Hi all and thank you for reading
I have been brewing for a while and though I am a pretty casual brewer I can usually create a decent beer when I try.
I recently moved to Poland, on a farm, and I am using water from a private well, so lots of minerals, probably pretty soft and no chemicals. (naturally filtered apparently)
I have brewed two beers so far using the grainfather, and making sure to add bittering hops @ 60 mins to avoid too much bitterness, and lots of hops on 15 and 5 mins. (to the extent it pretty much clogs my hop filter).
On my last beer i used 50g cascade at 15 mins, 50g citra at 5 min (3,5 oz all together) and i dry hopped with 100 grams of citra (again 3,5 oz) and i had a small tasting now after a week in the bottle just as the carbonation is starting to get going. I just couldnt believe it, it had such a small, pathetic amount of aroma and basically just a little too much bitterness.
I used safale 05 and fermented for two weeks at 18 degrees celsius (64-65 fahrenheit). I like to think i did everything right.
Back in Norway, I always got really fruity and lovely IPAs with this type of hop regiment and a balanced bitterness.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going wrong here.
I am getting married i 3 months and the plan was to brew some lovely hoppy pale ale with low bitterness but now I'm unsure how to achieve this.
could the water here prevent me from getting the hop flavor i want?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thank you.
TLR: The hops aint making my beers fruity and lovely.
I have been brewing for a while and though I am a pretty casual brewer I can usually create a decent beer when I try.
I recently moved to Poland, on a farm, and I am using water from a private well, so lots of minerals, probably pretty soft and no chemicals. (naturally filtered apparently)
I have brewed two beers so far using the grainfather, and making sure to add bittering hops @ 60 mins to avoid too much bitterness, and lots of hops on 15 and 5 mins. (to the extent it pretty much clogs my hop filter).
On my last beer i used 50g cascade at 15 mins, 50g citra at 5 min (3,5 oz all together) and i dry hopped with 100 grams of citra (again 3,5 oz) and i had a small tasting now after a week in the bottle just as the carbonation is starting to get going. I just couldnt believe it, it had such a small, pathetic amount of aroma and basically just a little too much bitterness.
I used safale 05 and fermented for two weeks at 18 degrees celsius (64-65 fahrenheit). I like to think i did everything right.
Back in Norway, I always got really fruity and lovely IPAs with this type of hop regiment and a balanced bitterness.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going wrong here.
I am getting married i 3 months and the plan was to brew some lovely hoppy pale ale with low bitterness but now I'm unsure how to achieve this.
could the water here prevent me from getting the hop flavor i want?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thank you.
TLR: The hops aint making my beers fruity and lovely.