30 Min Hop Addition

[rodwha]

I often see a 30 min hop addition with various IPA recipes. What does it offer as far as bittering/flavoring? And why do that instead of a more typical 60/15-20 min addition?

 

[unionrdr]

I don't do 30 or 45 minute additions,as a 30 minute one just adds 50% or so of it's lupulins to the bittering. I'd rather wait till 20 minutes on down & do flavor additions.

 

[duboman]

At the 30 minute mark you will get both bitterness as well as some flavor/aroma. I like these additions as I find them to add some complexity to the hop profile of the beer meaning it is not just all bitter or all flavor/aroma. Hops that are dual purpose work well for this addition and I usually shoot for 15%-20% of my IBU contribution in the recipe

 

[rodwha]

I did this with my oatmeal coffee stout (2.3 oz Liberty @ 60 mins and 2.1 oz @ 30mins) as I wanted the coffee to shine, but also to use these low AA hops to still get ~45 IBU's.

I also plan on trying it in my upcoming jalapeño cream ale (.3 oz @ 60 mins and .2 oz at 30 mins). This was mostly to stay around 15 IBU's.

 

[unionrdr]

In those cases,like my traditional stout,I use bittering only & let the roastiness,etc take care of blalncing flavors with bitterness. In my hybrid lagers,I like loww AA% hops for flavor the last 15 minutes or so,as their flavors come out lighter ime. So no 30 minute additions needed.

 

[rodwha]

Initially my hop schedule for the jalapeño cream ale was going to be 60 and 5 mins. But I increased the volume from 1.8 gal to 2.5 gal, and I'm not so sure I care about an aroma addition. Had 20 mins given me 15 IBU's I would have settled on that, but I was short...

I suppose, as long as the jalapeño does't burn too quickly, that it'll give me a better glimpse at how a 30 min addition behaves over a 15-20 min addition, although I don't have anything to compare it to other than memories...