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[artyb]

im just about to brew a single malt single hope beer ... tonite... :party:

i have
4kg of marris
fuggles or cascade hops ..

any suggestions or recipes... :wha:

 

[artyb]

whats an average amount of hops ..ive 100g

 

[PD]

shove in 40 gms at start and 15-20 gms with 10-15 mins to go.

4kg of malt for a 23 liter brew will only give you a 3.3% abv beer

 

[artyb]

ive made the grain bill
4.5 mo and 1kg pale malt... :thumb:

 

[JKaranka]

make 16l, chuck 1/4 of the hops at the beginning of the boil and 3/4 with 5 minutes to go :

 

[captain wassname]

whats the hops and AA

Jim

 

[captain wassname]

oops sorry never read the OP

Jim

 

[artyb]

its about to finish mashing ... :party:

im gonna use the cascade hops 50 at the start of boil and 50 in the last 15 mins..

must go and find the irish moss

 

[artyb]

this came out really well .. :thumb:

dispite reading the wrong scale on the thermometer for the mash so i had it too hot... :twisted:

it was very hoppy a bit like a hopping hare beer , :party:

i used
4kg of marris
1/2 kg pale malt

fuggles
50g at start
50g last 30 mins.


bobeck hop tea added into fv
50g

 

[fbsf]

Nice work :thumb: If you want even more hop flavour (without the added bitterness), then next time do 30g at the start, 50g at 15 mins, and reserve 20g for a hop tea when you come to bottle it (either in the priming bucket, or if you bottle from the primary, gently mix it in). :

 

[artyb]

duly noted... :thumb:
im really only just getting my head around hop shedules... :?

 

[fbsf]

Basically, the earlier in the boil the hops go in, the more bitterness is extracted, and the more flavour (from the oils) is boiled off.

So for a normal pale ale, it's good to have a mix of bittering, late and aroma hops to give a good balance between the different aspects.

Even with the aroma hops (added very late in the boil, or even at "flameout" whilst it cools), some of the aroma will come out of the brew with the CO2 that gets released during fermentation, hence why there is mileage in dry-hopping after the primary fermentation is over or adding a hop tea directly before bottling/kegging.

 

[artyb]

ive just ordered
30 kg of grains and some more hops ...
so looking forward to a bit more tinkering,
the hop tea always seems to add some good taste and aroma... :thumb: