My latest came out ok but not what I was going for. I’d love to get some feedback on my recipe and process for some possible trouble points or improvement opportunities. I think I represent a lot of what this thread talks about, but I'm missing something...
Heres what I did:
72% Pilsner
17% white wheat
6% rolled oats
3% malted rye
1.5% honey malt
1.068->1.010
All the hops were 2020 new packages from YVH.
60 min boil. 25 ibus of Columbus
Flame out drop temp to 165, 4 oz RIWAKA and 2 oz CITRA loose in grainfather.
Immersion chilled to 65F. Pump clogged (not sure why I’ve been ok with this many loose kettle hops before.) Had to manually dump all the wort thru a funnel into fermentation keg - so tons of trub and hop matter in the FV - interesting accidental experiment, might have been where I went astray.
Active starter of Omega DIPA. FV is a 10 gallon corney keg. Spunding valve to 2-3psi.
Fermentation at 67F
Day 5 done fermenting, increased temp to 70 and pressurize to 12 psi. FG 1.010.
Day 7 cold crash to 45.
Day 9 dry hop loose at 58. 2oz Riwaka, 2 oz Citra.
Day 10 dry hop 4 oz NELSON and 2 oz citra and 0.2g kmeta.
Day 12 cold crash to 36f.
I dry hop loose by opening the lid with 2-3 psi of CO2 running thru the gas line.
Day 14 into serving keg, good closed transfer practices keg to keg.
Result:
The aroma is very nice definitely sweet fruit, hop flavor is rich, big mouthfeel. But the overall impression is a full bodied American ipa - not a hazy juicy fresh neipa. It doesn’t have that fruit juice flavor or that hop bag fresh aroma. The appearence of this version I dont find very attractive, a little amber and translucent haze, I’d like the appearance to be more pale yellow and hazy milky
Here’s what I think I should change:
Change malt bill to Pilsner and 20% malted oats, Target 6-6.5% - go for lighter and brighter
Transfer off clear beer into fermenter.
Switch yeast back to 1318 or juice, just not digging what I got from this conan
Go back to a mid fermentation dry hop. Then cold crash and then dry hop again at 60F, maybe try keg hopping again.
Need some fresh eyes on this, cuz I don't think I'm getting the results I could be.
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