rth97601
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For reasons both financial and practical, I'm experimenting with Summit hops, and trying to take advantage of the super high alpha to stretch my budget. I just made my first experimental batch yesterday, a partial-mash Pale Ale, and it seems like I added hardly any--1/2 oz. for 60, 1/4 for 10, and a pinch at the end. The brew calculator I'm using estimated 65 IBUs, which would blow this out of the water. I realize that the alpha is high, but it seems that summit is often used in larger amounts than this--how does the bitterness and flavor play out here? I tasted the gravity sample, and it was kind of nice ... a sharp hop zing that quickly faded, which is different from the lingering Glacier and Golding I've been using lately. Still, it didn't seem like a 65 at first taste ...
Anyhow, I'll be brewing the next before I have a chance to taste this first one--any comments or advice on Summit recipe formulation?
Anyhow, I'll be brewing the next before I have a chance to taste this first one--any comments or advice on Summit recipe formulation?