Hi evrebody.
First of all a story. When i tried to make my first beer, i wanted something like AleSmith IPA or Greenlight West Coast IPA. This was the first attempt to brew beer at home. For this i took Coopers IPA, on the advice of the seller (stupid donkey) Coopers Amber Malt Extract, 500 gr Dextrose, 12gr Morgan Cascade Hops. Made a hop tea for 10 minutes in 1 gallon of water (later i realise it `s too little for 20 liters of beer). So the result was far far away from what i wanted to get. So i thought it `s becouse of amber extract first of all.
So maybe i don `t understand a lot, but here` s what i want to try.Take 1 kg of unhopped light malt extract, than boil some real hop tea, with two or three hops sorts. Boil for 60 minutes, adding diffirent hops in diffirent time. But i don `t really know which hops, exept cascade, is good for IPA. In my LHBS there are Saaz, Gold, Fuggles, Goldings, Magnum, Challenger, Target, Tettnanger.
So the question is: am i right, suggesting i `ll get what i want, using unhopped malt extract and adding a good hop tea in it? And which hops I have to used, in what order and so?
Not sure that described all logical, but I hope you understand.
First of all a story. When i tried to make my first beer, i wanted something like AleSmith IPA or Greenlight West Coast IPA. This was the first attempt to brew beer at home. For this i took Coopers IPA, on the advice of the seller (stupid donkey) Coopers Amber Malt Extract, 500 gr Dextrose, 12gr Morgan Cascade Hops. Made a hop tea for 10 minutes in 1 gallon of water (later i realise it `s too little for 20 liters of beer). So the result was far far away from what i wanted to get. So i thought it `s becouse of amber extract first of all.
So maybe i don `t understand a lot, but here` s what i want to try.Take 1 kg of unhopped light malt extract, than boil some real hop tea, with two or three hops sorts. Boil for 60 minutes, adding diffirent hops in diffirent time. But i don `t really know which hops, exept cascade, is good for IPA. In my LHBS there are Saaz, Gold, Fuggles, Goldings, Magnum, Challenger, Target, Tettnanger.
So the question is: am i right, suggesting i `ll get what i want, using unhopped malt extract and adding a good hop tea in it? And which hops I have to used, in what order and so?
Not sure that described all logical, but I hope you understand.