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.