Anyone Here Know of any Tricks to Tone Down Bittering Hops?

[Flyboy84]

So, I had been making some pretty big IPA's bordering on Imperial and decided to take a step back and tone them down to something a little more sessionable. But, without thinking, I threw in almost my normal amount of bittering hops for the 60 min addition and it has come out wayyyyyyy too bitter.

Does anyone know of any tips to remove the bittering or help cover that up a little?

 

[CarbonTom]

You can reduce the bittering addition, and increase the late addition hops for more flavor, or use a lower AA% hop for bittering? You can try bittering with the flavor hops you are using. Do you use a program like beersmith? It can be super helpful in calculating IBU's while substituting out different hop varieties. Also you can try a shorter boil after the bittering addition, ie a 60 min full boil but doing your first hop addition at 45 or something. Hope that helps! There are a lot of different ways to play with it, but then again isn't that why this hobby is so much fun?

 

[JoshuaW]

You can reduce the bittering addition, and increase the late addition hops for more flavor, or use a lower AA% hop for bittering? You can try bittering with the flavor hops you are using. Do you use a program like beersmith? It can be super helpful in calculating IBU's while substituting out different hop varieties. Also you can try a shorter boil after the bittering addition, ie a 60 min full boil but doing your first hop addition at 45 or something. Hope that helps! There are a lot of different ways to play with it, but then again isn't that why this hobby is so much fun?

I think he is saying the damage has already been done.

You could try blending it with another less hoppy beer, You could also see if it mellows over time.

 

[Flyboy84]

Maybe I should have been a little more specific.

I have a beer that is on day 10 in the primary that had too many bittering hops. What can I do at this point to reduce some of the bitterness?

 

[broadbill]

You can play the wait game, but all the other hop components will fade as well. Blending is probably your best option, but it would be good to look into what you made the mistake you did in the first place. Use this as an opportunity to improve your process.

 

[CarbonTom]

ooooooh makes more sense now haha. Sry.

 

[Codfishhead]

Make a small batch of the same beer minus the bittering hops and blend them together.

Now you just have more of a good thing