This is the second year I've been growing hops (Chinook and Cascade) and I had enough to do an entirely wet hop beer. I put together my recipe on bewersfriend like I typically do, being sure to select fresh in the drop down menu for what type of hop I'm using. I was planning on making an IPA, so 1 ounce of Chinook as a first wort hop should be plenty I think. The resulting calculation agrees and says that I'll be getting roughly 60 IBU from this.
Fast forward to almost two thirds of the way through the boil and I'm looking up info on wet hopping when I see that wet hops should be used at a 5 to 1 ratio compared to dry hops to make up for all the water still in the wet hops. I immediately think my beer will be a sweet mess. But I still have 3 more ounces of Chinook and 9.5 ounces of cascade, so my only recourse is to try some hop bursting and a hop stand.
I ended up doing additions at 20 minutes, 10 and 5 and a 50 minute hop stand with all my remaining hops. I tasted a sample when I transferred to the fermentor, and while it wasn't what I planned on starting out the hop bitterness and favor was still there, albeit more of a pale ale bitterness than IPA. I'm confident this will still turn out to be a good beer, just don't screw up like I did.
TL;DR
Be sure to research using fresh hops before getting halfway through the boil and scrambling to make up for lost bitterness
Fast forward to almost two thirds of the way through the boil and I'm looking up info on wet hopping when I see that wet hops should be used at a 5 to 1 ratio compared to dry hops to make up for all the water still in the wet hops. I immediately think my beer will be a sweet mess. But I still have 3 more ounces of Chinook and 9.5 ounces of cascade, so my only recourse is to try some hop bursting and a hop stand.
I ended up doing additions at 20 minutes, 10 and 5 and a 50 minute hop stand with all my remaining hops. I tasted a sample when I transferred to the fermentor, and while it wasn't what I planned on starting out the hop bitterness and favor was still there, albeit more of a pale ale bitterness than IPA. I'm confident this will still turn out to be a good beer, just don't screw up like I did.
TL;DR
Be sure to research using fresh hops before getting halfway through the boil and scrambling to make up for lost bitterness
