lititzbrew
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So, last Friday I decided to try a 12 gallon batch of a PTE clone. I took Vinnie's recipe that's floating around on the internet and doubled it for the batch size. The entire brewing process went flawless. I hit my gravity and batch size and was super excited over the weekend. This morning, I opened up BeerSmith to admire the recipe that I so proudly executed perfectly and noticed that my 90 minute hop addition looked a little off. I knew right away what I did. I forgot to double the amount of columbus hops :smack:. It was supposed to be 7oz but I threw in 3.5oz! I doubled everything else in the recipe except for the most important hop addition! I had a feeling something was off at the time but it was my 2nd brew of the day and I wasn't exactly thinking straight.
So, now I'm curious as to how big of a mistake this was. Is it going to turn our entirely too sweet and not bitter enough? BeerSmith was still showing 147.5 IBU so I don't see how that's not going to be bitter enough but it still worries me because I know those calculations aren't 100% accurate. Is there anything I can do to account for the loss of IBUs like a hop extract in the secondary or something? I know I should just RDWHAHB but 12 gallons is a lot of beer to screw up and I want to make it right! Plus, I really want PTE
So, now I'm curious as to how big of a mistake this was. Is it going to turn our entirely too sweet and not bitter enough? BeerSmith was still showing 147.5 IBU so I don't see how that's not going to be bitter enough but it still worries me because I know those calculations aren't 100% accurate. Is there anything I can do to account for the loss of IBUs like a hop extract in the secondary or something? I know I should just RDWHAHB but 12 gallons is a lot of beer to screw up and I want to make it right! Plus, I really want PTE