Sorry I didn't reply back earlier - I wasn't getting emails that people replied.So I used the hops and they turned out fine... the IPA is
aging better each day!
btw, my drying conditions are to spread they out and let them dry with a fan on them... Colorado is super dry and it only takes a...
We had a really mild winter in Colorado and my cascade hops matured early and some of them turned brown either on the vine, or as they were drying.
Should I pick these brown hops out and discard them?
I've googled around, and most people seem to say just use them, but some people say throw...
So I recently tried to make an Odell's Brewery Cutthroat porter clone recipe that I found online. My LBS didn't have some ingredients so they suggested some substitutions. I just bottled it, and it is not nearly dark enough - it is almost an amber.. not black like the porter I was expecting...