MattHollingsworth
Well-Known Member
Anybody ever do this with your hop additions? For instance, say you had two hops and you want to have one hop have half as much aroma contribution as the other. But one has 1.75 ml oil/ 100 g and one has 1.25. Instead of just saying add 8 g of one and 4 g of the other, has anybody bothered to calculate the oil contribution and do it that way?
As an example, let's take Hop A with 1.75 ml oil / 100 grams of hops. Say we added 8 grams. That should amount to .14 ml of oil total, right? So, say we want Hop B, which has 1.25 ml oil / 100 grams of hops, to be our secondary hop and have half as much influence. Instead of adding 4 grams, we'd want to achieve .07 ml of total oil (half of Hop A's number), which would get us 5.6 grams rounded up to 6 grams.
Thoughts? Anybody messing with this at all? Flawed logic? If one has a blown out Myrcene number, I suppose this could totally throw this off if the Myrcene is so high even in one with lower oils that it counterbalances the whole thing. What do you guys think?
(I know, just make the beer. But I have a lot of recipes I already have heavy notes on to see what hop amounts I like. So I'm not guessing with the hops I already know. Just trying to analyze these oils a bit. Curious, that's all.)
As an example, let's take Hop A with 1.75 ml oil / 100 grams of hops. Say we added 8 grams. That should amount to .14 ml of oil total, right? So, say we want Hop B, which has 1.25 ml oil / 100 grams of hops, to be our secondary hop and have half as much influence. Instead of adding 4 grams, we'd want to achieve .07 ml of total oil (half of Hop A's number), which would get us 5.6 grams rounded up to 6 grams.
Thoughts? Anybody messing with this at all? Flawed logic? If one has a blown out Myrcene number, I suppose this could totally throw this off if the Myrcene is so high even in one with lower oils that it counterbalances the whole thing. What do you guys think?
(I know, just make the beer. But I have a lot of recipes I already have heavy notes on to see what hop amounts I like. So I'm not guessing with the hops I already know. Just trying to analyze these oils a bit. Curious, that's all.)