What do you bitter with?
Re: What do you bitter with?
challenger, target or fuggles. got best results so far with fuggles...
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Re: What do you bitter with?
Ive all but given up on early hops. I tend to use quite a lot of late hops and make light beers, so I get almost all the bittering I need late on. When I do use early bittering, I go for whatever is around and the most economical by using high AA.
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Re: What do you bitter with?
That's interesting. I understand that a long hops boil provides the natural gram-negative preservative effects, in addition to bitterness flavors. Do you drink through your batches pretty quickly? Have any of these batches sat around for awhile, and if so, did you notice any hints of spoilage?trucker5774 wrote:Ive all but given up on early hops...
Re: What do you bitter with?
This week I've been mostly bittering with cluster, nice bittering I think, that with citra for aroma is really good in a pale ale.
Re: What do you bitter with?
At the moment I'm using magnum in evrything from pale ales to pilsners. It has a high alpha, clean bitterness and it lets the late hops shine!!
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Re: What do you bitter with?
I am often drinking my beer 9 days after pitching the yeast! I can't say I have noticed much change as the beer ages, but to be fair, the barrel is finished quite young and there may only be the odd bottle which makes it past 4 weeks.seymour wrote:That's interesting. I understand that a long hops boil provides the natural gram-negative preservative effects, in addition to bitterness flavors. Do you drink through your batches pretty quickly? Have any of these batches sat around for awhile, and if so, did you notice any hints of spoilage?trucker5774 wrote:Ive all but given up on early hops...
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Drinking/Already drunk........ Trucker's Anti-Freeze (Turbo Cider), Truckers Delight, Night Trucker, Rose wine, Truckers Hitch, Truckers Revenge, Trucker's Lay-by, Trucker's Trailer, Flower Truck, Trucker's Gearshift, Trucker's Horn, Truck Crash, Fixby Gold!
Conditioning... Doing what? Get it down your neck! ........
FV 1............
FV 2............
FV 3............
Next Brews..... Trucker's Jack Knife
Drinking/Already drunk........ Trucker's Anti-Freeze (Turbo Cider), Truckers Delight, Night Trucker, Rose wine, Truckers Hitch, Truckers Revenge, Trucker's Lay-by, Trucker's Trailer, Flower Truck, Trucker's Gearshift, Trucker's Horn, Truck Crash, Fixby Gold!
Conditioning... Doing what? Get it down your neck! ........
FV 1............
FV 2............
FV 3............
Next Brews..... Trucker's Jack Knife
Re: What do you bitter with?
CestrIan wrote:At the moment I'm using magnum in evrything from pale ales to pilsners. It has a high alpha, clean bitterness and it lets the late hops shine!!
its a damn good bittering hop!
use loads of differing hops for bitterness, although i predominately late hop my beers and get the majority of bitterness from them
lowish cohumulone levels are something i look for in a hop, if a beer is to have a substancial 60 or 90 min addition
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Me too, bit of an art to it though.. Do you go by G. Wheelers info?critch wrote: use loads of differing hops for bitterness, although i predominately late hop my beers and get the majority of bitterness from them
Re: What do you bitter with?
seymour wrote:That's interesting. I understand that a long hops boil provides the natural gram-negative preservative effects, in addition to bitterness flavors. Do you drink through your batches pretty quickly? Have any of these batches sat around for awhile, and if so, did you notice any hints of spoilage?trucker5774 wrote:Ive all but given up on early hops...
ive got some bottles (@4.2%) i did like this that are now over 2 years old , still good but not as great as they where fresh, ive had stuff in cask at this abv last 6 month with no problems
Re: What do you bitter with?
if your talking about post boil addition bitterness me and graham had a conversation online about it(or rather i asked a question and graham answered!) if your talking about grahams opinions on late hopping ive not seen 'em, point me in the right direction please!! i tend to just look at bu to gu chart and load the copper up appropriatelytesttube wrote:Me too, bit of an art to it though.. Do you go by G. Wheelers info?critch wrote: use loads of differing hops for bitterness, although i predominately late hop my beers and get the majority of bitterness from them
grahams the person responsible for me taking up AG brewing(through his books) hes got a lot to answer for!!
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Re: What do you bitter with?
Mmmmmm... Farmers Armpits. I love them.alix101 wrote:I don't even like the smell off fuggles...like a farmers armpit.seymour wrote:In that case you can't go wrong with Fuggles.alix101 wrote:...I just thought I would choose a hop that was proven and stock with it .
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Re: What do you bitter with?
Mmmmmm... Farmers Armpits. Iove them.
Thats a shifty in opinion ....I seen to recall the words f@%ki*g fuggles.
Thats a shifty in opinion ....I seen to recall the words f@%ki*g fuggles.
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Re: What do you bitter with?
Depends on the beer. I'd use summit and simcoe in a double IPA, sterling for a pilsner, and challenger for a bitter.
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