Forgot bittering hops.

[Yosh]

Made my semi successful return to brewing today, home made boiler and mash tun worked well and nothing exploded. However I realised after adding the fragrance hops that I had totally forgotten about the first addition of hops.

I'm not too bothered as this brew was really a test of the new equipment, a reminder for me and a chance to use some of my grain that has been hanging around. I'm quite interested to see how it turns out but I also wondered if it would be possible to boil the bittering hops in a couple of liters of water on its own and just add it in, I know it is not ideal but any opinions on the idea?

[Eadweard]

I'd add some isomerised hop extract: http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/cgi ... 3#a0531863

[Nigel1969]

I done just that, and it worked out great, )

[boingy]

Or you could team up with someone who has the opposite problem and get blending!

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[Lars]

Made my semi successful return to brewing today, home made boiler and mash tun worked well and nothing exploded. However I realised after adding the fragrance hops that I had totally forgotten about the first addition of hops.

I'm not too bothered as this brew was really a test of the new equipment, a reminder for me and a chance to use some of my grain that has been hanging around. I'm quite interested to see how it turns out but I also wondered if it would be possible to boil the bittering hops in a couple of liters of water on its own and just add it in, I know it is not ideal but any opinions on the idea?

I would make a hop tea as you suggest. Some people do adjust bittering in this way in the fermentor

[Troutman47]

I've just made a beer of my own recipe using the 'hop burst' technique where no bittering hops are added at all but 100grams of hops (cascade in my case) are put in 10 mins from the end.

It's an awesome beer!!

How about a big bag of dry hops? Maybe it'll up the aroma?

[Derby Dabbler]

Made my semi successful return to brewing today, home made boiler and mash tun worked well and nothing exploded. However I realised after adding the fragrance hops that I had totally forgotten about the first addition of hops.

I'm not too bothered as this brew was really a test of the new equipment, a reminder for me and a chance to use some of my grain that has been hanging around. I'm quite interested to see how it turns out but I also wondered if it would be possible to boil the bittering hops in a couple of liters of water on its own and just add it in, I know it is not ideal but any opinions on the idea?

I would make a hop tea as you suggest. Some people do adjust bittering in this way in the fermentor

I made and used hop tea once in a beer that had fermented out too strong so the hops were out of balance. Made a strong beer that tasted like pants left at the bottom of a games bag for 3 months. I wonder why commercial breweries don't use hop teas? Then again the wife thought it was fine so maybe that how she ended up marrying me?

I vote isomerised hop extract but if you boil enough of the volatiles off (1 hour) you'll probably be fine but get them in as soon as possible as fermentation makes a huge difference to the hop flavours that come through.