Columbus
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From Hop combos
- Yakima Valley Hops website - Top Hops for Hazy IPAs: Chinook + Columbus + Nugget: This is a classic hop combo that is often overlooked for modern hazies. It might not be as flashy as other combos with newer varieties, but it still hangs with the best of them. Chinook and Nugget together offer up many of the key biotransformation precursors and thiols present in the current superstar Citra. Columbus also offers up the highly sought-after linalool and comes packed with ripe orange aromas. Together, this combo is greater than the sum of its parts.
- Chinook: This is our favorite sleeper variety that often gets overlooked. Chinook offers the perfect aroma that is packed with biotransformation compounds like Geraniol and Linalool, as well as a little bit of 4-MMP. Hotside, whirlpool, or dry hop, Chinook has amazing things to offer. So basically, just use it in all your beers.
- Nugget: Another classic variety that has found new life and meaning in hazies. Nugget is packed with biotransformation compounds like Geraniol and 4-MMP and works well on the hotside. Paired up with Chinook, this duo stands toe to toe with even the best modern varieties.
- CTZ: Another variety that often gets overlooked, but it is a certifiable banger in Hazy IPAs. Columbus is loaded with Linalool for biotransformation as well as aromas of ripe oranges. Columbus often gets a bad rap as an alpha variety, but when Columbus is picked as an aroma variety, it is bright, beautiful, and fits perfectly in your hazy.
- CBB 374 Fair State - did a 5:1 Strata:Columbus Cryo that was great
From Hops
- Usually dry hop is less than/around 25%
- Blending the c-hops with the sexy hops makes the aroma stick around more (chinook, Columbus)
- He thinks it’s something about the oils that makes the aromas stick around more.
- “I love Columbus, and it works well with Citra at about 80 percent Citra, 20 percent Columbus. We use heavier Columbus in the whirpool, then flip the ratio in the dry hop. The Citra lot we have right now is bright with a ton of lychee, passionfruit, and other fun acidic fruits. But in everything we do, I don’t want the fruit to dominate everything else, so Columbus brings that back a bit with a touch of classic citrus and a little bit of dank.