Wet Hop Ale

[DaveTF]

I'm going to try a wet hop harvest style ale soon. My second year hops are producing a good crop and my Cascade hops are going crazy so I'm going to use those for this beer. What do you think?


Harvest Day Ale
American Pale Ale
5.3% / 13.3 °P
All Grain
BIAB (Batch Sparge) 5 Gal
75% efficiency
Batch Volume: 5 gal
Boil Time: 90 min
Mash Water: 3.17 gal
Sparge Water: 3.64 gal @ 170 °F
Total Water: 6.81 gal
Boil Volume: 6.33 gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.044 / 11 °P
Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.054 / 13.3 °P
Final Gravity: 1.014 / 3.6 °P
IBU (Tinseth): 42
BU/GU: 0.77
Color: 9.8 SRM

Mash
Temperature — 155 °F — 60 min
Mash out — 170 °F — 5 min
Malts (9 lb 11.9 oz)
8 lb 15.6 oz (92.1%) — Briess Organic 2-Row Malt — Grain — 1.8 °L
12.4 oz (7.9%) — Briess Caramel Malt Organic 60L — Grain — 60 °L

Hops (4.63 oz)
0.13 oz (8 IBU) — Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) 15.5% — Boil — 60 min
0.5 oz (9 IBU) — Cascade 6.1% — Boil — 30 min
10 oz (24 IBU) — Cascade Fresh Hops (Whole) 6.5% — Boil — 15 min
10 oz — Cascade Fresh Hops (Whole) 6.5% — Boil — 0 min

Miscs
2.545 g — Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) — Mash
3.909 g — Epsom Salt (MgSO4) — Mash
8.545 g — Gypsum (CaSO4) — Mash
3 ml — Lactic Acid 80% — Mash
1.673 ml — Lactic Acid 80% — Sparge
1 g — Yeast Nutrients — Boil — 15 min
0.5 items — Whirlfloc — Boil — 5 min
Yeast
1 pkg — Wyeast Labs 1056 American Ale 77%
1.1 L starter
Fermentation
Primary — 68 °F — 14 days
Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile
Ca2+ 116
Mg2+ 22
Na+ 37
Cl- 67
SO42- 279
HCO3- 105

 

[Miraculix]

137 Ibus?

 

[AzOr]

137 Ibus?

The beer software may not recognize the wet vs dry hops.
If you use the ‘ol wet hops ratio of 5:1, the ibu’ would probably be in the range of a normal pale.
I think it looks delicious. I do an annual wet hop beer and it’s something I look forward to.
Good luck and report back!

 

[DaveTF]

I missed that when I posted. The software doesn't calculate fresh hops so it's thinking they are dried whole hops. I've updated those numbers to reflect what it should be using dried hops.
Thanks

 

[moreb33rplz]

.05 oz of hops is kind of silly. What's that, 2-3 pellets?

 

[DaveTF]

Let's try the recipe again. Apparently the one I used to copy from was somewhat of a template so some of the items were a little off. I've updated the original recipe.

 

[Beerstein]

If you don’t know the potency of your fresh hops consider going as high as 8x

 

[oakbarn]

Make sure the glands are open and you have resin. Take some hops and roll in your hand. The resin should get on your hands (and light yellow). Hops too green will produce 'grass clippings" beer.