Pale Ale, thoughts

[Dread82]

Just put down my third brew
1.5kg coopers llme
1.5kg coopers ldm
.2 Crystal medium
20g Galaxy @30
25g Citra @15
25g Cascade @10
20g Cascade @0
Us05
20l

I like nice hoppy beers!!

thoughts

 

[yum beer]

My thought is if you wants thoughts on a recipe you should ask while it is still a thought and not a done.

Should be fine though there is a school of thought that says galaxy produces a harsh bitterness and is better kept to later in the boil.
See how this goes and adjust for future brews.

 

[Dread82]

Yeah fair call running low on beers so was a rush to get a keg bubbling ha ha, I'll see how it goes

 

[paulmclaren11]

My thought is if you wants thoughts on a recipe you should ask while it is still a thought and not a done.

Should be fine though there is a school of thought that says galaxy produces a harsh bitterness and is better kept to later in the boil.
See how this goes and adjust for future brews.

Agreed on Galaxy causing harshness - I have just kegged a Mid APA where I only hopped from 15mins to go in the boil.

Galaxy was whacked in at 15 mins then Cascade @ 10 and Citra @ 5.

I have brewed this same recipe (grain grist) and this one definately has a more harsh bitter after taste. This will mellow and the beer is still a bloody nice drop but I wouldn't be using Galaxy in any boil early additions. I think last time my 15 min addition was Centennial.

My 2c.

 

[Dread82]

Cheers for the feedback Paul, I'll see how it goes and adj next time

 

[bmarshall]

5g citra @ 60
25g casc @ 10
20g galaxy @ 10
20g citra @ 10
20g casc @ 0
20g citra @ 0

 

[Dread82]

No bitternes in OP's beer.

?

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

There is no bitterness in your original beer

 

[QldKev]

I think there would be plenty of bitterness to cover that malt level

20g Galaxy @30
25g Citra @15

Without working it out there would have to be >25IBU

 

[Dread82]

There is no bitterness

Cheers for the very informative post

 

[Dread82]

With the calculators I used worked out about 45 ish ibu is this not the case?

 

[QldKev]

I just plugged it into BeerSmith using the original recipe and default AA% for the hops, I get 31.2 IBU

 

[Dread82]

13.8 galaxy
11.9 citra
6.7 cascade

 

[QldKev]

13.8 galaxy
11.9 citra
6.7 cascade

33.6IBU in BeerSmith, are you applying a no-chill correction, because if I add 15mins to each addition I get closer

 

[Dread82]

Ha ha there is still nothing informative in your post

 

[Dread82]

33.6IBU in BeerSmith, are you applying a no-chill correction, because if I add 15mins to each addition I get closer

I wasn't but if it helps all good I try ed to cool it but water up here is fairly warm and didn't have any ice so it took a fair while to cool, I might have to buy beer Smith instead of free calculators

 

[Dread82]

http://www.brew365.com/ibu_calculator.php is the tool I used

 

[QldKev]

I wouldn't be too worried about the difference, I have not used you malt bill, I just used what ever was in the play recipe at the time so the different gravity will effect the IBU

 

[Dread82]

All good I'm just playing and looking for advice, Thanks for your replies I'll see how it turns out

 

[Camo1234]

You stil dont have any bitterness to balance it

Troubles expressing yourself???? 6 posts all saying the same thing but not elaborating at all with any advice???

Sorry not having a go but 6 posts is pretty extreme and not really helping the OP.

 

[pedleyr]

I kept saying there was no bitterness .... As in there was no bitterness.

Bitternes is some what fundamental.


Will the addition of 20g of Galaxy at 30m not add some bitterness?

Sure it might not have ENOUGH bitterness but there is definitely SOME.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

30mins is more aroma. You need at least 45mins for bitterness.

I would be aiming for 25-30ibu for betterness alone

 

[pcmfisher]

^ What rubbish.

 

[QldKev]

A 10min APA must have no bitterness then.

 

[Dan Pratt]

A 10min APA must have no bitterness then.

BOOM!!!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

^ What rubbish.

Yes dear.

 

[Dread82]

I kept saying there was no bitterness .... As in there was no bitterness.

Bitternes is some what fundamental.

What would your recommendation be then Lord bitter, help a noob out with you wisdom

 

[Camo1234]

The only thing worse than no advice is bad advice.... Bittering not coming from 30 min additions is a load of BS so don't pay attention to that piece of wisdom.

DS does seem to have some good knowledge some of the time but I believe he is just bitter on this subject so is expecting your beer to more bitter than he is.

Get yourself a program to input your recipes so that you can see the IBUs that you are generating... Then take the plunge and put your brew down and adjust up or down depending on whether it is too bitter or not bitter enough for you.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

What would your recommendation be then Lord bitter, help a noob out with you wisdom

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[Ducatiboy stu]

The only thing worse than no advice is bad advice.... Bittering not coming from 30 min additions is a load of BS so don't pay attention to that piece of wisdom.

DS does seem to have some good knowledge some of the time but I believe he is just bitter on this subject so is expecting your beer to more bitter than he is.

Get yourself a program to input your recipes so that you can see the IBUs that you are generating... Then take the plunge and put your brew down and adjust up or down depending on whether it is too bitter or not bitter enough for you.

Yawn