Hop A/A Adjustment Strategies

ChicoBrewer

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I started creating an American Wheat Ale based due to my recent score on Pilsen and White Wheat malt and TW's suggestion that I make an American Wheat Ale with it. I went and clipped a recipe from AHA and created a copy in the Recipe Editor. Here is the recipe. The original recipe claims 8.4 AA for the perle but the Perle I have from Hops Direct is 4.1. So the question is - Should I basically just double the 90 minute Perle addition to get the IBU's up to the ~13 the style wants? In general, how do you deal with hop additions when your source hops has a different AA value than suggested by the editor or when stealing a recipe?
 
Original aa x weight ÷ new aa = new weight. I think I wrote that correct.
 
That's it! Simple algebra LOL. Thanks!
 
Just plug the proper ingredient values (the actual hops you will use) into the calculator and up the amount until it gets the IBUs you want. A recipe is nothing but a record of the ingredients used to create the beer. Hop AA values are not a constant - you could get 2 bags of hops right off the shelf with 2 different AA numbers.
Obviously, if you have hops of a different value than a particular recipe, you have to make that accommodation when entering data into the recipe editor.
 

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