A 7.2% abv West Coast IPA with Citra, Mosaic, Mosaic Lupomax, and Riwaka Cryo hops.

Recipe for this post can be found here.

Appearance

Pours a cloudly, pale yellow color. There is a little clarity, but the haze is still pretty prominent after 3 weeks in the keg. It produces an inch of sticky white head that leaves a good amount of lacing on the inside of the glass.

Aroma

The aroma is really bright and can be smelled from a mile away. I get lime, pineapple and a hint of berry.

Taste/Mouthfeel

Moderate in carbonation with a crisp and dry finish. Citrus and pineapple up front followed by lime through the finish. Has a fantastic moderate bitterness that leaves you wanting another sip.

Impressions

This by far one of my favorite West Coast IPA batches I’ve produced. The aroma and flavor are almost exactly what I was hoping for. This is the first batch where I used the hop dropper and didn’t introduce any O2 at all into the beer after fermentation started.

I attribute the haze to a few factors. First, I didn’t use any clarifying agent in this batch. Second, I used a massive dry hop that is two times what I normally use. Despite cold crashing and dumping the trub/hops twice, it’s still has a haze to it. If it stuck around long enough it would eventually clear up in the kegerator, but I don’t expect I’ll find that out.