Northern monk brewery eternal session ipa

[GHW]

Just had a can of this (weird, I can't recall the last time I had beer from a can). It's one for Notlaw as it's like drinking a hardcore grapefruit juice.

Very bitter but I like that. Website says it's 45 ibu but it seems like more than that to me. Made with simcoe and centennial. I've got simcoe on my hop hit list, and centennial are one of my faves.

Nice beer all in all. Had it given to me in exchange for a bottle of my rye pale. Let's hope the recipient thought it was worth it ...

Session IPA seems to be the beer de jour at the moment. And I, for one, approve!

 

[Notlaw]

Bleurgh.! I had a go at a single hop pale called "The Simcoe Kid" or some crap like that to try and convince myself... Grimaced through it, then passed it to the missus to finish. It's scratched off my hit list.

 

[GHW]

Bleurgh.! I had a go at a single hop pale called "The Simcoe Kid" or some crap like that to try and convince myself... Grimaced through it, then passed it to the missus to finish. It's scratched off my hit list.

Learn to love the grapefruit dude. I know you have it in you.
Sign up to my grapefruit aversion therapy course for just £99.99.99 and you'll be cured in no time.

 

[TheRedDarren]

I had a Stone IPA the other day (Magnum, Chinook and Centennial) it was like drinking beer filtered through pine needles with a bit of Dettol Pine thrown in...
If you're into those piney, resinous hops you may like it Notlaw.

 

[clibit]

45 IBUs in a low ABV beer is a lot more bitter than 45 in a higher strength IPA.

Centennial, Simcoe, Chinook, three of my favourite hops!

 

[GHW]

45 IBUs in a low ABV beer is a lot more bitter than 45 in a higher strength IPA.

Centennial, Simcoe, Chinook, three of my favourite hops!

Oh yeah, I seem to recall you taught me that lesson a while ago. I'd obviously forgotten again. Looking forward to getting my simcoe/mosaic rye pale on. Not that I'll be doing it til autumn....

 

[clibit]

Simcoe Mosaic rye will be great.

The OG:BU ratio is a better indicator of bitterness.

 

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

What's OG:BU all about then?

 

[CreweBrewer]

It's a balance between sweetness (OG - concentration of sugars) of your wort and bitterness from the hop alpha acids (IBU).

For my tastes, I work on a ratio of 1:1 for an American style pale - OG: 1.046 and an IBU of 46-ish. My regular English red ale needs a sweeter, more malty profile so that has an OG of around 1.050 and around 30 IBU.

Like putting sugar on a grapefruit...

Dave

 

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

Sorted. Cheers for that.

 

[GHW]

My dad says I over hop all my beers but that's because I usually go for around 1050 (in my head the translates to 5% abv, I know it doesn't work quite like that) and 40 ibu, in pales, why is what I mostly make.

He loved my landlord which was more like 2:1, 1050 and 26 ibu. For my tastes it's a bit ordinary.

And while my boddingtons was only 1038, it was about 30 ibu and he thought it as too bitter. I didn't. As Dave points out, and as wth everything else it's all down to personal taste,neater than hard fast rules

 

[clibit]

My dad says I over hop all my beers but that's because I usually go for around 1050 (in my head the translates to 5% abv, I know it doesn't work quite like that) and 40 ibu, in pales, why is what I mostly make.

He loved my landlord which was more like 2:1, 1050 and 26 ibu. For my tastes it's a bit ordinary.

And while my boddingtons was only 1038, it was about 30 ibu and he thought it as too bitter. I didn't. As Dave points out, and as wth everything else it's all down to personal taste,neater than hard fast rules

Yeah it's down to personal taste. I like my beers to be bitter, so I'd never do a 2:1. I've done 1:2 beers.... like 1040: 75 IBU ish.