Review My Recipe - 357 Magnum

[Snoogles]

http://hopville.com/recipe/1287336/imperial-ipa-recipes/357-magnum

What do you think guys? Get it? 357 (Darn hopville won't let me do 7 oz dry hop so I had to do 6 + 1)

 

[Pie_Man]

You probably know that magnum is known as more of a bittering hop, but that doesn't mean it won't make a good IIPA. I've not used it myself, so I can't really speak to it's flavor and aroma from personal experience.

The FG of 1.026 seems a little high for me. I personally prefer IIPAs a little dryer, about 1.20 or less. I might back off a little on the DME to get a dryer beer.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do and please keep us posted.

 

[Snoogles]

You probably know that magnum is known as more of a bittering hop, but that doesn't mean it won't make a good IIPA. I've not used it myself, so I can't really speak to it's flavor and aroma from personal experience.

The FG of 1.026 seems a little high for me. I personally prefer IIPAs a little dryer, about 1.20 or less. I might back off a little on the DME to get a dryer beer.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do and please keep us posted.

Yeah, I'm actually pretty new to brewing and very new to Hopville but something seems to be off, I agree 1.026 sounds pretty high, all of Hopvilles estimated FG's seem high...not sure why

 

[Pie_Man]

Hopville's FG calculation seems reasonable. Yeast typically convert between 65-80% of the sugar in wort into alcohol, this measurement is referred to as apparent attenuation and the normal range varies depending of the yeast strain.

Apparent attenuation = (OG-FG)/OG * 100, so (103-26)/103 * 100 is about 75% attenuation which seems correct. When making a super big beer with an OG of 1.103, it's difficult to get the beer to finish lower and make a drier tasting beer. If you keep the recipe as is, you're going to need a boat load of yeast even to get to 1.026. I'd use a yeast calculater like the one available at mrmalty.com. You are almost certainly going to need to make a yeast starter for this beer (or pitch two vials of yeast). Making a starter isn't difficult, but you'll have to plan ahead. There's great information on this forum about the starter making process if you're not familiar with it.

Backing down the amount of DME will lower your OG. If attenuation is about 75%, it will be easier to get a drier finishing beer. An OG of 1.075 - 1.085 is within the style for this beer and will make it easier to reach a lower FG.

 

[Ply318ci]

Did you notice that the OG on hopville was pretty accurate to what you got or not.