Calling all hop heads 2012

So far this year I've used:
4oz.- cascade
4oz.- U.S. Fuggle
4oz.- hallertau
2oz.- williamette
2oz.- challenger
1oz.- saaz
1oz.- mt. Hood
.5oz.- apollo
.5oz.- warrior
For a grand total of 1lb.3oz. Thus far in 2012

Impressive! I've used:
3oz of Challenger
4oz of Zythos

I'm making an IPA on Monday (annual MLK day brew day), and I'll be using:
2oz CTZ
3oz Centennial
3oz Cascade

So, 15oz for me.

So far this year I've used:
4oz.- cascade
4oz.- U.S. Fuggle
4oz.- hallertau
2oz.- williamette
2oz.- challenger
1oz.- saaz
1oz.- mt. Hood
.5oz.- apollo
.5oz.- warrior
For a grand total of 1lb.3oz. Thus far in 2012

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Sounds like a nice IIPA...what are you going to use in your second batch?

Only

.5oz Magnum
.5oz Chinook
2oz Amarillo
1oz Centennial
1oz Cascade

So only 5oz for me thus far.

7oz Simcoe
2.5oz Cluster
2.25oz Chinook
2oz cascade
0.5oz Nugget
0.5oz Willamette

Simcoe IPA, Java Head clone attempt, and burnt sugar porter

I like this thread.

So far only:
.5 Nugget
.75 Hersbrucker

But by MLK day I'll have:
3.25 Simcoe
2.0 Columbus
1.5 Cascade
.5 Chinook
.5 Amarillo
.5 Centennial
.5 Nugget
1.3 Hersbrucker
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10.05 oz total

So far:

2.5oz Centennial
2oz Cascade
2oz Delta
2oz Columbus

1oz UK Fuggles
2oz EKG

In the freezer, from Rebel Brewer
2oz Perle
5oz Czech Saaz
5oz German Tett
5oz Willamette
3oz Fuggles
2oz Northern Brewer
3oz Crystal
2oz first Gold

BTW, RB has some good deals going on right now.

2.5 oz Cascade
3 oz Amarillo

By February 1st, you can add:

2oz Cluster
2oz Bramling Cross
2.25oz Chinook
3oz Simcoe

I <3 Hops

3 oz galena
4 oz cascade


In the primary as we speak!

BY the 28th, add 1oz first gold, 1oz Mt. Rainier.

4 oz Chinook
8 oz Cascade
4 oz Willamette
2.5 oz Centennial

1 lb 2.5 oz or me. I'll be brewing again this weekend.

Been experimenting with hop bursting with some fantastic results so my numbers are a bit high...
1 oz nugget
2 oz Magnum
10 oz Cascade
2 oz Amarillo
2 oz Fuggles
1 oz Northern Brewer

The Magnum and most of the cascade were for a Honey IPA with all of the hop additions at 20 minutes (2 oz Magnum/1 oz Cascade), 15 (2 oz Cascade), 10 (2 oz Cascade), 5 (2 oz Cascade), flameout (1 oz Cascade), and currently dry hopping with 1 oz Cascade. The rest is split between a brown a porter and a pale.

geer537 said:

Been experimenting with hop bursting with some fantastic results so my numbers are a bit high...
1 oz nugget
2 oz Magnum
10 oz Cascade
2 oz Amarillo
2 oz Fuggles
1 oz Northern Brewer

The Magnum and most of the cascade were for a Honey IPA with all of the hop additions at 20 minutes (2 oz Magnum/1 oz Cascade), 15 (2 oz Cascade), 10 (2 oz Cascade), 5 (2 oz Cascade), flameout (1 oz Cascade), and currently dry hopping with 1 oz Cascade. The rest is split between a brown a porter and a pale.

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Tell me more about this hop bursting

ajbram said:

Tell me more about this hop bursting

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Yes please enlighten us.

bovineblitz said:

7oz Simcoe
2.5oz Cluster
2.25oz Chinook
2oz cascade
0.5oz Nugget
0.5oz Willamette

Simcoe IPA, Java Head clone attempt, and burnt sugar porter

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Not to threadcrap but would you mind sharing your JavaHead clone recipe and tasting notes? I've been wanting to brew a clone but never found a recipe and don't really have the knowhow to make my own up yet.

2oz Centennial
1.5oz Cascade
1oz Amarillo
1oz CTZ
1oz Nugget
1oz Crystal

This is for a single 5.5 gallon batch.

ajbram said:

Tell me more about this hop bursting

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There are all sorts of threads on here about late hop additions or hop-bursting. Short version is you skimp on bittering additions and get almost all your bittering with huge amounts of late hop additions (20 mins - end of boil). The idea is that you get much more flavor and aroma. Downside is, as you can see from his post, you have to use a LOT more hops.

I've played with it as well and sort of use a hybrid approach for my I/PAs now: FWH to get a big but smooth bitterness, then big 15 & 5 minutes and big dry hops. Hop Heaven!!!!

zeekage said:

Not to threadcrap but would you mind sharing your JavaHead clone recipe and tasting notes? I've been wanting to brew a clone but never found a recipe and don't really have the knowhow to make my own up yet.

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Actually that just reminded me that I brewed that up in December, lol... I bottled it in January and used 3oz hops at bottling so must have just assigned it all to 2012.

Anyways, I have a little thread on it, I was hoping for some feedback but forged ahead on my own.

Let's Clone Troegs Java Head

I'll update it today, I bottled not too long ago and have some notes. It should be drinkable by mid February at the latest.


On the hopbursting topic, the hops were added to my Simcoe IPA in a Dogfish 60min manner but with more of a hopburst idea in mind. I split 5oz into dixie cups and added one cup every 30 seconds from 25min to flameout. I also did a 2oz dry hop.





Lots of sludge! It almost doesn't seem possible that all this came from those little cups.

man, i gotta get on the ball. 2 batches in this year and dry hopped a batch from late dec so far:
Superior Strong Ale (midwest kit)
1 oz mt. hood
.5 oz tettnang

northern english brown (wife's recipe, yum)
1 oz challenger
.5 oz fuggle

dry hops for my CDA
1 oz amarillo
.667 oz simcoe

next batch should help:
IPA from BCS
1 oz horizon
1 oz centennial
1 oz simcoe
1 oz amarillo
2 ozs amarillo or cascade (undecided til the beers fermented)

i did get an order from freshhops.com of a # of whole hops.

I have 7 oz. of Amarillo in an IPA I just made, with 3 oz. going in the dry-hop.

Damn! I gotta get hoppin'!

5oz Zythos
5oz Citra

Damn, I'm slacking. I've used a big fat goose egg so far.

On deck is my second attempt at the Gumball Inspired WPA, this time with added Citra and Simcoe goodness.

1st brew on my year was friday...5 gallons of an IPA w/

4oz Warrior
4oz Amarillo
4oz Zythos

So far only one batch this year..
15 oz of amarillo(SMaSH)....for a 15g batch
And I still have 4 oz left in the bag, I love hops direct!!
Igotsand

Adding to the list this morning:
2oz.- simcoe
2oz.- mt. Rainer
1oz.- williamette
1oz.- citra
.5oz.- Amarillo
.5oz.-warrior
For a late hopped APA & an extract mystery(going to use an IPA hop schedule)

Couldn't find any Simcoe near me so I went 23.5 miles and bought
3lbs
While there I got
2oz.- mt. Hood
Might have to travel 86 miles tomorrow to find some citra! Too impatient to wait for On-line orders.:-#

15.8oz in my first batch of 2012

Have 8oz. Cascade in my eSMaSH wit 2 more going in to dry hop. Doing another on Tuesday with Rakau same amounts. On top of that pound I just ordered a pound of Amarillo for the third eSMaSH.

HolidayIF1488 said:

Yes please enlighten us.

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Sorry guys, late response! Don't want to thread jack so I'll make it quick- I'll drop all of my hops in at 20 minutes or less but you need extreme quatities of hops to get the IBU's high enough for an IPA. So far the results have been great and what you would expect. Lots of aroma and flavor due to the later additions. It converted a Belgium drinker to a Hop Head.

4oz. Simcoe
2oz. Mt. Hood
1oz. GR Select
.5oz. Citra
.5oz. Saaz
.25oz. Williamette
IPA&Cream ale

1oz Magnum
1oz Chinook
3oz Cascade
3oz Palisade
1oz Amarillo

+4oz. German hallertau
In tomorrow mornings heffe.

+3 oz EKG
+1 oz challenger
+1 oz fuggle
in the last two brews, a special bottle and a small batch of RIS.

Finally on the board for this year!

4 pellets of German hallertau in a starter!

D_Ranged_Eskimo said:

Finally on the board for this year!

4 pellets of German hallertau in a starter!

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easy there, killer, that's a massive hop addition!

NordeastBrewer77 said:

easy there, killer, that's a massive hop addition!

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Couldn't help myself. After reading all of the moderate hop additions in this thread, I knew someone had to go big!