nostalgia
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Greets! Just got through kegging Austin Homebrew's apricot wheat recipe kit. Brewday went well. OG came in at 1.050. FG 2 weeks later was 1.008 (the kit's instructions said 1.052/1.010).
I tasted the hydro sample today and there is pronounced hoppy bitterness. Not what I was expecting. My wife made the bitter beer face
So I'm fishing for a possible root cause. I've got 3 theories at the moment:
1. It's normal and will mellow with age.
2. Doing a late extract addition increased hop utilization.
3. I didn't get enough sugars in the mini-mash, making a lower gravity wort and increasing hop utilization.
I had considered that I didn't strain the wort so it was sitting on all of the hop pellets, but that shouldn't alter bitterness, correct?
I'm not going to post Forrest's whole recipe, but here's the timing and type of hops:
1oz Perle @60 minutes (half of LME added here)
1/2oz Mt Hood @15 minutes (rest of LME added here)
1/2oz Mt Hood @5 minutes
Yeast suggestions for the kit were WLP051, Wyeast 1272 or Notty. Forrest was out of Notty and shipped Cooper's ale yeast. Since I've heard only bad things about Cooper's I pitched Safale US-05.
Thanks for any suggestions,
-Joe
I tasted the hydro sample today and there is pronounced hoppy bitterness. Not what I was expecting. My wife made the bitter beer face
So I'm fishing for a possible root cause. I've got 3 theories at the moment:
1. It's normal and will mellow with age.
2. Doing a late extract addition increased hop utilization.
3. I didn't get enough sugars in the mini-mash, making a lower gravity wort and increasing hop utilization.
I had considered that I didn't strain the wort so it was sitting on all of the hop pellets, but that shouldn't alter bitterness, correct?
I'm not going to post Forrest's whole recipe, but here's the timing and type of hops:
1oz Perle @60 minutes (half of LME added here)
1/2oz Mt Hood @15 minutes (rest of LME added here)
1/2oz Mt Hood @5 minutes
Yeast suggestions for the kit were WLP051, Wyeast 1272 or Notty. Forrest was out of Notty and shipped Cooper's ale yeast. Since I've heard only bad things about Cooper's I pitched Safale US-05.
Thanks for any suggestions,
-Joe