BernardSmith
Senior Member
There is a lovely approach to brewing known as SMaSH (single malt and single hop) where the idea is that you get to know more about how different malts and hops interact by brewing under very controlled conditions where all you use is one base malt and one variety of hop and you vary either the base malt from batch to batch or the hop variety.
My spring (brewing) project is to make a number of batches of beer using Maris Otter as my malt and varying the hops from one batch to the other to get a better handle on the kinds of flavors specific hops can impart.
OK. My question is given that my plan is to make several one gallon batches (I know, I know: all that work for 10 bottles of beer!) how much hops should I be adding? I am thinking 1 oz per gallon (assuming .5 oz for bittering .25 flavor and .25 aroma) but is that quantity way off base?
My spring (brewing) project is to make a number of batches of beer using Maris Otter as my malt and varying the hops from one batch to the other to get a better handle on the kinds of flavors specific hops can impart.
OK. My question is given that my plan is to make several one gallon batches (I know, I know: all that work for 10 bottles of beer!) how much hops should I be adding? I am thinking 1 oz per gallon (assuming .5 oz for bittering .25 flavor and .25 aroma) but is that quantity way off base?