Alastairhaydock
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Hi
Just brewed a clone pan head super charger ( beer here in nz).
Brewed full grain on a grain father brew system.
Process was sound except a couple of minor mistakes. Forgot to do the whirlpool. Didn’t aerate the yeast when it went into the fermenter enough. Temperature of fermenter dropped to about 15 degrees Celsius during generation period, due to snap cold period ( middle of winter here). Still bubbled away but was very slow. Hit the right specific gravity though.
Beers were bottled and used carbonation drops ( two per 750ml bottle).
Beers came out sweet, ie lacking enough bitterness. Was quite yeastie tasting and smelling ( almost like I had used a can instead of full grain). Tasted fine apart from above and Hop flavour and aroma was low. There but not really noticeable, where as a bought super charger is quite orange citrus and has a strong hop flavour that is punchy.
Recipe had 300g of hops all pellets and fresh used with 45 IBU. Attached pictures of recipe.
I am thinking I need to double the hops at each stage.
More at 60 mins to increase bitterness and reduce sweetness. Increase at hop stand and dry hopping stages. Does this sound right?
Does the current amount of hops sound fine? Or am I on the right path by increasing amounts? Is there anything obvious I might have done that could have caused the yeast tastes and lack of hop flavour coming though?
Note: when trying a few of the bottles the carbonation levels were good. But then found a good 1/3 where bottles were essentially flat. Fridge could have been too cold on storage after bottling period finished?
Just brewed a clone pan head super charger ( beer here in nz).
Brewed full grain on a grain father brew system.
Process was sound except a couple of minor mistakes. Forgot to do the whirlpool. Didn’t aerate the yeast when it went into the fermenter enough. Temperature of fermenter dropped to about 15 degrees Celsius during generation period, due to snap cold period ( middle of winter here). Still bubbled away but was very slow. Hit the right specific gravity though.
Beers were bottled and used carbonation drops ( two per 750ml bottle).
Beers came out sweet, ie lacking enough bitterness. Was quite yeastie tasting and smelling ( almost like I had used a can instead of full grain). Tasted fine apart from above and Hop flavour and aroma was low. There but not really noticeable, where as a bought super charger is quite orange citrus and has a strong hop flavour that is punchy.
Recipe had 300g of hops all pellets and fresh used with 45 IBU. Attached pictures of recipe.
I am thinking I need to double the hops at each stage.
More at 60 mins to increase bitterness and reduce sweetness. Increase at hop stand and dry hopping stages. Does this sound right?
Does the current amount of hops sound fine? Or am I on the right path by increasing amounts? Is there anything obvious I might have done that could have caused the yeast tastes and lack of hop flavour coming though?
Note: when trying a few of the bottles the carbonation levels were good. But then found a good 1/3 where bottles were essentially flat. Fridge could have been too cold on storage after bottling period finished?
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