Boek

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I planned on dry hoping the recipe below with an ounce of Citra. Then I started reading that Citra can get pretty overwhelming in a hurry. There was even mention of "cat piss" smell in one colorful description. Anyway, dry hop with Citra, something else, a mix, or nothing?

Thanks.

Citra Blond - Blonde Ale
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Batch Size: 5.500 gal
Boil Size: 6.300 gal
Boil Time: 60.000 min
Efficiency: 70%%
OG: 1.051
FG: 1.010
ABV: 5.3%%
Bitterness: 30.1 IBUs (Tinseth)
Color: 6 SRM (Morey)

Fermentables
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Name Type Amount Mashed Late Yield Color
Briess - 2 Row Brewers Malt Grain 9.000 lb Yes No 80%% 2 L
Cara-Pils/Dextrine Grain 12.000 oz Yes No 72%% 2 L
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L Grain 8.000 oz Yes No 75%% 10 L
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L Grain 4.000 oz Yes No 74%% 60 L
Vienna Malt Grain 8.000 oz Yes No 78%% 4 L
Vienna Malt Grain 0.000 oz Yes No 78%% 4 L
Total grain: 11.000 lb
Mash at 150 F.

Hops
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Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU
Magnum 13.5%% 0.350 oz Boil 60.000 min Pellet 15.0
Citra 12.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 15.000 min Pellet 4.7
Citra 12.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 10.000 min Pellet 3.5
Citra 12.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 5.000 min Pellet 1.9
Citra 12.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 0.000 s Pellet 0.0
Cascade 6.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 15.000 min Pellet 2.4
Cascade 6.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 10.000 min Pellet 1.7
Cascade 6.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 5.000 min Pellet 0.9
Cascade 6.0%% 0.250 oz Boil 0.000 s Pellet 0.0

Citra 12.0%% 1.000 oz Dry Hop 0.000 s Pellet 0.0

Orange zest from 2 oranges at 10 min.

Yeast
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Name Type Form Amount Stage
Danstar - Nottingham Ale Dry 2.232 tsp Primary

mux

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I dropped 3oz of citra in my last IPA. Turned out great lots of aroma. No piss smell.

Boek

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Dry hopped with 3 oz?

Proboscidea

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MoreBeer sells a Citra Pale Ale kit, which uses Citra in the boil, and Citra for dry-hop. I made the kit a few weeks ago but haven't tested the bottle-carbed version yet (needs another week = I like to wait 3wk).

I think there was a total of 2 ounces Citra in the kit? And one of those was dry-hop. So, yeah, you shouldn't have a problem. I do know that it smelled and tasted absolutely phenomenal when it was being bottled.

Nary a hint of cat pee.

Disclaimer: I live with three bad cats so I am both keenly attuned to the smell of cat pee in the outside world, and mercifully oblivious to it in my own house.

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Fermenting:
Ginger mead (3gal)
EdWort's Apfelwein (3gal) + EdWort's Apfelwein (1gal) with .5lb Crystal 40, hoping for caramel notes
Skeeter Pee (3gal)

TheCrackpot

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I have a Citra IPA that used Citra throughout (dry hopping included) and it is delicious. I even used a rather light malt bill so the Citra really shines. Not any more overwhelming than I had hoped and definitely no piss smell.

Dry hop away, I say!

Gear101

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Zombie Dust is a single offering beer of citra and dry hopped too. Want to say from boil to dry it is 7 or 8 oz of citra.

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Keg 3= Zombie Dust
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Keg 6= Bell's Hopslam


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Proboscidea

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And, come to think of it, I believe the MoreBeer kit used Magnum for bittering @60min, just like you're planning. So you're right on track with what the "pros" concocted.

I hate to be That Guy, but it really does smell and taste like sweet grapefruit. The Internet (me) says so!

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"Honey, if you keep doing that, the fire is going to climb right back up to that can in your hand and explode and give you horrible injuries, and it will just ruin my entire weekend."

Fermenting:
Ginger mead (3gal)
EdWort's Apfelwein (3gal) + EdWort's Apfelwein (1gal) with .5lb Crystal 40, hoping for caramel notes
Skeeter Pee (3gal)

helibrewer

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Anchor Brewing does a Breckles Brown Ale using only Citra hops

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eastoak

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i think the cat pee smell is associated with simcoe, my other favorite hop besides citra. i just tasted a 100% Brett B citra pale ale that i dry hopped with an oz of citra and it tastes fantastic, i'll be bottling it tomorrow.

Gear101

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Do you have that clone.... would like to see that.

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Island Time Brewery

Keg 1=Black Caesar Imperial Stout by Island Time Brewery
Keg 2=(IPA) Islamorada Pale Ale by Island Time Brewery
Keg 3= Zombie Dust
Keg 4= Goose Island Matilda
Keg 5= Cigar City Jai Alai
Keg 6= Bell's Hopslam


Stainless is Painless

"I am allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer." - Greg Norman