BOBTHEukBREWER
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These are totally unavailable in reasonable bulk in UK, and USA shops are keeping theirs for USA brewers. It ain't fair!!!
personally this recipe is a bit of a waste of NS. you won't get any flavor or aroma from the 45 min addition, and just a little from the 20 minute. you don't specify when you're adding the pacifica, but assuming that it's at 0 minutes then this batch will mostly taste and smell of those.This made me write a recipe which calls for Nelson Sauvin.
For a 19 liter recipe
4,5 kg of Pale Ale
450 grams of Caramunich III
230 grams of Biscuit Malt
20 grams of Nelson Sauvin (11,50%) at 45 minutes
20 grams of Nelson Sauvin (11,50%) at 20 minutes
40 grams of Pacifica (5,6%)
American Ale II
Now I just gotta get around to brewing it...
personally this recipe is a bit of a waste of NS. you won't get any flavor or aroma from the 45 min addition, and just a little from the 20 minute. you don't specify when you're adding the pacifica, but assuming that it's at 0 minutes then this batch will mostly taste and smell of those.
you want to add you hops in the last 15 minutes to get flavor and aroma out of them. if you need to keep your current quantities (because that's what you've already bought), i'd consider adding 15g of NS at 60 mins for bittering, and then the rest in the last 10 mins (say 12.5g at 10 mins and 12.5g at 1 min or flamout). better yet, get some other less expensive hops for bittering at 60 mins and save all the NS for the last 15 mins of the boil (ex: 10g at 15, 10, 5 and 0 mins each).
I've got 8 oz sitting vacuum sealed in my freezer. I hate them alone but lightly mixed with other more citrusy hops like Amarillo and Galaxy they are ok. I've tried to give them away locally but no one wants them. No lie...
Fair, smair.......So what? To the victors go the spoils. We kicked your redcoated arses in 1776, we can do whatever the hell we want to you guys.
I thought I was the only one. I liked them in my BIPA though but that was with Simcoe, Galaxy and Centennial as well.Same here. I hate them by themselves as well. I cant find anyone that wants them here either.
What is it about the hop that some of you don't like, if you wouldn't mind being more specific? I ask because I have a pound of them on preorder. I could still change my order if need be, but I've been hearing very polarized opinions on this hop. The only hop I've found I don't like is chinook, because it is so harsh it's like chewing on pine needles. I know some people don't like Citra as well, though I like it fine.
jlpred55 said:Heres my best answer. And I've had them alone from a local brewery Toppling Goliath in a beer called Zeelander IPA that was great but whenever I used them they initally come out like an overpowering body odor smell. Then as they soften they are quite earthy and resinous- a little dank and very fruity in a weird way...maybe gooseberry. As they age the flavor gets better but it isn't a great stand alone hop when I use it. Mixed lightly with other hops they are ok.
Body Odor.. Oniony like Summit? Or like a cat piss smell like Simcoe?
I've got 8 oz sitting vacuum sealed in my freezer. I hate them alone but lightly mixed with other more citrusy hops like Amarillo and Galaxy they are ok. I've tried to give them away locally but no one wants them. No lie...
seriously? i haven't had an opportunity to try NS yet, so if you are looking to give them away please let me know. i'm here to helpSame here. I hate them by themselves as well. I cant find anyone that wants them here either.
OMG, I hadn't had anything with Nelson Sauvin yet and was VERY interested in trying them based on the description of them having a wine-like aroma and taste. However, I just had Widmer's Drifter Pale Ale, which uses NS to finish and I have to say - my first smell and taste reaked of body odor and a bit of onion. I don't know whether to attribute this to the NS, the Summit (which I know exhibits oniony taste and aroma based on personal experience), or the combination of them both.
Can someone recommend some other commercial brews that us NS to try (preferably a single hopped example)? I'm very curious now to see if it is the NS that I don't care for before I try to purchase some.
Can someone recommend some other commercial brews that us NS to try (preferably a single hopped example)? I'm very curious now to see if it is the NS that I don't care for before I try to purchase some.
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