Made an order with farmhouse and threw in some "Summer" hops. It's a south pacific variety I hadn't heard of. From the description it sounds like these will work well as a dry hop for a light, dry saison. Was hoping someone had some actual experience they could share. "Summer is a unique seedless aroma hop developed and grown in Australia. Summer provides distinctive light apricot and melon fruit notes nicely balanced by a background hop character which can be used to great effect in many beer styles. " whoops, this was meant for the homebrew forum....
They are basically "super galaxy". Major resin, passionfruit, apricot and lychee. Probably the most amazing hop I've ever smelled straight out of the bag.
How much did you use when you brewed with Summer? I used some in a PA a while back and didn't consider them super hoppy. I got notes as in the description but they were on the lighter side as well. You have me interested in trying them again. Maybe I need to use more?
About 4 oz in a pretty hoppy 10 gallon batch of imperial red w/ rye, for the first brew, and about 6 oz in a 5 gallon batch of black IPA with mystery hops (6 oz mystery hops, which smelt like NZ Cascade to me, so just grapefruit) for the second. The Black IPA has a very strong passionfruit, resin and lychee thing going, and since it only utilized 2 hop varietals I feel comfortable suggesting the passionfruit, resin and lychee came from the Summer, whereas the Red Ale w/ rye utilized about 7 different varietals in the whirlpool, and four in the dry hop (FO & DH included Galaxy, Citra, Rakau and Simcoe), so can't really comment on its contribution to that beer.
