Mornington IPA

[Dan Pratt]

Does anyone know what hops they use to bitter with??

 

[slcmorro]

This is all I could find:

Back in the day, Mornington's IPA was their third limited release from the then fledgling brewery and was their biggest yet. It's since become a popular member of the year round range (and also superseded in the "biggest" sense by several imperial releases. It's an IPA that, like their Pale Ale, takes its lead from those coming out of the US, a "light orange-tinted amber in colour" beer that packs the stone fruit aromas - peach and apricots - plus plenty of passionfruit that you'd expect from a beer given generous late kettle additions of Simcoe, Centennial, and Amarillo hops. In the early days, there was a tendency for the bitterness to run away with itself; these days, without losing any character or punch, those runaway acids are kept in check in what's one of the finest IPAs in the land

 

[Dan Pratt]

Thanks for finding that

The beer is quite good its just the bittering finish I couldn't figure out, almost had a Euro or English bitterness but being a Aus brewery it might be either Topaz, POR or super pride...hops I don't brew with.

Its not the following:

Magnum
Warrior
Chinook
Citra
Amarillo
Centennial
Millenium

Might have to email them to know what it is. Honestly not my fav bittering but keen to know what strain as it was obviously +35ibu from that addition.

 

[Black n Tan]

Not trying to make you grit your teeth any further, but do really expect that the bittering hop would have such an influence in such a heavily late hoped beer (as long as the hops was low cohumulone). I can appreciate that bittering hops can have an influence in more delicate beers but I don't think I would notice if my Helles was hoped with magnum or warrior, so why do you thing that Mornington IPA is not hopped anything in your list?

 

[Dan Pratt]

Not trying to make you grit your teeth any further, but do really expect that the bittering hop would have such an influence in such a heavily late hoped beer (as long as the hops was low cohumulone). I can appreciate that bittering hops can have an influence in more delicate beers but I don't think I would notice if my Helles was hoped with magnum or warrior, so why do you thing that Mornington IPA is not hopped anything in your list?

Well in this beer it does have a solid bittering, the late hops are very far from generous, in fact the amount of aroma and resinous flavour is quiet low, to me anyway. It has a defined bittering that I couldn't quite place. I will happily be corrected but if you think that a bittering charge isn't defined in a IPA then you either don't make enough of them nor drink enough of them to know what is bittering charge and what's late hops.

 

[leighaus]

I don't think he's saying quite that, just more that the aromas mask the bittering to a degree that provided your ibu's are on target should give a pretty close replica..

I don't think the morningtons that strong and seems quite balanced to me.. interested to hear if you get a response.I

The bittering to me, almost feels like a late addition, which is odd.