Single hop Centennial?

[Monkeybrew]

I've got a 100g vac pack of Centennial, and wondered if they would be well suited in a SMaSH recipe?

Cheers

MB

[barney]

Fantastic hop, will make a great single hop beer, don't know about one malt though, you can make a far better base for it.

[seymour]

Founder's Centennial IPA is a legendary American IPA recipe using only Centennial hops at 60 min, 20 min, 5 min, and dry hops to 65 IBU. The grainbill is believed to be 91.7% Pale and 8.3% Caramel 40L Malt to 7.2% ABV.

[ArmChair]

Founder's Centennial IPA is a legendary American IPA recipe using only Centennial hops at 60 min, 20 min, 5 min, and dry hops to 65 IBU. The grainbill is believed to be 91.7% Pale and 8.3% Caramel 40L Malt to 7.2% ABV.

This one is on my to do list!

I think you should brew this one, Seymour has made a cracking choice for you

[Hanglow]

Bells Two Hearted is all centennial too, it's great. I bottled a clone of it about a month ago. There's a good recipe on homebrewtalk

given that you only have 100g of it I'd be tempted to do something like a golden ale, just 4.5% and hop burst it. Or just scale the founders one that seymour gave down

[Monkeybrew]

Founder's Centennial IPA is a legendary American IPA recipe using only Centennial hops at 60 min, 20 min, 5 min, and dry hops to 65 IBU. The grainbill is believed to be 91.7% Pale and 8.3% Caramel 40L Malt to 7.2% ABV.

This one is on my to do list!

I think you should brew this one, Seymour has made a cracking choice for you

Is it available in the UK in bottles?

Sounds tasty

[seymour]

Founder's Centennial IPA is a legendary American IPA recipe using only Centennial hops at 60 min, 20 min, 5 min, and dry hops to 65 IBU. The grainbill is believed to be 91.7% Pale and 8.3% Caramel 40L Malt to 7.2% ABV.

This one is on my to do list!

I think you should brew this one, Seymour has made a cracking choice for you

Is it available in the UK in bottles?

Sounds tasty

I don't know, but there was a recent discussion about Founders All Day IPA sampled over there, which is the same brewer, so it must be possible. But yeah, Bells Two Hearted Ale is definitely along the same lines. Basically, you'll get something very nice using any neutral grainbill with a smidge of caramelized malt and lots of Centennial bursts. Have fun!

[Hanglow]

Yeah Founders have started exporting some of their beers here including Centennial.

[ArmChair]

Founder's Centennial IPA is a legendary American IPA recipe using only Centennial hops at 60 min, 20 min, 5 min, and dry hops to 65 IBU. The grainbill is believed to be 91.7% Pale and 8.3% Caramel 40L Malt to 7.2% ABV.

This one is on my to do list!

I think you should brew this one, Seymour has made a cracking choice for you

Is it available in the UK in bottles?

Sounds tasty

You can get it from Bier Huis in ossett, Wakefield.
They have a website aswel, www.bierhuis.co.uk (I think)

[mysterio]

My local pub have started stocking the Founders IPA, looking forward to trying it.

I recently did a single hop Centennial IPA, 95% pale, 5% caramalt, 100g late centennial and 120g dry hops, wyeast 1056, 1.060 og. Just into day four of the dry hop - i'll give you the verdict once it's kegged!

[Matt12398]

I've used www.beermerchants.com for some American and Belgian beers as they seemed one of the cheapest and I just noticed that they stock a few Founders. I might pick myself up some. Interested to know if anyone knows of anywhere cheaper but these were one of the most reasonable I could find.

[mysterio]

Well, I kegged the beer tonight- and it's fantastic!

Centennial are on the tame side compared to some of the US hops we're now used to but there is a very nice floral flavour (I tend to get more floral than citrus from cascade and centennial?). I think the dry hops really boost the mouthfeel and flavour.

The aroma is a bit lacking for the amount of dry hops sadly. I still think it's a worthy single hop beer.

[seymour]

Definitely true. I attribute that to the fact Centennial's ancestry includes 3/32 Fuggle, 1/6 East Kent Golding, 1/32 Bavarian, whereas Cascades (nor most other American hops, for that matter) do not have those "noble" roots.

[Monkeybrew]

NZ Cascade are lovely too, I really like the floral/grapefruit balance in this kind of hop

[worldsbestbrewer]

If not too late - just good old pale malt with perhaps 12-15% wheat malt and a good dose of centennial to give a good bitterness and aroma - perhaps a good dose of gypsum / sulphate to accenuate the bitterness. Maybe not even the wheat as there's tonnes of fruitiness in the centennial hop. Steve, at the as was then Museum Brewery in Burton used to run a series of single hop beers with new hop varieties as they came out. Recipe was pale malt plus hops. Centennial was a sensation. Of course they used the bass yeast and water pumped from miles underground. The other outstanding brew of the time was made with the Columbus hop, which is still one of my favourites. I'm sat here with a bag of Kohatu and another of columbus wondering which way to jump on my next brew . Never tried kohatu.