Too Much Dry-hopping?

[andreic]

I think dry hopping is very much a matter of taste. I recently dry hopped a golden ale with 2.5g/L of Amarillo. I'm very happy with the result, but andreic who I sent a bottle to * thought it was a bit too much for his palate and far too much for his wife's.

Personally, I think that freshness is more important than pellets v. plugs. If anybody disagrees, please feel free to send me two bottles (one dry hopped with plugs and one with pellets) to this address.....
* Andrei was the winner of the A-League tipping comp and all the losers B) were supposed to send a bottle to the winner. I finally got round to sending him a bottle so now I can feel superior and berate the rest of you. Come on send him a beer, ya mugs. :lol:

Stuster, I very much enjoyed tasting your beers and am grateful for your contribution (which I was not expecting at all). I am not very active in the home-brew "community" but the exercise of receiving a few beers and providing feedback makes me want to join a case-swap or something in the future so I can receive feedback on my beers as well as tasting different contributions from others. cheers mate :beer:

On topic - I think I agree that dry-hopping is a personal taste. I did quite enjoy the beer Stuster mentions but there was definitely a finish that I am not used to (kind of drying with a bitter kick?). I am about to try and brew a few AG APAs over thee next month so maybe I'll start training myself to be a hophead...

cheers, Andrei

 

[JSB]

Just polishing off the Amarillo Ale....

20 grms of Dry Hops to much for this lil' digger - too grassy.

Any thoughts from the crowd ?

Cheers
JSB

 

[tangent]

i would have put about 2-4gms in a hop ball and keg hopped. dunno about 20gms

 

[devo]

Just polishing off the Amarillo Ale....

20 grms of Dry Hops to much for this lil' digger - too grassy.

Any thoughts from the crowd ?

Cheers
JSB

20gm in the secondary and then 10gm in the keg does the job just fine.

 

[Trent]

Crikeys!
I will put up to 75g in secondary for my AIPA and IIPA's. Dont dry hop with less than about 45g per batch now. Maybe I am little wierd?
T.

 

[Stuster]

I'm with you, Trent. I'm not up to the75g mark yet, but I did hop 15L of Amarillo ale (an ND Fresh Wort) with 40g of Amarillo. Some thought it was too much, but not me. :chug:

Dry hopped two batches lately with 20g for 15L batches and was they definitely need more to my taste.

 

[willanth]

I have dry hopped 26 liter batches with two ounces of a blend of hops that I put together for a Double IPA that turned out beautifully. I think it really depends on what hop medium you use, how long you're leaving them in, and the kind of beer you're after. I was using whole hop flowers, and only a small amount of ones with a real high AA. It was chinooks, goldings, haller's, mt. hood's and cascades from what I remember.

Cheers,
Will