spaceyaquarius
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Partial grain recipe (used 6 lbs. DME) of Belgian Wheat Hoegaarden Clone:
My local home brew store looked at my recipe and sold me 1.5 oz. East Kent Goldings AA 7.2% hops when the recipe calls for East Kent Goldings AA 4.3%. (also 1 oz Chezk Saas hop). They were pellet hops too.
Placed in primary fermenter 2.5 weeks (kept at 62-75 F), then transferrred to the keg with a siphon (no sediment transferred). Boiled 2 cups of water and added 3.3 oz of corn sugar to the keg and then I let sit at 60-70 F for 2.5 weeks. Made sure to purge the keg of oxygen.
The batch was completely over-hopped. I mixed 1 tablespoon of gelatin finings into 5 oz. of water at 165 F and stirred into the kegged batch. Purged the tank of oxygen and waited 2 days. The over hopped taste didn't go away (bitterness on the back of the tongue), but was a little less hopped. Repeated the 1 tbps every 2 days (total of 8 tbps gelatin finings), and now the beer is clear (the yeast has settled out) but the hops taste never really went away. It tastes nothing like Hoegaarden, but is there ANY WAY to get rid of the hops taste, because it tastes horrible, not even acceptable as an IPA.
I'm about to pour it down the drain as I only have one keg. The gelatin finings aren't settling anything else in the keg, the beer just comes out the same after additional gelatin.
My local home brew store looked at my recipe and sold me 1.5 oz. East Kent Goldings AA 7.2% hops when the recipe calls for East Kent Goldings AA 4.3%. (also 1 oz Chezk Saas hop). They were pellet hops too.
Placed in primary fermenter 2.5 weeks (kept at 62-75 F), then transferrred to the keg with a siphon (no sediment transferred). Boiled 2 cups of water and added 3.3 oz of corn sugar to the keg and then I let sit at 60-70 F for 2.5 weeks. Made sure to purge the keg of oxygen.
The batch was completely over-hopped. I mixed 1 tablespoon of gelatin finings into 5 oz. of water at 165 F and stirred into the kegged batch. Purged the tank of oxygen and waited 2 days. The over hopped taste didn't go away (bitterness on the back of the tongue), but was a little less hopped. Repeated the 1 tbps every 2 days (total of 8 tbps gelatin finings), and now the beer is clear (the yeast has settled out) but the hops taste never really went away. It tastes nothing like Hoegaarden, but is there ANY WAY to get rid of the hops taste, because it tastes horrible, not even acceptable as an IPA.
I'm about to pour it down the drain as I only have one keg. The gelatin finings aren't settling anything else in the keg, the beer just comes out the same after additional gelatin.