NEIPA Hop Varietals

I'm a big fan of El Dorado mixed with other tropical hops

 

Cheaper hops that I like in combo with the "usuals" - Cascade, Columbus, Azacca, Idaho 7, El Dorado.

Not the cheapest, but I also like to use Amarillo.

I've used both Belma and Mandarina Bavaria in NEIPA combinations, but didn't think they were great.

 

An excellent suggestion.

 

Good luck finding it.

 

anything listed on a hops site as tropical fruit/citrus.

 

My homebrew club got 2lb for free from a farm in CT. I can honestly say I don't get much from cashmere. I like the beer I made with it, but it isn't amazing in any way from the hops.

 

Best combo I've found so far is Citra, Galaxy, Denali, and El Dorado. I use 16oz in whirlpool at 180 for 30 min and 4oz in dry hop at high krausen. I use equal parts of all 4 kinds.

 

Vic Secret

 

I'm a fan of azacca. Recently did one with azacca, El Dorado and citra.

Taste wise it was where I wanted it. Colorwise it looks more like a hazy Bells two hearted than OJ.

 

I brewed a single hop IPA with Cashmere from Hop Head Farms. Really unique raspberry character to that hop. I think it is mostly useful in single hop beers. I could see the aroma from this hop being easily overpowered.

 

I don’t think the German hops are really that great for this style, maybe Mandarina.. they just get overpowered.

Motueka is weird. I think as accent or in a Pilsner it’s got a cool lime thing. I do really like it with Nelson. You need to use a lot of it on its own and then it can be really grassy.

Ella will get overpowered but on its own in smaller beers it’s cool. I don’t find it to be much like it’s descrption.

Vic Secret, Enigma... huge hops that are crazy potent.

Strata.. hard to find but pretty amazing. Next harvest there will be a lot more of it. Watch out for this one, I swear.

Still can’t figure out Ekuanot or Idaho 7.

Denali is crazy high oil content but for some treason it doesn’t seem to translate like you think it should.

Anyone use BRU-1 yet? Just brewed an attempt at a Pineapple forward IPA with it, El Dorado, Vic Secret, Citra. Was gonna use Denali too but hops were old and just didn’t smell that great so I tossed em.

 

I was less than impressed with Cashmere, as well.

 

Sitting on a 1/2lb. Gonna brew an IPA up with it. I’ll report back soon when it’s done.

 

i'm going to test out a El dorado and Belma (with a few more ounces Belma) combination, hoping to get a nice mixed berry going, I will also supplement it with a little mandarina bavaria.

My preferences for NEIPA are generally Citra, Mosaic, and Amarillo. I have definitely grown to enjoy Amarillo in later dry hops. I buy by the pound from hopsdirect so the pricing isn't bad. I tend to stay away from Galaxy as the prices are nuts. A lot of other hops I would like to try are either expensive or hard to find (Vic Secret, Motueka, Waimea, wai-iti, etc.). I do want to check out Idaho 7 and Azacca eventually, maybe even a heavy Centennial NEIPA - Other Half did quite a good job with one.

I did try out a healthy dosing of a mixture of Huell Melon and Mandarina since they were so cheap, but it was so underwhelming, granted I used a bad yeast for those hops (sacch trois).

 

My local brewery had a single hop IPA brewed with Cashmere grown at Top Hops in Goodrich MI. I really liked it, haven’t bought any yet, but I would like to brew with some from MI.

 

What kinds of characteristics did you get from it?

 

Are people really liking Belma? I’ve never read anything good about it. It’s been out for a while and when it first came out seems like it wasn’t that well received.