prrriiide
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I have a wee heavy - Irish red mash up I did that is about 10% ABV. The problem is, I undershot the bitterness for the alcohol level (it doesn't help that I got much higher than expected attenuation - BeerSmith est OG was 1.103, which I hit, and FG was 1.032, I got 1.020).
Est IBUs was 34. Obviously, that's low for the beer (but not for either style), so I want to add in a hop tea to try and balance the beer.
I plan on boiling 1 oz of Magnum in 2.5 pints of the beer for 60 minutes. I am assuming a quarter pint boil off to yield 2 pints of hop tea. I'll add a pint into each 5g keg.
I set BeerSmith to a 10g batch (even though I'm only actually boiling 2.5 pints) since I'm diluting into 10g. I know the utilization, etc will be off, but I'm hoping this will get me in the ballpark. According to BeerSmith's figures, this should add 30 IBUs or so to each keg, hopefully getting me to about 60-65 IBU for the beer.
Am I figuring this right?
Est IBUs was 34. Obviously, that's low for the beer (but not for either style), so I want to add in a hop tea to try and balance the beer.
I plan on boiling 1 oz of Magnum in 2.5 pints of the beer for 60 minutes. I am assuming a quarter pint boil off to yield 2 pints of hop tea. I'll add a pint into each 5g keg.
I set BeerSmith to a 10g batch (even though I'm only actually boiling 2.5 pints) since I'm diluting into 10g. I know the utilization, etc will be off, but I'm hoping this will get me in the ballpark. According to BeerSmith's figures, this should add 30 IBUs or so to each keg, hopefully getting me to about 60-65 IBU for the beer.
Am I figuring this right?