I brewed this AG batch on 3/3/15 and am now down to my last few bottles but it never really hit the mark for what I was going for which was something in the dirt wolf, new glarus scream, or enjoy by arena. I was going for a easy drinking, low malt presence, juicy hopped dipa at around 9%. First this took almost 6 weeks to bottle condition to get any head and it was kept in my closet at around 70 deg, it wasn't until I moved it to my second floor week 5 of bottle conditioning where it's 73-75 deg did it even get any semblance of carbonation. I don't know if the long carbonation lag time started to strip the hops out of this but that may have been a factor. I left this in primary for 14 days and dry hopped for 5 days at room temp and two day cold crash in primary as I do all my beers. Also at day 5 when primary fermentation was done I moved the carboy upstairs into 70deg temps to let the yeast finish out so I would hit my FG before dry hopping. So here's the recipe let me know your thoughts and if what I mentioned above may have any clues to why this disspointed or maybe it's just me lol.
8# mo
7# 2 row
1# carapils
1# dextrose
.55oz columbus fwh
.25oz nuggett 30min- wasn't part of the plan I just had it around
1oz amarillo and .5oz simcoe @15 min
1oz amarillo and .5oz citra @10min
1oz citra .5oz columbus .5oz simcoe @5min
1oz Amarillo 1oz simcoe .5oz columbus .5oz citra 30 min hopstand at 160-175 deg
Dry hop 5 days room temp and 2 day cold crash with 2oz citra, 2oz simcoe, 1oz columbus
Mashed at 149 for 90 min with no mash out and dble sparge to collect 8.5 gal with a 90 min boil
Hit all my PBG and OG numbers but my FG projected was 1.010 and ended up 1.006-8
Ibus are 104.8 per beersmith with ibu/sg ratio of 1.339
Yeast was 3rd gen washed wlp001 with a large starter, max ferm temp was 66deg
I bottle from a bucket and carbed to 2.5 vols with corn sugar which is what I carb all my or most my beers at.
In the end even when it was fairly fresh it just tasted a little boozy and bitter lacking any real define able hop taste although it had promise but it wasnt carbed at all now its just bitter, boozy hop water., I'm guessing oxidation has taken ahold which seems common as most of my beers seem to drop off with hops at the two month mark. Very disappointing. Any thoughts of how this happened in regards to why the taste was off from the beginning so I can correct it next time. I'll prob adjust this recipe anyway but want to learn from any mistakes you see here. Lmk if there's any info missing you may need.
8# mo
7# 2 row
1# carapils
1# dextrose
.55oz columbus fwh
.25oz nuggett 30min- wasn't part of the plan I just had it around
1oz amarillo and .5oz simcoe @15 min
1oz amarillo and .5oz citra @10min
1oz citra .5oz columbus .5oz simcoe @5min
1oz Amarillo 1oz simcoe .5oz columbus .5oz citra 30 min hopstand at 160-175 deg
Dry hop 5 days room temp and 2 day cold crash with 2oz citra, 2oz simcoe, 1oz columbus
Mashed at 149 for 90 min with no mash out and dble sparge to collect 8.5 gal with a 90 min boil
Hit all my PBG and OG numbers but my FG projected was 1.010 and ended up 1.006-8
Ibus are 104.8 per beersmith with ibu/sg ratio of 1.339
Yeast was 3rd gen washed wlp001 with a large starter, max ferm temp was 66deg
I bottle from a bucket and carbed to 2.5 vols with corn sugar which is what I carb all my or most my beers at.
In the end even when it was fairly fresh it just tasted a little boozy and bitter lacking any real define able hop taste although it had promise but it wasnt carbed at all now its just bitter, boozy hop water., I'm guessing oxidation has taken ahold which seems common as most of my beers seem to drop off with hops at the two month mark. Very disappointing. Any thoughts of how this happened in regards to why the taste was off from the beginning so I can correct it next time. I'll prob adjust this recipe anyway but want to learn from any mistakes you see here. Lmk if there's any info missing you may need.