Northwest IPA

[Trollby]

So I decided to bump up the MB Northwest Pale Ale a little.

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Brewer: Trollby
Style: American IPA
Batch: 2.40 galExtract
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Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.059 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 72 IBU
Recipe Color: 5° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.015
Alcohol by Volume: 5.7%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.5%Ingredients
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Briess LME - Golden Light 0.50 lb, Extract, Extract
Mr. Beer Northwest Pale Ale - HME2.86 lb, Extract, Extract
Centennial - High alpha with floral and citrus, dual use hop for American ales0.50 oz, Pellet, 10 minutes
Citra - Musky tropical fruit and strong citrus make this a great flavor/aroma hop very fruity0.50 oz, Pellet, 20 minutes
Mr. Beer Northwest Pale Ale 1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes
Safale S-05 Dry Ale Yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast, American: Temperature Range: 59°-75° F 11.5 GRAMS

OG = 1.057 @ 70*F

Taste was nice and Hoppy!

[gwcr]

Hey Trollby!! Looks tasty! Great to see you over here!

[jpsherman]

So I decided to bump up the MB Northwest Pale Ale a little.

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Brewer: Trollby
Style: American IPA
Batch: 2.40 galExtract
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Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.059 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 72 IBU
Recipe Color: 5° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.015
Alcohol by Volume: 5.7%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.5%Ingredients
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Briess LME - Golden Light 0.50 lb, Extract, Extract
Mr. Beer Northwest Pale Ale - HME2.86 lb, Extract, Extract
Centennial - High alpha with floral and citrus, dual use hop for American ales0.50 oz, Pellet, 10 minutes
Citra - Musky tropical fruit and strong citrus make this a great flavor/aroma hop very fruity0.50 oz, Pellet, 20 minutes
Mr. Beer Northwest Pale Ale 1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes
Safale S-05 Dry Ale Yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast, American: Temperature Range: 59°-75° F 11.5 GRAMS

OG = 1.057 @ 70*F

Taste was nice and Hoppy!

That sounds really tasty and gives me inspiration for my next brew. I am thinking maybe NW pale ale + falconers flight + s-05

[mashani]

Yeah, I have a can of this left and I don't really like it straight up, I taste the POR in it. I'm going to slam it with Simcoe or Columbus and bury it when I make it. But the citra might be interesting too. Hmmm...

[Trollby]

09/01/2013

Bottled 23 - 12oz bottles with 70g Booster for about 2.7 C02

Taste was very hoppy Grape-fruity, not much bitter so very nice.

FG = 1.011 @ 72*F

ABV = 6.1%

[Brewbirds]

We are drinking a pale ale with our first use of Citra and it is like eat a pink grapefruit right off the tree, I find it very pleasant but you have to like grapefruit.

I didn't get "Musky Tropical Fruit" did you?

[Trollby]

We are drinking a pale ale with our first use of Citra and it is like eat a pink grapefruit right off the tree, I find it very pleasant but you have to like grapefruit.

I didn't get "Musky Tropical Fruit" did you?

Only tasted the hydro sample so will know when the beer is ready in 4 weeks or so.

From the FG sample it was nice an clean, not musky

[mashani]

We are drinking a pale ale with our first use of Citra and it is like eat a pink grapefruit right off the tree, I find it very pleasant but you have to like grapefruit.

I didn't get "Musky Tropical Fruit" did you?

To me that sounds like what you got labeled as Citra was something else. I don't get grapefruit from Citra, more like tropical fruit and musk melons and the like.

But ???

[T8rSalad]

We are drinking a pale ale with our first use of Citra and it is like eat a pink grapefruit right off the tree, I find it very pleasant but you have to like grapefruit.

I didn't get "Musky Tropical Fruit" did you?

To me that sounds like what you got labeled as Citra was something else. I don't get grapefruit from Citra, more like tropical fruit and musk melons and the like.

But ???

Sorry Mashani but I have to agree with BrewBirds here...that is exactly what I got from my Citra hps when I added it to my Diablo IPA first time around. But I do wish I had the hops you had when it was Citra, Tropical fruits etal

[mashani]

That's weird. Maybe it's what other hops are used along with it that bring out something or another. I've never considered citra to be well. citrusy... more tropical and funky.

[Trollby]

Maybe the mix of Centennial and Citra made the Citrus stand out and the Musty tropical fruit got over-powered

[mashani]

I have to go back and see what I mixed my Citra with, but I think typically I've used it as a stand alone hop.

[Kealia]

Hmm, I've never picked up musty from Citra. I get tropical, citrus and almost floral form it.

Different strokes?

[mashani]

I looked over my notes, and I've never brewed with Citra with a clean yeast. I've always used it in beers with a Belgian or Wheat yeast. So maybe the spicy/fruit flavors from the yeast combined with the hops is where the musty comes from. An experiment with American Ale yeast is in order.

[docpd]

I also did not like it straight up, so I brewed it with:
1 can NWPA
1 lb amber DME
.25 oz Cascade 30 min
.25 oz Cascade 15 min
.25 oz Cascade 7 min
.25 oz Cascade dry hop

I really like this one. It is somewhere between a true IPA and a hoppy Pale Ale.
May try it next time with Mosaic hops.