AG#044 - Hophead?

[SiHoltye]

Dropping like a stone...

[yashicamat]

Nearly 200g of hops in a 23 litre brew.

Be very interesting to see how this works out! How do you obtain your graphs plotting gravity? Do you use a refractometer to take the readings?

[SiHoltye]

Nearly 200g of hops in a 23 litre brew.
Be very interesting to see how this works out!

Knockout aroma during early ferment especially, pity I c0cked up the OG. The Notts is down to 1.010 now (4.7%ABV), Hophead's only 3.8%ABV

How do you obtain your graphs plotting gravity? Do you use a refractometer to take the readings?

I drink 100ml of fermenting beer directly from the hydro sample jar every day , it's my shame

[tomU]

I've just brewed a hophead-esque beer myself with my little 2 gallon setup.

Used this recipe:

1650g Marris Otter
5g Cascade - 75mins - 10IBUs
37g Cascade - 5mins - 15IBUs

I have a US-05 flying starter beside me...

OG is 1036 - I was aiming for 1038, but I'm happy enough with that.

[SiHoltye]

Have put this on now and it's got a pleasing cascade aroma and flavour. Slight greeness to the flavour, but only slight, just about mellowed out to clean/fresh tasting. Looking forward to it ages another 2 weeks and will definately brew again to a lower gravity. Quaffing 5%-ers isn't what I'm into, hitting the commercial brew's 3.8% should mean I'll be able to tone down that huge 5min addition without significant impact maybe try using just a whole 125g pack of cascade per 5G brew, and it'll mature quicker without having to wait so long for the flavour to mellow. Malt flavour is at a comparable level to the commercial brew and the use of just Nottingham yeast is something I'll stick with. Well pleased.

[SiHoltye]

Too many hops The green hop bite/flavour isn't going anywhere. I've written my self a big note to stick to more 'traditional' late hops quantities. Having to drink this (admittedly early) cut with lemonade! It tastes like those huge American hop monsters I have in the past sampled at festivals, I didn't like the effect then. Live and learn - hopefully.

[yashicamat]

Too many hops The green hop bite/flavour isn't going anywhere. I've written my self a big note to stick to more 'traditional' late hops quantities. Having to drink this (admittedly early) cut with lemonade! It tastes like those huge American hop monsters I have in the past sampled at festivals, I didn't like the effect then. Live and learn - hopefully.

It's odd because beers like Roosters Yankee (which I'm fairly sure is cascades for the most part if not all) have a massive hop presence, but the flavour is smooth. My IPA is made with only cascades too (although in relatively conservative amounts for a big beer) and that doesn't have the harshness, but the Hopheadish I did recently was far far too astringent with the cascade flavour and had comparatively very little hops in it.