These are the hops I have: I'm looking to YOU for the hop schedule!! Anyone?

[South_Slope_Brewing]

I'M LOOKING FOR A CREATIVE SPREAD OUT HOP SCHEDULE!​

Here's the skinny, quick n' dirty:

I have a bunch of hops I want to get rid of. I'm told brewing could take care of my issue. So I hit the brew shop and purchased two IDENTICAL grain bills ("Borrowed" from BYO Magazine, May-June 2007, Vol. 13, No.3, Page 38 "Roswell IPA"):

-13 lbs 9oz US Pale 2 Row
-11oz Vienna
-5oz Crystal 60 (It was crystal 40 originally)​

Very IPAish

I have the following hops:

- .8oz Magnum @ 13.7% AA
- .3oz Perle @ 8% AA
- 1oz Cascade @ 7.3
- 1oz Galaxie (a gift from my buddy AA unknown)

Here's the wild card........9.2oz of Citra @ 14.5 AA WHAAAAT?!​

Hit me up with ideas on solving this hop schedule conundrum!

Cheers.

 

[JKaranka]

Bitter with the little Magnum and then chuck half of everything in at flame out, wait for the temp to drop 10F and hop stand the rest for twenty minutes!

 

[chickypad]

Bitter with the little Magnum and then chuck half of everything in at flame out, wait for the temp to drop 10F and hop stand the rest for twenty minutes!

I'd be down with that, though I'd save a couple oz of the citra for dryhopping if this is for one batch. Didn't plug it in but it looks like a fairly big IPA, if going for two batches you may want to keep all those hops in the boil/whirlpool as mentioned and get some more for dryhopping.

 

[kingwood-kid]

.8oz Magnum isn't nearly enough to bitter 10 gallons of IPA. You'll need roughly another 2oz of something high-alpha, or of the Citra if you don't want to buy more hops. For flavor hops, Id use the Galaxy, Perle, Cascade and 1-2 oz Citra for one beer, and the rest of the Citra in the other. I typically put all my flavor/aroma hops in as a hopstand, but you're certainly free to spread them out as late, flameout, hopstand and dry however you like.

 

[makellr]

It looks like you are headed for 7% or more ABV, depending on your efficiency. If I understand correctly that you are brewing two 5 gal batches with that grainbill. If that is the case, 3/4 to 1 oz of citra should get you to 50 to 70 IBUs for each batch. That should be plenty as a first wort or 60 minute addition. Citra is wonderful stuff, perfectly capable of flying alone in an IPA. Then I'd suggest 1.5 oz citra in each batch just after flameout, and another 1.5 in each batch as a dry hop. If you are more interested in hop aroma and flavor, and not so interested in making a hop bomb, you can further reduce the FWH or 60 minute addition. Just to be clear I am talking about one or the other of these bittering additions, not both. any more than 2 oz in 5 gal as a dry hop addition will have very little effet on the flavor and aroma, although it may give you additional brewing "street cred" in some circles. good luck! Please let us know what you decide to do and how it turns out.