Hopnog 2011 my first brew

[NJDEVILS88]

So i bought this kit at my local brewshop and everything was going okay but i realized that i had added a oz packet of the experimental whole flower hops to begin a 60min boil instead of the oz of millenium bittering ones that are in pellet form.

so i threw the pellets in with forty minuets left on the boil, after doing this i lengthened the boil to about 90 mins instead maybe a little less.i added a oz more of experimental at 10 minuets left and then another at 5 left.


do you think it will be okay?

also im sure its a no no but my top off water i used with my wart to equal 5 gallons was from sealed gallon jugs of poland spring water, not boiled water, is this going to be a huge problem?

 

[NJDEVILS88]

anybody online?

 

[Yuri_Rage]

You probably made beer, but I really don't know how to answer your question(s) about the hopping. What are "experimental hops?"

List the recipe/instructions in as much detail as you can and maybe we can help.

 

[NJDEVILS88]

hey experimental hops are HBC 342, they arent named yet, part of the whole nasa theme i guess. heres the recipe



http://www.brewersbestkits.com/pdf/1053 HopNog 2011.pdf

 

[NJDEVILS88]

do you think the sealed spring
water could contaminate it

 

[boostsr20]

do you think the sealed spring
water could contaminate it

As long as you pitched enough yeast and fermentation started in the normal range your fine. I used to use bottled spring water to top off all the time when I started out. Nothing wrong with it at all.

 

[brewski09]

You are fine with the water to top it off. Try using one of the free recipe sites like hopville or beertools to check the recipe bitterness

 

[NJDEVILS88]

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i think i did that correctly, the ibu is 76.2 is that too bitter?

not sure if what i entered into the calc is exactly correct

 

[scottab]

From everything i have read about the hopnog and the experimental hops there is no wrong way to brew it aslong as you follow good brewing practices. The point is to experiment and every batch brewed from the kits will be unique. You will probhave a much hoppier final brew, but aslong as you brew clean and follow good practices you should be all good. How did it turn out?

So i bought this kit at my local brewshop and everything was going okay but i realized that i had added a oz packet of the experimental whole flower hops to begin a 60min boil instead of the oz of millenium bittering ones that are in pellet form.

so i threw the pellets in with forty minuets left on the boil, after doing this i lengthened the boil to about 90 mins instead maybe a little less.i added a oz more of experimental at 10 minuets left and then another at 5 left.


do you think it will be okay?

also im sure its a no no but my top off water i used with my wart to equal 5 gallons was from sealed gallon jugs of poland spring water, not boiled water, is this going to be a huge problem?

 

[jplee888]

I just completed my first batch of beer after receiving a kit for Christmas. The ingredient kit was for Hopnog 2011 which was suppose to be for experimenting with varying degrees of hops and pellets that they've provided in the kit. It was an intermediate recipe even though I'm just a beginner, so I just followed the step by step instructions. Well, I didn't really understand that I was suppose to be experimenting with varying amounts of ingredients so I just added each full packet of hops or pellets at the times designated on the recipe. If I was experimenting, I should have done a little of this and a little of that, but I used each whole packet at each suggested interval. My son-in-law said not to strain it, so we left everything in the fermenting pail-hops and all for two weeks. I realize now that straining was in order, but the flavors sure had a great chance to meld! After two weeks in the fermenting pail, it was raked into the carboy (strained it then) for another week and then bottled. Today is the second week of carbonation in the bottles and I just chilled one and tried it. It is wonderful! It's very flavorful, robust and hoppy as you might imagine, but very good. I will make a lighter less filling beer next time, but I guess it just goes to show that you can goof up a little and still make great beer. I'm sold!

 

[brewski09]

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i think i did that correctly, the ibu is 76.2 is that too bitter?

not sure if what i entered into the calc is exactly correct

you need to save the recipe for someone else to view it, but 76.2 sounds fine for IBU. it will be bitter, but it is an IPA (or double IPA maybe in this case). also, you can change from the default calculation to a different type of hop utilization and it will show a different IBU amount (right underneath the IBU rating, there is an edit button during recipe formulation. it starts with Tinseth on Hopville, but I prefer to use Rager). my first batch (red IPA) was 46 and the second batch was a 90IBU barleywine. hopville user ID Brewski09.