It's brew day and I'm doing an AHS IPA extract kit. Anyway it includes TWO 1oz bags of cascade hops one at 4.2% and the other at 6.0%...1oz is supposed to go in 5 minutes before the end for aroma and another 0.5oz is supposed to go into the secondary (dry hopping) does it matter which one goes in??????
HELP! Alpha Acid question
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Thalon
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Not really. Alpha acid content is used to measure how much bitterness will be extracted when used as a bittering hop. See http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter5-4.html.
Agreed, doesn't really matter. This may help too:http://www.brewsupplies.com/hop_characteristics.htm
You'll get some added bitterness but no aroma.
Well, it'll be about twice as bitter with no hops aroma to finish. You can buy some more hops, I guess, to dryhop with but the bitterness will remain.
Unless.......you cut your boil short and only boil the bittering hops for 35-45 minutes. If you post your whole recipe, I'll run it through beersmith for you and help you figure it out.
Unless.......you cut your boil short and only boil the bittering hops for 35-45 minutes. If you post your whole recipe, I'll run it through beersmith for you and help you figure it out.
8lbs pale extract
1/4 lb malto dextrin
and this is what i did:
1oz nugget
1/2oz perle
1oz cascade
it was supposed to be:
1oz nugget 60 min
1/2oz perle 15 min
1oz cascade 5 min
please help?
could i just turn this into a double IPA????
1/4 lb malto dextrin
and this is what i did:
1oz nugget
1/2oz perle
1oz cascade
it was supposed to be:
1oz nugget 60 min
1/2oz perle 15 min
1oz cascade 5 min
please help?
could i just turn this into a double IPA????
Ok, well, the IBUs are ok for an IPA. Using Beersmith and the "default" AAUs I get 49.7 IBUs. (The original recipe would make 36.2 IBUs). So, not bad! But, you don't have any aroma hops at all in there or flavoring hops. Do you have more hops?
Edit- I see that you do. I'd add .5 oz cascade for 15 minutes and then .5 oz at flameout, and then buy more hops for dryhopping.
Edit- I see that you do. I'd add .5 oz cascade for 15 minutes and then .5 oz at flameout, and then buy more hops for dryhopping.
Yes, still 60 minutes. It'll be a little more bitter, but no worries.
It would drop the IBUs to 48.4 approx. Did you still do the flavoring and finishing hops with the leftover cascade? At what time?
