I recently purchased a Brewer's Best Continental Pilsner Kit. The label described it as a pilsner with an OG in the 1.040 range and IBUs between 28 and 33. The full recipe is here
Basically 3.3 lbs of LME for 60 minutes and a late addition of 2 lbs of DME at 10 mins to flame out. A few specialty grains: 12 oz Pilsen malt and 8 oz carapils.
The hop schedule was perplexing:
.5oz Hallertau at 60
.5 oz of the same at 20
and .5 oz more at 10 mins
The thre 1/2 oz packages in the kit states an AA of 2.5
Just eyeballing the recipe, it looks like this was goign to come in at way lower than nthe expected 30 IBUs. I ran the recipe through a my calculator and accounted for the fact that the recipe calls for a late addition of the DME, presumably to improve color and boost IBUs, but even then I only came up with 9 IBUs.
I confirmed that the LME was not pre-hopped, so I'm not sure how the recipe is supposed to reach its target bitternes, which is already a tad below the typical IBU range for bohemian/continental pilsners (https://www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category2.php).
Am I missing something? I just want to confirm I did not miscalculate something.
If my assumptions are correct, would you recommend "fixing" the recipe with the addition of 2.5 -3 oz of Hallertau (same AA range as what's in the kit)?
Basically 3.3 lbs of LME for 60 minutes and a late addition of 2 lbs of DME at 10 mins to flame out. A few specialty grains: 12 oz Pilsen malt and 8 oz carapils.
The hop schedule was perplexing:
.5oz Hallertau at 60
.5 oz of the same at 20
and .5 oz more at 10 mins
The thre 1/2 oz packages in the kit states an AA of 2.5
Just eyeballing the recipe, it looks like this was goign to come in at way lower than nthe expected 30 IBUs. I ran the recipe through a my calculator and accounted for the fact that the recipe calls for a late addition of the DME, presumably to improve color and boost IBUs, but even then I only came up with 9 IBUs.
I confirmed that the LME was not pre-hopped, so I'm not sure how the recipe is supposed to reach its target bitternes, which is already a tad below the typical IBU range for bohemian/continental pilsners (https://www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category2.php).
Am I missing something? I just want to confirm I did not miscalculate something.
If my assumptions are correct, would you recommend "fixing" the recipe with the addition of 2.5 -3 oz of Hallertau (same AA range as what's in the kit)?