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question about dry hopping
I am about to brew an apple cider pale ale combining 3 gallons of pale with 2 gallons of cider. I plan on brewing a 5 gallon batch of hopped down pale ale and fermenting the 2 remaining gallons to enjoy later. my question is, since i am going to be brewing a hopped down pale ale to mix with the cider, will dry hopping the remaining 2 gallons add much to the beer? i have yet to dry hop, so am unfamiliar with the results you get, from what i've read, it seems like dry hopping adds a lot to aroma, but how does it affect bitterness?
Dry hopping doesn't add any bitterness.
willard_80 wrote:
... from what i've read, it seems like dry hopping adds a lot to aroma, but how does it affect bitterness?
Dry Hopping is all about aroma.
Some people have experimented with boiling some measured amount of hops in water and adding that to the beer to get some additional bitterness.
If you want to add bittereness you can purchase isomerized hop extracts that add bitterness. I don't know how hard it would be to find that type of stuff these days those.
brewchez wrote:
willard_80 wrote:
... from what i've read, it seems like dry hopping adds a lot to aroma, but how does it affect bitterness?
Dry Hopping is all about aroma.
Some people have experimented with boiling some measured amount of hops in water and adding that to the beer to get some additional bitterness.
If you want to add bittereness you can purchase isomerized hop extracts that add bitterness. I don't know how hard it would be to find that type of stuff these days those.
Yup... just like has been said, it is aroma. Nothing else.
Brewchez, I think what you are talking about is called Tetrahop. Since (cough, hack, puke) Miller and a few others have clear bottles, they use a liquid hop concentrate called Tetrahop which bitters the beer. That way the sun UV rays doesn't skunk the beer. You probably already knew that.
But I never knew a homebrewer could buy it. Then again, I never looked.
brewchez wrote:
willard_80 wrote:
... from what i've read, it seems like dry hopping adds a lot to aroma, but how does it affect bitterness?
Dry Hopping is all about aroma.
Some people have experimented with boiling some measured amount of hops in water and adding that to the beer to get some additional bitterness.
If you want to add bittereness you can purchase isomerized hop extracts that add bitterness. I don't know how hard it would be to find that type of stuff these days those.
Here's a thread on here that a person forgot to hop his beer and boild hops later and added it and it came out fine.
http://www.brewingkb.com/homebrewing/fo … -3271.html
DC
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