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[HVB]

How about 2oz Amarillo up front 2 oz Chinook at flame out? I'm terrible with Hops lol

O had a mistake in my transfer where my racking can slipped out of my fingers and plunged into the yeast cake.

I would do 1 oz Amarillo to bitter and then 1oz Amarillo and 1oz Chinook at flameout but it depends how bitter  you want it.  Rough numbers is 2 oz of Amarillo will put you in the 60-70 IBU range.  If you had a different hop to bitter with I would use that and then split up the Amarillo/Chinook between 10 and 0 additions.

[Big Nake]

I now have two empty kegs sitting on my beer bunker floor. There are two beers in secondary which is good but they're similar styles to what I already have (cream ale, dark lager). I need to get some ale yeast up and running and make some pale ales, amber ales, etc. but this weekend is Mother's Day, next weekend my sisters are coming to visit and the next weekend I'm standing up in a wedding and it's Memorial Day. Looks like my brewery will be closed for a total of 2+ months but I promise to get things cranked up in early June.

[HVB]

I now have two empty kegs sitting on my beer bunker floor. There are two beers in secondary which is good but they're similar styles to what I already have (cream ale, dark lager). I need to get some ale yeast up and running and make some pale ales, amber ales, etc. but this weekend is Mother's Day, next weekend my sisters are coming to visit and the next weekend I'm standing up in a wedding and it's Memorial Day. Looks like my brewery will be closed for a total of 2+ months but I promise to get things cranked up in early June.

You just need to find a couple hours to fire out a quick batch, you know you want to try that 30 minute boil

[Big Nake]

You just need to find a couple hours to fire out a quick batch, you know you want to try that 30 minute boil

I would actually try the 30m boil. If the only variable was getting the bittering units correct, I think I could tackle that.

[HVB]

I would actually try the 30m boil. If the only variable was getting the bittering units correct, I think I could tackle that.

software is your friend for that one.  Just playing with my spreadsheet quickly.

6g of 1.055 OG wort

10% alpha hop

1 oz @ 60 = 33.5 IBU

1 oz @ 30 = 22.85 IBU

1.5 oz @ 30 = 34.85 IBU

 

Granted, this is all subjective but just to give you an example.

[Big Nake]

software is your friend for that one.  Just playing with my spreadsheet quickly.
6g of 1.055 OG wort
10% alpha hop
1 oz @ 60 = 33.5 IBU
1 oz @ 30 = 22.85 IBU
1.5 oz @ 30 = 34.85 IBU
 
Granted, this is all subjective but just to give you an example.

Right. I would use my same application and just dial in the hops for bittering and then add the late hops just as I would for a 60m boil. Does the 30m boil bring any downside at all? The potential for cloudier wort? I really can't think of much that would happen on the negative side. I see a quicker brewday and I see less propane used... both good.

[HVB]

Right. I would use my same application and just dial in the hops for bittering and then add the late hops just as I would for a 60m boil. Does the 30m boil bring any downside at all? The potential for cloudier wort? I really can't think of much that would happen on the negative side. I see a quicker brewday and I see less propane used... both good.

I have not had any negatives.  I have brewed lagers and ales like this with no issues.  The lagers have been 90%+ pils and no issues.  I can show you pictures of crystal clear beers and cloudy NE beers alike from this method, the cloudy beers were clear going into fermentation and then clouded up with dry hops.  I would not say a 30 minute boil has any negative to me.  Now my no-boil .. that is different ..lol

I have not had any negatives.  I have brewed lagers and ales like this with no issues.  The lagers have been 90%+ pils and no issues.  I can show you pictures of crystal clear beers and cloudy NE beers alike from this method, the cloudy beers were clear going into fermentation and then clouded up with dry hops.  I would not say a 30 minute boil has any negative to me.  Now my no-boil .. that is different ..lol

 

Only Negative, if you can call it that is you need to be prepared.  You have less time to get stuff ready during the boil so having it ready to go prior to the boil starting is imperative in my mind.

[Big Nake]

What's funny is that the woman that runs one of my LHBS tells me every time that I come in for pilsner malt to "make sure that I boil the pilsner wort for 90 minutes!". If I told her about a 30m boil on a beer with pilsner malt, I'm sure it would break her brain.

[Big Nake]

Went for dinner last night and the place had a long, rotating beer list. I grabbed a Two Brothers Nite Cat (my wife did too) which I have posted about before. This is the "Dark & Hoppy Wheat Beer" that my FLAT EARTH recipe is supposed to get close to. Really nice beer. So I am accumulating some upcoming recipes for when I get either 1056 or Omega West Coast ready... A Citra-Amarillo Pale Ale, Flat Earth, a hoppy blonde and some sort of Amber Ale.

[denny]

I brewed yesterday.  MAde my standard Rye IPA biut used all craft malt from Mecca Grade Estate Malt.