Help fix my Czech

[bailey mountain brewer]

Wow, that makes me feel a little better.. I scored a 34 with my neipa which usually scores in the 40s but that beer still didn't place in Philly. I appreciate the insight on that.

 

[whovous]

Next subject, I brewed this beer yesterday after work, was a late night but things went well, hit my target OG and the beer is sitting in the fermenter at 53f I was a tad short on volume due to boil rate and boil time, but I expected that, I'll need to change my boil off rate in beersmith when I boil hard like that. I set my temp at 213f and let it rip for 90 minutes.

At the risk of sounding pedantic here, if you hit your OG but your volume was low, you didn't really hit your OG. You should be able to add water after the end of the boil to get your volume where it needs to be and still hit your OG. IOW, your OG should be high if your volume is low.

If I have this wrong, please correct me. I want to try my first lager soon, and hitting the numbers seems a lot more important for a lager than it does for the IPAs I keep doing over and over. I want to be sure I understand my objectives here.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You are correct... but that's on me making adjustments in beersmith for this style and recipe.. still happy with the numbers.

 

[whovous]

Oh, absolutely. I should have added water to the beer I am drinking now, but winding up with a smaller amount of a tasty DIPA is not really a bad thing. I will fix it next time...

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Ok, so I'm getting ready to brew this again. The saaz and tettnang I have are pretty low on alpha acid like 2% and 2.2% I'd like to not have to use a bunch of hops to get it to the ibu level I'd like to achieve. So what would be a good bitting hop that has higher alpha acids and will fit the style? Maybe perle ??

 

[dmtaylor]

Ok, so I'm getting ready to brew this again. The saaz and tettnang I have are pretty low on alpha acid like 2% and 2.2% I'd like to not have to use a bunch of hops to get it to the ibu level I'd like to achieve. So what would be a good bitting hop that has higher alpha acids and will fit the style? Maybe perle ??

Magnum might be the ideal. It's related to traditional German hops.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Thanks, I was considering magnum also, but didn't put the relation together.

 

[norrismj]

You might try Mt. hood and or Sterling.