littleScrapper
Active Member
Hey there,
this is my first time posting on HBT, i've found it very helpful to me over the last month.
this is my brother and i's first batch of brew, so we're kind of learning and making it up as we go along here.
we purchased an Oktoberfest Brew House kit from the beer store. it came with a large bag of wort, you don't have to add sugar, but the guy at the store said we can still do a boil if we want to add extra hops.
the two of us are huge hop heads and wanted to add some extra hop flavor. we only have a 4 L (~1 Gal) pot for doing our boiling in, but it's all we've got...
we boiled a portion of our wort for a total of one hour. we added 1/2 oz of mt. hood hops at the beginning of the boil, and added the other 1/2 ounce to the hop sock for the last 8 min.
everything was clean, except it took quite a while to cool down our wort to 78 decrees where we pitched.
we used a the Belgian Wyeast (i think), not sure what number... everything finally took off after about a 3 day stall (maybe a little more than 72 hours)
i wasn't home for it, but apparently the apartment reeked of eggs (sulfur) so bad that my little brother had to move the primary to a different room. pretty sure that's normal for a lager though.
after one week when fermentation had stopped, we racked it into a secondary fermenter (brightening tank) so it can clear a bit for a few weeks. by this time there was no egg smell, so i assume it was only yeast farts.
hydrometer reading was fine, 1.012 i think..
but when we gave it a taste, holy crap!!! that was by far the most bitter beer ive ever tasted in my life!!
very very bitter, and once you got past the bitterness, i thought it tasted like pink grapefruit juice and beer.
i know this is a long post, but i'm kinda worried that this bitterness won't mellow down over time, and we just made something undrinkable.
i totally love bitter IPAs and IIPAs, but this was way too much. like, 500 IBUs if i had to guess
did i just turn my poor oktoberfest into a IIIIPA? or worse?
thanks for reading!
this is my first time posting on HBT, i've found it very helpful to me over the last month.
this is my brother and i's first batch of brew, so we're kind of learning and making it up as we go along here.
we purchased an Oktoberfest Brew House kit from the beer store. it came with a large bag of wort, you don't have to add sugar, but the guy at the store said we can still do a boil if we want to add extra hops.
the two of us are huge hop heads and wanted to add some extra hop flavor. we only have a 4 L (~1 Gal) pot for doing our boiling in, but it's all we've got...
we boiled a portion of our wort for a total of one hour. we added 1/2 oz of mt. hood hops at the beginning of the boil, and added the other 1/2 ounce to the hop sock for the last 8 min.
everything was clean, except it took quite a while to cool down our wort to 78 decrees where we pitched.
we used a the Belgian Wyeast (i think), not sure what number... everything finally took off after about a 3 day stall (maybe a little more than 72 hours)
i wasn't home for it, but apparently the apartment reeked of eggs (sulfur) so bad that my little brother had to move the primary to a different room. pretty sure that's normal for a lager though.
after one week when fermentation had stopped, we racked it into a secondary fermenter (brightening tank) so it can clear a bit for a few weeks. by this time there was no egg smell, so i assume it was only yeast farts.
hydrometer reading was fine, 1.012 i think..
but when we gave it a taste, holy crap!!! that was by far the most bitter beer ive ever tasted in my life!!
very very bitter, and once you got past the bitterness, i thought it tasted like pink grapefruit juice and beer.
i know this is a long post, but i'm kinda worried that this bitterness won't mellow down over time, and we just made something undrinkable.
i totally love bitter IPAs and IIPAs, but this was way too much. like, 500 IBUs if i had to guess
did i just turn my poor oktoberfest into a IIIIPA? or worse?
thanks for reading!