Adding Bitterness after Boil

KopyKat · Oct 25, 2009

Through an error I am too embarrassed to mention I have come up 6 IBUs short on bitterness in my porter. I would like bump it up in the fermenter but am not sure the best way. I would imagine boiling some hops in water would do it but a search did not find what I needed. Any ideas?

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible · Oct 25, 2009

6 IBU's will most likely be unnoticeable unless it was already very low on bitterness. You most likely won't notice.

KopyKat · Oct 25, 2009

Expected is 35 and actual is 29. It is already at the low end of what I want. I would really like to add the 6 points.

sea2summit3 · Oct 25, 2009

I'd try making a tea by boiling a small a few cups of water with the additional hops. Its worth a shot, eh?

BeernuT100 · Oct 25, 2009

sea2summit3 said:
I'd try making a tea by boiling a small a few cups of water with the additional hops. Its worth a shot, eh?

+1

best way to do what you want to do

-bn

KopyKat · Oct 25, 2009

To get full extraction I would need to boil for 60 minutes and the volume of water would have to be taken into account as well. Because I need to keep the volume down, I would have to reduce the tea to about a quart or less.

I was hoping someone had a formula for doing this be that may not exist.

nealf · Oct 25, 2009

If you're really upset about it, you could use this:

http://morebeer.com/view_product/7835/103693/IsoHop_Bitterness_Extract_1_oz

However, for 6 IBUs I would just RDWHAHB.

Saccharomyces · Oct 26, 2009

Hop shot FTW.

Rooster_P · Oct 26, 2009

The hop shot may work in this case if you are only looking for 6IBU, but I don't recommend it. It is designed more for a flavor aroma addition. I boiled mine with my priming sugar trying to get more bitterness out of it, but didn't get anything to noticeable.

the_bird · Oct 26, 2009

Well, I've seen hop extracts that are specifically designed for more of a flavor/aroma addition, but the MoreBeer product pretty clearly looks like it's designed for bitterness. Thirty-five bucks, though!

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible · Oct 26, 2009

You could leave the fermenter in my first wife's house for a while. All that bitterness is sure to infuse itself into your beer.

starrfish · Oct 26, 2009

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:
You could leave the fermenter in my first wife's house for a while. All that bitterness is sure to infuse itself into your beer.

LOL! May send a batch back to my ex with the kids to bitter some up!

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