Next brew idea:
-El Dorado
-Azacca
-Equinox
Anyone have experience brewing with these hops together? Would you add any other hops for balance or to round out the hop flavor profile?
I have a pale ale that I made using Azacca, El Dorado, and Zythos. The hop flavor is very nice, some tropical fruit and a definite citrus thing. I think the finish of it has a bit of “bite through a lemon, the whole lemon” going on. I don’t know what portion of that is the Zythos, but I would expect that it is the citrus aspect to it since Zythos is a mix of american C hops as far as I know.
El Dorado is a strong hop, Equinox even more so (but amazing IMO). So if you want to be able to notice the Azacca (a very nice hop, too) a ratio of 3 Azacca: 1 El Dorado: 1 Equinox would balance out pretty well. Now these hops are all fruity and if you’re after a fruit bomb IPA, this is it. If not, adding some Chinook or Simcoe would add some pine for balance. My $0.02. .
Fruit bomb is exactly what I am looking to achieve. They are all relatively high in alphas and was planning on going with 50 min Azacca, 40 min El dorado then a massive flameout/whirlpool with all three. Then double dry hop the three again at end of fermentation and keg dry hop
Sounds good!