Bum wrote:Tourist wrote:I reckon you might want about 30IBU max for a hoppy pale ale or bitter style.
30IBU barely squeaks into spec for an APA. Absolute lowest IBU value for style.
Shifter wrote:How about 20g centennial for 30mins, 40g amarillo for 20 mins and 40g Amarillo for 10 mins. 30 min boil with about 500 g of LME and the steeped crystal wort??
Tourist wrote:Absolutely. Which is why I didn't say anything about "American" - I think I even removed the word.
Tourist wrote:stuff
Bum wrote:Mate, his beer is base, crystal and late US hops.
Bum wrote:You can remove all the qualifiers you like - APA is still the closest fit to what he's making and you're wrong.
Bum wrote:You're also wrong giving him numbers for his beer without knowing AA%, age of hops and boil/batch volume.
Bum wrote:He clearly doesn't understand why this is might be an issue so you should not be glossing over this matter and he'd do well to apply the proverbial grain of salt to nearly everything you've said until you start asking questions before you start giving answers.
Bum wrote:Shifter, if you are chasing something vaguely American (and your hop selection does make it look like that's where your tastes might lie) don't remove the 20 min addition - reduce the early bittering addition instead - it'll make the taste buds that Tourist is claiming to save sing! He might have a point about your gravity though (assuming a batch size around the 20/23L mark) - if you like it hoppy up your extract amounts rather than reducing your hopping rates. Throw up all the details you have for the hops and intended brew (boil size/batch size/etc) and someone will run the figures for you and you can work out how to swing it closer to your tastes from there.
Tourist wrote:Before you start banging on about the hops
Bum wrote:Clutching at straws, mate.
Shifter wrote:It is nice to have someone with obvious technical brewing skills comment. And that's how information is passed on.
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