Nelson Sauvin

[Easy Peasie]

Hi all
Bought 100g of this years harvest the other day and was wondering what best to do with them a medium IBU single variety ale or a heavy IBU pale ale. I have only just got into brewing american style pale ales and my cascade/willamette version is gonna be bottles tonight.

If I did a NZ pale ale would you use the NS for bittering hops or would you use something else.

Thanks :wha:

 

[RobWalker]

It's an all rounder but I would definitely dry hop with some of it judging by the way the aroma is described :)

 

[cutnrun]

Windsor and eaton breweries do a seasonal beer that is dry hoped with them, really really nice. They really do tend to be the dominant flavour though

 

[markp]

I'm brewing an all NS pale at the weekend.
I'm going 20g 90mins, 30g 15 mins and 50g 5mins - grain bill 93% pale and 7% munich.

Has anyone tried 'Kernel Brewery' Nelson Sauvin? It is wonderful stuff if you can find it and will give you a real taste of the hop.

 

[richc]

If you're doing a Pale Ale you could not bother with a bittering hop, the high alpha in NS means you can just do late additions and get the bitterness you want. I've done a couple of NS beers that have no hop additions before the last 15 minutes of the boil. Doing this leads to a fairly unusual beer with buckets of the NS 'gooseberry' flavour but most people who have tried my beers seem to have liked them.....

 

[markp]

I shall have another play around in BeerSmith rich before I brew no doubt....you are right though, with the high alpha, you can really load up at the end.

 

[Easy Peasie]

Thanks for your comments Guys

Sounds like loading it up nearer the end is the way to go. :thumb:

 

[Good Ed]

Aleman posted this as a summer ale some time back, I've yet to try it

Brew length 20L; OG 1050; IBU 46
4200g Pale Malt
28g Styrian Bobek AA4.7% 90mins
40g Nelson Sauvin AA11.3% 15mins
15g Nelson Sauvin AA11.3% steep at 70C

 

[MikeB]

I did an all-Nelson pale a couple of months ago. It was glorious, absolutely superb aroma. Will be doing more of it next summer.

 

[Easy Peasie]

Mike

What IBU did you calculate