budbo said:you should Drink it
How old is the beer? The bitterness mellows with age. You may want to give it some time before you do anything drastic.calman said:My APA is bitter, very bitter! I deeped in grain while the water was too hot (170F), and that makes my beer bitter. What should I do now?
glibbidy said:Have you bottled it yet? You could brew a higher gravity beer with less hops, and blend the two at bottling time.
If I remember correctly, Target can be pretty bitter but you didn't use that much. The ECG is more of a flavor hop and at 15 minutes it won't give your beer much bitterness at all. I wouldn't think that your beer should be all that bitter. Can you post the recipe and do you know the alpha acid percent of the hops?calman said:The beer is three weeks old. I forced carbonated it last week in a keg and is in my refrigerator now. The hop I used was 3/4 oz Targer @60 min and 1/2 oz East Kent Golding @15 min. For the total of 1.25 oz of hop is not that much to make that kind of bitter, unless the East Kent Golding is super bitter one (first time using it).
I am tempted to make a second batch with one oz hop, but only at 5 min boil, and mix the two.
calman said:P.S. Anyone knows any good quality thermometer in $200 range?
calman said:I got the thermometer out and re-checked the scale , but wait, how come it showed 120F while it was 65F outside? Couple more tests and found out that it was a defected one. Put it in boiling water and it showed 160F, in freezer and it showed 100F How could it be? I think it was defected on a purpose of causing some damages. A closer looked at it and seemed like the inner tube got leak causing the wrong reading.
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