I did a all Mosaic IPA about 6 weeks ago, just finished the dry hopping.
1oz FWH
60 min. boil
.75 @ 15
.75 @ 10
.75 @ 5
.75 @ 0
1 dry hop for 5 days.
I must say my initial tastes were amazing. I detect a distinct blueberry note and maybe even some blackberry/currant. I used whole hops from freshops, thank you Dave Wills for making this available to the homebrew community.
I found this today while searching for Mosiac
I just bought 2 oz from my LHBS and made a APA with them. 4 days in the carboy so we shall see how it turns out. Smelled fantastic.
What else out there for experience? Blatz, did you use these yet?
Seems I read they were a bit like Citra, only stronger. Not sure where I read that.
Or are they more like Simcoe?
Hells yes. 8)
Mosaic is like Simcoe without the cat piss to me.
yeah - we had a festival here 2 weeks ago and I served 20gal of my west coast IPA - 10gal with simcoe/amarillo dryhop and 10gal with mosaic/calypso dryhop. obviously, with all the hops in the kettle and then using 2 hops in the dryhop, I didn’t get a pure mosaic impression, but I thought it was fantastic - next time I am doing all mosaic to see how it ends up. From what I got when I pulled the hop bag holding the mosaic: very tropical fruity and piney without the pungency of simcoe, but overall it thought it was very close to simcoe and I like it alot. I wouldn’t say its much like Citra, but I need more experimentation.
all that said, people at the fest seemed to prefer the simcoe/amarillo, but I think that may have been the calypso’s fault :o
Thanks.
Mmmm, mine just came in the mail yesterday, just in time for a brew weekend.
I love it when the mail lady has to drive down the driveway to deliver a Freshop Box! ;D
Cheers!
I am currently drinking a Great Lakes Alchemy Hour DIPA. It is finished with mosaic hops. This is my first experience with mosaic. I like it…different, but I’m a fan. I would say that it is has a sweet-earthy taste. The aroma is amazing. As far as the beer goes…it is 9.4% ABV and would compare it to Troegs Nugget Nectar, but bigger.
Every time I read these threads it costs me money. Just got 8 oz of Mosaic because you all seem to like it. I’m sure it will be awesome but I’ve got an unopened lb of Simcoe for the same reason. I’m a sucker for peer pressure.
Let me know when you guys are jumping off a bridge and I’ll be sure to be there.
There’s a saison IPA here with all mosaic that’s fantastic. My co-worker describes it as having a green tea taste. Definitely some simcoe flavors and could probably be substituted with simcoe. Either way I have a smash beer with pale malt and mosaic. Tastes fantastic. We have both whole leaf and pellets around so they’re definitely out there. The distributors are limiting how much everyone can order.
Based on this, last night I brewed a 2.5-gallon 15-minute all-Mosaic APA (3 lbs DME, 8 oz 60L, Safale 05, with kettle hop additions of 1/1/.5 oz at 15/5/0). When people talk about fruit fragrance in hops I usually have no idea what they are talking about. With this hop, perhaps it was the power of suggestion but I definitely picked up blueberry in the hydrometer. If the hydrometer sample is any indication, this is going to be seriously tasty.
I haven’t brewed an extract batch in a while, and I have to say it was nice to start a brew while I was preparing dinner and have it in the fermenter by the time I was filling the dishwasher! Plus I tried a hop I was curious about rather than hewing with ingredients I know I like.
I feel the same way about it. If someone had not said it has some blueberry in the taste and smell, then I am not sure I would have interpreted it that way. But now, when I taste the couple of brews I have made with it, I definitely can taste some blueberry.
Also, always nice the crank out an extract batch. Just feels good to complete something so quickly.