The Hop Trial?

[BigJoeBrew]

Hi All,

I am new to home brewing. Probably less than 10 extract batches. I was wanting to use a 5 gallon extract batch to do a hop trial. I have NB Chinook IPA on hand. I would just make the base without any hop additions. I would then divide the 5 gallons to individual 1 gallon jugs and dry hop to really taste the characteristics of each hop variety. All the hops start with C also.

Chinook (since I'll have them in the kit)
Columbus
Centennial
Cascade
Citra

What are your thoughts??

 

[brewkinger]

Initial thoughts would be an unbalanced resulting beer. No bittering additons to balance the maltiness.

So you would end up with (5) 1 gallon samples of beer that have 5 different flavors that might not taste the way you really want them to.

I would do the 60 min hop addition only and then dry hop individually.

Just my .02

 

[robfar]

Steep some of each hop in some vodka. Get a can of Bud Light and pour it into several glasses. Pour hop extract into tasteless beer and taste and smell the hop.

We did this at a club meeting. Some of them were so tasty we ended up drunk from the vodka.