Looking to brew a Pliney clone from Farmhouse Brewing. Anyone have any advice on brewing a beer with so much hops?
Anyone have advice on doing a Pline the Elder clone?
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I've brewed a PTE kit from Northern Brewer. I just followed the instructions, it was great.
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I was curious if I should plan on using more water in order to deal with so much water absorbed by the hops in this recipe.
It depends. I read somewhere that the kit someone used had instructions that already included using more water....
I made the PTE clone kit from Northern Brewer a few years back. Plan on accounting for 1G of trub loss between boil hops and dry hop schedule. I think I had 6G of wort post boil and still ended up bottling a hair under 5G.
Another thing to consider when using so many hops is how helpful cold crashing can be -- 48 hours @ 35F does wonders to compact the hop trub.
I would just follow the directions. I think NB's Plinian Legacy has a little extra volume, but if your kit doesn't, don't thin it out.
This should be a great beer.
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I did the NB kit as my 1st brew on my Grainfather...Been conditioning in the bottles...Think I will pop a top on one tonight to see how it turned out!
As far as advice, yeah count on a little bit of volume loss from all the dry hopping..I had 5,5G in fermenter and finished right at 5G at bottling after squeezing out the hops baggies..
I think you'll like it. Mine tasted like straight grapefruit juice at first, but after a few weeks it was excellent.
Use hopshot instead of pellets for buttering additions. Otherwise it has consistency of hop soup.
Brewed Pliny this evening and used my Cereal Killer for the first time. I expected I'd get better efficiency and figured I could just reduce the corn sugar to compensate. Ended up going from 60% to 72% efficiency. Omitted the corn sugar and STILL ended up 5 points high in gravity. As it is an imperial IPA, I'll take it. 
There were a LOT of hop additions but boy did this one smell great.
There were a LOT of hop additions but boy did this one smell great.
Extra water is good advice, there will definitely be LOSS to hops.
My personal advice is tweak your water to get the sulfate levels up (if you are able to tweak water that is).
I found that without the sulfate levels, the perceived hop bitterness, flavor and aroma just seem to be lacking in the Pliney clones.
My personal advice is tweak your water to get the sulfate levels up (if you are able to tweak water that is).
I found that without the sulfate levels, the perceived hop bitterness, flavor and aroma just seem to be lacking in the Pliney clones.
