El Dorado hop pairing

[Sam]

I’m planning an IPA with El Dorado and other ‘fruity’ hops instead of citrus.

Has anybody used Amarillo, Cashmere, or Medusa (neomexicanus) hops with El Dorado? If so, what were your impressions?

Thanks.
Sam

Serving:
Genmaicha Brown Ale
Munich Dunkel
IPA

Conditioning:

Fermenting:
House Amber

Planning:
?

[evan.sherlock]

Andrew Voss, one of the club members has grown neomexicanus in his hop yard. He has not been around much lately but I would wonder if he still has some sitting around. I know he has scaled back his operation recently but I would bet he still has stock.

From the experiments that came out of his crop I seem to remember really bright citrus flavors and a lemony finish. As these were whole hops that were also quite small we did have to used a lot of them to get these flavors out of them.

As for amarillo and el dorado, I have used this extensively over the last few years in my IPA’s and almost feel that there is no way to go wrong with these varieties for late additions in your IPA’s. They give some amazing fruity, citrus, and floral aromas that make for some amazing beer. I have found that other hops like, citra, simcoe and mosaic can be also nice compliments to these hops.

[Sam]

Good to hear that El Dorado and Amarillo work well together. I’ve used both separately, and it seemed likely the pairing would work.

I’ve dry hopped/keg hopped an IPA with Medusa, and I really liked it. Nice fruit aromas and flavor.

I think all those will work well. I just want to do something different that the typical Mosaic/Citra/Cascade mix.

All those hops will be late additions at flameout and then keg hopping. I will probably use Magnum as a generic bittering hop.

Sam

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Sam.

Serving:
Genmaicha Brown Ale
Munich Dunkel
IPA

Conditioning:

Fermenting:
House Amber

Planning:
?

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