hop fruit salad - recipe critique

[Three Sheets]

Ok. Job done. Went with an 17 litre Galaxy Pale Ale Fresh Wort Kit and boiled 250 grams of light DME, 3litres of water , with 5g @ 20m 5g @ 15m 10g @ 10m and 5g @ 5 mins, all Chinook. to 23 litres . I'll be dry hopping as per YOBS suggestion of , 0.5g/l centennial + 0.5g/l Citra (dry hop day 4-5).

Hop I haven't destroyed what's already an excellent drop.

Will report findings accordingly if anyone is interested.

Cheers

 

[Yob]

It's gunna be a fine drop mate, the only problem you will face is keeping it long enough to mature properly..

 

[Three Sheets]

Just dry hopped with 15g each of centennial and citra. Looking forward to this one.

Four hop combo GCCC.

Tasting in two weeks.

 

[Three Sheets]

A quick deviation on the topic. I'm caught short and wont get supplies in time for next batch. So here's the plan form what's laying around. 1 can homebrand draught beer, one kg Coopers brew booster. Add 200 grams of DLME boil my 15/15 Centennial/Citra dry hop from current brew. and add 10 grams fresh centennial hop pellets.

Question: boil times for the hops?

Will this work?

 

[angus_grant]

I made 2 batches of Lord Nelson Cascading out of this Galaxy: one normal ABV and one light ABV (by mistake: mash temp was listed incorrectly). I dry-hopped with 20gs of Citra in the normal ABV version for 5 days. This was drunk at the party I took it to, so I took the tea-ball out and put it into the low ABV version. This was dry-hopped until I finished the keg which was about 2 weeks. Had enough oomph to dry-hop 2 kegs.

I can't say whether you would be able to dry-hop a keg and then use same hops for boil. It worked dry-hopping 2 kegs in my case.

 

[Yob]

Historically this method has been used, not tried it myself, I'd go for a 20 min flavour boil and a fresh dry hop at half ferment... Hell, with the can you are using it can't hurt and will be a good experiment

 

[Three Sheets]

Well its in. 20 min boil of the previously mentioned dry hopped fresh hops for 5 mins. Steeped for another 5mins. Wort smells excellent. Yeast was safele 04 btw.

 

[jaypes]

Damn i'm salivating just reading this thread

 

[Yob]

04? Damn... Good luck

 

[jaypes]

Yeah i read that as well, i have used it once and once only

 

[Byran]

I just made a 23l batch of fruity pale ale with Simcoe as the main bitterer, 20g cascade and 10g nelson at 15 mins. I havent dry hopped as yet but the primary is all but finished and the aroma is quite unbelievable. Im very surprised it hasnt died off at all. I prob wont dry hop the nelson seems to be coming through quite well with the cascade.

 

[Three Sheets]

04? Damn... Good luck

Its the first time I have used it too. Whats the issue with it? ( I bought it by mistake).

As an aside, is hops addictive? I just want bigger and bigger hits!

My next batch will go up a notch.

 

[RelaxedBrewer]

best advice I can give you with s04 is pitch at a low temp and slowly raise it throughout the fermentation.

 

[Three Sheets]

best advice I can give you with s04 is pitch at a low temp and slowly raise it throughout the fermentation.

Thanks, but its too late. Pitched at around 24c and now bubbling away at around 16c.

A train smash brew, so lets see how it turns out.

 

[carniebrew]

...
As an aside, is hops addictive? I just want bigger and bigger hits!

My next batch will go up a notch.

Yep, google "Lupulin Threshold Shift"

 

[lukiferj]

Slippery slope now my friend. Rarely brew anything under 50 IBU these days. Darker beers aside, I like em hoppy and bitter.

 

[angus_grant]

I rarely poo anything under 50 ibu's these days. He he!!!!!

 

[Three Sheets]

Just dry hopped with 15g each of centennial and citra. Looking forward to this one.

Four hop combo GCCC.

Tasting in two weeks.

Ok this turned out very tasty and topped the hop scale for me, too hoppy for the mrs. Although it did mellow towared the end of the kegs. Its not much help to you guys unless youe using an ESB 17 litre FWK as a base,