So I made a beer out of the leftover ingredients that i had in my freezer. I bottled it on the 1st of this month, and now about 3 weeks later, I am trying it for the first time, and it is essentially completely devoid of flavor. The odd thing is that I designed this one to be especially flavorful. 3 ounces of hops between 15 minutes and 5 minutes, several ounces in a hopback and several ounces of dry hopping. What could have gone wrong?
Here is the recipe (7 gallon recipe):
11.5 lb maris otter
1 lb flaked wheat
8 oz crystal 60L
0.75 oz Cascade FWH
1 oz simcoe at 15 min
0.5 oz centennial at 10 min
1 oz simcoe at 5 min
0.5 oz amarillo at 5 min
Hopback additions:
0.5 oz simcoe
1 oz columbus
0.75 cascade
Dr Hops- all additions for 10 days
1 oz amarillo
1 oz columbus
0.5 oz centennial
This beer was intended to be a hop bomb, and I am absolutely STUNNED how little flavor and aroma there is in this beer. I use a plate chiller, took maybe 10 minutes to move everything between the kettle and fermentor. Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be? It did ferment too warm, which contributes a bit to some fruitiness (used pacman yeast), but that is really the only flavor that comes through.
Klaus
Here is the recipe (7 gallon recipe):
11.5 lb maris otter
1 lb flaked wheat
8 oz crystal 60L
0.75 oz Cascade FWH
1 oz simcoe at 15 min
0.5 oz centennial at 10 min
1 oz simcoe at 5 min
0.5 oz amarillo at 5 min
Hopback additions:
0.5 oz simcoe
1 oz columbus
0.75 cascade
Dr Hops- all additions for 10 days
1 oz amarillo
1 oz columbus
0.5 oz centennial
This beer was intended to be a hop bomb, and I am absolutely STUNNED how little flavor and aroma there is in this beer. I use a plate chiller, took maybe 10 minutes to move everything between the kettle and fermentor. Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be? It did ferment too warm, which contributes a bit to some fruitiness (used pacman yeast), but that is really the only flavor that comes through.
Klaus