It's been a long hiatus, but I'm finally brewing again. I harvested some wild hops a while back and wanted to do a brew with them. So I figured the best brew to do with unknown hops would be a pale ale. So I used 10 lbs of Briess 2 row and 1lb of crystal 20. I did a little tighter crush than the factory setting on my barley crusher and mashed at 154* for 60 I used a one gallon bag of whole hops in this brew. Half@ 60, quarter @ 30, and last quarter bag @ 5 to go.
The hops are an unknown as mentioned before, but a buddy came over to guide me back into the fold and said that the bitterness seemed around an 8 alfa and once we pulled the hydrometer sample and came up with a 1.060 he said sample tasted around 50 ibu's give or take. This matches with what my memory retains of bitterness levels. The hop itself has a lot of floral character, but also has a lot of cascade type character as well.
Knowing what I did about the hops and what I wanted to do to try and compliment them I went with a safale 04 fermenting @60 pitched @ 70
I think this is going to turn out to be a very good beer. It's good to be back into my hobby.
The hops are an unknown as mentioned before, but a buddy came over to guide me back into the fold and said that the bitterness seemed around an 8 alfa and once we pulled the hydrometer sample and came up with a 1.060 he said sample tasted around 50 ibu's give or take. This matches with what my memory retains of bitterness levels. The hop itself has a lot of floral character, but also has a lot of cascade type character as well.
Knowing what I did about the hops and what I wanted to do to try and compliment them I went with a safale 04 fermenting @60 pitched @ 70
I think this is going to turn out to be a very good beer. It's good to be back into my hobby.