Exp 4190

[The Soft Underbelly]

Sometime back in October, on a whim, I ordered several experimental hop varieties from Farmhouse Brewing and until recently haven't done a thing with em. Yesterday I found myself with time and a number of left over ingredients from previous batches.

Exp 4190: Experimental variety from Hop Steiner. Pleasant, mild citrus aroma. Bred from Fuggles and Cascade

3.75# Maris Otter
4 oz special b
3 # light DME @ 15 min
12 oz corn sugar @ 5 min

1.5 oz Exp 4190 (3.6%) @ 60
1 oz Exp 4190 (3.6%) @15min
1 oz Exp 4190 (3.6%) @ FO

1 pkg S-05 rehydrated

I didn't take gravity reading on this one, but it should be about 1.055 if I've configured my beer smith correctly. My PM batches are usually within 2 points of those numbers..

This had a very herbal smell, a bit of citrus too. Def smells like a cascade fuggle cross. I added the corn sugar to boost my OG and dry it out just a bit too. I suppose I could have just brewed a 4 gal batch...Ideally I would have used more MO and no sugar but I really didn't wanna get in my car!

It's chugging away right now. I'm stoked to try this one....

 

[SDCraftBeer]

How did it turn out? I've been looking into this hop recently and am very intrigued.

Did you take a sample when transferring if you've done so yet?

Cheers.

 

[The Soft Underbelly]

I finally got around to bottling this on Sunday. It totally smelled of fuggles. The sample i tasted was closer to a mild in terms of bitterness with just perception of... i dunno what I'd call it... grassiness, earthiness... not in a bad way though.

Looking forward to trying it in a few weeks when its conditioned. I'll update the thread then.

 

[dkennedy]

Sub'd, thinking about using this in a sessionable SMaSH, with MO.