Brew Log : Hop harvest ale

Brewlog: Hop harvest ale - March 8, 2010

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Brewed:	March 8, 2010	Bottled/Kegged:	March 25, 2010	Status:	Ready

Expected Mash Efficiency:	70.00%	Expected Bitterness[IBU]:	34.07
Actual Mash Efficiency:	70.19%

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Brew day went ok. Ended up with 100gms of wet hops (cluster) to add in near the end of the boil, so interested to see how they turn out.

Think I will need to add more (as hop tea addition) will probably do cascade. But will see how it turns out before I make any additions.

Log tasting entries:

Mon May 10, 2010 10:47	Rating: 25 Age at tasting: about 1 month	Haze is slowly fading by still very disappointed in this beer.
Fri April 23, 2010 23:17	Rating: 25 Age at tasting: 29 days	Turned out fairly disappointing. The wet hop character is almost non existent, and still very cloudy. Is an ok session beer, but not really much more than that. Similar in flavour profile to a fat yak.

Thu March 25, 2010 10:47		Finally got around to kegging this beer. Tried some after force carbinating a sample from the fermenter last Friday. Was a bit lacking, so have added another 17gms of Amarillo using the hop tea method
Mon March 15, 2010 22:15		Added 18gms of Cascade as a hop tea
Sun March 14, 2010 19:45	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.013, Temp[C (F)]: 18.00 (64.40), Atten: 74.03%, ABV: 5.06%	Taste is not very hoppy, will need to add more flavour/aroma hops.
Wed March 10, 2010 19:35	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.019, Temp[C (F)]: 18.00 (64.40), Atten: 61.77%, ABV: 4.22%	Little bit on the harsh side but quite highly carbonated. Think it will need more finishing hops to round it out.
Tue March 09, 2010 08:20	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.051, Atten: 0.00%, ABV: 0.00%	Fermenting strongly this morning.