What’s more amazing than homebrew?
Home brewers!!
This week is the Brew Dudes Homebrew Swap – Exchange #4. A great Rye IPA from Eric in Texas! Who knew they made IPA in Texas?!
Eric sent us several great beers of his. This week we focused in on his Ryediculous IPA. A 1.068 OG IPA made with 2-row, vienna malt, rye flaked barley and crystal 60L. This beer has great color. A beautiful light copper color.
What’s amazing about this beer is the hop presence. Bittered with Warrior and finished with late additions of Amarillo, Chinook, and Citra. Then dry hopped with more Amarillo and Citra. This beer was brewed in february and we are tasting it in May. After a trip n the mail all the way to Massachusetts. We were just amazed at how strong and well balanced the hop nose and flavor was. Simply amazing in a two month old IPA.
The malt backbone was subtle yet held enough interest to leave you searching for the C60 and the rye. Very subtle but it did a great job of supporting the great hop bill.
All in all what a great beer. We were so drawn into this beer we could have drank full pints and ordered more.
Special thanks to Eric for sending us this one. John and I will dig into the other beers he sent as well (another IPA, a Stout and a Vienna Lager). I am sure they will be excellent.
BREW ON!
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Warrior hops were on my list of new (to me) bittering hops to try out. Have you used them yourselves?
John
Yes, we have. I would have to watch one of our own videos to confirm but I think we get a slight minty taste out of them. Magnum is my bittering hop of choice, mainly because I grow them in my backyard.