I went with centennial because I wanted to be different. Seems I may have failed to be different, but centennial sure does make a good hop for a pale ale.
Haha, yeah I do love me some centennial, smells so good too! I love Mosaic and Palisade, but it looks like Citra is gonna take it : /
Maybe.. Maybe not! My favorite commercial IPA is Founders Centennial. Still trying to reproduce it. Not successful yet. If anyone has a good all grain clone feel free to share! Cheers!
Two Hearted is enough to make you vote centennial. However, I'm personally tired of citra and mosaic. I have 10 gallon on tap of various ipas with those hops, but Simcoe is a favorite of mine for a single hop. It's got the citrusy, earthy/dirt/dank, and plenty of pine. Less pine than Chinook, but it's a balanced hop, IMO. Bitters well, and works all through the process.
I'm really on the fence between founders and 2-hearted, but cans would probably push me over the edge, especially if the price was the same, and even if the cans only came in 12 packs. Although I enjoy bottles, I am really only trying to re-use the 22oz bottles for homebrew, and try to get cans first if I know I'm going to recycle the containers. Odd, but I really don't mind bottling (but really like it better when you have a few 7oz and 12oz test bottles and the rest bombers). I've got going a citra smash (petite saison) with Munich and a cascade smash with Munich (English IPA-ish, in that I used S-04, which makes everything taste English, and moderately hoppy levels of cascade, most of it late)**. So another factor in my going centennial is probably that I used the last of mine up about six beers ago, and I'm starting to Jones. **whether this constitutes a genuine English IPA or not is fairly irrelevant. What's relevant is that I formulated a thought. So I just figured either it was already true, or a new fact had been created.
I voted Equinox just because its pretty new and I haven't heard much about it. If you use it, please report back!
