Citra hops

[sok454]

Dang that sux.

 

[growfresh]

growfresh has over 100 ounces of HopUnion Citra and Simcoe in stock. They are available on amazon or you can call direct 479-648-8885.

 

[FATC1TY]

growfresh has over 100 ounces of HopUnion Citra and Simcoe in stock. They are available on amazon or you can call direct 479-648-8885.

$32 a pound, plus $4+ to ship. Yikes.

 

[divrguy]

MoreBeer does not have Citra hops in stock, but they are still selling the kit for Citra Pale Ale (both AG and Extract), which contains 2 ounces of Citra. I'm not suggesting you pay $25 for 2 ounces of Citra hops, but if you've got Citra on the mind and want to brew a kickass kit, that is an option. I've made two kits' worth so far, and the end result has been universally lauded by friends (and me).

I agree, this is a great kit! I have a third batch fermenting right now. It's my new house beer. If you go to the store, it's $5 cheaper than online!

I did a SMaSH with Citra using as a first wort hop and then all additions 30 minutes and later. No resemblance to cat piss.

I agree that Citra does not taste that way but there plenty of reports of Simcoe tasting that way!

 

[JuiceyJay]

Just dry hopped my 1 gallon ipa with 1 ounce of fresh leaf citra. Tasted during bottling, very good!
2$ an ounce at lhbs.

 

[divrguy]

Just dry hopped my 1 gallon ipa with 1 ounce of fresh leaf citra. Tasted during bottling, very good!
2$ an ounce at lhbs.

Wow an ounce in one gallon! You better send it to me for sampling to make sure it's okay! Lol

 

[Calichusetts]

Wow an ounce in one gallon! You better send it to me for sampling to make sure it's okay! Lol

Absolutely! I regularly do 1.5 ounces in my one gallons. You can smell the IPA from across the room!

 

[Sambecker1]

Keystonehomebrew.com has Citra in stock.

 

[ianmatth]

I just put in an order at Farmhouse Brewing Supply and they were out of Citra pellets so I ended up getting a pound of leaf, hopefully it'll be fresh. From a basic dry hopping experiment I did, I would say El Dorado is really close to Citra, unfortunately FBS doesn't carry it. I'm going to head-to-head Citra and El Dorado for my next dry hop experiment to see how close I think it really is.

 

[OxfordCatacombsBrewing]

galaxy, or so i hear. galaxy is another rare hop but supposedly closer to citra than simcoe or columbus. my house pale ale, and 2nd place winner in this yrs World Beer Cup, is hopped with citra and simcoe and one is not really like the other outside of the fact that they are both high alpha acid hops. if i made that beer with two other types of hops it would not be the same beer, might be tasty but not the same. with the shortage of citra and simcoe i'm constantly on the prowl for those hops and always buy a pound as soon as i see them in stock somewhere. i bought a pound of galaxy (@ $55, ouch!) to see if it really is close to citra, they smell similar in the bag but the batch i brewed with them is still in the fermentor so i'm not sure how close it really is to citra.

Crazy I just used Galaxy for the first time last month and noticed how similar it was to the Citra hop right away! I would agree that it is a great substitute if you cannot find Citra. My galaxy ale is still in primary though..

 

[OxfordCatacombsBrewing]

http://www.homebrewing.org/Citra-Pellet-Hops-1-oz_p_3337.html is my local shop. Appear to have Citra availible

 

[ianmatth]

My LHBS had a full box of 1 oz Hop Union packs at $2.49 each, so I picked up 4 oz.

 

[JuiceyJay]

I wished I had not used citra for dry hopping my iipa. 2 ounces and it was like drinking a pineapple/mango not at all "citrusy" like the name might imply, lol.

 

[Channel66]

No-one mentioned motueka as a viable substitute for citra, the AA is way off but it doesn't take a genius to scale the recipe.

The New Zealand hops are great.