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Posted 34 days ago.
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Posted 34 days ago.
Maybe it's one of those dynamite combos like amarillo and simcoe. I'm not a huge fan of either of those as single hop, but together they are incredible.
Posted 34 days ago.
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Fwiw... When I had the beer at Marshall's house, I found it entirely pleasant - though aromatic more so than flavorful. I found it fairly piney with a sort of generic fruitiness, that I was unable to pin down - though personally, I perceived a lot more in the pine direction than fruit.
That being said, we filled a growler and I shared it about 5-6 days later, and something changed. It got really catty and unpleasant - I'm blaming the long term growler storage and 300 miles in the car.
Personally, I suspect it's a dynamite hop to add to a blend at flameout or dryhop, though personally I prefer my ipas to be more heavily leaning to sunny delight/juicyfruit/etc.... I think this would work great to bring in some piney character to a west coast Amber or the like, where I find the pine kind of offsets some malt sweetness.
Posted 34 days ago.
So, the brewer emailed me back with a 5 gallon recipe, if anyone wants it I'll post it, but the gist of it is that they mash hop, FWH and dry hop exclusively with Eureka and the flameout addition is a 33/33/33 combo of apollo, bravo, and Eureka, and a bittering addition at 60 with Bravo.
So, I'd guess a decent amount of flavor is coming from the Apollo and Bravo, but there is also a substantial amount of Eureka in the dry hop.
The grist is just pale malt and Munich. I bet with about double the hops this would be an incredible beer.
Posted 34 days ago.
Where did you find it? I'm in Atlanta and might want to look it up.
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Posted 34 days ago.
Finally got around to brewing a 100% eureka hop beer. I have to agree with Matt Humbard about the pungency of this hop. I used 4oz in 5 gals and this thing smells and tastes like some of my massively hopped IPAs.
So the tangerine and peach are definitely there. I used Vermont yeast, but I don't really feel like the yeast is where the peach is mostly coming from. Mostly this thing is super dank and piney.
I'd say it's pushing on catty. I'm sure folks who don't like that flavor would object to this beer. I quite like it though because I really enjoy the dank piney quality paired with peach and tangerine.
I'd really like to try this one with some Citra or maybe el Dorado to up the fruitiness. Or maybe with galaxy to make a super dank bomb. On its own it's a maybe a bit too much in the resin/dank/catty arena.
It actually kind of reminds me of something like a super simcoe. Maybe Amarillo would pair nicely. Amarillo frequently is described as having peach notes, and it pairs perfectly with simcoe.
Anyway, it's worth trying, but it might take some experimentation to get just right.
Posted 34 days ago.
Posted 34 days ago.