Session IPA Hop Suggestions

I go with Centennial if there we no chocolate malt. With that dark malt, I'd go with Chinook. Personially, I dump the chocolate malt and go with a combination of all three C hops.. Cheers!

 

Cascade. You want West Coast? Cascade.
Ditch the chocolate malt. I don't know what percentage your 1# addition will be, but it's too much imo.
My session west coast IPA would use Cascade, Cascade and then Cascade. At the moment.

But, Centennial works awesome too. There are many good reasons why these 2 hops still dominate. They're real good.

Now, if you do not want a fruit profile you probably should avoid all the hops listed.
Cheers.

 

You might be going more towards an English IPA. Use a neutral yeast and avoid crystal malts and you get something similar to West Coast and close to what you want I believe.

In this instance English varieties would work very well. EKG and Fuggles being the obvious choices.

I can't think of a good way to get out of a citrusy profile and still keep it west coast, except for the use of Mt. Hood, Nugget and maybe a few others. Most "C" hops are adding some to a lot of citrus flavor and aroma and those are more West Coast than anything going.

Load up on the Nugget at the end. A moderate bittering addition will work wonders with a lower gravity brew too.

Whatever you end up with it will be fine and unique.
Cheers.

 

never had a india west coast brown ale, but, if that's the want then lose the rye and chocolate, add maybe a quarter lb of roasted barley, then add fuggles and goldings . ferment with notty or 05.

no fruit

 

oppps, missed the poll, so I vote centential, perhaps a .25 lb of chocolate, still not wanting the rye, but a 4 abv or lower if using it Id go light.

 

I’ve used 1450 in a session IPA. it turned out great. Fairy neutral flavor but leaves plenty of mouth feel. Just the thing for a session IPA. Cheers!

 

I do not know Legacy. Centennial is my fav of the bunch. I sometimes pair with Columbus. Usually not a fan of chinook, except maybe low doses? But there is a recipe in Jen Talley's Session Beer book for an all Columbus pale ale/session IPA.

 

I’ve never been a fan of chocolate + hops. To each their own though. Would rather forfeit the $2 I spent on chocolate malt than make a keg of a weird beer.

If you can pull it off props to you. I voted centennial before I saw chocolate. Change my vote to Columbus.

 

That beer is Squatter's Full Suspension Pale Ale. I've been drinking it for years, and it's most definitely my favorite Utah-brewed 4.0% beer (on tap, anyway). I was a bit surprised to learn (a while back) that it's all Columbus. Before that I would have guessed there was some Cascade in there. It has medaled at the GABF in one of the bitter categories in the past. Anyway, it's a great session beer. Cheers!

 

Should have just asked, what is your favorite hop?

 

Yes, and unfortunately for my wallet that usually means a proprietary hop. Lately for IPAs, I've been trying to use my homegrown Cascades, CTZ, Chinook, Centennial in the boil and then augment with proprietary ones in the keg (Citra, El Dorado, NS, Galaxy, Amarillo)

 

I don't think there is any reason to be scared of hops and darker malts. I regularly make an American Brown that is quite hoppy. It has a combination of dark malts that I think go well with hops that are a bit less fruity. For that beer I have settled on a combination of (homegrown) Cascade and Willamette for flavor and aroma.

My latest version in currently in the fermenter. For the first time I'm going to give it a dry hop this time with an ounce each of the Cascade and Willamette.

Cheers!