I just finished my first cream ale and it came out so bitter I will have to let it mellow for a year or more lol
first i put the hop bill into the beersmith program then i changed the alpha% to what was on the package so i used a fair amount of hops, but it came out so bitter I went back and recalulated the hop bill with beersmiths alpha% and it showed my IBU to be almost twice what i wanted Who do you believe the package ot beersmith Im thinking beersmith Right now
any one else have this probelm i was lookin for 17.8IBU with beersmith %s i got 27IBU way to bitter for lawnmower beer
below is recipe:
This will be my first all grain brew. Ive brewed more then enough extract to date
Im brewing a Cream ale and wanted to stay in the guidelines as per beersmtih
10 gallon batch
15 lbs marris otter
8 oz caraform
4 oz Biscuit Malt
4 oz Honey Malt
3 oz Spalter leaf hops 60 mins (Leaf hops becasue I got a good deal on them)
2.5 oz Saaz leaf hops 10 mins[/b]1TSP Irish Moss 10 mins[/u]2 pkgs Calif. ale White Labs WLP001
first i put the hop bill into the beersmith program then i changed the alpha% to what was on the package so i used a fair amount of hops, but it came out so bitter I went back and recalulated the hop bill with beersmiths alpha% and it showed my IBU to be almost twice what i wanted Who do you believe the package ot beersmith Im thinking beersmith Right now
any one else have this probelm i was lookin for 17.8IBU with beersmith %s i got 27IBU way to bitter for lawnmower beer
below is recipe:
This will be my first all grain brew. Ive brewed more then enough extract to date
Im brewing a Cream ale and wanted to stay in the guidelines as per beersmtih
10 gallon batch
15 lbs marris otter
8 oz caraform
4 oz Biscuit Malt
4 oz Honey Malt
3 oz Spalter leaf hops 60 mins (Leaf hops becasue I got a good deal on them)
2.5 oz Saaz leaf hops 10 mins[/b]1TSP Irish Moss 10 mins[/u]2 pkgs Calif. ale White Labs WLP001