New Zealand Hopped IPA Recipe Opinions

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Permalink Reply by Peter Smith on August 20, 2013 at 4:03pm

I am not sure that Nelson and Wai iti are a good pair if you are wanting to show off Wai-iti,  Nelson is very dominate hop....  but all good if you are looking to do the Liberty brewing hoppy style

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Permalink Reply by G S on August 20, 2013 at 4:42pm

Agree re the Nelsen Sauvin, it's one to be treated with caution.

I'd be including some zero minute hops as well, depending on the chilling method. I have an immersion chiller, I throw in my flameout hops, at flameout (!!!!), and give the chiller a couple of minutes of running water, once the wort hits 80c I turn off the water and continue recirculating with the pump. I figure 80c is hot enough to stop bugs, and to get the oils out of the hops, but below the temp required for bittering. After 10 mins or so the worts dropped to 70ish, and I turn the cooling water back on. Seems to work well for me

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Permalink Reply by Clinton on August 20, 2013 at 11:02pm

I run a counterflow chiller, which cools very fast, especially in these temperatures. I may add in the 5 minute additions over the last couple' minutes instead, which will still utilise the hops rather than chucking them into wort that is being chilled straight away.

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Permalink Reply by Clinton on August 20, 2013 at 10:58pm

Thanks Peter, I've never used Nelson Sauvin, I'll probably try it out on another recipe. I guess I could just double the Wai Iti additions and tweak once I've brewed/sample it.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Smith on August 21, 2013 at 6:30am

I used wai-iti in a blond and it was great, I like the hop a lot.  I have since used Citra a few times, I like both for summer beers. 

My attempts with Nelson have always been small 10g additions and it was in the background not in your face.  Its a funny hop I like it but even with Liberty beers I am ready to move on to another beer once a nelson is finished, I personally cant session this hop in great amounts, and once my palate tastes enough in a beer I can't taste anything else in there.

There is a good recipe advice thread where there was talk of using 1/6 or 1/8 nelson to other hops, cant remember where is was now.

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