What Australian beers are good examples of a certain hop?

[Yob]

Hard to go past the likes of...

Simcoe/mosaic/citra

Centennial/Citra/Amarillo

Cascade/Chinook/Mosaic (etc)

I will typically look to balance a pine type with a fruit type, to try and get the complex play of flavours.

The list go's on...

 

[jaypes]

Murrays Angry Man = Pacifica + Motueka = Drool

I am also with Fletcher in regards to POR, I brewed a megaswill for a mate but loaded the POR - turned out to be an OK beer - **** all flavour but a nice aroma.

19L gone in 2 weeks - he must have liked it as well

 

[bmarshall]

Epic zythos.
Liberty savignon bomb.
Yum.
Didnt know wicked elf was just cascade. Good beer.

 

[bmarshall]

Red duck have new single hop ipa "bobcat" with simcoe.

 

[adryargument]

Red duck have new single hop ipa "bobcat" with simcoe.

Red duck.... Port macquarie or is that Black Duck?
Will have to visit them when i drive past for xmas, great bowling lane tables.

 

[bmarshall]

Red duck.... Port macquarie or is that Black Duck?
Will have to visit them when i drive past for xmas, great bowling lane tables.

To quote red duck news letter.
We are making the slow transition
to 500ml bottles for all our
Limited Releases: The first ale
to appear in this format will be
Bobcat American IPA 7.5%, a
single hop brew, using Simcoe.
Bobcat has been bottled and
should be out prowling around
soon.

There in Ballarat.

 

[TimT]

Yob, don't you find that in multi-hop beers some of the flavours will tend to cancel one another out? I suspect that hop selection has to be very careful to avoid this sort of thing happening.

Hops are a beautiful thing, it's true, but next year I want to try a lot of herbal brewing. So my quest over the summer/Christmas break will be to find out good bittering substitutes for hops.

 

[pat86]

I don't know what you were expecting from the Oakham Citra. It is pretty much a Citra SMASH so is never going to be overly complex and is an exercise in showcasing the hop (Oakham were apparently the first UK commercial brewer to use Citra).

Oakham do a version for Marks & Spencer in UK which is 4.9% instead of 4.2% and I like it.

I'm sorry I can't help with any Aussie beers but brewing SMASHs are a great way to isolate hop flavours.

I am happy I put down the bottle of Oakham Citra yesterday and grabbed a Mikeller Bravo instead. I thought it was great but haven't tried their others yet

 

[Yob]

Yob, don't you find that in multi-hop beers some of the flavours will tend to cancel one another out? I suspect that hop selection has to be very careful to avoid this sort of thing happening

I've mentioned this elsewhere I think but as with all things beer it's all about a balance, you need the right malt profile and the right hop profile, I always try to balance fruity hops with piney type hops, Citra and Simcoe as an example, Calypso and cascade etc etc, there aren't many hops out there (IMO) that do it all by themselves (Citra, Simcoe and mosaic are examples of ones that do) but again, you really want to be getting the additions right.

The last case swap I went to, I took a keg that had been in the keg for 3 days and keg hopped for 2 of them.. It was demolished.. I think from memory it was a 3 hop blend, I don't think I could have got away with that with any one of those on their own.

3 days to condition a 5% APA is pretty bloody good (2 weeks from grain to brain)

 

[carniebrew]

Epic zythos.
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Calling Zythos a single hop beer is kinda cheating...given it's a proprietary blend of hops targeted for use in APA/IPA's...

 

[pat86]

Knappstein Reserve Lager with 100% Nelson Sauvin. Being a straight pilsner malt beer it really helps display all that Nelson Sauvin has to offer. Almost reminiscent of a sauvignon blanc wine with lychee, passionfruit and cut grass characters. Mouth watering stuff

I always liked Knappstein, used to be a beer of choice going back a few years - if you have been drinking it since it came out has it changed at all? Been a while since my last one. Will have to get some Nelson Sauvin soon...