Hi 2 weeks ago I brewed a all grain mint chocolate stout. Which required adding 1.75 oz of east kent golding at 60 mins of the boil or for the full boil. I got mixed up and added them after 60 mins at 0 mins of the boil or right before flame out. I bottle Tuesday. Will this a least be worth bottling? it smells good and hoppy through the airlock. Will it be all sweet and syrupy and nasty since there is no bittering hops and only aroma hops?
It smells hoppy because you added the hops at flameout, so more volatile aromatics survived. My guess is it will seem extremely sweet. But taste it and see.
It's not like 1.75 oz of EKGs for bittering is going to give you anything close to a bitter beer anyway. If you used an attenuative yeast, sufficient roasted malt, and wanted an old world stout...then you'll be fine (provided you didn't cool it too quickly) Good luck.
That is a really good point, there are not a lot of IBUs in <2oz of EKG. How big was this batch? 5 gallons?
Suppose to be 29 IBU here is the grain bill: Andes Mint Chocolate Stout 5 gal Fermentables Amount Fermentable Maltster Use PPG Color 8.0 lb Maris Otter Bairds Mash 35 3 °L 1.0 lb Barley, Flaked Any Mash 32 1 °L 0.5 lb Rice Hulls Any Mash 0 0 °L 0.5 lb Chocolate Malt Briess Mash 34 350 °L 0.5 lb Crystal 40 Great Western Mash 32 40 °L 0.5 lb CARAFA® III Weyermann® Mash 32 525 °L Hops Amount Hop Time Use Form AA 1.75 oz East Kent Golding (UK) 60 min Boil Pellet 4.8% Yeasts Name Lab/Product Attenuation Irish Ale Yeast White Labs WLP004 71.5% Extras Amount Name Time Use 10.0 each Peppermint Tea 10.0 min Boil 5.0 oz Cocoa Powder 5.0 min Boil
You need to taste it. If it comes across as too sweet, there could be some post fermentation things you can do, such as add some isomerized hop extract (I think such things exist), boil some hops with the priming sugar (if you are bottling) to add some more bitterness, blend with beer brewed similarly, but with extra bitterness. But the easiest thing to do is to taste, evaluate, and decide what you would do differently next time. 9/10 times, this is a better course of action than trying to fix the mistake. Well, I a made up the 9/10 stat, but nevertheless believe that more often than not, you are better off tossing and rebrewing.
You could always do a smaller (3 gallon) and hoppier batch and then blend before bottling. Or, this could be a good blending beer.
I personally do not know where to purchase iso-hop extract. More Beer used to carry it but it was expensive. http://www.morebeer.com/products/isohop-bitterness-extract-1-oz.html My suggestion is to taste it and see how sweet it is for your palate. If it turns out it is too sweet, @wspscott has a good suggestion to brew another batch that you can blend this beer with. Cheers!
