Chinook and Cascade recipe

[HopWroester]

Hi,

Thinking of brewing this today

5gl in the fermentor

6kg MO

7g chinook @60
7g cascade @60

7g chinook @30
7g cascade @30

then 7g of each @5 min intervals.

then 10g of each at flame out

OG 1059
IBU 49

Either safale 04/05

Anyone see any obvious problems? Any advice welcome!

Thanks
Mark

 

[CreweBrewer]

Looks good. Go with US-05. With 6kg of grain I'd have expected a higher OG, but the recipe looks great.

Dave

 

[stevej]

I would maybe up the 60 min additions the IBUs will be quite low

 

[HopWroester]

This didn't go well at all.

Unexpected house guests, kid running round and so on.

The mash got stuck, not a massive drama as fixed it quick enough.

Biggest problem is/was that the total volume i got out of the mash was short and i didn't notice, this has led to the final amount in the fv being about 15 ltr, 8 short!

This wort is so so bitter because I used the hop amounts for the full boil.

Question - I've not pitched the yeast yet, can I add 8 ltr of boiled water to the fv? Would this mellow the bitterness? the OG is 1066 which is about the target of 1059.

 

[TartanSpecial]

I'd dilute down with tap water until you reach your target gravity.... probably will be a lot less than 8 litres ...if its still ultra bitter I'd dilute it down further to eg 1.050 and see what its like. Pity you added all the hops at the beginning (if I understand correctly??) since you'll miss out on a lot of the flavour and aroma from the later additions

 

[clibit]

You could add 8 litres water and 1 kg light DME. This would give you 23 litres at 1059. Seems like the best option to me.

Your efficiency was 52%, hopefully you know why. Kids eh?!

 

[TartanSpecial]

You could add 8 litres water and 1 kg light DME. This would give you 23 litres at 1059. Seems like the best option to me.

Your efficiency was 52%, hopefully you know why. Kids eh?!

good idea... for some reason I never think about topping up with DME in these situations.

 

[HopWroester]

Added the water and dme....tastes much better but still rather more bitter than expected. Will pitch the yeast and see what happens :thumb:

 

[rodabod]

The yeast will reduce the bitterness as it ferments. If you added all hops at the start of the boil then I would add a dry hop addition when fermentation gets close to final gravity.

 

[clibit]

Yes, the bitterness will mellow. It's often harsh at this stage.

 

[HopWroester]

Quick update.

This spent three+ weeks in the fv and has had nearly the same in the bottle.

Result is a pretty decent pint, nice golden and clear (ish), i worried for nothing!

Head retention is poor but then I put nothing but MO in.

Thanks for the help!