Could you or have you had too much Nelson Sauvin?

[lukiferj]

Not a big fan of this hop. Have tried to brew with it a few times and drunk a few beers with it. Always get the same winey taste that I really don't enjoy.

 

[dannymars]

About to embark on a 100% pale ale with all late and dry hops... wish me luck :0

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Be VERY gentle with it...it a good hop, but needs to be used wisely & sparingly

 

[Dozer71]

Just bottled a pale ale with amarillo for bittering then 25g NS at 10min, flame out and dry hop for 4 days prior to cold crashing. Early hydro after 1 week was all white wine, but that has settled and smelt quite good going into the bottles. Will know in a couple of weeks.

 

[Tilt]

NS is used very effectively in the Yeastie Boys Digital IPA. They've open sourced the recipe and it's a cracker. Crucially though NS is used big at 10 mins with a bit of Pacifica, and then conservatively with big flameout amounts of Motueka and Pacifica. No dry hop NS. I've heard it said its like MSG for beer!

 

[dannymars]

I was gonna try to cram 300g in... lol...

have rethought this and will go with 80g and try to balance with some cascade.

 

[technobabble66]

300g !!! :lol: :lol:
Given pretty much everyone has said it's great but use with caution, that's hilarious.
I've gone overboard with NS once before - namely with dry hopping an equal (large-ish) amount of Cascade and NS in a Fat Yak-ish Amber. Something *really* didn't work in it and it took 8 months for it to mellow - ie: I'm pretty sure it was from too much NS and it was a bit like drinking a beer that someone had poured Sav Blanc into. So it took the 8 months for the NS aroma to fully dissipate.
Subsequently I'd either never dry hop with NS or do so in low amounts (eg: 0.5g/l or less).
In general use, I'd probably stick with using only half as much as any other hop, such as with cascade in the FY clones. At least until I'm a bit more comfortable with it.
Fwiw though, it's an amazing hop that seems to do something few other hops do - the way it accentuates malts and blends with other hops. I see it as being similar to EKG and Fuggles in that sense, even though the specific aroma/flavour is quite different.

 

[dannymars]

Recipe...

25L

grain (all gladfield)
3KG Gladfield Ale
2.3KG Gladfield Pils
.3KG Gladfield Aurora
.2KG Gladfield Red Baron
.15KG Gladfield Toffee


Hops
20G Nelson sauvin @ 20mins
20G Cascade @ 5 mins
10G Nelson Sauvin @ 5mins
30G Cascade 15min whilpool @ 80C
15G Cascade 15min Whirlpool @ 60C
15G Nelson Sauvin 15min Whirlpool @ 60C

30G cascade dry hop 7 days
10G Nelson Sauvin Dry hop 3 days

Est OG: 1.052
Est FG: 1.012
41 IBUs

thoughts?


thinking I'd like to throw some chinook in too... not sure when or what amount.

 

[Matplat]

I did a single hop NS ale a while ago and my hop schedule looked like this:

25g @60
20g @15
20g @5
20g Dry

As I was only doing a partial boil using DME that equated to 40IBU.

It was up there in the top 2-3 beers I have made to date.