American Pale Ale Nierra Sevada (Session SNPA Clone)

[summerofgeorge]

I kegged my version and think it could use some dry hopping. I have cascade, centennial, amarillo, simcoe, and warrior. Any recommendations? I feel you can't go wrong with cascade but I've never dry hopped the with the others.

Also, I'll be traveling with it next weekend so I don't want to deal with stirring up hop sediment (I won't have time to do a keg to keg transfer). Would a tea ball keep hop pellets from creating too many floaties? What about a hop tea instead of dry hopping?

 

[BierMuncher]

I kegged my version and think it could use some dry hopping. I have cascade, centennial, amarillo, simcoe, and warrior. Any recommendations? I feel you can't go wrong with cascade but I've never dry hopped the with the others.

Also, I'll be traveling with it next weekend so I don't want to deal with stirring up hop sediment (I won't have time to do a keg to keg transfer). Would a tea ball keep hop pellets from creating too many floaties? What about a hop tea instead of dry hopping?

Amarillo is a fantastic dry hop. My go to for the milder PA's.

 

[Helly]

Man I was just talking about this recipe in another thread. Been way too long. I think next time I will do a double batch. Half according to recipe, and switch the dry hop on the other half.

 

[summerofgeorge]

Amarillo is a fantastic dry hop. My go to for the milder PA's.

I had some Cascade to use up so I ended up going with 1/2 oz of Cascade and 1/2 oz of Amarillo. After less than a day, it's already pretty tasty! Looking forward to how this will keep getting better.

 

[brew703]

I've made a few other SNPA clones and they were not real close. So this one is up. Before I brew, is the consensus now to dry hop?
I'm thinking of maybe splitting the dry hop with Cascade and Amarillo but don't want the Amarillo to change the profile much.
Would 2:1 Cascade/Amarillo work?

 

[brew703]

Has anyone tried Conan and if so how did it affect the flavor profile?

 

[brew703]

Brewed up a batch hoping this would be close to the commercial version I love. Unfortunately for me, it fell short. It's a good beer but it's not SNPA.

Only changes I made was to add a flame out hop addition and a Perle addition at 30 but it wasn't enough. Doesn't have that great bite that SNPA has.

Again it's a good starter recipe to tweak. Next time I may change the hops and added a good bittering charge and add all other hops at 10, 5 and FO.

 

[MerlinWerks]

Agreed, I've made it twice now as written with the exception of adding a 2 oz. cascade dryhop. I realize that this was not designed to be an exact clone, but mine doesn't really remind me of SNPA very much, if at all. However, it does make a very tasty beer, everyone who tries it comments on it. It's pretty much my house pale ale for now...

 

[brrman]

Hard to believe I haven't brewed in 2 years. Sadness! I am going to kickstart the habit again with a nice 10G batch of Nierra Sevada!