I brewed 3 hoppy beers this weekend experimenting with CryoHops for the first time. I was under the impression dry hopping would be more difficult because the powder floats on the top of the wort, but commercial brewers can recirculate their fermenters. Homebrewers can use a marble.
That said my recipes were adjusted and mainly focused on using CryoHops late only and whirlpool only. I made the following beers:
1. Chug The Sunshine (Sip clone) 8% abv - replacing pellet 3oz of 5 min, and 3oz of whirlpool with CryoHops. I used 2oz CryoHop for each instead. Dry hopping is 3oz of Citra - I have 2oz of CryoHop left unopened. I should go for the dry CryoHop, right?
Or may blend 50/50 pellet.
2. Bissmissle IPA, 6% abv using a bittering pellet hop charge of about 50 IBU, I then went whirlpool only for the flavor and aroma additions with CryHops. 2oz each of Mosaic, Citra, Ekuanot (6oz total) whirpooled for 20 minutes.
I'm wondering if I should skip dry hop just to see what that mega huge WP addition did for the beer.
Thoughts?
3. Not a CryoHop beer, but I made a NEIPA with all Nelson Sauvignon hops. 4oz whirlpool addition, 4oz dry hop addition planned.
Will try to come report back on my results!
~Adam