First time kit questions

[BoRock40]

Hi all,

First time poster and brewer.

I am going to be brewing for the first time on my own this weekend. I bought a Brewers Best American Pale Wheat kit. I've decided to change the hop recipe from 1 oz cluster (60 mins) and 1 oz liberty (5 min) to a combination of 2-3 oz Amarillo, 1 oz Warrior and 1 oz Simcoe (unsure of boil times thus far) to make it more my own. The recipe that comes with the kit only calls for the two different hops at 1 oz each but that didn't seem to be enough for my hoppy taste buds. Anything I should think about by adding that much more hops?

Second question, the kit comes with a dry pack of BRY-97 yeast. The recipe specifically states to not rehydrate. Everything I've read says to rehydrate the yeast prior to pitching. Any thoughts?

Thank you for your help!!


- BoRock

Favorite beers
- Founders Breakfast Stout
- Lagunitas Sucks
- Dale's Pale Ale
- Three Floyds Gumballhead

 

[kh54s10]

Use an online recipe maker to determine the hop schedule. There are several free ones. I can't remember them off the top of my head. I would suspect with that much you will need to add a lot of them late or dry hop with some of them.

I would go with rehydrating the yeast. I think the kits recommend against it thinking beginners are likely to mess something up or that the kits are not good enough that the extra work would be worth the trouble. Dry pitching will do the job and you will get good beer, rehydrating will make it better.

 

[BoRock40]

Thanks for the feedback. I will check the Google machine for the recipe makers.


- BoRock

Favorite beers
- Founders Breakfast Stout
- Lagunitas Sucks
- Dale's Pale Ale
- Three Floyds Gumballhead

 

[unionrdr]

Hi all,

First time poster and brewer.

I am going to be brewing for the first time on my own this weekend. I bought a Brewers Best American Pale Wheat kit. I've decided to change the hop recipe from 1 oz cluster (60 mins) and 1 oz liberty (5 min) to a combination of 2-3 oz Amarillo, 1 oz Warrior and 1 oz Simcoe (unsure of boil times thus far) to make it more my own. The recipe that comes with the kit only calls for the two different hops at 1 oz each but that didn't seem to be enough for my hoppy taste buds. Anything I should think about by adding that much more hops?

Second question, the kit comes with a dry pack of BRY-97 yeast. The recipe specifically states to not rehydrate. Everything I've read says to rehydrate the yeast prior to pitching. Any thoughts?

Thank you for your help!!


- BoRock

Favorite beers
- Founders Breakfast Stout
- Lagunitas Sucks
- Dale's Pale Ale
- Three Floyds Gumballhead

I'd say .3oz warrior @ 60, 1oz amarillo @ 20, 1oz simcoe @ 15 & the other ounce of amarillo @ 10. Warrior is great for bittering but an ounce in that beer for bittering might be a bit much.

 

[BoRock40]

I used a recipe calculator and ended up using .5 warrior 60, 1oz Amarillo 20, 1oz Amarillo 5 min, and .5 amarillo at 1 min. I plan to dry hop .5 Amarillo and .5 simcoe in the secondary.

I boiled over on my warrior hop addition as my big rookie mistake. I hope I didn't lose too much and ruin anything. Oh well I guess that's how I will learn to bring the oven mits outside next time.

Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[unionrdr]

Sounds like reasonable timing. Stir like crazy during the hot break, & maybe use a spray bottle of water to help keep it down. It only lasts about three minutes or so.