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Will this be nice?

Brew length 10 L

2 kg pale malt
10g crystal

25g Chinook 12.7% 90
25g Chinook 12.7% 0


Mash 67º 1 hour

US-05

As is my usual practice nowadays, I've made a hop tea with the bittering hops. I can smell it from the next room. Later the hops will go in the kettle and the tea held over to go in the FV.

The mash is converted now. Is there any benefit to leaving it for longer once it's iodine neutral?

Chinooks are quite assertive and can be a bit rough. That said, they are used in a lot of beers, for example Stone's Arrogant Bastard is reputed to use nothing else. A couple of Sierra Nevada's beers use them for bittering.

I brewed a dumbed down version of Arrogant Bastard and after a few weeks maturation the assertiveness faded and the beer turned out very well balanced and very nice

I WANT the assertiveness! I just pitched the yeast and the brew has turned out at 1.050. The full pint of hop tea I added will bring the gravity down a tad, though.

Just noticed this as I have just used some Chinooks in a brew, 17g @ 12.7 in 23l, your 25g in 10l will be approaching 80IBU

Can you explain your procedure with the hop tea and it's benefits?

Will you like it? you may have to leave it to mellow a bit

The hop tea is supposed to get the aroma and flavour of the hops which would otherwise be driven off in the boil. I sanitise a cafetiere, pour just-boiled water on the hops and let them steep for half an hour or so. Then I strain the liquid off and throw the hops into the boil to do their bittering bit. After the boil I pour the hop tea into the FV together with the cooled wort.

Cheers mate

I've never made an all Chinook beer, but have tasted many from friends and have loved them all.
Your hop tea procedure is the same as one we've talked about here (with you?). I just kegged a batch of an all Centennial using that method and it is outrageously hopped!
Love to hear how it turns out.

I did an all Chinook beer for my first AG as I just love the hop. Used quite abit more though when it came to aroma as I added the same again in while the wort was cooling and running off into the FV.

Very tasty though but you have to be carefull when bittering with it as it really packs a punch

Not on topic but almost.


I was looking at Chinooks profile as I like Nelson Sauvin also a High AA and seeing how it would compare to NS and found this link.



http://www.hopsteiner.com/varieties.html

I've just taken a gravity reading of this and it's down to 1.010 and lovely. Just enough body to balance the hops and a great bitter finish.

I would usually bottle after 10 days, but as it's US-05 it hasn't cleared yet. I'm going away for a few days so I might just dry hop it for another week

Going to start drinking this at the weekend. It's great.

Interestingly the first chinook based beer I did I was distinctly unimpressed with the hop. I was expecting a violent grapefruit taste but it just didn't seem to want to come out and say hello. Once the weather cools off a bit, I intend to do a good hoppy pale ale with the chinook pellets I have in the freezer - touchwood this one will be an improvement.