ILikeColdBeverages
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Recently enjoyed drinking my very first home brewed beer. My first run was a True Brew India Pale Ale kit. The beer was tasty but did not resemble the hoppy IPA I was hoping to brew.
Recipe called for 2 3.3lb cans of Muntons Amber Malt Extract. After doing some research I decided to add 1 3/4 of extract. I also added an ounce of loose leaf Willamette hops to my secondary fermentation carboy. The beer has toasty malt notes but very little hop character.
Has anyone brewed this kit before? Is it a flawed recipe or did I do something wrong?
1 theory I had to explain the lack of hoppy flavor was my siphoning job. Fearful of too much sediment I lost a gallon of liquid between primary and secondary fermentation. Could this explain the muted hops?
Recipe called for 2 3.3lb cans of Muntons Amber Malt Extract. After doing some research I decided to add 1 3/4 of extract. I also added an ounce of loose leaf Willamette hops to my secondary fermentation carboy. The beer has toasty malt notes but very little hop character.
Has anyone brewed this kit before? Is it a flawed recipe or did I do something wrong?
1 theory I had to explain the lack of hoppy flavor was my siphoning job. Fearful of too much sediment I lost a gallon of liquid between primary and secondary fermentation. Could this explain the muted hops?