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jcarson83 said:
I haven't bought it yet. I'll probably be brewing next weekend. The place I'm buying from is giving me an alpha of 5-7%, whatever that means. They are pretty helpful so I figured I would just ask them when I got there how much to add for the required AAUs.

http://www.homebrewery.com/beer/beer-hops-pellets.shtml
The alpha acid units of the hops are the AAU's but you need to determine the weight to get IBU of bittering units. Your recipe calls for 35-40 IBU's. I don't think 1 ounce is quite enough.
 
AAU x Hop Utilization Factor = IBU
6 x 4.25 = 25.5
6 x 1.25 = 7.5
33 IBU

Then I don't know how to figure the Hop Utilization Factor for dry hopping 10 AAU.
 
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