forgot to dry hop

[Ster]

Just made a fairly pale IIPA with Warrior and finished with fuggles. (SRM=8, IBU around 100). After bottling, looked at my notes.. doh. Forgot to dry hop. Too late now. What to expect?

 

[jmcm_brew]

Should be just fine.. Especially with that high of ibu... Dry hopping is just for aroma anyway but you still get some aroma in your hop additions during the last few minutes of the boil.

 

[erichsmith]

You can dry hop when you rack to secondary. You may need to filter before you bottle or keg though. But with an IBU of 100 why bother???

 

[Trox]

You can dry hop when you rack to secondary. You may need to filter before you bottle or keg though. But with an IBU of 100 why bother???

He has already bottled, and there is no need to rack to a secondary; just dry hop in your primary once fermentation is done.

 

[GASoline71]

All dry hopping does is give you more hop aroma. Contributes extremely little to no hop flavor. So it didn't really do anything to not dry hop a beer with that high of an IBU.

Gary

 

[TheZymurgist]

I have to disagree with those that say aroma doesn't contribute to flavor. Flavor is made up of two parts: Taste and Aroma. Taste is what our tongues detect, and consist of five senses: sweet, sour, salt, bitter, and umami (savory). Aroma is what olfactory nerves in your nose and throat detect. The brain interprets these two sensations together as Flavor. So, when something adds Aroma (which many think of only as smell) it does add Flavor as well. Which is why we're told as children to hold our nose when eating/drinking something that tastes bad. This doesn't completely work because there are olfactory nerves in the throat that allow us to still detect the aroma aspect of flavor.

In this case, you will have a beer that is heavy on the bitter aspect of flavor, but lacking on the aroma, which is not only smell. What the others have said is that two beers will taste exactly the same if one is dry hopped, and the other isn't (all other things being equal.) They are also saying that there is no point in dry hopping a beer with high IBUs, since all you would be effecting is the smell of the beer. But, again, IBUs only determine bitterness, not the entire flavor of the beer.

That being said, you probably still have a decent beer. I wouldn't go entering it in any competitions unless you had a bunch of late-addition hops, but it should still be good.

 

[jmcm_brew]

I did an imperial red and split the batch dry hopped one and not the other... The difference was there but very minute..both were great... Bottom line don't sweat it... You can make a nice ipa with great aroma from late hop additions and no dry hopping

 

[GASoline71]

Not saying that it doesn't contribute "any" flavor. Because the aroma does help enhance flavor. However... it won't (or I should prolly say "shouldn't") contribute any IBU's.

Gary

 

[TheZymurgist]

Not saying that it doesn't contribute "any" flavor. Because the aroma does help enhance flavor. However... it won't (or I should prolly say "shouldn't") contribute any IBU's.

Gary

That's true, but a couple people did make a correlation between IBUs and dry hopping, and my point was just that it doesn't matter what your IBUs are, dry hopping does affect flavor. Of course, it depends on the hops and the amount you dry hop with. I did an experiment once where I only added a bittering charge at the beginning of the boil, then dry hopped with six ounces in a five gallon batch. I know that's an extreme example, but if I didn't dry hop that beer it would have tasted completely differently. IBUs aren't the only thing we want from hops in an IPA.

 

[Ster]

@jmcm

Imperial red.

I was just thinking about trying this.

I was planning on hopping like a bitter ipa and steeping with carared. Thoughts?

 

[jmcm_brew]

http://brewgr.com/recipe/721/imperial-red-ale-american-ipa-recipe

This is the recipe I used... Pretty much an ipa with the grain bill of a red