Dry hopping with Citra

[Bruer]

Hey all. Brewing Brewdog citra IPA, but want to step it up with a dry hop of citra too. Anyone have a recommended dry hopping rate for citra? I was thinking around 66g for 23L for 3-4 days.

 

[Yob]

More.. Always more..

 

[GrumpyPaul]

More.. Always more..

and then some

 

[Bruer]

115g? Thats 5g/L.

 

[Coodgee]

I just got my first batch of citra and brewed an IPA and APA with it. The APA was 40 grams each of Simcoe/Mosaic/Citra at 10 minutes and 50grams of same dry hop. It's a lovely fruity flavour and aroma. My IPA was 50grams of Crosby experimental hop #6 (which is described as big, dank and bold) and 20grams of galaxy at 20 minutes with 40 grams of citra at 10 minutes. It's still fermenting so not ready for a dry hop yet. But god damn they both taste and smell exactly the same - it's fruity-sweet citra all the way. So my advice would be to just go easy with the citra because it's potent shit. I think I'll just dry hop the IPA with 50 grams of the experimental hop to try to override the citra somewhat.

 

[kaiserben]

115g? Thats 5g/L.

5g/L is a reasonable amount for an IPA IMO.

My last batch had 160g dry hops in total (80 at 6-days before bottling and 80 at 3-days before bottling). Could probably have used more.

EDIT: By "reasonable" I don't mean it's a lot, I mean it's fair enough; a good starting point.

 

[Bribie G]

I just got my first batch of citra and brewed an IPA and APA with it. The APA was 40 grams each of Simcoe/Mosaic/Citra at 10 minutes and 50grams of same dry hop. It's a lovely fruity flavour and aroma. My IPA was 50grams of Crosby experimental hop #6 (which is described as big, dank and bold) and 20grams of galaxy at 20 minutes with 40 grams of citra at 10 minutes. It's still fermenting so not ready for a dry hop yet. But god damn they both taste and smell exactly the same - it's fruity-sweet citra all the way. So my advice would be to just go easy with the citra because it's potent shit. I think I'll just dry hop the IPA with 50 grams of the experimental hop to try to override the citra somewhat.

I cube hopped an Aussie Lager with a touch of Citra, only about a teaspoon in each cube, to give it a certain hint of "je ne sais quoi"

Citra Lager, it was the dominant flavour.

 

[1974Alby]

I find citra an awesome dry hop and generally use in the range of 1.5 - 2.5 g/l. Personally I find this provides plenty of aroma without becoming a fruit salad.

 

[Spiesy]

I find citra an awesome dry hop and generally use in the range of 1.5 - 2.5 g/l. Personally I find this provides plenty of aroma without becoming a fruit salad.

Me too. Although I usually brew Pales, so for an IPA I'd double those rates, especially for something with "Citra" in the name.

 

[Yob]

Lost my post.. Do you keg or bottle? If you keg, go light, if it's not enough add more to the keg. In s hop sock of course...

If you bottle, take a punt and adjust to suit desire next batch.

 

[Dan Pratt]

If its the brew dog recipe....250g!!! Load up.

 

[Bruer]

Thanks everyone! Ended up going 2.5g/L for 3 days. Was wanting to be a bit on the cautious side. We'll wait and see but tasting and smelling the samples it looks like it's going to be amazing.

 

[Eddy Monsoon]

Can you leave it in 7 days ?

I know Galaxy is recommended taken out after 3-4