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To dry hop or not...or what!
Well peeps the tee-tote-ale recipe has finished at 6.4% and is fairly tasty but I wanna dry hop but only have brewer's gold left. I just wanna bit of a bang with this one as its a high percentage beer and I want an aroma to go with it. Should I :-
a) use 20g brewers gold
b) buy some better aroma hops from greg and do it tommorow
c) do nothing
What do you all think? I quite like the smell of the brewers gold but I know many people only use it as a bittering hop. If I do go for a new hop what do you reckon? Nelson Sauvin, Cascade, Simcoe, urgh..... decisions decisions!
here is the recipe by the way :-
Batch Size: 22.00 L
Boil Size: 32.00 L
OG: 1.063 SG
FG: 1.014
Estimated Color: 16.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 46.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 75 Minutes
abv: 6.40%
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.75 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 90.13 %
0.25 kg Munich Malt (20.0 EBC) Grain 3.98 %
0.21 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (3.9 EBC) Grain 3.23 %
0.17 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (145.0 EBC) Grain 2.66 %
12.00 gm Pilgrim [10.90 %] (75 min) Hops 12.5 IBU
30.00 gm Brewer's Gold [8.40 %] (30 min) Hops 17.7 IBU
30.00 gm Brewer's Gold [8.40 %] (20 min) Hops 13.9 IBU
34.00 gm Cascade (NZ) [7.60 %] (2 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
Responses
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
I'd go for Brewers Gold. Use it up.
If it smells nice then its gonna give a good aroma.
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
IT.....IS.....DONE!
Looking forward to this beer, tasting from the fermenter its wayyyyy different from my normal. Outside the comfort zone! Ohhhhh yeah.
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Well .. I see you've already done it, damn. You should NEVER dry-hop with Brewers Gold, it give a distinct cat's pee after-taste that attacks your taste buds like a sledge-hammer and has an after taste that will last days!
:o) Only kidding, I think its a great idea to use them. Nice one nath!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Do you know what.. Hmmm, well do you....
hmmm, well, hmmm?
I looked at that comment and because im on nights I just saw the never bit! I immediatly got angry, then it subsided after I read the bottom.
Ive got beer PMT.
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
lol .. excellent!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Well I "samples" a git today from the fermenter and its taste has changed from "hmmmm this could be allright" to "WTF!" I dont think its infected but maybe I wont be using brewers gold as a dry hop in furure! I will barrel in a mo and wait a few weeks, as we all know (and lets say this together)
"CONDITIONING CAN CURE ALL!"
Chigedy Wigedy Bigedy Bo!
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
It'll be fine nath .. when I dry hopped a brew a couple of months ago it smelled and tasted awful when I bottled it - I almost didn't bother. Finished up wonderful .. although I will say, it tasted better young.
There's about 10 million jokes in there and I refuse to say anything!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Well it was only dry hopped for 2 days as I got scared so we shall see. On another note when I was cleaning the fv out I ran water through the hops in muslim and it was amazing. Great smell, lovely green running so I thought I would taste it. Really bitter but not extremely unpleasant! I may keep em and use them as a car freshener!
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I'll be honest dry hopping is down to taste... I lobve Brewdog beers and there huge hoppiness so I was really up for it bu other people i given tastes to have been less enthused!
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Yeah, I wanted that big hit on this beer, but only had these hops left. Still we shall see, Im sure whatever it turns out like I will drink it!
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
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