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I've been looking at using this variety bc I haven't had a chance to yet and I've seen some comments saying that it has a garlic quality to it. Others say different, just tangerine, orange, etc..

What have your experiences been like with this hop? I plan on brewing with it this weekend and dont want a "garlic bomb"


Josh

Jbug wrote:I've been looking at using this variety bc I haven't had a chance to yet and I've seen some comments saying that it has a garlic quality to it. Others say different, just tangerine, orange, etc..

What have your experiences been like with this hop? I plan on brewing with it this weekend and dont want a "garlic bomb"


Josh

Both are true. Some years are more garlic/onion than others.

Same with Simcoe. Sam Adams Lattitude 48 deconstructed had a simcoe only IPA that was pure garlic. I've never gotten that from simcoe myself, but it shows that anything is possible.

I've had a beer that was dryhopped with summit and to me it smelled like BO/onion.
I've used hops out of the same batch that I've used at 90, 60, 15 minutes and they were citrusy no BO/onion.
I don't dry hop with Summit.

Cool guys thanks! I've got an ounce of Cascade anybody think that will jive with Summit as a dry hop?


Josh

I'm surprised no one chipped in on this one:

Oskar Blues has an Imperial IPA on the market, called "Gubna"; it's made with 100% Summit. There's your best answer.

Summit to me has a lot of tangerine qualities to it.

The Sam Adams multi-pack is awesome. Good way to taste what each hop brings to a beer. Single hop varieties of EKG, Hallertau, Simcoe, Ahtanum, Zeus.

I'm sad to say I fucked this beer up pretty good... Went trough my mash ( fell 9 points shy of my preboil gravity, fixed with longer boil), boil went fine, dropped in my chiller ( with out noticing the leak in it) 20 mins of chilling later I was back near my preboil volume due to the leak... Pretty bummed about it but I pitched the yeast and ordered a new batch from Austinhomebrew this morn...

Oh well!

Josh

dunleav1 wrote:I've had a beer that was dryhopped with summit and to me it smelled like BO/onion.
I've used hops out of the same batch that I've used at 90, 60, 15 minutes and they were citrusy no BO/onion.
I don't dry hop with Summit.

If you brewed that BO/onion batch, did that seem to be evident from the smell of the Summit before you threw it in? I've heard it both ways too and thought I would just let the smell from the opened package guide me as to dry hop with it or not. I'm thinking of pairing it with cascade for this too.