13 hop session IPA

[neosapien]

might try boiling up some maltodextrin and adding that if you want to bump up the body.

 

[ianmatth]

I think I'm just going to deal with a dry beer. It was fine after the first dry hop, but has really turned into an experiment at this point (not that all the screwing around with sugar, yeast, and DME wasn't). I'm considering doing a final dry hop w/ 1/4 oz each of Citra, Simcoe, and Centennial to finish it off with something I know will give it good flavor, but I'm kind of getting sick of wasting time on this beer when I have a few others in the works that are much better.

 

[ianmatth]

I decided to dry hop one gallon with a 3rd dry hop of 1/8 oz Citra, and another one gallon with a 3rd dry hop of 1/8 oz combination of Citra, Centennial, and Simcoe. I bottled the remaining beer.

 

[ianmatth]

Bottled everything. The part I bottled last week is good, not my best, but I would probably give it a 3.25 out of 5. Took a taste of the part I used Citra, Centennial, and Simcoe for the 3rd dry hop and it tastes a little better. This will probably come out being a 3.5 beer, which is better than I thought it would with all the mistakes I made.

 

[Moerdertaktiken]

Wow guys way to rip into this guy. What a shame. Isn't home brewing supposed to be about trial and error... And maybe, just MAYBE getting crazy and doing something outside of the box? Y'all are boring and straight up rude. Anyways, I think your beer will suit you just fine. I do agree on most of the points everyone is making, but this beer serves it's purpose for exactly what you intended it to be.

 

[TheHairyHop]

Wow guys way to rip into this guy. What a shame. Isn't home brewing supposed to be about trial and error... And maybe, just MAYBE getting crazy and doing something outside of the box? Y'all are boring and straight up rude. Anyways, I think your beer will suit you just fine. I do agree on most of the points everyone is making, but this beer serves it's purpose for exactly what you intended it to be.

Truth be told. I wouldn't do it just cause I couldn't afford to let all those hops go, but if someone is then more power to them. As long as you learn from the things that you do, there's nothing wrong with it

 

[ianmatth]

With the exception of a final 22 oz bottle, I have finished all this beer. It turned out A LOT better than I thought it would. One of the few IPAs that actually tastes better than it smells. Here is my official review:

A - 4.00: Light yellow-orange. I could care less about appearance, so unless it's really beautiful or really ugly, it will get the average of the other ratings. Who drinks a beer for appearance anyway?

S - 4.25: Great hop smell. Major fruit and pine.

T - 4.25: Tastes better than it smells. The triple dry hopping gives an incredible citrus taste that covers up the vast majority of the mistakes I made (bitterness, dryness, attenuated sugar).

M - 3.25: Very smooth and light for a 7.7% ABV beer, but extremely dry and lacking body.

O - 4.00: The dry hops saved this beer. I had this next to a Southern Tier 2XIPA IPA and it had so much more citrus hop flavor. Better than a lot of 4.00 rated IPAs IMO. Everyone who liked IPAs thought it was great. Proof that dry hopping the crap out of an IPA can overcome a lot of issues.

 

[TheHairyHop]

You bring up a constant issue that I have with most IPAs. The smell often exceeds the taste. I highly recommend checking out hop steeping. It seems to work very well

 

[neosapien]

Thanks for seeing the thread through to completion! Glad you ended up with a beer you enjoyed out of it.

Cheers!