So I had an idea... Having got my hands on a large selection of hops, I decided the best way to come up with a great IPA combo was to brew a 5-gal batch and split it into 5 demi-johns with different dry hops in each.
Base recipe was:
3kg pale malt
3kg lager malt
40g chinook 60mins
10g centennial 10mins
10g chinook 10mins
10g centennial 0mins
10g chinook 0mins
Fermented with Sierra Nevada yeast, cultured from bottle for 10 days. Dropped into demijohns and dry hopped with 20g of single (or in one case, two) variety of hops (citra; centennial & chinook, galaxy, simcoe, nelson sauvignon). Was meant to only dry hop for 3-5 days, but the gravity was stuck at 1024, and I wasn't gonna bottle that high :-o
So off I went on holiday and hoped they wouldn't be ruined. They ended up being dry-hopped for 14 days in total!
Just cracked open a bottle of citra and it smells amazing, bitterness isn't quite balanced out by the malt...
A blending session will be occurring in the next week with all five beers. Then I plan to scale it up to my favourite combo :-)
Base recipe was:
3kg pale malt
3kg lager malt
40g chinook 60mins
10g centennial 10mins
10g chinook 10mins
10g centennial 0mins
10g chinook 0mins
Fermented with Sierra Nevada yeast, cultured from bottle for 10 days. Dropped into demijohns and dry hopped with 20g of single (or in one case, two) variety of hops (citra; centennial & chinook, galaxy, simcoe, nelson sauvignon). Was meant to only dry hop for 3-5 days, but the gravity was stuck at 1024, and I wasn't gonna bottle that high :-o
So off I went on holiday and hoped they wouldn't be ruined. They ended up being dry-hopped for 14 days in total!
Just cracked open a bottle of citra and it smells amazing, bitterness isn't quite balanced out by the malt...
A blending session will be occurring in the next week with all five beers. Then I plan to scale it up to my favourite combo :-)
