What's your next brew

[Megary]

I might try to modify my last Pale Ale experiment for my next batch. I loved the base. I loved the yeast. I just didn't get aggressive enough with the hops. I want to push the IBUs up to the 45 or 50 range, maybe higher if I need to, but I don't want to go crazy. I'm not going to dry hop yet. I want to see if I can get where I want with 60 and 10 minute additions. I want to go 60 on Cascade and 10 on Mosaic. I haven't worked everything out with the software yet.
My base is 63.6% Pale 21.8 Pils, 7.3% Flaked Oats, 3.6% White Wheat, and 3.6% C40. I want to use WLP067 for yeast. I want the alcohol in the upper 5's, or I could go more sessionable. I do not want a full blown 7%er IPA for this one. If y'all have any constructive ideas, I will listen, or in this case, read.

I’ll double down on the excellent advice above from @J A
If you want the hops to really shine, I would also suggest moving all of your late additions to 0, or whirlpool. I also find that my hoppy aroma and goodness is more pronounced when I use multiple hops late, not just one variety. YMMV on that one though.

This reminds me of when we all brewed @HighVoltageMan! ’s community Pale Ale recipe and we were all a bit unnerved by the total tonnage of late hops he used. The version of his recipe that I ended up brewing was an absolutely glorious success and completely changed my way of thinking on late hops usage. If I think I’m adding enough, I add a little more.

Here’s his recipe:
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/253526/wayner-039-s-pale-ale

And here’s the discussion:
https://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/threads/q1-2021-community-recipe-by-highvoltageman.14178/

Good luck with it, and please keep us posted!

 

[Sandy Feet]

I thought there were only a couple of kinds of hops where you could do that, and don't they get really fruity?

 

[Brewdomestix]

I was going to do a batch of Brown Ale for bottling but I have been rattling through my cider so will have to replenish the stocks of that first. Think I will do a strong dry pear some point during next fortnight. Temperature just starting to go up now and Daffodil shoots coming through.

 

[Sandy Feet]

I’ll double down on the excellent advice above from @J A
If you want the hops to really shine, I would also suggest moving all of your late additions to 0, or whirlpool. I also find that my hoppy aroma and goodness is more pronounced when I use multiple hops late, not just one variety. YMMV on that one though.

This reminds me of when we all brewed @HighVoltageMan! ’s community Pale Ale recipe and we were all a bit unnerved by the total tonnage of late hops he used. The version of his recipe that I ended up brewing was an absolutely glorious success and completely changed my way of thinking on late hops usage. If I think I’m adding enough, I add a little more.

Here’s his recipe:
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/253526/wayner-039-s-pale-ale

And here’s the discussion:
https://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/threads/q1-2021-community-recipe-by-highvoltageman.14178/

Good luck with it, and please keep us posted!

Stupid question with this: Lets say I throw a shitload of hops in at whirlpool. Are they going to clump too much for me to get all the beer out of the kettle? Are they going to get enough contact during the whirlpool to translate into the beer draining it from the kettle into the Fermonster? Y'all are probably right, but I am trying to get my head around this because I am comfortable with a 10 minute addition. I know I will get something out of it. And, this is probably why the hoppy beers are somewhat of a challenge for me when I love just about everything else that I make. They were just talking about this on the Zoom meeting too. Maybe I need to listen, but everything that I have done tells me to go very late in the boil.
O.k., so what do y'all think would happen if I went 1 oz Cascade at 60, 1 oz Cascade at 10, and another 1.5 oz Mosaic at 10? This gets me right at 50 IBUS. I'm not a huge Citra fan, so I don't want to go that direction, but given what I said above, would you do this and still try to do something else in the whirlpool? If so, how much more? I don't want to go stupid hoppy, but I do want it there.
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[Josh Hughes]

I had no issue throwing all those hops in for a whirlpool. They had enough that this beer was the most hip flavor of any beer I’ve made. Talking about the beer we were talking about on the zoom.