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Came out at 8.5%. Taste sample was..well, incredible. Bitter yet smooth and tasty. Still 1 week left in primary.
Stopped by my LHBS to pick up my supplies and they did not have Columbus hops. The suggested Chinook as an alternative. Any thoughts on how that will affect the final product? Chinook and Columbus have similar alphas and tastes.
Alright, maybe I'm getting confused here. CTZ = Columbus ?
If you feel the hop schedule is good, i would boil a small amount of water with 8 or 12oz corn sugar. Cool it, pitch it with the yeast. Personally, id worry more about the hop flavors then the ABV.
How calibrated is all of your equipment? I've heard of hydrometers getting out of calibration too. Did you taste a refractometer reading of the cooled wort? And does your refractometer have ATC?
Dont worry about it. I'd brew this in a second as a 6% ipa. You'll still end up with a great beer, except the in your face hops may stand out a little more. Is that ever a bad thing?
Dont worry about it. I'd brew this in a second as a 6% ipa. You'll still end up with a great beer, except the in your face hops may stand out a little more. Is that ever a bad thing?
Has anyone's come out more bitter than hoppy? I used zymurgy recipe and it's nothing like Pliny. No hop flavor at all. One thing I did do differently which may affect hop flavor is that I used washed yeast from my two hearted batch(1272). I think it picked up some character from that.
As a side note, if your in denver reconsider where you get your grains from. Quirky homebrew had the worst crush I've ever seen. The mill was so far apart 80% of grains weren't even crushed.
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How were your temps?
I have a ferm fridge set at 67.
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i don't quite remember exactly how pliny tasted as it's been nearly a year since i've had one. When i transferred my pliny clone to secondary to dry hop, my wife and i sampled at it was crazy bitter. So much so that my wife thought it was ruined, but after dry hopping and carbing, it settled very nicely. Now it's been about 3 or 4 weeks since kegging and it's great. Don't worry if your initial samples seem too bitter, just give it time.
Real Pliny is pretty aggressively bitter.
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I disagree, I think it's really well balanced. To me, something like Sierra Nevada's Torpedo (70 IBUs) has a noticeably more harsh bitterness than Pliny (90-100 IBUs).
I don't quite remember exactly how Pliny tasted as it's been nearly a year since I've had one. When I transferred my Pliny clone to secondary to dry hop, my wife and I sampled at it was CRAZY bitter. So much so that my wife thought it was ruined, but after dry hopping and carbing, it settled very nicely. Now it's been about 3 or 4 weeks since kegging and it's great. Don't worry if your initial samples seem too bitter, just give it time.
I don't quite remember exactly how Pliny tasted as it's been nearly a year since I've had one. When I transferred my Pliny clone to secondary to dry hop, my wife and I sampled at it was CRAZY bitter. So much so that my wife thought it was ruined, but after dry hopping and carbing, it settled very nicely. Now it's been about 3 or 4 weeks since kegging and it's great. Don't worry if your initial samples seem too bitter, just give it time.
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