What to do with a pound of CTZ hops?

[NY_HomeBrew_Student]

What should I do with the pound of CTZ hops? I have never used CTZ before but I have read plenty about it. My first instinct is do do a SMASH with it and figure out how I like the bittering and flavors provided.

Maybe something like this:

10 lbs 2 Row
1 oz CTZ (60 minute)
1 oz CTZ (5 minute or flameout)
1-3 oz CTZ (Dry hopped 3-7 days)

Mash 150F
Boil 60 Minutes

US-05 @ 65F

Has anyone had a successful SMASH with CTZ? Did you use 2 Row or Marris Otter? What yeast did you use?

From a lot of what I have read CTZ is used in IPA's. Has anyone used CTZ in other styles? Are there any commercial beers that use CTZ that I can seek out and try?

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Can't wait to get started. :rockin:

 

[brewbush]

keep them in the freezer and use them for your bittering 60min additions for your beers. It will be fine all year.

Personally I would not use them for flameouts or dry hops

 

[sweetcell]

My first instinct is do do a SMASH with it and figure out how I like the bittering and flavors provided.

IMO, your first instinct is correct.

Maybe something like this:

10 lbs 2 Row
1 oz CTZ (60 minute)
1 oz CTZ (5 minute or flameout)
1-3 oz CTZ (Dry hopped 3-7 days)

Mash 150F
Boil 60 Minutes

US-05 @ 65F

sounds like a great recipe.

i'd go a little heavier on the late hops, use 2 or 3 ounces in the last 10 minutes (1 at 10, 1 at 5, 1 at flameout, skip the 5 min if you only want to use 2 oz). dry-hop with 3 ounces. i'd stick with two-row over MO.

CTZ is a pungent and somewhat "dank" hop that is great in american PA/IPA. not sure how many other styles i'd use it in late in the boil.

 

[seph]

IMO, your first instinct is correct.



sounds like a great recipe.

i'd go a little heavier on the late hops, use 2 or 3 ounces in the last 10 minutes (1 at 10, 1 at 5, 1 at flameout, skip the 5 min if you only want to use 2 oz). dry-hop with 3 ounces. i'd stick with two-row over MO.

CTZ is a pungent and somewhat "dank" hop that is great in american PA/IPA. not sure how many other styles i'd use it in late in the boil.

This is pretty much what I did with my pound of CTZ from NikoBrew's 2012 batch. I didn't do a smash, but I did use just the CTZ in a nice PA, and two different kinds of yeast.

 

[NY_HomeBrew_Student]

Thanks for all the quick replies!

I'll probably go with something like this...

1oz 60 minutes
1oz 10
1oz flameout
1oz whirlpool at 180 for 20 minutes maybe

1oz dry-hop 7 days before bottling and 1oz dry-hop 3 days before bottling.

 

[iowabrew]

let me know how this turns out. I've got a few brews on the docket before i can do something like this, but i also bought a lb from Niko and have yet to crack it open

 

[zachattack]

I've done columbus SMaSH IPAs twice. One with vienna, one with MO. Both were some of the best beers I've made. I tossed a healthy 6 ounces into each batch, including 2 oz at flameout and 2 oz dry hop.

 

[politibrew]

Subscribed. I too couldn't pass up the $8 pound of hops.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

What should I do with the pound of CTZ hops? I have never used CTZ before but I have read plenty about it. My first instinct is do do a SMASH with it and figure out how I like the bittering and flavors provided.

Maybe something like this:

10 lbs 2 Row
1 oz CTZ (60 minute)
1 oz CTZ (5 minute or flameout)
1-3 oz CTZ (Dry hopped 3-7 days)

Mash 150F
Boil 60 Minutes

US-05 @ 65F

Has anyone had a successful SMASH with CTZ? Did you use 2 Row or Marris Otter? What yeast did you use?

From a lot of what I have read CTZ is used in IPA's. Has anyone used CTZ in other styles? Are there any commercial beers that use CTZ that I can seek out and try?

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Can't wait to get started. :rockin:

this:
10 lbs 2 Row
8 oz CTZ (60 minute)
4 oz CTZ (5 minute or flameout)
"the rest" oz CTZ (Dry hopped 3-7 days)

bwahaaaghghggghhhhbrbrbrbbrrlllaaaaahhhh!!!

 

[whitehause]

CTZ just stands for Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus....all thought to be basically the same hop.
Use it like you would Columbus. I've used it as a late addition as well as bittering and really like it. Throw a little Simcoe in there as a late addition.

 

[snowtires]

My bottle of Phillips Zeus IPA says even tho Columbus tomohawk Zeus are all considered the same. Zeus is in fact genetically different. I must say tho different or not it did make a very interesting IPA

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[seph]

this:
10 lbs 2 Row
8 oz CTZ (60 minute)
4 oz CTZ (5 minute or flameout)
"the rest" oz CTZ (Dry hopped 3-7 days)

bwahaaaghghggghhhhbrbrbrbbrrlllaaaaahhhh!!!

Ummm, Billy try this and let me know how it works for you....