Galaxy Hop input needed

[sully20331]

Hey guys,

I need some help! For those of you who have used Galaxy Hops---what other hops mix well with it? Just fell into 4oz of Galaxy hops and wanted to make an IPA.

 

[tonyp063]

Frankly, Galaxy all by itself makes a wonderful brew.
I would do a simple bill with a little caramel of your choice, or maybe some honey malt, a bit of carapils & 2oz of galaxy split. some in the boil ( 60, 15 & 0) & some dry hop.
It's a nicely diverse hops

 

[tippetsnapper]

11/26/2012
Galaxy IPA Crafted recipe -extract with sp grains
60 minute boil of 7 gallons, reduced to 6, 5.5 to fermenter, 5 of finished beer
5 Gallons

OG 1.06 1.06
FG 1.015 1.014
ABV 6.12% 6.25%
IBU 62 62
Apparent Att. 74% 76
Efficiency N/A N/A

Grain Bill % by wt. range needed gravity ppg total ppg % by ppg
6.6 Briess light LME 62.26415094 35 231 63.98891967
1.5 Wheat DME 14.1509434 44 66 18.28254848
0.5 Light DME 4.716981132 44 22 6.094182825
0.5 Dextrose and table sugar equal parts 4.716981132 45 22.5 6.232686981
0.75 Dingemans Cara pils malt 7.075471698 4 3 0.831024931
0.75 Dingemans Cara vienne 7.075471698 22 16.5 4.570637119
10.6 Total Weight 361 total GU

13.25 Strike vol at 1.25 quarts/lb gallons 3.3125
15.9 Strike vol at 1.5 quarts/lb 3.975

Hop Bill
Hop type Length in boil Weight (oz) AA AAU Form IBUs Total hops
Galaxy 60 0.50 13 6.5 pellet 19
Galaxy 20 1.00 13 13 pellet 23
Galaxy 10 1.50 13 19.5 pellet 20
Galaxy 0 1.00 13 13 pellet 0

Yeast
Wyeast-1272 - one activator and one Whilte Labs equivalent

Water Adjustment
Steeped grains in .5 gallon spring water, after ~45 mins or so all water absorbed by grain. "Sparged" with roughly two gallons of water from kettle, then added LME

Boil
11/27/2012 7:30 AM bubbling, temp at 66 F
Entire fermentation temp read 66-68F
12/14/2012 racked to keg and hit with gas aggressively, tasted very good, temps consistently at 65 since fermentation
12/17/2012 this beer is dynamite, very bright, stone fruit, citrusy, bitter bite and delicous tropical style IPA
loving the flavors of this beer, had schlafly tasmanian ipa which is also a single hop galaxy beer, also very good.
if anything just a hair too bitter, perhaps enhanced because it dries out nicely

2/23/2013 WOTW - score 36

 

[iowabrew]

I made an ipa with galaxy and cascade. Used Columbus for bittering and cascade and galaxy late. Turned out very nice. Use galaxy late for sure.

 

[RainyDay]

I used Galaxy inly once, with Amarillo and Citra. One of the best beers Ive ever had.

 

[sully20331]

So many choices...thanks. I figured that since it was such a difficult hop to find that I should use it appropriately. I like the idea of maybe matching another fruity hop to it, like Amarillo. The recipe posted is strangely similar to my thinking as well- for an all Galaxy Ale. Might have to just flip a coin...

 

[RainyDay]

So many choices...thanks. I figured that since it was such a difficult hop to find that I should use it appropriately. I like the idea of maybe matching another fruity hop to it, like Amarillo. The recipe posted is strangely similar to my thinking as well- for an all Galaxy Ale. Might have to just flip a coin...

You could always do the posted recipe and match each Galaxy addition with Amarillo; best of both worlds

 

[MikeInMKE]

I bottled this a week ago, so I haven't tasted the finished product yet:

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