So...... I brewed a IPA and...?

[SCARYLARRY]

Brewed a 4th batch last night and cracked open my first batch, which was a nut brown ale ( 2 weeks primary 1 week secondary and 2 weeks in the bottle) It was amazing, hell waiting that long though.

Anyways what I brewed was an IPA. The recipe called for 6oz of cascade for 60 min and ? oz for 5 min. I did the 60 min. and didn't add the finishing till the 60 min. mark and let it all go for an additional 15 min. Was trying to make it a bit hoppier. Will I succeed or did I screw up? What would be the negative or positive from doing this?

Also made a yeast starter for the first time and wow did that sucker take off!

 

[Whisler85]

you might have made it more bitter, not more hoppy. more alpha acids would be isomerized because you lengthened the time they were boiling.

you might lose some flavor/aroma from that second hop addition- most IPAs are late-hopped at knockout (when you take it off the heat) and dry-hopped

so, you might be less that amazed by the aroma, but you'll probably still be happy with the taste

 

[RICLARK]

Did you add all 6 oz at 60 min? What was the recipe and what was the AA% of the cascades?

 

[HOOTER]

6 oz. for 60 minutes? That's a ton of bittering hops, even for an IPA. How many ounces did you add total?

 

[BierMuncher]

Ummmmm.

Assuming you're doing a partial boil extract, 6 ounces of Cascade for 60 minutes would put you well over 100-IBU's. That's on a 1.060 beer.

Where exactly did you get that recipe?

 

[Homercidal]

You may have to cut the beer with some miller lite to lower the bitter!

Just kidding. Use something malty!

 

[nibiyabi]

Was this five gallons?

 

[ohiobrewtus]

You are all a bunch of sissies. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a 6 oz. hop addition at 60 minutes.

 

[SCARYLARRY]

Did you add all 6 oz at 60 min? What was the recipe and what was the AA% of the cascades?

It is a brewers best IPA. It wasn't 6oz my bad, it was 2 0z of cascades at 6.75% and another 1oz at 3.5%

Assuming you're doing a partial boil extract, 6 ounces of Cascade for 60 minutes would put you well over 100-IBU's. That's on a 1.060 beer.

I did a five gallon boil had to add 3/4 of a gallon of water. I would love it if it hit that high, but it would probally be way out of balance.