Little Creatures Pale Ale clone - how much dry hopping?

[MarkA18]

Hi all, this is happily bubbling away right now, and will be ready for dry hopping in a few days. I'm hoping to get opinions of how many hops to add for dry hopping.

 

First, here's the recipe:

 

Thomas Cooper Select draught can 1.7kg

1.5kg Coopers Liquid Wheat Malt Extract

300g dextrose

US-05 yeast

 

In a couple of litres of water we boiled some hops (this was maybe a bit timid, but really didn't want to increase bitterness, only aroma/flavour):

 

10g cascade (6.2% AA) whole flowers @ 8 min

5g galaxy (11.1% AA) whole flowers @ 8 min

20g cascade @ 0 min

10g galaxy @ 0 min

 

I was thinking of dry hopping (in a hop bag) with 20g cascade and 10g galaxy. Will this be good?

 

Thanks!

Mark

 

[Hairy]

That amount for dry hopping would be good.

 

You could probably push the the galaxy to 15-20g if you really like that hop but if you overdo the galaxy it will take a while to settle down.

 

Give it a go and let us know how it goes.

 

I know you said you didn't want to increase the bitterness but a 20 minute boil of some cascade would have been perfect.

[MarkA18]

Thanks Hairy. I guess it's all experimentation - we'll just have to make it again with a 20 min boil of cascade :) How much would you suggest @ 20 min, based on the above recipe?

 

[Hairy]

Thanks Hairy. I guess it's all experimentation - we'll just have to make it again with a 20 min boil of cascade :) How much would you suggest @ 20 min' date=' based on the above recipe?[/quote']

Depends on the AA% of the hops and the desired bitterness. I would probably add 15-20g (pellets) @ 20 min.