Hi Lads
Brew day saturday and am using Citra and Cascade hops for my IPA.
Am just curious has any used this technique? I am confused on the issue of hop addition after flame out using this technique as I would usually try and get the temp down as soon as possible for pitching yeast. Would it be ok to do this for 10mins before adding my wort chiller, I really wanna get a good hoppy taste so that is why I am keen to try this, I will also dry hop for 8 days.
Also would you add both hops at start of boil or just the citra??
Cheers and any info greatly appreciated
There's no problem adding them at flameout, even if you're chilling fast the hops as still going to be in contact with very hot water plus they'll steep a little while you're whirlpooling.
Can you post your recipe up? I've never used Citra for the start of the boil, mainly because of how expensive it is compared to other varieties.
IG this is one I did at the start of the summer, I was paranoid about grassy flavours and only DH for 6 days the cascade came up and fell off quite quickly. If I was doing it again I would have at flameout.
Recipe: Citra Cascade IPA
Brewer: John
Asst Brewer:
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0)
Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 30.75 l
Post Boil Volume: 26.00 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 22.00 l
Bottling Volume: 21.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.067 SG
Estimated Color: 12.1 EBC
Estimated IBU: 59.5 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 81.8 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 76.9 %
1.00 kg Vienna Malt (Weyermann) (5.9 EBC) Grain 2 15.4 %
0.25 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (3.9 EBC) Grain 3 3.8 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (39.4 EBC) Grain 4 3.8 %
25.00 g Citra [11.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 26.8 IBUs
14.00 g Citra [11.00 %] - Boil 45.0 min Hop 6 13.8 IBUs
14.00 g Citra [11.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 7 11.5 IBUs
14.00 g Citra [11.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 8 7.4 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 9 -
14.00 g Citra [11.00 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 min Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) [35. Yeast 11 -
25.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 14.0 Days Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 6.50 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 14.95 l of water at 72.5 C 64.4 C 75 min
Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (5.93l, 14.38l) of 75.6 C water
Notes:
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Couple of issues here.
If you're using pale malt as a basemalt rapid chilling probably isn't as important; if Pilsner malt or a very low colored basemalt is used DMS formation can become an issue with long stands at high temps. The solution is to chill to 60C as quickly as possible and THEN do a "hop stand" -leave the hops there for 15 minutes, then start your whirlpool, then let the whirlpool settle for another 10. This will give you less isomerization than a near-boiling hop stand but gets you hoppy late kettle additions without the DMS risk.
Chill in there anywhere but leave the hops at 60C for at least 15 minutes to get decent oil extraction.
Adam