Hop Scheduling

[brewerTristan]

I'm drinking a nice IPA I brewed at the moment with a hop schedule I'd never tried before. It worked out really nice:

60 - Northern Brewer
50 - Cascade
40 - Cascade
30 - Cascade
20 - Cascade
10 - Cascade
0 - Cascade
Dry hop - Centennial

Any other interesting/unusual hop schedules out there? I know everything has more or less been done, but I'm still curious.

[BigNastyBrew]

That actually looks like something I would try. Problem is: I do SO many other things while the boil is going, I would have to have 8 different timers to make sure I didn't miss any of the additions.

I may try your schedule on my IPA I'm brewing next. I needed 8 hop additions anyway.

[portlandhophead]

brewerTristan,

Looks like a good schedule, and I've followed similar "continous hopping" schedules in the past.

However, Jamil Zainesheff woke me up to late hopping schedules, particularly ones where your bittering and flavor/aroma additions go in way late, with like 20 minutes and under left in the boil.

So, using say 2 oz of Cascade, 2 oz of Northern Brewer and 2 oz of Centennial (most of my IPAs use 6 total ounces of hops per 5 gallons), your schedule may look like:

@ 20 minutes left - .5 oz of Northern Brewer, .5 oz of Cascade
@ 15 minutes left - .5 oz of Northern Brewer
@ 10 minutes left - .5 oz of Cascade
@ 5 minutes left to flameout - 1 oz of NB, 1 oz of Cascade
Dry hop with 2 oz of Centennial, or better yet, add these @ 0 minutes!

[Hoppy Brewah]

Dry hop with 2 oz of Centennial, or better yet, add these @ 0 minutes!

I think flame out hop additions (0 minutes) and dry hopping are very different. I get much more aroma from dry hopping. I have never tried continuous hopping, but it sounds good.

[thejerm]

So northern brewers do well in IPA's? I just posted a bit ago trying to use up the hops i have laying around.

[captain carrot]

I'm drinking a nice IPA I brewed at the moment with a hop schedule I'd never tried before. It worked out really nice:

60 - Northern Brewer
50 - Cascade
40 - Cascade
30 - Cascade
20 - Cascade
10 - Cascade
0 - Cascade
Dry hop - Centennial

Any other interesting/unusual hop schedules out there? I know everything has more or less been done, but I'm still curious.

How large were your hop additions? Did you use pellets or whole leaf?

[brewerTristan]

I'm drinking a nice IPA I brewed at the moment with a hop schedule I'd never tried before. It worked out really nice:

60 - Northern Brewer
50 - Cascade
40 - Cascade
30 - Cascade
20 - Cascade
10 - Cascade
0 - Cascade
Dry hop - Centennial

Any other interesting/unusual hop schedules out there? I know everything has more or less been done, but I'm still curious.

How large were your hop additions? Did you use pellets or whole leaf?

Pellets. 1 oz for the NB, 0.5 oz for all the cascade additions, then 1 oz for the centennial dry hop.

[BDawg]

I use a kind of 'middle ground' method that allows me to get similar effects without blowing the bank on hops and without getting too vegetal-

1) Figure out what hops you want to use
2) Divide them into small uniformly sized additions every 5 mins starting at 20 all the way through flame out and into dryhopping. (1 oz per 5 gallons every 5 mins has worked well for me here.)
3) Plug the numbers into Promash/Beersmith so you can figure out the total IBU contributes of all those late hops
4) Then add enough FWH additions to bump the total IBUs up to a BU:GU ratio of 1:1. (ie, if your gravity is 1.065, then add enough to hit 65 IBUs). You can also add a normal bittering addition if you want to.

Not to sound like a broken record to the other old timers on here, but here's a link to my house IPA that uses exactly this method:

http://www.brewtility.com/ViewRecipe.aspx?RecipeID=50

HTH-