Citra Hops

[geckholm]

Working on my first recipe (and brewing tomorrow) of an APA using Citra Hops for dry hopping. This will be my first time using Citra, I understand it is fairly a fairly strong hop...so....at 3 ounces / 5 gallons dry-hop am I over doing it?

This is a 10 gallon batch, with the following hop additions

1.4 oz summit at first wort
2 oz cascade whirlpool for 45 minutes
2 oz centennial whirlpool for 45 minutes
6 oz citra dry-hop for 5 days.

I'm concerned about the citra over-powering the cascade and centennial.

 

[CBMbrewer]

I'd say it depends on how big a beer it is. 6 oz for 10 gallons of an APA does seem like a lot for the style. But hey, it should smell amazing.

 

[geckholm]

Yeah, it's high end on the bitterness too. Only thing stopping it from being an IPA is low gravity.

 

[biertourist]

6 oz citra dry-hop for 5 days.

I'm concerned about the citra over-powering the cascade and centennial.

Then use less Citra...

If you want the fruity mangoy nice flavors of citra then you need to use the citra as a late hop addition, a whirlpool addition, or a "hop stand" addition; those flavors are generated by the action of yeast on the hop oils; if you dry hop in secondary you will NOT end up with the same citra-related flavors.

Too much citra can end up catty; a 6 oz dry-hop addition is definitely fully in catty territory and you'll likely need to let it age out until its drinkable.


Adam

 

[m3n00b]

I'm on the last few bottles of a Citra dry hopped IPA I bottled over a 1.5mos ago. I used 2oz Citra and 1 oz centennial(7 days) for 5gals. The flavor was really epic around 2 weeks but has really mellowed out. I think your 10gal batch will be just fine.

 

[geckholm]

Thanks everyone. Made a couple changes, I think for the better.

 

[daksin]

Have you brewed yet? IT looks like you have no flavor/aroma additions. 45 minute additions add nothing but bitterness. You need to move them to 20m or later. That's definitely IPA hopping, but I did a similar beer recently that's delicious. 3oz of dry hop is overkill, you won't really be able to notice the difference from 2oz. I would do a 1oz dry hop with citra. That should be more than enough if you use some late boil additions.

 

[geckholm]

Have you brewed yet? IT looks like you have no flavor/aroma additions. 45 minute additions add nothing but bitterness. You need to move them to 20m or later. That's definitely IPA hopping, but I did a similar beer recently that's delicious. 3oz of dry hop is overkill, you won't really be able to notice the difference from 2oz. I would do a 1oz dry hop with citra. That should be more than enough if you use some late boil additions.

Yeah, I brewed it yesterday, but I made changes. Here is what the recipe ended up at:

10 lbs 2 row
6.5 lbs maris otter
2 lbs vienna
1 lb caramel 120
mash at 148

1 oz summit at first wort

1 oz each cascade, centennial and citra at 50 minutes
1 oz each of cascade, centennial and citra hopstand for 45 minutes

5.5 gal with us-05
5.5 gal with nottingham

Dryhop with 1 once of citra on one 5.5 gal, dryhop with 2 once of citra on the other.

Thanks!