MisterBungle
Member
Hello,
I've been lurking for the last month or so and just bottled my 2nd batch, which I was expecting to be a relatively hoppy pale ale. Upon tasting it, it wasn't nearly as bitter as I expected it to be with almost no hop aroma.
The good news is that the beer tastes pretty good, it just wasn't what I was going for and I was hoping to get imput from those more experienced as to where my recipe went wrong.
The recipe was pretty simple: 3 gal boil
6lbs Pale DME
0.5lbs Crystal 60 steeped for 30mins at 160degF
0.75oz Nugget 13% for 60mins
1oz Cascade 6% for 30mins
1oz Fuggle 3.5% for 15mins
It spent 3 weeks in primary and then I racked and bottled. I never got an accurate OG reading because it was too foamy and FG was around 1.016.
The only big mistake may have been coming up short on top off water... could this be it?
Any input is appreciated. Thanks.
I've been lurking for the last month or so and just bottled my 2nd batch, which I was expecting to be a relatively hoppy pale ale. Upon tasting it, it wasn't nearly as bitter as I expected it to be with almost no hop aroma.
The good news is that the beer tastes pretty good, it just wasn't what I was going for and I was hoping to get imput from those more experienced as to where my recipe went wrong.
The recipe was pretty simple: 3 gal boil
6lbs Pale DME
0.5lbs Crystal 60 steeped for 30mins at 160degF
0.75oz Nugget 13% for 60mins
1oz Cascade 6% for 30mins
1oz Fuggle 3.5% for 15mins
It spent 3 weeks in primary and then I racked and bottled. I never got an accurate OG reading because it was too foamy and FG was around 1.016.
The only big mistake may have been coming up short on top off water... could this be it?
Any input is appreciated. Thanks.