chainsawbrewing
Well-Known Member
just curious. i've made a lot of beers of different styles, usually i use the 1-2-3 rule, i bottled a dunkel, and a hugely hopped ipa on sept.8
the dunkel i've already been drinking, plenty of bubbles, the big fat majorly overhopped ipa, which i bottled the same day, has zero bubbles. it pours out completely flat. it tastes fine, but no carbonation. this is the first really "big" beer, and definately the most hopped beer i've made, and i didn't know if the higher a.b.v. and/or the higher amount of hops interfere with the carbing process or what.
i'm sorry, i can't recall the actual numbers right now, but it was something like an o.g. of 1.078, final gravity was around 1.012 and it had somewhere around 4-5 oz. of hops in three teirs in a 60minute boil, and 2oz dryhopped. i left it in primary for a little over a week, and it dry hopped for two weeks, and has been bottled since sept. 8th
the dunkel i've already been drinking, plenty of bubbles, the big fat majorly overhopped ipa, which i bottled the same day, has zero bubbles. it pours out completely flat. it tastes fine, but no carbonation. this is the first really "big" beer, and definately the most hopped beer i've made, and i didn't know if the higher a.b.v. and/or the higher amount of hops interfere with the carbing process or what.
i'm sorry, i can't recall the actual numbers right now, but it was something like an o.g. of 1.078, final gravity was around 1.012 and it had somewhere around 4-5 oz. of hops in three teirs in a 60minute boil, and 2oz dryhopped. i left it in primary for a little over a week, and it dry hopped for two weeks, and has been bottled since sept. 8th