Brewed the beer today and after advice from friend who has been brewing a lot longer than me I changed the recipe up some. Recipe called for 2 oz. of perle for 60 min and 2 oz. cascade for 5 min. Changed to 1 0z perle and 1 oz casacade for 60 min and 5 min. The I will dry hop with an...
I learned to do plenty research after I brewed my first beer. Heard and tried to do a late axtract addition but did not realize that the hop schedule would need to be changed. Beer turned out ok but the bittering hops overpowered the aroma hops. Now I know. Going to try doing a late extract...
Id do the recipe as it states though, and add an ounce or so to the secondary on top of the regular recipe! YUM!
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Had not thought about that but it does sound good. Will it have to much hop aroma?
I am using the SNPA clone kit from midwest supplies.
But if only take 1/2oz. out of the last 2 minutes of the boil your IBU's should not suffer that much? Aren't hop additions in the last 2 to 5 minutes for aroma only? I am new to this so bare with me.
I bought a SNPA clone and it came with 2oz. of Perle and 2oz. of Cascade. Directions call for a 60 min. boil on perle w/ a two minute boil on the cascade. I was considering maybe holding 1oz. to 1/2oz. of cascade out of the boil and dry hopping instead. Any ideas if this will be better? If...