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I need help figuring out uses for a bunch of leftover hops that I brought home from the AHA fest in Portland last June. None of them seem to me enough to just use on their own, even though my usual brew is only about 3.5 gallons or so.

So, I have 8 oz of Strata and 8 oz of Idaho 7 (007 Golden) that I can use as a base for two different IPAs. Both are 2018 harvests.

Here is my list of "other" hops. All are one ounce unless otherwise noted:
Eureka
Denali
X07270
Apollo
Calypso
Falconer's Flight 7 C's

The rest of these are cryo-hops with generally much higher alpha acid counts:
Loral
Ekuanot
Mosaic
Simcoe
Palisade (2 oz)

I also have several ounces of both Mosaic and Citra, along with a little bit of Cascade and Centennial, but all of these latter hops are leftovers from prior brews. IOW, packages opened and resealed by an amateur, and mostly from earlier harvests.

Does any of this inspire any ideas with anyone?
 
Many of these play well together, but I wouldn't use more than 3 hop varieties in the same batch, so the usage is still very limited. Falc. Flight is a nice blend already, I wouldn't mix that. Maybe buy some more of it?
7Cs is a different blend though.

An ounce of Cryo hops contains the same amount of lupulin as 2 oz of the regular hops, without all the vegetal matter, so it stretches twice as far.

To get most of their blended character, definitely only use them as dry hops in a fairly neutral IPA base.
Perhaps reduce the batch sizes to 2 gallons? You can brew a 6-7 gallon batch, then split into 3 fermenters for individual dry hopping.

I'm quite sure you're familiar with partial keg filling, doing 100% Starsan prepurges, so you only use about 7-8 gallons of CO2 for a 100% CO2 fill. Then fill the keg through the liquid out post with the PRV open.
 
I have never used or tasted Strata (or Idaho 7, AFAIK) , so I'm not much help there.

Eureka is a very high AA hop, kinda dank. I brew a Eureka/Galaxy NEIPA that's really interesting and very good.
 
How about doing a triple split batch of a 'Session' IPA? A little hops go a long way there.
Or a Session Brüt. They really make hops shine.
 

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