Holy Hops!

[smokinghole]

Well today is brew day for the beer that receives 17oz of fivedifferent kinds of hops. This is a standard 5 gallon batch.

Top to bottom. Hops used Centennial, Columbus, Simcoe, Chinook, and Warrior.

Wort boiled for 90 min.

Mini mash hops - Chinook
90 min boil hops - Chinook and Warrior
45 min left boil - Simcoe
30min left boil - Columbus
hops at flame out (aroma) - Centennial and Simcoe
the last big bag is 7 oz of dry hops(aroma) - Simcoe, Columbus, and Centennial

Anyone else a hop head? When I was weighing them out for their time marks this morning my wife said it looked like I was dividing up pot.

 

[BeerAdvocate]

Is this your own recipe or a kit from AHS?
Looks tasty!

 

[smokinghole]

It's the AHS Pliney the Elder Clone. One of my last extract batches, will be all grain from here on out.

 

[BeerAdvocate]

Thats what I was guessing. Keep us posted and let us know how it turns out.

 

[danthebugman]

Mmmm, I love beer with lots of hops. That looks like it could be a tasty beer.

Dan

 

[smokinghole]

Well I just tasted a prefermentation sample from out of the pipette to test with my refractometer. I have to repeat the title. Holy hops! I hit 1.074 OG and it should get down around 1.014 according to the recipe. That leaves the beer at about 7.8%ABV I suspect mine might go a tad lower than 1.014 but we'll see.

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

If Adam is making it, it will be good!