StevoBrewhead
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I look forward to using this forum and sharing the fun of making beer at home with everyone!
I love IPA's! And received some nice beer making tools for my last birthday. The equipment sat there ... I read stuff .. picked apart the contents of the kits ... and felt so overwhelmed by all of it that I fell into the 'paralysis of analysis' trap. It sat for months. It was a 5 gallon kit with all of the doo-dads but I found it very hard to get started! So I decided to start out small - doing a 1 gallon kit. Not too bad - and those who I shared "my" beer with thought it was decent enough. I then plodded thru my first 5 gallon batch .. again, not bad at all. Then I tried a 2 gallon Mr. Beer batch. All resultant beer was much better than I had expected, but not as good as what I buy in 6 and 4 packs.
I now have a 2nd Mr. Beer kit in the fermentation stage. I plan to "dry hop" it after the 10 day period to see what that does to enhance things. I also have a 5 gallon Double IPA kit from Brewer's Best that I plan to start in the next few days. It's using specialty grains of caramel and carapil, light LME, and corn sugar along with (3) x 1 oz. of Amarillo and (1) 2 oz. Cascade hop pellets. So far so good, right? What is really bugging me .. and here's my first question for everyone ... they are showing the IBU number at 100+! It's a 60 minute boil with the Amarillo spread out at 60, 45, and 15 minutes. The 2 ounces of Cascade are added at the t-10 minute mark. I dislike very bitter finishing beer. I entered the recipe into "BeerTarget" and it's coming up with an IBU number of 67 - which I like. So is the BB stated IBU number wrong? Should I play it safe and push down the Amarillo steps and maybe dry-hop the cascade - to get a hoppier beer with less bitterness?
To those on the east coast, one of my favorite DIPA's is Lot#6 from Evolution Brewing in Salisbury, MD. If you've had it .. that's what I am trying to shoot for here. Any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
I love IPA's! And received some nice beer making tools for my last birthday. The equipment sat there ... I read stuff .. picked apart the contents of the kits ... and felt so overwhelmed by all of it that I fell into the 'paralysis of analysis' trap. It sat for months. It was a 5 gallon kit with all of the doo-dads but I found it very hard to get started! So I decided to start out small - doing a 1 gallon kit. Not too bad - and those who I shared "my" beer with thought it was decent enough. I then plodded thru my first 5 gallon batch .. again, not bad at all. Then I tried a 2 gallon Mr. Beer batch. All resultant beer was much better than I had expected, but not as good as what I buy in 6 and 4 packs.
I now have a 2nd Mr. Beer kit in the fermentation stage. I plan to "dry hop" it after the 10 day period to see what that does to enhance things. I also have a 5 gallon Double IPA kit from Brewer's Best that I plan to start in the next few days. It's using specialty grains of caramel and carapil, light LME, and corn sugar along with (3) x 1 oz. of Amarillo and (1) 2 oz. Cascade hop pellets. So far so good, right? What is really bugging me .. and here's my first question for everyone ... they are showing the IBU number at 100+! It's a 60 minute boil with the Amarillo spread out at 60, 45, and 15 minutes. The 2 ounces of Cascade are added at the t-10 minute mark. I dislike very bitter finishing beer. I entered the recipe into "BeerTarget" and it's coming up with an IBU number of 67 - which I like. So is the BB stated IBU number wrong? Should I play it safe and push down the Amarillo steps and maybe dry-hop the cascade - to get a hoppier beer with less bitterness?
To those on the east coast, one of my favorite DIPA's is Lot#6 from Evolution Brewing in Salisbury, MD. If you've had it .. that's what I am trying to shoot for here. Any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
