Comments on: Monday morning musing: McMurtry nails it

By: Stan Hieronymus

Stan Hieronymus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:47:48 +0000

Sam – exactly correct on the saturation point, which is why Bell’s has a shot at more with an 11% beer (83 IBU after brewing, 20 more from the hop extracts plant in Kalamazoo).

This picture is from a German postcard. No artist is listed.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:31:23 +0000

There’s a saturation point right around where Sierra saw the cieling, where you just can’t get anymore alpha into solution…it varies slightly depending on the beer, but I’m surprised to see Sam in the 100s.

Side question, Stan where do you get all your great pics and who’s this one by?

By: Stan Hieronymus

Stan Hieronymus — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:19:40 +0000

Mario – A couple of years ago Sierra Nevada ran the specs on a bunch of DIPAs for “Hop School” in Oregon.

Pliney might have been 78 or in the low 80s. I don’t remember the exact number. Vinnie said that was a particularly yeasty batch, and that when he ran the numbers at Korbel (which could more easily afford to do that) yeast always lowered the IBU number.

Anyway, nobody got out of the low 90s in the Sierra Nevada test.

Bell’s beer is 11% (more alcohol will allow more IBUs), but Larry said he is thinking about sending it for outside testing – he knows one test is not the final word.

I had forgotten, until this moment, that the Samuel Adams Imperial Pilsner clocks in above 100 in their tests. So you still got me . . .

By: Mario (Brewed For Thought)

Mario (Brewed For Thought) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:59:16 +0000

I may be wrong, but doesn’t Russian River’s Pliny the Elder break the triple digit IBU mark? And that’s a Double IPA. I have no idea about Pliny the Younger which is a Triple.