FWH Pacific Jade

[DonRikkles]

I'm fiddling with the hop schedule of my upcoming IIPA and would like to try to first-wort hop. My current schedule has, for a three gallon batch, .6 oz of PJ at 60 min and .6 oz of PJ at 30 min. I've got a mix of Nelson Sauvin and Motueka for the later aroma and flavor additions, with a large Galaxy dry hop.

What I'd like to do is move the 30 min addition to the FW, and keep the 60 min addition. Then, I would not make any additions until the 15 min flavor and aroma addition.

What do you think?

 

[DonRikkles]

I'm fiddling with the hop schedule of my upcoming IIPA and would like to try to first-wort hop. My current schedule has, for a three gallon batch, .6 oz of PJ at 60 min and .6 oz of PJ at 30 min. I've got a mix of Nelson Sauvin and Motueka for the later aroma and flavor additions, with a large Galaxy dry hop.

What I'd like to do is move the 30 min addition to the FW, and keep the 60 min addition. Then, I would not make any additions until the 15 min flavor and aroma addition.

What do you think?

Help... please?

 

[mewithstewpid]

Sounds good

 

[chri5]

A lot of IPA recipes skip a 30 minute addition altogether. Moving those hops to a fwh addition won't hurt.

As for the flavor combo...no hope here. Never used or tasted those hops.

 

[Herky21]

I think it's better to dry hop with hops that are also part of the flavor additions. How did this turn out?

 

[RonPopeil]

you're on the right track with eliminating the 30 minute addition.

IPA's are pretty simple to make. the main idea is a small bittering charge up front and tons of hops in the last 15 minutes or so. the later you begin adding your flavor hops the more you need to compensate with your bittering addition.

i've tried making IPA's and pale ales with only late additions and it's very flavorful but the bitterness is lacking. the bitterness from the late additions is covered very well by the flavor of the hops. imo you would need high cohumulone hops at the end to really make it work. easier to just do a bittering addition for 20-40% of your IBU's depending on how intense you want the bitterness.