Probably a confusing title, but let me explain. I’m going to be brewing in IPA later this month. I typically like my IPAs to have low to moderate bitterness, and a high amount of hop aroma. Thus, I go light on bittering hops and go nuts on the dry hop. My last batch used centennial, but it still seemed a bit too much. Is Cascade a good bittering hop? also, I’m thinking of using Mosaic exclusively in the dry hop. Thoughts? |
Originally posted by Naven All of my "northeast" ipas I have made I have used hop extract. You can get 20 ml for $8-9 and use 4-5 ml or so per batch for bittering. It seems to give a smooth bitterness and decreases the hop mass in the boil. |
Originally posted by bgburdman9 That’s a great idea - short of reading a recipe, how do you determine how many ML’s equals an oz of hops? |
Galaxy and Nelson Sauvin work for me. only add hops during the last 10 mins then a big dry-hop : easy. |
How big of a knockout/whirlpool addition do you use? I you use a substantial one, you don’t need a bittering addition. At all. Even a big enough dry hop will provide for some perceived bitterness. Remember there are more variables that contribute to bitterness besides iso-alpha acids. |
Originally posted by Naven I use northern brewers hopshot page to calculate how many ibus it contributes. http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/hopshot.pdf I usually order from yakima valley hops or farmhouse brewing. |
For the most part, you get low bitterness/high aroma beers from your process, rather than specific hop varieties. |
Don’t worry about the variety, just use less alpha. For lower bitterness start of boil additions, variety really doesn’t matter as you are getting no noticeable aroma carryover and the quality of the bitterness will not be noticeable under all of your late hops. |
Originally posted by Naven It’s at least as good a bittering hop as any other hop that is primarily used for aroma. But then again, you don’t mention any target IBU number so it’s not clear how much would be needed. Cascade AA’s can drift up into reasonable bittering numbers depending on the harvest year, but on the low end (about 5 or so) you’re going to be throwing a lot of hops a problem that has an easier solution. That being said, I did make a Cascade single hop IPA years ago which was not quite a SMaSH beer but came out smashingly. |
Magnum |
1 vote for Mosaic |
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