I recently brewed a lighter beer, and maybe it's because I've been drinking high abv/ibu beers, but I think there is not enough bitterness in the balance.
The beer is done, and I want to add bitterness. I'm wondering if I can take a hop extract product (eg hop shot) and boil it in a small batch of water and dump that in the beer.
I have a 5g batch of beer and the keg is full so I don't want to dump more than a pint or so of hopped water into the beer. Hop extract needs to be boiled to achieve bitterness, so I figure I could boil the required amt of hop extract for the 5g batch in say 1L of water for 60m.
Question is would there be any utilization issues? For 35 IBU at 1.045, the generic guidance is 3.5mL of hop extract but for 5g.
Any ideas?
The beer is done, and I want to add bitterness. I'm wondering if I can take a hop extract product (eg hop shot) and boil it in a small batch of water and dump that in the beer.
I have a 5g batch of beer and the keg is full so I don't want to dump more than a pint or so of hopped water into the beer. Hop extract needs to be boiled to achieve bitterness, so I figure I could boil the required amt of hop extract for the 5g batch in say 1L of water for 60m.
Question is would there be any utilization issues? For 35 IBU at 1.045, the generic guidance is 3.5mL of hop extract but for 5g.
Any ideas?