Overhopping ?

[nianticcardplayer]

Ok so today is brew day #2 (Raspberry Wheat Abita Purple Haze Clone from AHS).

Recipe calls for 1/2 ounce of Chinook For 60 minutes

Then 1/2 ounce of Mt. hood for last five minutes or boil.

The packages came labeled 1 ounce....I don't have a scale that will weigh that precise....so will the tastes be way off using the whole package?

 

[Primevci]

i just divided the package in half seems to do ok...

 

[unionrdr]

If it can weigh grams,measure out 15g of each. That's half an ounce.

 

[terrapinj]

14g is half oz

If you use the whole oz of Chinook you will be doubling the bitterness. If you use the whole oz of mt hood you will have more hoppy flavor

 

[unionrdr]

Not the way I got it from the aissie's on the cooper's site. Sounds like we're getting into US Standard,Metric,Imperial thing again. I just looked it up on my printouts from sciencemadesimple.com. You're right,28.34952312g. Dang metrics. I stand corrected,note to self...read notes 1st...

 

[osagedr]

Measuring out half a package really shouldn't be that difficult.

 

[wildwest450]

You'll kill the style if you use full hop amounts. Pour em out on a paper plate and divvy them up.

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[unionrdr]

Or just do what I did,& go to Target & pop the $20 on a 10lb digital scale. It takes a camera battery (the flat round ones) like my old Canon 35mm takes. It measures lb,kg,oz,& grams. Tempered glass surface to measure on. You can put a container on it & zero it out. Quick-n-handy.
I got tired of trying to eyeball it.

 

[nianticcardplayer]

Well I found the Mrs. Food scale I got close so shouldn't be to far off.