"smells like weed" beer...need help.

[Druish_00]

Hey everyone,

Im workin on building a recipe for a 'smells like weed' beer. Ive had a couple of commercial examples including "smells like weed" from Dark Horse in Marshall, Mi and "the Chronic" from Founders in Grand Rapids, Mi.

From what I've gathered it is pretty much an IPA recipe that is highly dry hopped.

I would love some advice on the variety and amount of hops to use or any other info on a recipe.

Thanks!

 

[hoppymonkey]

Don't know for sure, but I'd bet that it was heavily dry- hopped with saaz or maybe try getting your hands on some hemp. No THC, but still has the smell.

 

[atchinator]

Phillips Brewing in Victoria BC made a beer called "Grow Hop" - a play on words from "Grow Op" that dot this Canadian province. I can't remember if it was marketed as an IPA or a biitter but it was absolutely incredible. The aroma was fruity and unique.
Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think the principal hop used was Chinook.

 

[wonderbread23]

Columbus hops are pretty 'dank'

 

[janzik]

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[remilard]

use all columbus, zeus or tomahawk

 

[lehr]

Call Wiggs at Dark horse he'll tell you what to use.

Pat

 

[Druish_00]

I just got a tip from a brewer in the SW Michigan area to use all chinook and dry hop the hell out of it. I emailed Wiggs once to volunteer my time to package down there cuz i heard from a good source that they do that but never got a response...

might have to start spending more time down there to make my face familiar.

 

[jlpred55]

Chinook to me smell like grapefruit when dry-hopped. CTZ(Columbus, Zeus, Tomahawk) are super dank....

 

[Druish_00]

Hows this for a starting point-

Comments encouraged:

9.5# 2-row
2# Munich
1# Crystal 60L

.5 oz Chinook 10.5% aa @ 60 minutes, 45, 30, 15 and flameout.
1.5 oz Columbus 15.5% aa Dry hopped.

WLP 007 Dry English Ale Yeast.

OG 1.058
FG 1.014
9.4 SRM
55 IBU
5.8 ABV

 

[slowbie]

This may be a bit late, but I had the chronic at founders last week and when I asked about it the waitress said something about seven different varieties of hops. In fact, IIRC she said it was dry hopped with seven different types. I don't know anything about weed personally, but when looking at hops, I think that brew365.com has great charts for me as a visual person to understand what the hops are like. They are missing some key hops (No EKG?), but for the ones they have, it's great.

 

[thelorax121]

If you haven't brewed this up yet, you should up the dry hops. Maybe use 1.5 oz chinook as well to really make it shine, and consider throwing some columbus ate in the boil as well

 

[Druish_00]

I am brewing this one tomorrow afternoon (3-10). Im planning on mashing in the lower end of the sacc. rest temp range to get a more attenuable wort with lighter mouthfeel in the finished beer. I think the theme of this brew is gonna be the opposite of balanced.

Ill up the dryhop amount and throw more in at flameout or a few minutes before.

 

[hopvine]

The Chronic is an all Summit hopped IPA, so I would start there if that's what you're looking for.

 

[Druish_00]

So Im way off with the chinook then? Thats one area of brewing that i havent really picked much up in yet is the difference in the varieties of hops.