Good evening.
Brewed a pseudo-pilsner. Pils malt, 100g of Magnum bittering addition at thirty minutes for a thirty minute boil, fermented warm with saflager w-34/70, then cold crashed, dry hoped cold with 50 grams of Tettnanger and Mittelfruh each for two days, then added gelatin and bottled after 24 hours.
For water treatment i used the light and hoppy profile as a template and added salts accordingly, to my relatively soft tap water.
I expected a clean sharp bitterness and some decently bright hop aroma, instead i got a relatively muted lingering bitter taste (reminds me of a west coast IPA), and some hop character but not nearly as much as i would like. The beer is perfectly drinkable, clear, with some decent aromas/flavors, but it is a bit flat for my taste, reminds me of a really decent commercial beer.
I do not have a lot of experience with brewing, so i might just expect things that i shouldn't out of this beer, but any ideas as to where i am going wrong would be nice.
I finned with a pretty big amount of gelatin, and while a brulosophy exbeeriment i read did not find big amounts of gelatin to strip hop aroma, i wonder if it played a role.
I also considered suck back from cold crashing my plastic bucket fermenter to be the issue, but the color and taste of the beer are both in the expected range, so i do not believe there is oxydation.
Brewed a pseudo-pilsner. Pils malt, 100g of Magnum bittering addition at thirty minutes for a thirty minute boil, fermented warm with saflager w-34/70, then cold crashed, dry hoped cold with 50 grams of Tettnanger and Mittelfruh each for two days, then added gelatin and bottled after 24 hours.
For water treatment i used the light and hoppy profile as a template and added salts accordingly, to my relatively soft tap water.
I expected a clean sharp bitterness and some decently bright hop aroma, instead i got a relatively muted lingering bitter taste (reminds me of a west coast IPA), and some hop character but not nearly as much as i would like. The beer is perfectly drinkable, clear, with some decent aromas/flavors, but it is a bit flat for my taste, reminds me of a really decent commercial beer.
I do not have a lot of experience with brewing, so i might just expect things that i shouldn't out of this beer, but any ideas as to where i am going wrong would be nice.
I finned with a pretty big amount of gelatin, and while a brulosophy exbeeriment i read did not find big amounts of gelatin to strip hop aroma, i wonder if it played a role.
I also considered suck back from cold crashing my plastic bucket fermenter to be the issue, but the color and taste of the beer are both in the expected range, so i do not believe there is oxydation.