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wet hops APA
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 06:54 AM
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:15 AM
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:33 AM
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:48 AM
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 08:24 AM
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 08:40 AM
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#7
Posted 08 November 2009 - 08:54 AM
I think it's been in secondary (cold storage) for about a month or so.I think probably NC has it right. One time I accidently used some recycled brewers yeast instead of a baker's yeast culture a friend gave me (long story, they lived next to each other without labels in my fridge) and baked a batch of bread. When I cut into it I realised the mistake, as there were bits of hop pellet through the bread. Not to be deterred I buttered up a slice and bit in, only to start retching because of the burning intensity of the bitterness....Long story short.... compost bread.Probably something about the wet hops coupled with the volume of hops in the brew and the relatively young age of it. Has it been cold stored for long?Give us an update in a week or so!I have a Amarillo Wheat I did with a bunch of fresh, wet cascades that I'm racking into the keg tonight. I'll let you know if I get any burning from that one
#8
Posted 10 November 2009 - 06:29 AM
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Posted 10 November 2009 - 09:00 AM
#10
Posted 10 November 2009 - 11:44 AM
#11
Posted 10 November 2009 - 11:55 AM
well - I possibly used more than that "equivalent" b/c I maybe should have divided by 4 instead of 6.well I know the SNPA clone uses 1 oz cascade at 10 and 2 oz at flameout....I have only done that clone with amarillo and chinook so I can't exactly answer your question....but with those pales I never got the burning sensation...however you did use .8oz more
#12
Posted 10 November 2009 - 12:04 PM
#13
Posted 10 November 2009 - 12:10 PM
yes - the burning has faded and kind of left me with the coarseness you speak of. it's just a rough beer and not in the way I have ever tasted before.I've done a super hopped pale with only cascades. I didn't notice any "burning" as I drank it, but I did notice a very "corse" bitterness. It was what some some people call "palete scrapping," but not to a great extent. It was actually my first award winner. I would probably think the wet hops are the culpret, rather than the cascades themselves. And as was mentioned already, it has the posability of fading with age. A month is still relativly young in the life of beer.
#14
Posted 10 November 2009 - 12:29 PM
does anyone else have any experience with wet hop beers? I've tried one commercial variety (a local brewery) and I couldn't necessarily tell from the taste that it used wet vs dry.yes - the burning has faded and kind of left me with the coarseness you speak of. it's just a rough beer and not in the way I have ever tasted before.
#15
Posted 10 November 2009 - 12:56 PM
I have had my own and some commercial examples. Like you said it is hard to tell if the commercial ones are "Wet Hops" or "Fresh Hops". Mine were wet, picked and used the next day. If I would have thought I would have sent you a bottle to compare. Most of the wet/fresh hop beers i have tried seemed to have more of a grassy hoppyness to them. Not as crisp as dried hops.does anyone else have any experience with wet hop beers? I've tried one commercial variety (a local brewery) and I couldn't necessarily tell from the taste that it used wet vs dry.
#16
Posted 10 November 2009 - 01:03 PM
It could be a grassy taste but I'm not so good at identifying these sort of things. It certainly seems like a taste that comes from hops.I have had my own and some commercial examples. Like you said it is hard to tell if the commercial ones are "Wet Hops" or "Fresh Hops". Mine were wet, picked and used the next day. If I would have thought I would have sent you a bottle to compare. Most of the wet/fresh hop beers i have tried seemed to have more of a grassy hoppyness to them. Not as crisp as dried hops.
#17
Posted 12 November 2009 - 08:19 AM
#18
Posted 12 November 2009 - 09:14 AM
Is is mellowing - or are you getting used to it, trying it every evening!This beer is slowly mellowing out.
#19
Posted 12 November 2009 - 09:16 AM
good questionIs is mellowing - or are you getting used to it, trying it every evening!
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Posted 15 November 2009 - 06:16 AM
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