SkaBoneBenny
Well-Known Member
My first AG, my "Summer IPA" has just been tapped so to speak. While the beer is heads and tails above my earlier efforts, I mashed too low, at 150 or so, and got a very very dry beer. The fruity hop flavors I was getting in primary quickly disapeared in secondary as the beer continued to ferment and get drier. Because of time concerns I chose not to dry hop the beer, which I know is rather strange for an IPA. Despite its heavy hop schedule, the beer is suprisingly free of any hop aroma and fruitiness.
My question: is the excessive dryness of the beer masking the hop bouquet or does the recipe just suck. Perhaps some other error? It has a great malty AG taste and appropriate bitterness without any real hop flavor...
Here's the recipe:
OG: 1.062 (intended) Actual 1.060
FG: 1.016 (intended) Actual 1.010
Grain:
11 lb two row
.5 lb Carapils
.5 lb Crystal 60
Hops:
.5 oz Magnum 60 min
.75 oz Cascade 20 min
.5 oz Amarillo 10 min
.5 Cascade 5 min
.5 Amarillo 5 min
.5 Amarillo FO
Yeast WLP 001
Thanks!
Ben
My question: is the excessive dryness of the beer masking the hop bouquet or does the recipe just suck. Perhaps some other error? It has a great malty AG taste and appropriate bitterness without any real hop flavor...
Here's the recipe:
OG: 1.062 (intended) Actual 1.060
FG: 1.016 (intended) Actual 1.010
Grain:
11 lb two row
.5 lb Carapils
.5 lb Crystal 60
Hops:
.5 oz Magnum 60 min
.75 oz Cascade 20 min
.5 oz Amarillo 10 min
.5 Cascade 5 min
.5 Amarillo 5 min
.5 Amarillo FO
Yeast WLP 001
Thanks!
Ben