I was looking over the recipe I'll be using, Brewers Best IPA, and I had a question about the hop schedule. add 1oz Cascade hops boil for 30 min add 2oz Columbus hops boil for 30 min add 1.5oz Cascade hops terminate boil Will that last 1.5oz really be adding anything if it's added at the very end and then immediately cooled? Should I at least let it steep for five minutes or so after turning the heat off? Thanks, Tim
It will certainly do something, you could actually drop the heat and steep. With that said, are you sure you are reading that schedule correctly? I would something like 1 oz of Columbus @ 60. .5oz of columbus @ 20 and the rest of @ 10 minutes in. Followed by a dry hopping after primary edit: depending on the AA of the columbus a full ounce might be overkill @ 60
It is basically impossible to "immediately cool" your wort unless you are only boiling 1 - 2 gallons and then topping off to make 5 gallons. Even then, that last addition will do something, but iit would be fine f you want to wait 5 mins before you begin chilling.
Really depends on how bitter vs. smooth you want the hop flavor to be, as well as what the malt bill looks like. I just finished an IPA using CTZ and most of my hop additions were late boil and flameout, as I prefer a smoother flavor. Below is what I would suggest, or something similar, if you want to go with a less bitter IPA. This will maximize the flavor and aroma contributions while minimizing bitterness. 1 oz Columbus at 40 min .5 oz Cascade at 5 1 oz Cascade flameout 1 oz Cascade dry hop 1 oz Columbus dry hop Flameout and whirlpool additions really bring a lot to the table when it comes to this style.
My flameout additions have been around the 6 oz mark these days with a 30 minute hopstand before chilling. My last ipa reads like this 1.0 oz chinook mash hop addition 2.0 oz magnum FWH (90 min boil) 1.0 oz Columbus @20 minutes 1.0 oz Columbus @10 minutes 2.0oz simcoe @ flameout 2.0 oz chinook @ flameout 2.0 oz nelson @ flameout Fermenting now, but other IPAs I have done with similar hop schedules have been flavor and aroma bombs. My bittering seems low on prior batches, I added an additional oz of magnum to this last batch.
