AG8 - Citra Pale Ale

[alfie09]

opened a bottle of my citra pale ale weekend to and it stunk of cat piss badly. and the hops were straight out of a vac bag straight from malt miller to freezer to boiler within 1 day!

[pas8280]

mmm little bit of a debate here then on Citra, got to admit that my all citra brew smelt a little cat pissy at 3 weeks in the bottle now at almost 5 weeks its back to the peachy citrus smell and taste i was expecting, its very nice

[youaintseenmeright]

opened a bottle of my citra pale ale weekend to and it stunk of cat piss badly. and the hops were straight out of a vac bag straight from malt miller to freezer to boiler within 1 day!

How long has your citra been in the bottle? Was contemplating A similar brew but really dont like the thought of a pissy smell in my beer.

If it does fade away after a bit of time in the bottle/barrel would consider also a good way to stop you drinking it before it is ready
I could do with a bit of help in that department

Regards

[alfie09]

very nearly 1 week ha ha ha. 1 week warm nearly 1 week cold!

[youaintseenmeright]

very nearly 1 week ha ha ha. 1 week warm nearly 1 week cold!

And i thought i was the only one who couldnt wait so moral of the story good things come to those who wait

[Scotty]

Well, I kegged two cornie's worth on Friday. One is for bottling and the other is for supping. I couldn't detect any piss smells only full blown tropical fruit. The hydro-jar sample was the best I've tasted by far.

Hydro reading was showing 1.010 so that is around 3.9-4%

[GrowlingDogBeer]

I have a Citra experiment ongoing as well, which I started yesterday so I will let you know whether I get a nice fruity smell or otherwise.

My recipe for 25L was

4.475Kg MO Pale Male
0.2Kg Torrefied Wheat

10g Citra 60 mins
15g Cutra 15 mins
15g Citra 10 mins
15 g Citra 5 mins
15 g Citra 2 mins
15 g Citra 1 mins
15 g Citra Flame Out

I'll let you know how it turns out.

[naffolddog]

Dry hopped my Citra Pale ale on Sunday and i'm still getting a nice passion fruit aroma, got the missus to have a sniff and without any prompting she said it smelt of ammonia (posh word for cat piss smell) so maybe it's down to the individuals sense of smell?

[alfie09]

update on my another half week gone by and by god this is nice beer. such a tropical taste like pineapple peachcy taste to it...................of to the malt miller for more

i added the whole 100 grams in different stages of the boile delcious ignore the cat pee smell it soon dissapears not smell of that now.

ony problem is my beer wont clear ahhhhhhh well i will just say its wheat beer

[Scotty]

I had a bottle and pint from the cornie yesterday and I would say it is easily one of the best beers I've tasted for a long time. The aroma is obviously better from the bottle but it's a very nice pint.

[Naich]

I dry hopped my citra brew with some Cascade I had left over and the smell is amazing - not a hint of pee. Hopefully it'll be ready to start drinking around Friday.

[alfie09]

another taste update. honestly now its like biting into a ripe juicy peach wow. very nice indeed may need another couple of weeks yet but certainly one of my best

[dedken]

Did one of these recently viewtopic.php?f=24&t=39227 and got an amazing grapefruit/passionfruit aroma (50g @ flameout). No sign of piss at all. Took to my brewing group London Amateur Brewers and was even asked by professional brewer how I'd managed to achieve that aroma - You really don't need to dry-hop this variety! Shame the beer had become oxidised though... but that's another issue.