What's your favorite aroma hop?

[jagg]

I have been using Cascades mostly to dry hop my extract batches, just did my first Ag this past Thursday, and planted 2 Cascades, 2 Centennial, 2 Chinook, 2 Williamette, 2 Glacier, and 2 Magnum Rhizomes a couple weeks ago, they are all growing now, so Ill have a bunch to experiment with soon.

 

[DUCCCC]

Probably amarillo. Tastes like grapefruit and smells like pot...

I was just going to come in here and say Amarillo, but I don't know if I can put it quite as good as that.

Of course my IPA hardly smells like pot.

 

[brett]

SCULPIN IPA - MADE WITH MAGNUM, COLUMBUS, CRYSTAL, NORTHERN BREWER, CENTENNIAL, SIMCOE AND AMARILLO HOPS IN FIRST WORT ADDITIONS, AND 3 DIFFERENT BOIL ADDITIONS. WE THEN DRY HOPPED THIS 50 BBL BATCH WITH OVER 220 LBS. OF AMARILLO AND SIMCOE HOPS. ITS DELICIOUS. WORD-

If my math is correct, that would be like dry-hopping with over 11 ounces of hops in a standard 5-gallon batch!

What a waste!

 

[Chriso]

What a waste!

Sounds like a classic place to experiment with "Hop tea" instead of hops! Make a super-potent Amarillo-Simcoe tea and add into the secondary.

 

[Waylit]

If my math is correct, that would be like dry-hopping with over 11 ounces of hops in a standard 5-gallon batch!
What a waste!

Ballast Point knows what they're doing. They wouldn't waste hops.
In the Sculpin IPA, they used 3520 ounces of hops in 1500 gallons of beer.
Or 2.3 ounces of hops per gallon.

(A BBL is 2 kegs or 31 gallons)

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Simcoe rocks. Pineapple and citrus. There's nothing else like it. Pair it with Amarillo, and you've got a real winner.

 

[brett]

Ballast Point knows what they're doing. They wouldn't waste hops.
In the Sculpin IPA, they used 3520 ounces of hops in 1500 gallons of beer.
Or 2.3 ounces of hops per gallon.

(A BBL is 2 kegs or 31 gallons)

I think you did your math wrong. 31 gallons to a BBL, that means 50 BBLs is 31 x 50 = 1550 gal; you're 50 gallons off.

But 2.3 ounces of hops per gallon is on (for just dry hopping!).

So 2.3 ounces X 5 = 11.5 ounces in a 5 gallon batch.

Wow! I can't help but think that's a bit excessive, but whatever!

 

[Couevas]

the BIG "C"s

Centennial
Cascade
Columbus

ummmmm "C" hops

 

[Waylit]

I think you did your math wrong.

lol, you're right brett...I forgot to times it by five. Jeez, that is a bit excessive!

But that Sculpin is one of the best IPAs I've had. The massive amounts of Simcoe and Amarillo is a hopheads dream. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/199/29619

 

[Waylit]

Mmmm...this is a delicious beer. Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA.

Brewed with Simcoe hops, developed and trademarked by Select Botanicals Group, LLC, in the year 2000. This hybrid hops was created to allow maximum aromatic oils, along with low cohumulone(harshness) levels, so that brewers can really load up a lot of 'em in a beer and not have any harshness. The piney, citrusy notes are all here, and in a very clean (non-harsh) way, as well as having an aroma with impact.