I’m planning a kolsch /ipa. This will be our 4 of July beer so I was thinking 'mericuh sounding hops. I’m was thinking about using liberty and centennial. 10g at 75 min boil racking the kolsch off at 60 min. Using most of my liberty in the 1st 60 then hitting the smaller batch up to a boil again for late hopping with centennial.
During research I saw that liberty, mt hood, and crystal are “sister hops”.
What are their differences in those 3 hops and what would work best with my idea?
Maybe I can get a response if I post my recipe
Kolsch/ IPA
Brew day
11g
Mash- 150
15# rahr 2 row
1.5# honey malt
.5# victory malt
Hop additions
3 oz liberty at 75
1 oz liberty at 30
.5 oz liberty at 20
Rack off 5.5 at 15 to begin cooling kolsch
Remaining 5.5 for ipa
1.5 oz centennial
Bring back to a boil for 15
2oz centennial at f/o
Dry hop .5oz of liberty and .5 of centennial 7 days
White labs German ale/ kolsch
Ferm schedule
3 weeks at 16c
1 week at .5c
Bottled
What are the expected OG and IBUs for each beer? I don’t with either beer will be a good example of an IPA or a Kolsch but that doesn’t mean they wont be good beers. I’d watch the honey malt though, I used 3% in a Am wheat and it was noticeable, I didn’t care for it.
There’s no reason that won’t work. As previously mentioned not “true” to style but I don’t care about that. Not sure if you do. I all agree on the honey malt. That stuff is P O T E N T. Seriously at almost 9% of yourmalt bill its all your going to taste. And it is very sweet.
I took it out. Replacing it with 2# wheat malt.
And I think I may go vanguard over liberty.
After playing with the recipe just a bit and using vanguard/centennial
I have
Kolsch- OG 1.051, 24 IBU
Ipa- OG 1.061, 68 IBU
Kolsch/ IPA
11g
Mash- 150
15# rahr 2 row
2# white wheat
.5# victory malt
Hop additions
2 oz vanguard at 75
.5 oz vanguard at 30
.5 oz vanguard at 20
Rack off 5.5 at 15 to begin cooling kolsch
Remaining 5.5 for ipa
1 oz centennial
Bring back to a boil for 15
2oz centennial at f/o
Dry hop .5 vanguard and .5 of centennial 7 days
White labs German ale/ kolsch
Ferm schedule
3 weeks at 16c
1 week at .5c
Bottled
In the end I want it close to style but this is a drinking beer not a competition beer.
Still I want to glean from others.
