NomadicHand
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I brewed a 1 gallon batch of Dead Ringer IPA.
1.75 gallons of water (recipe calls for 1.25, but too much is boiled off)
1 oz caramel/crystal malt 40
21 grams Centennial hops
1.25 Amber Dry Extract (recipe calls for 1.50 LME)
Safale US-05 Yeast
Steeped the grains properly.
Began boiling and added 1.75 lbs of DME
(added too much because I was still trying to figure out my boil off rate)
3.5g hops @45 mins @20 mins
7.5g @5mins @0mins
Chilled, added to fermentor, aerated, pitched rehydrated yeast.
Fermented in a cooling bag with a frozen two liter bottle. Fermometer read 58-64 degrees F for three weeks.
24 hours later it began to ferment. Then it started going nuts due to the extra DME I added. So much krausen it was getting into my airlock.
The airlock smelled really good, so much good hop aroma, but as the days went on the aroma died off a lot.
Aroma: Strawberry, it seems to overwhelm anything else.
Flavor: Wasn't bad, but it lacked a lot of bitterness for an IPA. Some hop flavor towards the end.
Two questions:
Why was there such a strong strawberry aroma?
Did I dilute my beer's flavor when I increased the amount of water in the recipe, but not the amount of hops?
1.75 gallons of water (recipe calls for 1.25, but too much is boiled off)
1 oz caramel/crystal malt 40
21 grams Centennial hops
1.25 Amber Dry Extract (recipe calls for 1.50 LME)
Safale US-05 Yeast
Steeped the grains properly.
Began boiling and added 1.75 lbs of DME
(added too much because I was still trying to figure out my boil off rate)
3.5g hops @45 mins @20 mins
7.5g @5mins @0mins
Chilled, added to fermentor, aerated, pitched rehydrated yeast.
Fermented in a cooling bag with a frozen two liter bottle. Fermometer read 58-64 degrees F for three weeks.
24 hours later it began to ferment. Then it started going nuts due to the extra DME I added. So much krausen it was getting into my airlock.
The airlock smelled really good, so much good hop aroma, but as the days went on the aroma died off a lot.
Aroma: Strawberry, it seems to overwhelm anything else.
Flavor: Wasn't bad, but it lacked a lot of bitterness for an IPA. Some hop flavor towards the end.
Two questions:
Why was there such a strong strawberry aroma?
Did I dilute my beer's flavor when I increased the amount of water in the recipe, but not the amount of hops?