Will these hop additions work OK

[crafty john]

I am just putting this on to boil, could you guys take a look at my recipe and give me some feedback on my late hop additions, I have never used columbus before so I am just stabbing in the dark.

Columbus and cascade APA
Date:
Gyle Number:
Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 9 lbs. 14.6 oz 4500 grams 87.5%
Torrefied Wheat 4 EBC 0 lbs. 14.0 oz 300 grams 7.8%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 8.4 oz 240 grams 4.7%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Columbus (Tomahawk) Whole 16.5 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.9 oz 25 grams 29.4%
Cascade Whole 5.9 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 0.7 oz 20 grams 23.5%
Cascade Whole 5.9 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.7 oz 20 grams 23.5%
Columbus (Tomahawk) Whole 16.5 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.7 oz 20 grams 23.5%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.049
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 4.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.4 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12.9 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 48.7610297078712 EBU
Colour: 18 EBC

[Deebee]

Bit late...

they look ok. columbus is a lovely hop.
That said i think that you are a little ott on the ibu against the Og. you are at 1:1 right now. I would have dropped it to around .6-.7:1 personally but thats just me.

[darkonnis]

Looks nice, although I think you'll lose a lot of flavouring with such a long boil time on the first lot of columbus, if its there purely for bittering purposes then that makes sense but otherwise, I'd personally want to add a bit at the 15minute mark to get some taste out of them and to match the columbus (dry hopping?) at the end.
Looks nice though let us know how you get on

[crafty john]

Bit late...

they look ok. columbus is a lovely hop.
That said i think that you are a little ott on the ibu against the Og. you are at 1:1 right now. I would have dropped it to around .6-.7:1 personally but thats just me.

I like a bitter beer, the last APA I did I cocked up on the hops and added the 10 minute hops with the bittering hops by accident, so I just upped the flameout hops to compensate and it was fantastic.

Thanks for the advice though, do you think you could explain this "you are at 1:1 right now. I would have dropped it to around .6-.7:1 personally but thats just me" I don't go in for all the calculations that some of you might, but I am becoming more interested. I use beer engine to formulate my recipes, I know what ibu's I like so I just whack it in and get on with it. I have never had a bad beer so I must be doing something right.

Cheers[/quote]

[crafty john]

Looks nice, although I think you'll lose a lot of flavouring with such a long boil time on the first lot of columbus, if its there purely for bittering purposes then that makes sense but otherwise, I'd personally want to add a bit at the 15minute mark to get some taste out of them and to match the columbus (dry hopping?) at the end.
Looks nice though let us know how you get on

Yes I just wanted to use them for bittering, never used them before so I thought I would add them for bittering and at flameout with some cascade to see how it turned out, like I said just a stab in the dark, I will keep you posted on the outcome.

Cheers

[Deebee]

Bit late...

they look ok. columbus is a lovely hop.
That said i think that you are a little ott on the ibu against the Og. you are at 1:1 right now. I would have dropped it to around .6-.7:1 personally but thats just me.

I like a bitter beer, the last APA I did I cocked up on the hops and added the 10 minute hops with the bittering hops by accident, so I just upped the flameout hops to compensate and it was fantastic.

Thanks for the advice though, do you think you could explain this "you are at 1:1 right now. I would have dropped it to around .6-.7:1 personally but thats just me" I don't go in for all the calculations that some of you might, but I am becoming more interested. I use beer engine to formulate my recipes, I know what ibu's I like so I just whack it in and get on with it. I have never had a bad beer so I must be doing something right.

Cheers

[/quote]

yes. basically you have a ration of 1:! ( gravity points and IBU) you have 1049 and 49 IBU so 1:1

If you multiply49 49 by .6 it gives 29,4 ibu which is what i would have aimed at roughly. it does all depend on beer style and also personal preference.

does that make sense?

[crafty john]

Yep got it, thanks for that I will bear that in mind when creating different beer styles in the future.

Thanks again.

[crafty john]

Just had a taste of the above, fantastic flavour, nice balance, probably one of my best using the C hops. I will definitely be doing this one again, I can't wait till it's conditioned properly, should be an excellent summer beer.