
And I as the customer don't know either with out a previous price receipt for the same kit. So I guess my question is this.is the new kit the same price as the old kit even though it contains less bittering hops? And I asked and the answer from the floor mgr was 'this was done on the backend I don't know'. I guess I could have brought in the old recipe printout in with me but whatever.next time. I then asked if I could just have the old recipe with the bittering hops that have come with this kit I have been buying for years and was told that the recipe was no longer in their database.

AHS is removing this uncertainty/need to manually calculate IBU's with each batch, so that you can brew with confidence and certainty that the beer you made 1 year ago is the same as the beer your brewing now." What this means for your beer is inconsistency in bittering. That means one year a hop like saaz which is normally 3-4% AA might grow to 5% or 7% before the plant is split and the AA reduces back to normal range. Hop bines grow in Alpha Acids from year to year until the plant is split. Use of HBU guarantees that from batch to batch of homebrew and from harvest to harvest of hops, the recipe you brew from AHS will have 100% consistent bittering. 95% of AHS recipes are configured to use HBU hop pellet packs for bittering. Īustin homebrew supply is reintroducing the best way to bitter your homebrew, the Home Bittering Unit.

I asked how many oz were in each of these HBU packs and again no answer. I asked what hops made up the 3-4-5-&10 HBU packs and no one could give me an answer. I drove in today to pick up a kit and was surprised that all of the individual bittering hops in this particular kit had been replaced with an in house mix of an 'HBU' hop pellet pack. I posted this elsewhere but thought I might get some more answers about these here.
