BeerSmith™ Recipe Cloud

Taste Notes

This IPA turned out great. The bitterness ratio looks high in BeerSmith, but it's very well balanced, in my opinion. The color is really nice, too. This is a very good beer. I'll brew it again and I don't plan to change a thing.

Notes

After brewing, I noticed my bitterness ratio was high. I didn't notice that before I brewed. I was blindly looking at just the IBUs, and not the ratio to gravity. As I write this, it's just starting to bubble in the primary, so I'll have to wait and see how it turns out. On day 8, I racked it to a secondary and dry hopped an ounce of chinook. My first mistake was racking it and then sprinkling the hops onto the top of the beer. Afterwards, I realized I should have poured the hops into the secondary and then racked on top of the hops. I also realized that since I broke my hydrometer, I wasn't able to make sure that primary fermentation was winding down or done. It had certainly slowed down bubbling in the airlock, but the krausen hadn't fallen back much, so maybe I should have waited to rack into the secondary. We'll see what happens.