Ivan Lendl

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I brewed an apa last night using columbus for bittering and simcoe for flavor. this morning coming from my airlock is the most wonderfull hop aroma! Ive never used these before and im loving them already. My question is, should i use the 1 oz. amarillo i got to dry hop with or get some more simcoe? I know amirillo is similar to cascade which makes me weary to use it. I just dont want to mask all that great simcoe aroma with cascade type aroma.(i like cascade, im just over it)
btw i used .5 oz. columbus at 60, and 30 and boy is this beer gonna be bitter! I tasted the wort and got angina from the bitterness, hopefully it will mellow a bit!

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Brewiz

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SIMCOE,SIMCOE and Simcoe, it is the best all around hop that I have used to date and I have benn brewing for over 15 yrs. as a matter of fact I just vacum bagged a new pound of it.

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brackbrew

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Pardon my lack of knowledge...is Simcoe an American hop variety? I've been trying to formulate an APA recipe and don't know the best American varieties to use.

Thanks.

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Ivan Lendl

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yup...i think it came out in 2000. So far it smells awesome! Piney, musky, earthy...
Im definitely going to dry hop with a half ounce or more. i might do only a half cuz the og was kind of low (1.052) and the bitterness is kind of high (+55) and finally i only used .5 lbs of crystal, so i want to taste some kind of malt.

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Was your recipe all grain, or extract w/grains? Would you mind posting it? I'd be really interested in trying it. At least, let us all know how the brew turns out!

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Ivan Lendl

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10 lbs dingemans pale ale malt
.5 lbs briess munich
.5 lbs briess crystal 10L

.5 oz columbus 13.3 aau (60 min) pellet
.5 oz columbus 13.3 aau (30 min) pellet
.5 oz simcoe 12 aau (15 min) pellet
.5 oz simcoe 12 aau (8 min) pellet
.5-1 oz simcoe dryhop (plug)

2x11 g us56 dry ale yeast (rehydrated in 12 oz. 82F h20 25 min)
1 whirlfloc tab (15 min)
.5 tsp gypsum (mash)
.5 tsp gypsum (sparge)

mash: 130 (30 min), 148 (40 min), 158 (10 min)
sparge: 4 gallon 175F h20 (batch sparge)

og 1.052
ibu +55 (yikes!)

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