I recently brewed and the bottled beer is ready for drinking. I tasted the first one today and the clarity and carbonation is great and based on my knowledge and research of hopping schedules this should be an amazing tasting and aromatic brew, but it seems much less potent than I expected. Below is the extract, steeping grains, and hop schedule. I'm slightly disappointed in the result. It's delicious and has a great mouthfeel but has much less hop flavor and aroma as expected. Is there any reason it will take time to develop the flavors? From what I know the hop aroma and flavor is best right away. I did cold crash in my below-freezing temp garage for 7 days and used gelatin at 2 days in. Any chance of the cold crashing and gelatin of pulling out some of the hop oils?
Extract:
1# golden DME
12 oz Lt. pils DME (rest used for yeast starter)
3.3# Lt. pils LME
3.3# Golden LME
Steeping grains:
1# munich 10L
4 oz caramel 80L
4 oz carapils
Hops (all "fresh", bought in nitrogen vacuum packs and kept refrigerated until brew day):
60 min - 1oz chinook
30 min - .5oz chinook
10 min - .5oz ekuanot, .5oz comet
5 min - .5 comet, .5 ekuanot
0 min - .5 chinook, 1 comet, 1 ekuanot (whirlpooled while cooling with wort chiller for about 20 mins)
Dry hop - 1 chinook, 1 comet, 1 ekuanot (dry hopped loose at about 69° for 7 days before cold crashing)
Yeast:
1L starter of YLP001