Description Characterized by mid- to high alpha acid content, and low cohumulone, colupulone, and humulene. Similar to Cascade in aroma. Alpha Acid: 8.6% Aroma: citrusy, spicy, distinctive grapefruit Uses: bittering and flavour Substitutions: Cascade, Centennial. Dry Hopping If you’re brewing using extract kits, try adding a “dry hop” of fresh whole leaf hops or pellet hops in a strainer bag or a hop tube, to your next brew. Dry hopping adds additional hop aroma and some flavour as well, so is better suited to flavoursome Ales than clean lagers. The process is easy, adding hops to your fermenter or keg without any boiling adds additional hop aroma and extract the hop oils from the hp pellets, add your dry hops too your brew for a contact time of 2 – 5 day, any longer than this and “grassy” tastes can be found in your beer. Some of our favourites are – Galaxy, Citra, Eldorado, Mosaic, Cascade, amarillo
