Citra & Coe

[gibbiem]

Had to share this one like! Dry hop went in this morning and just had a little taste tonight, I can't wait to get this bottled! Tastes fantastic!!!


http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/ ... ra-amp-coe

[seymour]

Looks delicious, mate. Especially all those oats.

I bet the creamy mouthfeel goes great with the caramelly Dark Crystal malt and all those fruity hops. Nice work.

Word to the wise: Pay extra special attention to your sanitation at bottling. Then you should submit that in a BJCP/AHA contest. The American Amber category doesn't always get a lot of submissions, so you have a better shot at winning.

[gibbiem]

Cheers Seymour! It's tasting pretty good now after 4 days of dry hop! When I bottle I just clean and rinse the bottles then starsan them all, never really had a problem yet. I'm in the UK mate so dunno about a US contest. Will keeping an eye on any other comps over here though

[Barley Water]

Yeah, I'm gonna do an American Amber this fall as well. I did an American Brown this spring and really enjoyed the beer (I'll see how well it does in competition this weekend). If the Brown scores what I'll do is take that recipe and pull the Chocolate malt and sub that with a couple of varieties of crystal malts, say some 40L and some darker stuff (although I'll use the English stuff because in my opinion it just tastes better). I use essentially a Dogfish Head hopping routine, Warrior to bitter and Simcoe and Amarillo late and often plus of course dry hopped because well, us Yanks like that. It's rather amazing but last year our big contest had roughly 1,500 entries but only about 9 or 10 were American amber. To me that's just crazy because a beer like that tastes great, is easy to make and you can fool around with it quite a lot to suit your own tastes. Another under appreciated beer is English IPA, last year only 7 entries; I just don't get it. On the other hand, APA is heavily entered (probably north of 40 entries) and of course AIPA is easily the largest category in the show. Although I make AIPA's I don't even bother entering them in contests. A couple of years ago I did enter one and it scored really well (42/50) which in another category would easily win you a metal; in the AIPA category it didn't even make it to the second round. After that I just said screw it, I'm not wasting my money on entry fees and giving my good beer to some smuck I don't even know.