Columbus, Chinook, and Nugget are my favorite IPA bittering hops by far. I love Warrior though on some IPAs where I dry hop (depending on the combo) more than usual. It keeps the overall hop impression within limits IMO.
amarillo and simcoe
amarillo, simcoe & citra
amarillo, simcoe & centennial
centennial & simcoe
i had a lot of those hops as you can see…
i just grabbed some zythos for the first time as well as some mosaic. not sure what to expect from mosiac.
If you haven’t gotten your hard copy yet, look up this months eZymurgy. There’s there’s a clone recipe in it.
Am I the only one that likes English IPA’s? Challenger,Fuggle,and East Kent Goldings make for an excellent IPA.
another new and fruity hop is El Dorado, I used it as a dry hop in a chinook/cascade/amarillo based IPA…was very nice.
I made a double IPA at an Iron Brewer competition with El Dorado hops and I have some for dry-hopping as well. Hopefully it will be good.
I heard good things about Williamette? I read an article a week or so ago that recommended it for APA/IPA
Opinions?
I made a 10 gal ipa with 8oz centennial in the boil and 4oz mosaic dry hopped. one of the best beers ive made, will be a regular line up. mosaic is great.
Re Willamette - It’s one of my favorite aroma hops. They says it’s actually fuggle, maybe genetically but to my nose and taste its cascade lite
those can make a very nice English IPA.
Made a Ballantine IPA clone that was tasty. Bullion, Cluster, EKG.
Willamette is a triploid Fuggles, so it is more robust, and there is that PNW terroir going on.
For quite some time now, I’ve pretty much settled on Bullion & Cluster as my go-to combination for IPA. For aroma, I often change things up and have used a variety of different hops, but lately a combination of Cluster and Cascades gives me pretty much what I’m looking for.
Despite the fact that I live in the Willamette valley near the Willamette river, you’ll never find Willamette hops in my IPA! They have an earthiness I don’t care for.
I almost always use Willamette, Glacier, Crystal, or Mt. Hood in my IPA/APAs along with the more powerhouse hops. Sometimes I get a little metallic taste from Willamette though. The earthy, spicy, and herbal nature of those hops brings some complexity to the style, IMO.
Otherwise, Nugget/Mosaic is a hop combo I quite like, as well as Brewer’s Gold/Mosaic. Another one is Pacific Jade/Crystal plus another hop that I throw in while brewing.
Not sure if it would make an IPA but I enjoy beers named after the hops inside. In fact I am planning one called Cluster Fuggle!
That’s funny, I’m planning an English IPA called Fuggly Nugget myself 
there is a greenflash recipe in the latest issue of zymurgy that uses simcoe and columbus for most of the bittering and flavor additions until the very end. It then calls for a large late addition of cascade and uses centennial, simcoe, columbus, amarillo and cascade to dry hop. i have made this before and it is very good. on my latest attempt of this beer i substituted the cascade additions with citra and it turned out awesome. there is a huge grapefruit character that you may be looking for
Would the anti Denny pale ale consist of willamette hops And Nottingham yeast? Delicious earthy tartness!
Thanks for the citra tip. I also have made that recipe many time and it’s great, making it Monday but looking to change it up a bit. did you sub out all the cascade for citra? ounce for ounce?
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