Pacific Jade Hops

[Julez]

Hi all,

I'm thinking of doing a single malt, single hop beer with Pacific Jade hops. I've never used this hop before, so I'm interested in anyone's experience using it. The grower's description is;
"The aroma of this hop is described as bold as it delivers a herbal infusion of fresh citrus and crushed black pepper. Brewing trials have illustrated Pacific Jade as an excellent hop that delivers a pleasing soft bitterness matched to desirable aroma characteristics."

I like the sound of this in a summer ale type of brew. Would probably use the flowers @ 13.7% AA. What do you reckon?

Julez.

 

[Mantis]

Sounds good.
A simple Aussie pale with JW Trad ale is what I would do with them, buts that only because I have bags of the stuff

A wheat might suit them as well

 

[Brewer_010]

I used it in a porter, bittering addition to 29 IBUs (with fuggles and goldings flavour addition) and they're right when they say it's a soft bittering. It's very very smooth - I couldn't pick any flavour from it. I'd probably be a bit more agressive with bittering next time, it seems to be pretty forgiving.

I'm brewing an ordinary bitter with it soon, bittering and flavouring so hope it's OK.

 

[bconnery]

I made an all Pacific Jade blonde ale a while back.
Really very nice.
I put a mix of ale and pils malt and a bit of munich for some malt background. A smidgin of carahell because I had that much left...
I definitely got the citrus with a hint of pepper. It was a nice beer for the summer anyway.


Recipe: Jaded Blonde
Brewer: Mooshells
Asst Brewer:
Style: Blonde Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 24.00 L
Boil Size: 35.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.046 SG
Estimated Color: 10.1 EBC
Estimated IBU: 29.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 70 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
2500.00 gm Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 50.51 %
1400.00 gm Pale Malt, Galaxy (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EGrain 28.28 %
1000.00 gm Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 20.20 %
50.00 gm Carahell (Weyermann) (27.0 EBC) Grain 1.01 %
30.00 gm Pacific Jade [15.20 %] (Dry Hop 4 days) Hops -
5.00 gm Pacific Jade [15.20 %] (45 min) Hops 7.9 IBU
15.00 gm Pacific Jade [15.20 %] (15 min) Hops 12.8 IBU
20.00 gm Pacific Jade [15.20 %] (5 min) Hops 6.9 IBU
20.00 gm Pacific Jade [15.20 %] (1 min) Hops 1.5 IBU
1 Pkgs SafAle American Ale (US56) (DCL Yeast #S-0Yeast-Ale

 

[schooey]

I remember tasting a Pacific Jade Blonde at Tony's place a while back, it was a bloody tasty berr... shoot him a PM if he doesn't stumble in here and find this. From memory it was only one or two grains and one hop...

 

[Tony]

i thought it was a simple beer too mate till i dug up the recipe.

Made in march 2008.

Pacific Jade Blond Ale

A ProMash Brewing Session - Recipe Details Report

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 54.00 Wort Size (L): 54.00
Total Grain (kg): 10.00
Anticipated OG: 1.047 Plato: 11.60
Anticipated EBC: 8.0
Anticipated IBU: 23.7
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80 %
Wort Boil Time: 75 Minutes


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential EBC
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
40.0 4.00 kg. IMC Ale Malt Australia 1.038 4
30.0 3.00 kg. IMC Pilsner Australia 1.038 3
20.0 2.00 kg. Weyermann Vienna Germany 1.038 7
5.0 0.50 kg. Weyermann Carahell Germany 1.035 26
4.0 0.40 kg. Weyermann Carapils Germany 1.037 3
1.0 0.10 kg. Weyermann Acidulated Germany 1.035 5

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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20.00 g. Pacific Jade Pellet 15.20 17.8 First WH
20.00 g. Pacific Jade Pellet 15.20 5.9 10 min.
50.00 g. Pacific Jade Pellet 15.20 0.0 0 min.


Yeast
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US-05

and a picture of it

cheers

 

[Nick JD]

Pac Jade and Pac Gem are my goto bittering hops for their neutrality.

At the moment I've got this down and it's delicious out of the fermenter. I enjoy fruity ales, but sometimes a whole cupboard full of fruit isn't adequate variety. And leaving out late additions makes your megaswill drinking friends go yum. It seems not everyone likes beer to taste of fruit.

12L
2.5kg BB Ale @ 66C
100g Carapils
12g Pacific Jade for 45min
6g US05

 

[Julez]

Thanks for the responses everyone!

Sounds great, I like the idea of doing a blond ale with this hop as some of you have too, sounds like a great combo.
I was thinking US-05 would be a good choice of yeast and it seems to be what everyone has gone with, so I will run with that too.

Would it work with Vienna malt, do you think? I've never done a 100% Vienna malt beer and I'm not really familiar with the flavour profile of it, other than what I've read. Otherwise, I just may run with an Aussie ale malt, as Mantis has suggested. I was wanting to do some hefty flavour and aroma additions with this hop to get a real hit of the citrus and pepper zing. I will mash at the higher end of temps and use a bit of CaCl and possibly caramelise the first runnings to get a nice, malty base to balance this one out.

Cheers :icon_cheers:

 

[Julez]

Just bumping this one, hoping someone can provide their thoughts on Vienna malt in a single malt beer?

Cheers

 

[Yob]

Move over German Magnum..

:icon_drool2:

 

[technobabble66]

Any flavour & aroma impact to report?
Or just the mild citrus & pepper mentioned above?

 

[Yob]

I wouldn't hesitate in using it dry, smelled amazing, I've not had enough time to trawl the net to see what others have done and reported as yet.

 

[Mardoo]

I know there's a couple breweries in the States that use a lot of PJ.

 

[Yob]

Late/dry or for bittering?