I just recently made a Brooklyn Brew Shop kit. Everyday IPA. They use Columbus and Cascade hops. I wanted to dry hop it. Any suggestion on type of hops to use? Do I use one of the hops already used or something different? Or should I just leave it alone?
Session IPA, right? Use same hops...or not : ), but don't overdo it on a small batch/session I'd use 2:1 Cascade:CTZ Hard to believe recipe didn't call for dryhop already
Not a session. Suppose to clock in at 6.6%. No dry hopping instructions. I want to give it a good hop kick so figured dry hopping would do it. From reviews it sounded like it flavor profile is more of a wheat IPA. They also use honey to carbonate. I just wanted to make sure it had more hop profile then sweetness from honey or wheat in grain.
Actually it's 6.8%ABV according to their website. I guessed it was a session based on the name (bad assumption). My advice though is still pretty much the same. It doesn't sound like a wheat maltbill to me (barley blend with balanced malt backbone)...what really blows me away is the price! ...$40 for a 1 gallon kit ...even with some minimal equipment.
$40 is too expensive? Only thing I bought was a funnel for $2. I had everything else in my kitchen stuff
How to get a good hop kick depends when the hop addition is made and what type of kick you want. Bitterness? Flavor? Aroma? Dry-hopping gets you aroma.
Not really for subsequent batches, I guess, if all you have to buy are more ingredients and no equipment I say this because for ~$40 I can brew a 10 gal batch and use premium ingredients (yes, my equipment is being amortized over many batches : ) Cheers
At this point ... dry hopping is the last option. Will assume the bittering addition was CTZ and the flavor addition was Cascade. I'm inclined to agree with @GreenKrusty101 - dry hop Cascade / CTZ @ 2:1
