Recipe Advice Thread

[denimglen]

Thought it might be handy to have a thread for some of the more advanced brewers to give some advice on recipes.

Let's see how it goes eh...

[Toot]

Harvested my danscade plant today so gonna do a fresh hop IPA this weekend. Got 200g of green hops so think i'll just chuck em all in one brew.

Batch size 23L efficiency 65%

6.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 93.0 %
0.15 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2.3 %
0.15 kg Carared (20.0 SRM) Grain 2.3 %
0.15 kg Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 2.3 %

15.00 gm NZ Nelson Sauvin [13.50%] (60 min) Hops 21.4 IBU
15.00 gm Super Alpha [11.50%] (60 min) Hops 18.3 IBU

50.00 gm NZ Homegrown Cascade (Green) [6.50%] (10 min) Hops ? IBU

20.00 gm NZ Motueka [7.80%] (0 min) Hops -
50.00 gm NZ Homegrown Cascade (Green) [6.50%] (0 min) Hops -

100.00 gm NZ Homegrown Cascade (Green) [6.50%] (Dry Hop 4 days) Hops

May swap the sauvin and super alpha out for a single bittering hop, ive just got two near empty packets is all.

Anyone else used fresh hops before?

Any thoughts?

[JoKing]

Dude. I need a bottle of this beer - it looks awesome!

[jt]

15.00 gm Super Alpha [11.50%] (60 min) Hops 18.3 IBU

beaut - can't go wrong !

must admit that I've never popped even a dried whole hop in a kettle, let alone a fresh one

[MrC]

Is dry hopping with fresh homegrown hops safe? I wondered about that last year after finding aphids on my hops.
Maybe dry the dry hops? Dunno.

Nice looking recipe!

[jt]

Is dry hopping with fresh homegrown hops safe?

Only if you take 'precautions' Mr C

[Toot]

What are these 'precautions' ? Boil the hops before I dry hop with them?

[jt]

'precautions'

I was being a bit silly - sounds like lack of 'precautions' in Wellington last year with a bit of a baby boom at the moment ?

[Matthew]

"precautions" = Hop sock. Get one of those flowers loose in the kettle and you never know where it will end up.

[jt]

Depends how you drain your kettle, seen a few piccies of kettles with false bottoms and the flowers are creating a nice filter bed

[MrC]

I was thinking you should dry them before dry hopping with them (as opposed to not drying them first).

[Toot]

Yeah I thought about that too, think I might just leave them green for the sake of the fresh hop flavor. Think ill do a fairly short dry hop too, 4 days max.

[MrC]

I've changed my mind about that recipe. I say drop the Motueka and use your homegrown hops for flavour and aroma without any other varieties. It'll be a great beer and then you'll know exactly what those hops taste like. You don't want to be left wondering which hop had which flavour. Go Gizzy Green!