Lemon drop single hop pale ale!

[bnbovey]

I am brewing up a Single hop pale ale using Lemon drop hops here is my recipe

3lbs Light DME
3lbs Extra light DME
.5lbs Cara 60
.5lbs Crystal
2oz Lemon drop hop

1oz added at 60
.25 added at 45
.5 added at 30
.25 added at 15

Wyeast 1056 America ale.

Thinking about adding something citrus to the secondary like lemon peels or soemthing, any suggestions feel free to comment and let me know what you think of the recipe. Going for a good summer brew.

 

[PrinceOfThePoint]

I would be interested in what a 0 min or dry hop addition would do for flavor and aroma. Assuming you need 1 oz at 60 for proper bittering and only have 2 oz, I'd add 0.5 oz around 15 min, and then dry hop with 0.5 oz for a week. It will be pretty tame but sounds tasty.

Also, you have in your grain bill Cara 60 and "Crystal", not sure what lovibond rating you meant there, but in any case I would axe it and just go with 8 oz total of caramalt

 

[Owly055]

I am brewing up a Single hop pale ale using Lemon drop hops here is my recipe

3lbs Light DME
3lbs Extra light DME
.5lbs Cara 60
.5lbs Crystal
2oz Lemon drop hop

1oz added at 60
.25 added at 45
.5 added at 30
.25 added at 15

Wyeast 1056 America ale.

Thinking about adding something citrus to the secondary like lemon peels or soemthing, any suggestions feel free to comment and let me know what you think of the recipe. Going for a good summer brew.

I think I would add another full ounce as a whirlpool of hopstand....... It appears to be a 5 gallon recipe, and I would say you are a bit light on the hops if you want to feature the hop. Most of it is going in pretty early in the boil.

My approach would be to use a fairly generic bittering hop like Magnum, and split the Lemon Drop between 5 minutes and a 160 deg whirlpool....... assuming I was brewing with only 2 ounces of Lemon Drop. Late addition and whirlpool will really make the flavor and aroma pop.


H.W.

 

[m00ps]

IMO, 45 and 30min additions are a waste. As is using the hop you are trying to showcase for bittering. In order to call it a "lemon drop pale ale" I think youd need at least 3oz or so going in at 10min or later to get a good sense of that hop. Definitely dont use it for the 60min addition. It doesnt have a high bittering potential anyway.

I've used lemon drop along with sorachi ace in a saison and it came out very lemony. Sort fo curbed the herbal dill flavor of the sorachis though

 

[chuckthebutcher]

I agree. all of your hop additions are from 60-15. ideally for the most flavor and aroma you would want hop additions from 15-0. maybe use .5 oz - 1 oz of a clean bittering hop then do 3-4 ounces of lemon drop in the last 15 minutes. also dry hopping a few ounces would be a good way to show off the aroma

 

[brewprint]

As others stated you need to back off on those early additions if you want the flavor.

I currently have an IPA (my second one) using lemon drop hops. I'm not a huge fan and probably won't buy a pound next year. IMO it's not really very lemony and I'm not sure how they came up with that name.

There's very low alpha so unless you want a beer that's not bitter at all I would use more or a different hop for the 60 minute. Or I guess keep those other early additions but use a lot more toward the end.

 

[Brew_G]

As others stated you need to back off on those early additions if you want the flavor.

I currently have an IPA (my second one) using lemon drop hops. I'm not a huge fan and probably won't buy a pound next year. IMO it's not really very lemony and I'm not sure how they came up with that name.

There's very low alpha so unless you want a beer that's not bitter at all I would use more or a different hop for the 60 minute. Or I guess keep those other early additions but use a lot more toward the end.

I haven't tried them, but I was thinking about it until I saw the description on Farmhouse's site:

"Big herbal, blackberry, 'Super Cascade,' grassy, citrusy, lemon, citrus, pine, tobacco, licorice, orange, grapefruit, pepper, 'Amarillo like,' mint"

Ummm...

 

[jack_a_roe]

I haven't tried them, but I was thinking about it until I saw the description on Farmhouse's site:

"Big herbal, blackberry, 'Super Cascade,' grassy, citrusy, lemon, citrus, pine, tobacco, licorice, orange, grapefruit, pepper, 'Amarillo like,' mint"

Ummm...

gotta love the new variety descriptors...

 

[Brettomomyces]

I find lemon drop to be very similar to cascade...the lemon element is there, but the more I use it the more similar it's becoming. I'm tapping my third batch of a lemon drop only American wheat this week and dry hopping it for the first time. We'll see how it goes. I really like the hop, but for the price it's not winning me over in the long term...

 

[brewprint]

I haven't tried them, but I was thinking about it until I saw the description on Farmhouse's site:

"Big herbal, blackberry, 'Super Cascade,' grassy, citrusy, lemon, citrus, pine, tobacco, licorice, orange, grapefruit, pepper, 'Amarillo like,' mint"

Ummm...

The Simcoe/Lemon Drop I have on tap is decent. It just isn't as good as what I would like. There's got to be a combo with it that is the bomp. That delicious IPA from Stone is pretty good using El Dorado with it.

 

[brewprint]

I find lemon drop to be very similar to cascade...the lemon element is there, but the more I use it the more similar it's becoming. I'm tapping my third batch of a lemon drop only American wheat this week and dry hopping it for the first time. We'll see how it goes. I really like the hop, but for the price it's not winning me over in the long term...

Possibly it would be better not used as a dry hop. I was going to put it in a wheat this weekend. What's your recipe?

 

[bnbovey]

I agree. all of your hop additions are from 60-15. ideally for the most flavor and aroma you would want hop additions from 15-0. maybe use .5 oz - 1 oz of a clean bittering hop then do 3-4 ounces of lemon drop in the last 15 minutes. also dry hopping a few ounces would be a good way to show off the aroma

Thank you all for the feedback!! This is awesome, I'm still getting my feet wet with all this so everything helps, so I'm going to add lemon drop late in the boil and add a bittering hop in the beginning, I currently have Amirillo, El dorado, centennial and some Chinook. Which one would you guys use for the bittering?

 

[brewprint]

Thank you all for the feedback!! This is awesome, I'm still getting my feet wet with all this so everything helps, so I'm going to add lemon drop late in the boil and add a bittering hop in the beginning, I currently have Amirillo, El dorado, centennial and some Chinook. Which one would you guys use for the bittering?

Chinook.

 

[Owly055]

Thank you all for the feedback!! This is awesome, I'm still getting my feet wet with all this so everything helps, so I'm going to add lemon drop late in the boil and add a bittering hop in the beginning, I currently have Amirillo, El dorado, centennial and some Chinook. Which one would you guys use for the bittering?

I would go with the El Dorado. It's the highest AA of the hops you have and is specifically a bittering hop. It's fruity, but as a 60 minute bittering addition, it won't contribute much flavor....... and you don't want it to as you are "featuring" the Lemon Drop hops. That would be my choice.......

H.W.