Porter fresh wort kit turn to a dark india ale.. Which Hops

[southcoastbrewer]

Hi all

As its raining and im too lazy to do the AG in the wet, im laying down a ND brewing choc porter, however, i am considering throwing in S05 instead and making to 19L and adding a hop tea and dry hopping the shutszpa out of it in a secondary to try and achieve a nice Dark India Ale... I have found that most DIA are mainly just a porter thats been highly hopped.

I was considering citra and Galaxy as the dry hop, possibly the Citra as the hop tea.. Any other suggestions as to what hops may offer a better flavor combo?

Southcoastbrewer

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Go nuts with the citra, but be careful with dry hopping galaxy as it can turn to lawn clippings if left in too long. Pull it out after a couple of days or leave it in at your own risk!

 

[Donske]

Go nuts with the citra, but be careful with dry hopping galaxy as it can turn to lawn clippings if left in too long. Pull it out after a couple of days or leave it in at your own risk!

I've given up on dry hopping Galaxy completely, my last attempt was 27 hours @ 1 degree and it was still grassy.

 

[Dan Pratt]

Citra, simcoe, mosaic and galaxy if you have them all....hit it heavy with 28g of each for 3-4 days. Even consider dry hop at 18c for 3 days then cold crash and dry hop again.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I've given up on dry hopping Galaxy completely, my last attempt was 27 hours @ 1 degree and it was still grassy.

It's a cruel mistress Flowers or pellets?

 

[southcoastbrewer]

Citra, simcoe, mosaic and galaxy if you have them all....hit it heavy with 28g of each for 3-4 days. Even consider dry hop at 18c for 3 days then cold crash and dry hop again.

Awesome, i have all of these things, bar the mosaic, which is fine, its fermenting away now, put it down last night and did a 5L hop tea with 25g of citra. It smelt really... different... lol... i think its gona make a great DIA... or great diuretic... one of the 2 LOL

 

[Donske]

It's a cruel mistress Flowers or pellets?

Pellets.

Yeah, I love Galaxy but I've basically given up on it entirely because I just can't get it to work for me, if I go too low on the hopping rates the beer is boring, too high it's grassy.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I've had success with flowers using the heavy handed but short time dry hopping. Maybe it takes longer for the grassiness to develop with flowers? By memory the S&W pacific ale clone threads have heaps of discussion about dry hopping galaxy (which I think is why I haven't used it in pellet form)