Yellowbelly Best

[SiHoltye]

Andy, sounds like we are both on target (or whatever variety!)

The boil smelt noticeable more hoppy so fingers crossed for the bitterness.

[bandit]

Looks good Si. I think you have found the fudge factor. I will recalculate the Bobo 1402 using this date method and see what she brings in future brews. I have just put in some updated figures into beersmith based on storage and age of hops and it has dropped the IBU from an original 42 to 30.9 That is some reduction and may be somewhere near the mark the judges predicted on the taste test. When I recalculated with the new values to get back to my anticipated IBU of 42 I found that I need to add an extra 35g of hops.

[SiHoltye]

Cool.
This was beginnning to drive me nuts, I'll openly say my beers were so underhopped in the bittering and flavour dept they were becoming dull (at least not hoppy).
I think my earlier beers may have not suffered this so much 'cos the hops were fresher. The beer I won with in Sutton last year I also specifically think suffered less because the hops were Challenger and they taste 'bitey and bitter' to me over other varieties.
Since documenting and using Beersmith to calculate everything the hoppy bite dissappeared and teamed with some lower AA choice of hops the result was unbitter bitter. As usual though it wasn't computer error it was human error!
Just v glad to have found this now, and the OG hydro sample I just did puckered me up a good'un, unfamiliar but very welcome .

Here's to the future .

[Andy]

Nice one Si, I shall enjoy supping the (hoppy) results in Sutton later in the year