Messed up hop schedule!

[col1186]

I was brewing my second batch using extract and specialty grains last night and mixed up the hops. The schedule was supposed to be:
1 oz of magnum @ 11.64 aau @ 60 min, 1 oz of cascade @ 5.5 aau @ 30 min, 1 oz of cascade @ 5.5 aau @ 10 min

I put an oz of cascade instead of magnum at60 min and didn't notice until about 15 Min into the boil I wasn't sure what to do so I just went with this schedule:

1 oz cascade @ 60 min, 1 oz cascade @ 45 min, .5 oz of magnum @30 min and .5 oz magnum @ 10 min. Same aau as above. Did I completely ruin this batch? This was supposed to be an American pale ale. Will it taste anything like that style?

 

[HerbieHowells]

You didn't ruin the beer, although it is going to taste a little different from what you were shooting for. You are going to lose some bitterness, because your high alpha acid hop was not in the pot as long as it should have been. And this is not going to taste like a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, because the aroma and flavoring elements brought by the Cascade hops will not come through. From a quick google search, it looks like it isn't completely unheard of to use magnum as a flavoring hop, but it is kind of rare. Apparently Sierra Nevada Torpedo is finished and dry hopped with magnum. So you are not going to have a classic bitter and citrusy Sierra Nevada type American Pale Ale, but you will probably end up with something rather tasty and somewhat unique.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Not ruined, just very different. The IBU will be different, as will the hop flavor. Magnum hops aren't really suited for late additions due to their flavor/aroma profile.

 

[Calichusetts]

I think your only real loss is the citrus-like flavor and aroma that you can get from using cascade as a late addition. Both are basically for bittering anyway so I don't think it will be a dramatic change...

And as the second post points out, magnum can be used as a late, I love me some torpedo!

 

[col1186]

Awesome! You guys have really put my mind at ease. I'm a little bummed that it won't be what I was hoping for, but I have no one to blame but myself.

 

[Sheldon]

you can always dry hop with some cascade to get the aroma

 

[Calichusetts]

you can always dry hop with some cascade to get the aroma

+1

 

[BrewKnurd]

you can always dry hop with some cascade to get the aroma

Exactly. I personally would dry hop just about any american pale ale anyways, but i'm admittedly a big fan of the hops. so I'm biased.

 

[morticaixavier]

You didn't ruin the beer, although it is going to taste a little different from what you were shooting for. You are going to lose some bitterness, because your high alpha acid hop was not in the pot as long as it should have been. And this is not going to taste like a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, because the aroma and flavoring elements brought by the Cascade hops will not come through. From a quick google search, it looks like it isn't completely unheard of to use magnum as a flavoring hop, but it is kind of rare. Apparently Sierra Nevada Torpedo is finished and dry hopped with magnum. So you are not going to have a classic bitter and citrusy Sierra Nevada type American Pale Ale, but you will probably end up with something rather tasty and somewhat unique.

at risk of being a total pedant...

a thing cannot be somwhat unique. it is either unique (one of a kind unlike anything else) or not. It can be somewhat unusual, kinda rare, a bit fringy but not sort unique.

grammatical rant over

 

[HerbieHowells]

I thought about going into a round about defense about how the beer would be like many other beers in that it had a similar gain bill and yeast profile, but unique in that it was finished with magnum hops, so that it was unique in one aspect but not unique in all aspects, but then I realized that it would just be better to say, you know, that phrase doesn't make any sense when you think about it.