 oz. of pellets (don't have my notes on me, but pretty high AAU). This is in addition to the early additions of Simcoes and Centennials.
While I was hoping for an explosion of fruitiness, followed by a dry bitterness....I ended up with decent hop flavor, but an intense bitterness that really drowns out the floral and fruitiness. The late additions I just threw in, and didn't strain out...it was extract and I just dumped it all into the carboy, then topped it off with water. Could this affect it?
I know you live and you learn, it was a vast deviation from the recipe-so it's my bad. I just want to be able to get that flavor and the bitterness at the same time. Any guidlines you guys follow in terms of max IBUs? Any better methods for extracting the flavor?
While I was hoping for an explosion of fruitiness, followed by a dry bitterness....I ended up with decent hop flavor, but an intense bitterness that really drowns out the floral and fruitiness. The late additions I just threw in, and didn't strain out...it was extract and I just dumped it all into the carboy, then topped it off with water. Could this affect it?
I know you live and you learn, it was a vast deviation from the recipe-so it's my bad. I just want to be able to get that flavor and the bitterness at the same time. Any guidlines you guys follow in terms of max IBUs? Any better methods for extracting the flavor?