looking for help on a hoppy blonde recipe

Never had the beer, but it sounds like an APA with a lot of late addition hops and very little bittering hops. If you know the hops used, you might try hopbursting.

hope that helps

 

@HopsHopenstein Any luck with this? I'm thinking of making something that would get me close to TH Eureka with Citra. Prefer extract as I'm not ready to jump into all grain. Also would prefer a small batch, 1 or 2 gallons first.

 

I haven't had the TH beer, but if you google "centennial blonde", you'll find an outstanding recipe for a slightly hoppy crushable blonde ale. When I brew this a second time I may even bump up the aroma additions and/or add some dry hops.

 

I've been thinking of posting almost this exact same question for a few weeks now. Below is an extract recipe I've been kicking around (stats generated using BrewersFriend). By no means is this meant to be a Eureka clone, simply a noob-homebrewed and hopped up blonde.

There are three things I'm still not sure of: waiting to add DME until 30 mins into the boil (for color purposes, as my batches are a bit darker than I'd like; is it OK to wait until halfway through the boil?), the amount of hops (and schedule, for that matter), the yeast to use. I used the aforementioned Centennial Blonde recipe (1 oz total of hops, if I'm not mistaken) as sort of a baseline. Not sure if this will be too much/not enough hops to get a good hop flavor, but the IBUs come out in line with Blonde Ale guidelines. As for the yeast, a number of Blondes I researched have Nottingham listed, so I went with it.

It should be noted that I'm still a beginner brewer and even more beginner-er in building recipes, so any and all critiques/comments are welcome.

Blonde Ale
Extract
5 gallons (6.5 gallon boil)

OG: 1.044
FG: 1.010
ABV: 4.48%
27.10 IBU
SRM: 3.97

5 lbs Extra Light DME (2 lbs @ 30; remaining 3 @ 15)
0.25 lbs Victory
0.75 lbs Carapils

1 oz. Citra @ 10 min
1 oz. Citra @ 5 min
1 oz. Citra @ FO

Yeast: Nottingham

 

I wanted to make a Eureka clone as well. take a look at this thread for my recipe.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=532825

 

I do 10 minute late additions of 75-85% of the malt extract in my pale beers and haven't noticed any off-flavors. It definitely helps in the color department. Just be sure to stir vigorously when you're adding it and to adjust your bittering additions accordingly (which doesn't look like an issue here).

 

Bumping an old thread here... Based on 5 gallons what amounts are people doing for dry hopping their low alcohol hoppy beers. Session IPAs, Blonde Ales, whatever you want to call them. I don't mind erring on the side of more hops but just don't want overkill. Never had Eureka but from everything I've read this beer is the bench mark for what I'd like to make.

I did a:

2.5ml Hop shot at 60
.75 oz Citra @ 20
.75 oz of Citra 20 min whirlpool
BeerSmith has this at roughly 49 IBUs

Did a 3oz Citra Dry Hop when FG was around 1.020 (finished at 1.009) and then did
1.5oz in Keg with FG was hit. Let it sit at room temp in my basement (69-71) for three days and it was in the fridge at roughly 37* for the last week. Just got home yesterday, hit it with 30PSI and rocked it back and forth for 5 minutes. Reattached to serving pressure just now (18 or so hours later).

Issue is I didn't suspend in the keg, I bagged pellets and used a whiskey rock to hold them down. I cut about 1.5" off the dip tube but I'm getting a ton of floaties and what seems like some "off" flavors that I would attribute to the hops.

I guess in essence this is a two part question:

A: 2 much hops?
B: Still new to kegging. I would assume i will get a lot more settling and hopefully pick up less
floaties but maybe since I didn't suspend I will keep getting them? Even though the beer is carbonated I could theoretically transfer it to another one correct?

Maybe a 4 part question.... ha