Columbus

Does anyone like this hop? I have tried it twice, once dry hopped and once FWH and both times I got a sort of goat, butt juice, BO thing that in moderation might be "character" but for a reasonably large proportion of hop flavor is off putting.

stevedasleeve said:

Does anyone like this hop? I have tried it twice, once dry hopped and once FWH and both times I got a sort of goat, butt juice, BO thing that in moderation might be "character" but for a reasonably large proportion of hop flavor is off putting.

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Love it. But I don't like butt goat juice. So maybe you got something else going on there. It smells like really good marijuana to me. I use it in my American stout and really love the combo of the dank piney aroma with the coffee like roast of the stout.

stevedasleeve said:

Does anyone like this hop? I have tried it twice, once dry hopped and once FWH and both times I got a sort of goat, butt juice, BO thing that in moderation might be "character" but for a reasonably large proportion of hop flavor is off putting.

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Some commercial beers taste like BO to me, especially Widmer Brothers pale ales and ipas. I wonder if they use columbus!

It's my main hop right now. Mainly for IPAs. My all-Columbus IPA is pretty good. Though I am searching for its perfect partner.

Yeah I don't get the goat butt thing at all from Columbus. To me it's a bit spicy, a bit resiny, a bit citrusy and altogether awesome. Try Anderson Valley's IPA for a commercial example of proper Columbus flavor and aroma.

I believe Avery Hog Heaven Barleywine is all-Columbus. If you can find it, give it a go. One of my favorite barleywines.

LVBen said:

Some commercial beers taste like BO to me, especially Widmer Brothers pale ales and ipas. I wonder if they use columbus!

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I think they use Summit hops quite a bit...I think that is where it is from!


Columbus is awesome, realy resinous and "stanky", I thnk it pairs well with chinook and centennial.

I like columbus too. It has been a go-to bittering hop in my brewery for awhile. No "butt juice" character that I can detect.

Dank and sort of roasty, not butt-juice perhaps - just a little ale influenced hyperbole! Still not my favorite hop that is for sure. I suppose it could be a bad batch of hops - I got 4 oz in 4 packages to try out. I'll stick to my simcoe, amarillo, chinook, cascade ipas and skip columbus from now on.

I am surprised, this is the first hop variety I have had a negative reaction to. I thought I was immune! I just tried summit for the first time in a similar schedule - FWH and 0 minute aroma addition. I hope that one does not taste like columbus.

Maybe Columbus doesn't grow well in outer space?

Oh I did not order it from the local hop farmers here in Betelgeuse. It came from a small home brew shop in MD, ultimately from Oregon I think.

You know hop descriptions I have read are just plain wrong. I have never gotten grapefruit from cascade or pine from simcoe. I have no clue why noble hops are noble, I find them anemic for the most part and fuggle/willamette /goldings are kind of boring and non-descript. It may be that the shipping to Betelgeuse robs these hops of their essential properties but I rather suspect the descriptions are generalized and copied to the point of being somewhat meaningless...

& that is all I have to say about that...

Steve da sleeve

I agree with you somewhat in that hop descriptions are the same for the most part. You have to brew with them to actually see what they taste like. I don't know what you're talking about not getting grapefruit from cascade though.

More on topic, I love columbus hops. I have a hopburst columbus and cascade APA (maybe amber?) in the fermenter right now.