Grimsawyer
Well-Known Member
HAIL ALL!! been playing with that recepie calculator again @ tastybrew.com and have been playing with the idea of bringing my wort to a full rapid boil and boiling 4 oz of amarillo hops for 5 min and taking it off of the heat/pouring in 2 bags of ice/etc... Instead of having 1 or .5oz for an hour then adding some hops at the end to finish why not just add a TON of hops for a very small amount of time? I am a hophead. This makes sense to me. Not only do I not have to stand around waiting that whole hour for my beer to boil but I get a nice hoppy beer. What are the pros? What are the cons? here's an example
7lbs light malt extract(in a tub )
1lbs caramel
1lbs carafoam
.5lbs crystal malt 80L
4oz amarillo hops 9.8% for 5 min (after which I would dump in a bag of ice to drop the temperature rapidly to aviod anymore bittering to take place)
boil volume would be 3 gallons
batch size would be 5.25 gallons
oh yes, and more Rogue pacman yeast, I LOVE that stuff
No bittering hops, just finishing hops, but the finishing hops get the ibu's to the desired level. Any input on this idea would be greatly appreciated. :rockin:
7lbs light malt extract(in a tub )
1lbs caramel
1lbs carafoam
.5lbs crystal malt 80L
4oz amarillo hops 9.8% for 5 min (after which I would dump in a bag of ice to drop the temperature rapidly to aviod anymore bittering to take place)
boil volume would be 3 gallons
batch size would be 5.25 gallons
oh yes, and more Rogue pacman yeast, I LOVE that stuff
No bittering hops, just finishing hops, but the finishing hops get the ibu's to the desired level. Any input on this idea would be greatly appreciated. :rockin: