eetu
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
I brewed a "kitchen sink" beer where I threw in all my leftower malts. First I felt like it was going to be a black ipa and was planning to dry hop it generously with Equinox.
This dilemma occured when I realised that my yeast was not going to ferment it as dry as I would have wanted. I used Lallemand ESB dry yeast ex tempore and did research afterwards that it attenuates only moderately. This will probably leave me at around 1.020-24 while OG was 1.070. ABV is still in the ball park but I'm afraid it will be too sweet.
Yes, I know, brew beers not styles and I'm not really worried about which style it will be. But now I'm starting to lean towards not dry hopping it at all, or just lightly, and leave it more stout-like. Would save that 100g of hops for later.
What would you do?
Here's the recipe roughly.
14.5 litres (a bit less than 4gal)
OG 1.070
IBU ~60+
Bace malts 91%
Crystal malts 3.8%
Carafa special II 3.8%
Roasted barley 1.4%
Comet 60min 40IBU
Comet whirlpool 10IBU
Fuggles whirlpool 10IBU
Thanks for any advice/opinion!
I brewed a "kitchen sink" beer where I threw in all my leftower malts. First I felt like it was going to be a black ipa and was planning to dry hop it generously with Equinox.
This dilemma occured when I realised that my yeast was not going to ferment it as dry as I would have wanted. I used Lallemand ESB dry yeast ex tempore and did research afterwards that it attenuates only moderately. This will probably leave me at around 1.020-24 while OG was 1.070. ABV is still in the ball park but I'm afraid it will be too sweet.
Yes, I know, brew beers not styles and I'm not really worried about which style it will be. But now I'm starting to lean towards not dry hopping it at all, or just lightly, and leave it more stout-like. Would save that 100g of hops for later.
What would you do?
Here's the recipe roughly.
14.5 litres (a bit less than 4gal)
OG 1.070
IBU ~60+
Bace malts 91%
Crystal malts 3.8%
Carafa special II 3.8%
Roasted barley 1.4%
Comet 60min 40IBU
Comet whirlpool 10IBU
Fuggles whirlpool 10IBU
Thanks for any advice/opinion!