Choice of Hops, etc.

[Moley]

Ok, thanks again.

I've made porridge, mash is on, just checked a Wurzel's Orange and it's down to 0.998 so it can come out of its water bath and I can have my FV back for the sparge.

If you wouldn't mind checking me out with the next bit, first boil will be First Gold. I don't like my beers too bitter. Using the forum's calculator, if I aim for 25 IBU with 7.25% AA, leave the utilisation at the default of 29% because I've no idea what that means or how to work it out, and a brew length of 15 litres, that gives me 17.8g hops. Rounding that up and using the other calculator, 20g gives 28 IBU.

Does 20g (90 mins) plus 10g (15 mins) sound about right?
By the same token, 30g Bobek (4.5%, 90 mins) plus 15g (15 mins).

 

[evanvine]

at our scale it does not make a huge difference considering the number of other compromises that we make.

Sounds like we should do all we can to minimise them then, like boiling hops free!

 

[snail59]

at our scale it does not make a huge difference considering the number of other compromises that we make.

Sounds like we should do all we can to minimise them then, like boiling hops free!

So can we assume you only ever use a Tea Pot and never stoop so low as to brew with the inferior TEA BAG then Jim

 

[evanvine]

So can we assume you only ever use a Tea Pot and never stoop so low as to brew with the inferior TEA BAG then Jim

Very good point Snail!
But then I consider the pint from the pub inferior.
Dont drink tea, but grind my own coffee beans.

 

[Moley]

Sod the tea, amusing diversion but not at all helpful

I now have 30 litres of sweet, malty liquid, a feshly mopped kitchen floor, HLT and mash tun are now outside and phase 1 has been cleared away.

First 15 litres going in the pot now, anyone care to confirm my hop calculations?

 

[Wez]

Those hop calcs look OK to me Moley :thumb:

Have fun

 

[Aleman]

Sound about right to me Moley

Promash is giving me 27 For the First Gold, and 25 for the Bobek, which is probably as much agreement as you are likely to get, depending on what formula you use . . . + hop utilsation + actual Alpha levels + Kettle Geometry + Boil Gravity + true Evaporation rate + etc + etc + time of high water in Hong Kong . .. .. .

 

[Moley]

Thanks Wez and Aleman, rolling boil attained and first hops in :thumb: