Beer is too bitter tasting -Belgian witbeer

[abefroman]

Beer is too bitter tasting -Belgian witbeer.

Any idea what caused this?

I steeped the grain for 22.5 minutes

1oz pellet hops for 60 min

and

1oz pellet hops for the last 2 mnutes

Is it the pellet hops for 60 min that made it bitter?

And I put the hops straight in (not in a boiling bag)

BTW it just finished primary, will it become less bitter after secondary?

TIA

 

[Guden]

1. Can you post the recipe?
2. Yes the bitterness comes from the 60 minute addition
3. Yes bitterness will fade in both the fermenter and in bottle/keg as will the aroma hops (which could have an effect currently and be giving a hoppy/bitter impression)

 

[norsk]

Way too early to worry. As mentioned above, posting the recipe would help. BTW, don't really need to secondary that beer, but alright if you did so. I just started drinking a Wit that was bottled 9 days ago, very nice beer. Good luck.

 

[abefroman]

It was an MS kit. The only other thing, it took my wort several hours to cool, because I didn't have a wort chiller, I did add a gallon of ice though, plus a gallon of near freezing water, which brought it down considerably.

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MS recommended using a secondary to help get rid of some of the yeast before bottling

 

[1Mainebrew]

Never need to secondary a witbier which should be cloudy from all that yeast anyway. Thats one of the reasons why those yeast strains are poor flocculators.

 

[PHillBrewCo]

Rdwhahb

 

[HexKrak]

Depends on the type of hops you used, but my witbeer doesn't have any hop additions until 45 minutes. Having a 60 min addition, then taking a long time to cool will definitely add a bit of bitterness, just how much depends on the AA content of the hops you used.