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Using whole dried hops. anything different?

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#1

I just ordered some whole dried mosaic hops from www.freshops.com. I plan to use them in my next recipe but was curious if i should do anything differently.

  • Do the weights stay the same? (e.g. if I were to use 0.5oz of pellets would i use 0.5oz of whole dried hops)

  • should i break them down a little before i add them?

  • i will be adding them in addition to cascade hops at 15 and 5 min. Should the cascade be whole or leaf or is it ok to mix whole and pellets at the same time?

  • i will also be dry hopping in secondary with these. does the process change at all?

#2

[quote=“mattnaik”]I just ordered some whole dried mosaic hops from http://www.freshops.com. I plan to use them in my next recipe but was curious if i should do anything differently.

  • Do the weights stay the same? (e.g. if I were to use 0.5oz of pellets would i use 0.5oz of whole dried hops)

  • should i break them down a little before i add them?

  • i will be adding them in addition to cascade hops at 15 and 5 min. Should the cascade be whole or leaf or is it ok to mix whole and pellets at the same time?

  • i will also be dry hopping in secondary with these. does the process change at all?[/quote]

The ROT is to use 10% more whole than pellets. The important thing is to match AA/IBU.

Don’t break them down

it’s fine to mix pellets and whole

nope

#3

Sorry, bit of a newb, do you mean match the AA of the whole hops to it’s corresponding pellet form? Kinda confused on this.

#4

[quote=“mattnaik”][quote=“Denny”]

The important thing is to match AA/IBU.

[/quote]

Sorry, bit of a newb, do you mean match the AA of the whole hops to it’s corresponding pellet form? Kinda confused on this.[/quote]

If the recipe called for 1 oz. of 5% AA hops, pellet or whole, think of that as 5 AAU (alpha acid units). If you have 4% AA hops, then you would need 1.25 oz. to get 5 AAU. Make sense?

#5

Got it thanks!

#6

If you’re using brewing software (like Beersmith 2) to configure your recipes, the software will do the calculations for you based on the form (whole or pellet) and AA% values input for the hops you’re using.

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