Chinook hops?

[gravityspiral]

I have a recipe (Sierra Nevada clone) calling for .75oz chinook hops for 60m boil. I don't have a scale, but I do have 1oz chinook.

Part of me wants to just use the whole ounce, part of me wants to have a slightly less bitter beer and just halve the ounce as close as I can eye it.

Any suggestions? It also has 1oz Perle at 20m and 2oz Cascade going in at the end. Those quantities are fine.

 

[solbes]

Fairly easy to eyeball hop quantities if you can put them in a small bowl. Take a butter knife and push off roughly 3/4 of whats in the bowl. I would go by the recipe for the bittering hop addition as you don't want a overly bitter pale ale, and you don't want it to be a light colored amber either.

 

[Jawbox0]

I'd just half it plus half the second half by eye for about .75oz

 

[gravityspiral]

Not a bad idea for 1/2 then 1/2 again, Jawbox - thanks. And solbes - yes, I need to get out of my habit of trying to change up recipes thinking I can do better, nice call.

 

[langdonk1]

Always stick to a recipe and change it The second time. That's how you get better

 

[WI_Wino]

Amazon has cheap gram scales. Here's the one I use, I highly recommend one if you want to be even just semi serious about brewing.

American Weigh Scales Black Blade Digital Pocket Scale, BL-1KG-BLK 1000 by 0.1 G
http://amzn.com/B0012N1NAA

 

[riceral]

Amazon has cheap gram scales. Here's the one I use, I highly recommend one if you want to be even just semi serious about brewing.

American Weigh Scales Black Blade Digital Pocket Scale, BL-1KG-BLK 1000 by 0.1 G
http://amzn.com/B0012N1NAA

Yep, this is the scale I use. Good price and good scale.