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Hey everyone.
I would like to get some input troubleshooting a recipe I used to make my first batch of beer. If you don't mind just reading through my notes and giving me any input you have, I would really appreciate it.
I started a saison back on 10/21/12 and it was my first beer. I brewed it as a 5 gallon extract batch. The recipe is below:
For 30 minutes at roughly 160 f (this fluxuated between 160 and 165) I steeped 2.5 lbs of Munich Malt, 1 lb Malted Wheat
I then added 3.5 lbs extra light DME, i lb of white table sugar and brought the tea to a boil.
hops (pellets) were added on a 60, 30, 5 schedule
60 - 1 oz Northern Brewer
30 - 1 oz Saaz
5 - 1 oz Kent Goldings
At five minutes I also added the following spices
1 gr grains of paradise
19 gr indian corriander
zest of 1 orange
zest of 1/4 grapfruit
Frementation was in a 72 f room...uncontrolled.
OG at primary was 1.060 on 10/21/12
FG at secondary was 1.010 on 11/2/12
Bottling was 11/19/12
taste at secondary was very bittter with hints of grapefruit
taste at bottling was more citrus and a bit less grapefruit but still very bitter
tast three weeks later was much the same.
On 4/16/12 I grabbed a six pack of this beer and stuck it in the refrigerator thinking I would see how it was doing. To my surprise, it had improved a great deal. Much of the very bitter flavor I had been picking up had dropped out of the beer and that is really my focus here is to try to determine what caused that bitterness. I really didn't attribute it to the hops.
There were a few beers that I could not drink because of the bitterness.
Anyway, any input or thoughts would be quite welcome.
Thanks,
Ted
I would like to get some input troubleshooting a recipe I used to make my first batch of beer. If you don't mind just reading through my notes and giving me any input you have, I would really appreciate it.
I started a saison back on 10/21/12 and it was my first beer. I brewed it as a 5 gallon extract batch. The recipe is below:
For 30 minutes at roughly 160 f (this fluxuated between 160 and 165) I steeped 2.5 lbs of Munich Malt, 1 lb Malted Wheat
I then added 3.5 lbs extra light DME, i lb of white table sugar and brought the tea to a boil.
hops (pellets) were added on a 60, 30, 5 schedule
60 - 1 oz Northern Brewer
30 - 1 oz Saaz
5 - 1 oz Kent Goldings
At five minutes I also added the following spices
1 gr grains of paradise
19 gr indian corriander
zest of 1 orange
zest of 1/4 grapfruit
Frementation was in a 72 f room...uncontrolled.
OG at primary was 1.060 on 10/21/12
FG at secondary was 1.010 on 11/2/12
Bottling was 11/19/12
taste at secondary was very bittter with hints of grapefruit
taste at bottling was more citrus and a bit less grapefruit but still very bitter
tast three weeks later was much the same.
On 4/16/12 I grabbed a six pack of this beer and stuck it in the refrigerator thinking I would see how it was doing. To my surprise, it had improved a great deal. Much of the very bitter flavor I had been picking up had dropped out of the beer and that is really my focus here is to try to determine what caused that bitterness. I really didn't attribute it to the hops.
There were a few beers that I could not drink because of the bitterness.
Anyway, any input or thoughts would be quite welcome.
Thanks,
Ted