Hey folks,
I'm looking for a little input on a recipe for an IPA. I've never made one before, but a few friends have requested that I give it a shot. I've had luck with less bitter pale ales, but also battled oxidation on those brews. I believe my biggest culprit of the oxidation was my dry hop. Up until this brew, I have used a 6.5G bmb for fermenting 2.5g batches. When I dry hopped my 1G batches, I had less problems, but my first dry hop tries in the bmb at half capacity quickly lost their flavor and became sort of a brownish, cloudy mess of color. Even though I will be fermenting in my shiny new 3G Fermonster, I plan on avoiding the dry hop altogether (I know, I know, not traditional, but its my plan of attack). Am I waaay off base with my hop schedule? I was hoping to make up some of the dry hop aroma in flame out additions and some of my bitterness in constantly tossing hops at it the last 15minutes. I guess I'm worried that I'm being too heavy-handed, or completely not enough. I'm pretty thick skinned, so if this is a horrible plan of beer death, please let me know!
I'm trying to use up some hops that I know I won't get around to using again for a long time due to brewing preferences, pitching a jar of 001 slurry from a week ago, and also burning up the last bit of DME that I have on hand. I'm someone who likes to liquidate resources before purchasing more. I'm sure its a mental disorder, but thats how I roll.
I'm looking for a little input on a recipe for an IPA. I've never made one before, but a few friends have requested that I give it a shot. I've had luck with less bitter pale ales, but also battled oxidation on those brews. I believe my biggest culprit of the oxidation was my dry hop. Up until this brew, I have used a 6.5G bmb for fermenting 2.5g batches. When I dry hopped my 1G batches, I had less problems, but my first dry hop tries in the bmb at half capacity quickly lost their flavor and became sort of a brownish, cloudy mess of color. Even though I will be fermenting in my shiny new 3G Fermonster, I plan on avoiding the dry hop altogether (I know, I know, not traditional, but its my plan of attack). Am I waaay off base with my hop schedule? I was hoping to make up some of the dry hop aroma in flame out additions and some of my bitterness in constantly tossing hops at it the last 15minutes. I guess I'm worried that I'm being too heavy-handed, or completely not enough. I'm pretty thick skinned, so if this is a horrible plan of beer death, please let me know!
I'm trying to use up some hops that I know I won't get around to using again for a long time due to brewing preferences, pitching a jar of 001 slurry from a week ago, and also burning up the last bit of DME that I have on hand. I'm someone who likes to liquidate resources before purchasing more. I'm sure its a mental disorder, but thats how I roll.