Cryo hops & Beersmith

[Beer-lord]

I'm planning on trying some of the Mosaic Cryo hops I've been having as a dry hop in a NEIPA I'm brewing and it got me wondering. Although I'm only dry hopping with them, I wonder how you would enter them in Beersmith. I think I've read that most are about double the amount of pellet hops so I guess that would work. I've updated Beersmith but nothing is there about cryo hops.

I also realized I've had these since September of 2017. I forgot I had them and they were buried but were sent sealed very well so I assume they are still pretty potent. Last time I asked, no one had mentioned they've used any so if anyone has used them since my first post about them, please report your thoughts on them. Otherwise, I'm going to use about 2 oz of the 4 oz I have in the 2nd dry hop of the NEIPA and report back later what I think about it. Not sure I will be able to tell because with all the other hops in this beer, how do you really know?

[mashani]

In the beer I've got on tap right now (3ish gallon session ipa), I used 2oz of Nelson Sauvin, and 1oz of Equanot Cryo Hops, both as @flameout additions.

The Nelson Sauvin are getting totally hammered by the cryo hops.

They are potent.

[Beer-lord]

But as a dry hop, I don't think I'd see that same problem. Aroma overload would be nice.

[Crazy Climber]

Yes, Beer-lord, the general rule of thumb with cryo hops is 2X the alpha acid by weight. What I did in BeerSmith is create a new ingredient entry for the particular cryo hop that I bought, copied over all of the original information, gave it a different name, and then just doubled the acid percentages from the original pellet version. Granted, this didn't matter much because, like you, I was just using the cryo version for dry-hopping. But if you were to use them in a boil or whirpool, the approach to take would be to create a new ingredient and double the %'s.

[Beer-lord]

Thanks, I did exactly this last week. My plan is to not waste this in boiling but use them in flame, whirlpool and/or dry hop only.