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5 years 11 months ago #3253 by schlerp
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Hey all,

need some help with my dry hopping regime for an IPA I'm making. My room mate and I are into pretty bitter/hoppy beers.

Fermentables:
- 1.7L tin of pale ale
- 1.25 kg LDME (Dry)
- 500g dextrose (Dry)
- 250g maltodextrin (Dry)
- approx 15-20g safeale US-05

for the boil (dry fermentables + 10L water) we hopped (soft boil):
- 20-25g Mosaic @ 60mins
- 20-25g Amirillo @ 45mins
- 20-25g Citra @ 30mins
- 20-25g Enigma @ 15mins

Method:
Cooled over about 25 mins using cool water in the sink.
Added pale ale tin to FV directly.
Whisked it for a minute or two then added the pitched yeast (pitched in about a litre or two of 20 degree C water)

outcome:
hit an OG of 1.052 which is a little lower than I expected (1.054 from online calc, blaming it on the stuff stuck to inside of tin...).
Hoping for FG of about 1.010 giving an ABV of about 6-6.5%


so... its day three in the fermenter and im wondering how much hops I should add.

I want to keep it to the above mention hops I have about 65g left of each Hop and want dry hop it...

So far im thinking:
today for 5 days (its fermenting quite heavily at the moment):
- 35g of Mosaic
- 15-20g of Amirillo
- 15-20g of Citra

and then this for the last few days:
- 35g of Enigma

Do I have to take out the first addition dry hops when I add the second?
Should I use a hop bag?
Should I add more hops?
Can I turn this into an NEIPA with the dry hopping or did I miss that boat already?

Basically, I've never made an IPA before and any advice is welcome!

Cheers!

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5 years 11 months ago #3254 by Gash
Replied by Gash on topic MACE IPA - Dry hopping regime
Gday, I'd maybe switch them and make the later dry hop the bigger one, Its fairly normal for me to add 100g of dry hop for an IPA. Whether you use a bag or not is up to you, I'd weigh it down and make sure it has plenty of room for the hops to expand, If you dont use a bag make sure you cold crash and you may get some hop during transfer, sometimes you do sometimes you dont, just be careful when transferring, or use some to filter them out.

So if you havent already yep you can chuck some in now, any combo of those will be good, then wait till ferment has just about stopped and dry hop again, you can bump the temp of the ferment a bit then a degree or two and hopefully get it to finish out in a 3 or 4 days, then cold crash for 2 or 3 and you should be good to go, Cheers mate!

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