Need suggestions - Hop Blunder

[t3e871]

I brewed a IPA yesterday for first time and the recipe called for 1.5 oz Magnum at 60 min, 2oz Cascade at 10 min, 2 oz Cascade at 1 min. I ad-libbed and decided to first hop the wort with 1 oz of Hallartaug that I had laying around. I then added the 1.5 oz magnum at 60min, but I forgot to add the cascade...I was distracted and had the yeast pitched and was cleaning up when I realized my mistake.

I'm now thinking about dry hopping with the 4 oz of cascade in the secondary. I love hoppy IPAs and dont want to ruin my batch...what other options do I have? What about boiling 2oz of the Cascade and making a "tea" in a small amount of water and adding to the beer?

Thanks

 

[Calder]

An option:

Boil 0.75 lbs of extract in 4 pints of water. After break has past, add 1 ozs cascade. Boil for 9 minutes, add 1 ozs Cascade, boil for 1 minute, then cool. Add liquid to primary.

I'd save a couple of ounces for dry hopping.

 

[Rundownhouse]

Yeah, definitely need some extract when boiling the hops for utilization. If you keg, it'd be fairly easy to just dryhop with a few oz of cascade, and if you still aren't satisfied, boil a couple oz up as Calder described. If you don't keg, now's a great time to start.

 

[wilserbrewer]

Agreed! you need flavor hops and finishing hops. Hot steep for 20 - 30 min ( 190 or below to preserve aromatics) two good handfulls of cascade and toss em in.

 

[BrewMU]

Yeah, definitely need some extract when boiling the hops for utilization. If you keg, it'd be fairly easy to just dryhop with a few oz of cascade, and if you still aren't satisfied, boil a couple oz up as Calder described. If you don't keg, now's a great time to start.

I'm not saying it's not so, but why do you need extract to boil hops?

 

[t3e871]

I'ts done...keg is almost empty. To follow up - I just dry hopped all 4 oz of cascade pellets in a hop sock. Aged, kegged and carbonated. The beer is good. Not a hop-bomb, but very IPA-like. Its very cloudy and Im not sure why that is....

 

[nbolmer]

I'ts done...keg is almost empty. To follow up - I just dry hopped all 4 oz of cascade pellets in a hop sock. Aged, kegged and carbonated. The beer is good. Not a hop-bomb, but very IPA-like. Its very cloudy and Im not sure why that is....

Not uncommon when dry hopping (particularly with pellets). If you're concerned (don't be) a little gelatin with clear it up (or a cold conditioning will help) Or you can relax, don't worry... you know the drill It won't affect the flavor negatively.