Recipe critque. New take on Tasty's APA.

[blueberry]

I love brewing pale ales back to back with changes on the hop schedule to help teach myself the difference in timing and different types of hops. Last weekend I brewed Tasty's APA to the letter except for a sub of 7g Chinook at 10 min instead of the Northern Brewer. This weekend I'll be making the same beer with the following hop schedule. Basically I'm switching out the CTZ and Centennial for Amarillo and Citra. First time using Citra, hoping it works well with the rest of these hops. Let me know what you think.

7g Chinook - Mash Hop
7g Warrior - 90 min
7g Simcoe - 20 min
7g Amarillo - 10 min
7g Chinook - 10 min
7g Amarillo - 1 min
7g Simcoe - 1 min
28g Citra - 0 min

28g Citra - Dry Hop
14g Amarillo - Dry Hop
14g Simcoe - Dry Hop

[BDawg]

Should be less piney and more orangy/lemony

[Mills]

Cool idea! I think the most responsible thing to do would be to give me a bottle of each once they are done I don't know what your fermentation cycle and dry hopping plans are but, if I remember correctly I waited until the krausen almost completely dissipated then added the dry hops for about 8 days all in primary. I might have to double check my notes on that though.

Mills

[thatguy314]

ZI think the beer will taste great, but I'm not sure its the best ay to learn about hops and timing as there are so many different additions of so many different hops. You might learn more about hops by doing single hop pale ales or by having single hop additions at different ims and playing wth that. Basically the simpler the recipe the more you'll learn.

Another thing to remember is that hops are agricultural products and can change. One year ctz is an awesom bunch of citrus and pine, another yea I get a btch that's great for flavor additions but has a bit of a dishrag aroma. Simcoe has varying amounts of cattyness. Etc.,

[TastyMcD]

....Let me know what you think.

My experience with Citra is that it can take over the aroma of your beer. I think you might lose the layering effect of this type of hopping regimen if one hop dominates. Personally, I'd back the Citra flameout and dryhop additions down to 14g to give the other hops some room to come through. I think you'll have a better chance of getting the aroma "bouquet" that multiple dryhops can give you. I think in the end, you'll have a beer that you can better compare to the non-Citra version while still getting to experience the Citra contribution.

Tasty

[thatguy314]

My experience with Citra is that it can take over the aroma of your beer. I think you might lose the Tasty

+1 shoul have mentioned that. It has around 1.5-2 times the volatile oils of most of the c hops. They mentioned that on sierra nevada episode with steve dressler

[blueberry]

Its a good thing I drank so much last night. Woke up 2 hours later than expected. Now i'm 30 minutes until knockout and will take your advice an cut back on the Citra. I appreciate the responses guys, quality stuff here.

[blueberry]

I will give all the props to tasty on this one but, this hop schedule on tasty's grain bill is fricken awesome. I appreciate the help from everyone. I only used 14 grams of the Citra @ KO and 14 grams in the dry hop. An excellent beer. I'm tasting them side by side and they are really different APA's. Both are really good but, different. Citra is a pretty sweet addition to the arsenal.

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