Hops for an IPA

[hokerer]

@gordonstrong

You can’t have any.  So it must be good.  I call that the BeerAdvocate logic.

ROTFLMAO  :)  so true

[denny]

@gmac

Does it really matter what the bittering hops are?  I don’t have many c hops so I don’t want to use them for bittering if they are wasted. Thinking of trying a dark IPA down the road.

I think it does to some extent, but for bittering I look at cohumulone levels more than anything.  I find that the lower the cohumulone, the less sharp the bittering will be.

[tschmidlin]

I haven’t tried them (Simcoe) yet.  What is it about this hop that folks like so much?

It adds a nice piney aroma and flavor to the beer that I really like.  I’ve never made/had a beer that used straight Simcoe as far as I know, so I can’t speak to that.