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Well I was gonna bottle my Chinook IPA last night.
It's all chinook.
1 oz - 60min
.5 oz - 10 min
.5 oz - 1 min
1 oz dry hop- 1 week

Well the weeks up, had no caps yesterday...bah.
Gotta get some today, but while I'm there I figured dude...I need more hops.
I'm only going to dry hop the second addition for 1 day, I will bottle tomorrow.

Soooo, any suggestions on how much and what hop?
I was thinking just straight up 2oz of chinook, hop this baby even harder. I want a strong hop aroma and flavor.
I love the piney flavor of chinook.

But what do you guys think?

Oh, it's a 5 gallon batch BTW, OG 1.054

I recently did the Chinook IPA and must have done something wrong as it was barely a pale ale. Dry hopped in the keg and saved it.

I've done a few IPA's with lots of Chinook, not a SMaSH but dry hopped with Citra. The little bit of Citra really made the beer.

Beer-lord wrote:I recently did the Chinook IPA and must have done something wrong as it was barely a pale ale. Dry hopped in the keg and saved it.

I've done a few IPA's with lots of Chinook, not a SMaSH but dry hopped with Citra. The little bit of Citra really made the beer.

Interesting.
I'll give it a whirl.
1 oz Citra for 1 day.

Ah moot point, LHBS doesn't have either of those in stock.
Hell they don't even have Centennial or Cascade...wasn't meant to be.

I have all of those at my house. C'mon by!

How about Simcoe or Amarillo?

Ah moot point, LHBS doesn't have either of those in stock.
Hell they don't even have Centennial or Cascade...wasn't meant to be.

Holy cow they don't have any C hops! What is it a closet in the back of a mini mart?

Beer-lord wrote:I have all of those at my house. C'mon by!

How about Simcoe or Amarillo?

OMG....Why didn't I think of Simcoe....DERP
I called them but no answer, ill try again in a bit.

Well they DO have cascade after all, but no Simcoe apparently.
Cascade it is!

That'll work but I'm wondering just how much 1 day of 1 oz will really do for you. Certainly better than none but I'd be tempted to do at least 2 oz minimum.

Beer-lord wrote:That'll work but I'm wondering just how much 1 day of 1 oz will really do for you. Certainly better than none but I'd be tempted to do at least 2 oz minimum.

That's the great thing about this place. We don't know till someone gives it a whirl and lets us know.
Yeah Baby, Simcoe

You can't go wrong with Centennial. One of my favorite hops to dry hop with.

Yummmmm. Maybe give it 3-4 days although Dave (the Hat) says that 24 hours give max dry hop effectiveness.