wet hop beer

I've got lots of cascade hops that are nearing ready to be picked and a small amount of centennial. I was hoping to make a 100% homegrown wet hop beer, any thoughts on a good style for mostly cascade and a little centennial?

kubrew said:

i've got lots of cascade hops that are nearing ready to be picked and a small amount of centennial. I was hoping to make a 100% homegrown wet hop beer, any thoughts on a good style for mostly cascade and a little centennial?

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ipa, apa...?

I second the Ipa.

Either styles listed sound good.

Columbus and Cascade lend themselves to these styles perfectly. Check out this IPA recipe (which would work well with Cascades as well as Columbus): https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/bells-two-hearted-ale-clone-close-they-come-91488/

This is my favorite American IPA grain bill by far. Good luck!

http://www.musiccitybrewers.com/docs/hoptime.pdf

This is a recipe from Russian River with Chinook and Cascade but I bet subbing your Centennial will still make a great beer. I made it like the recipe says and it turned out great.

i'm curious: How much weight do hops lose as they dry out? 15% 25% 50%...

General rule of thumb is that they lose 5x their weight. so that's 80%, right? 5 oz when goes down to about 1 oz dry.

I've done two wet hop batches already in the past two weeks, and still have another one to do before all the hops are picked.

Batch number one was an APA with 2 oz. Falconer's Flight (pellets) at 30 minutes, followed by 55 oz. of wet Cascades continuously from 20 minutes to flame-out (11 gallons).

Batch number two was an 8 gallon red with the same hop additions.

Batch number three will be a 5 gallon double black IPA with however many hops are left on the vines (100 oz??) This will be a mix of Cascade, Centennial, and Nugget.

I love wet hopped beers,do up a pale or ipa perfect if you have more than enough,may as well.

I think an over hopped wheat would be tasty. No clue if the grassy notes from the wet hops would compliment the wheaty flavor, but I would like to think so.